St John Fisher College Irish Studies

Annual Conferences

Since its founding, the Irish Studies Program has held an annual conference based on a theme relevant to Irish history and culture. There have been eight conferences to date:

• Irish Politics: An Inside View, March 2019

• The Great Irish Famine: April 13, 2018

• The Irish and the American Civil War – April 6 and 7, 2017

• Western New York and the Fenian Raids of 1866 – April 15, 2016

• W. B. Yeats at 150: A Celebration – November 19 and 20, 2015

• Eire on the Erie: The Irish and the Erie Canal – October 17, 2014

• Frederick Douglass in Ireland – February 22, 2013

• Ireland Today: History & Heritage in an Ever-Changing World – March 16, 2012

2019 conference featured speaker Eamon O Cuiv, a member of the Irish Dail.