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This conference will be held at Durham University on 14th to 17th April, 2010. Speakers include: Anne Fogarty, Luke Gibbons, Andrew Gibson, Emer Nolan and Jennifer Wicke.

Details and call for papers. Download attendee application form.

Dr Alison Younger, University of Sunderland, gave the fifth in the 2009/10 Sunderland Leverhulme Public Lecture Series on Wednesday 3rd June 2009. Her topic was 'To Buy or Not to Buy, or As You Hype It: Advertising on the Dublin Stage from 1742 to 1898’. See video.

Dr Stephanie Rains, NUI Maynooth, gave the fourth in the 2009/10 Sunderland Leverhulme Public Lecture Series on Wednesday 29th April 2009. Her topic was 'The Development of Modern Consumer Culture in Dublin: Department Stores and the Irish industrial Exhibition of 1853'. See video.

Professor Willy Maley, University of Glasgow, gave the third in the 2009/10 Sunderland Leverhulme Public Lecture Series on Wednesday 17th March. His topic was 'Look Back in Hunger: Ireland in Famine's Wake from Munster to The Maze, or The Faerie Queene to Steve McQueen'. The lecture, very well attended, was included in Sunderland's 2009 St Patrick's Day activities organised by NEICN. In addition, Prof Maley also gave a public poetry reading of his own work in Sunderland City Library. The City Library and Art Gallery also hosted an exhibition of Irish historical advertising in March 2009. See video.

Dr Helen O’Connell, University of Durham, gave the second in the 2009/10 Sunderland Leverhulme Public Lecture Series on Wednesday 3rd December 2008. Her topic was 'The Irish Novel and Consumer Culture in the Nineteenth Century'.

Dr Joseph McBrinn, University of Ulster, gave the first in the 2009/10 Sunderland Leverhulme Public Lecture Series on November 15th 2008. This was part of the 6th Irish Studies Conference at the University of Sunderland and is the first of the annual Leverhulme-sponsored plenaries at the conferences.

Professor John Strachan, University of Sunderland, gave the initial lecture, ‘Consumer Culture, Advertising and Literature in Ireland, 1848-1921’, on Wednesday October 8th 2008.

It was followed by a reception at Varsity, Green Terrace, Sunderland

For lecture details please contact Professor John Strachan.

or watch the video of the lecture on the site.