IASIL–JAPAN Newsletter
2001–3
International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

December 2001
1. The 18th Conference of IASIL-JAPANThe 18th Conference of IASIL-JAPAN was held at Shirayuri College onOctober.

13&14.

TheConference

theme

was

“MigrationinIrish

Literatures.”
Because Ambassador of Ireland, HE Mr. Pádraig Murphy arrived in Japanjust a few weeks before the Conference, he was too busy to join us, but theFirst Secretary, Mr. Frank O’Donoghue who also came to Japan at the sametime as Ambassador Mursphy kindly attended the first day. Here we would
express our sincere gratitude for the ex-Ambassador, HE Mr. Declan
O’Donovan for his constant support for us during his term in Japan.
We had fantastic two days with three guest speakers, Dr. Nuala Ní
Dhomhnaill from Ireland, Dr. Stanley Gontarski from Florida State
University and Dr. Jefferson Holdridge from University College Dublin.
There was quite a change of the programme at the last moment, which you
will find below.

*************Programme (Revised)*************
Saturday, 13 October, 2001
12:30–13:00
Opening Addresses
President of IASIL–JAPAN Ken’ichi Matsumura
Professor of English, Shirayuri College Masahiro Hiwatashi
Embassy of Ireland Frank O’Donoghue
Chair: Akiko Manabe
13:00–14:00
Special Lecture by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, poet,Chair of Poetry of Ireland“The Triumph of ‘na lirici beaga’:––The Legacy of Seán Ó Ríordáin versus
Máirtín Ó Cadhain”
Introduction: Mitsuko Ohno
14:10–15:20 Papers
Room 2007
1. Joseph S. O’Leary, “Toward a Buddhist Reading of Joyce’s Ulysses”
Chair: Hiroyuki Yamasaki
Room 2008
1. Reiko Taniue, “Violence and Depopulation: The Torturer and Victim in

What Where”
2. Youngmin Kim, “Desire of the Other in Yeats’s The Only Jealousy ofEmer”
Chair: Taketoshi Furomoto
15:30–16:00 Poetry Reading by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
Introduction: Nobuaki Tochigi
16:10–18:10 Symposium “Who Creates What in Beckett’s Theater?”
Chair: Yoshiki Tajiri
Speakers: Stanley E. Gontarski, Junko Matoba, Minako Okamuro
18:30–20:30 Reception (Fons Vitae, Student Hall)
Host: Nobuaki Tochigi

Sunday, October 14, 2001
10:00–11:30 Papers
Room 2007
1.Brian Cullen, “Representations of The Children of Lir in Poetry and Song”
2.Chizuko Yamauchi, “Rewriting of ‘Cows’: Flann O’Brien’s At Swim–TwoBirds”
Chair: Seishi Matsuda
Room 2008
1. Naoko Toraiwa, A Reading of Medbh McGuckian’s Shelmalier”
Chair: Masami Nakao
2. Peter O’Connor, “ Guests without Souls: Frank O’Connor and John L.
Sullivan in 1921, 1931 and 1981”
3.Masahiko Yahata, “Exploring ‘Hidden Symptons’: Novels by DeirdreMadden”
Chair: George Hughes
11:35–12:25
Special Lecture by Jefferson Holdridge, University College Dublin“Night-rule: Decadance and Sublimity in Derek Mahon's The Yellow Book.”
Introduction: Masazumi Toraiwa
12:30–13:30 Lunch & Annual General Meeting
Chair: Seishi Matsuda
13:40–14:40 Special Lecture by Stanley E. Gontarski,
Sarah Herndon Professor of English, Florida State University, Editor,

Journal of Beckett Studies“Beckett and Performance”
Introduction: Minako Okamuro
14:50–17:20 Symposium“Folly and Frenzy in Irish Literature”
Chair: Tetsuro Sano
Speakers: Chizuko Inoue, Ken’ichi Matsumura, Masazumi Toraiwa
17:30 Closing Address
Akiko Manabe

★We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all the staff of Shirayuri
College, especially Prof. Nobuaki Tochigi and his wonderful students.
Items covered at AGM:
1) Financial Report of the Fiscal Year 2000 by Treasurer, Prof. Hiroko Ikeda.
2) IASIL 2001 in Dublin and IASIL 2002 in Sao Paulo, Brazil by Prof.
Masazumi Toraiwa3) IASIL-JAPAN 2002 by Secretary, Prof. Akiko Manabe
Host University will be Hiroshima City University. President of theUniversity, Prof. Reiji Fujimoto and Prof. Hiroko Ikeda will work for thearrangement of the conference.
4) Journal of Irish Studies by Editor, Prof. Peter McMillan
2. Journal of Irish Studies
Please find the letter by Editor, Prof. Peter McMillan.

For further

information/inquiry, be in touch with the Editor.
Prof. Richard Kelly has been working hard for the international distributionof the Jounal.
The Office would appreciate it if those members who have published books
would send one review copy.
3. Plans for IASIL–Japan 2002 Conference
At the committee meetings held on December 15, the committee began toplan for the 19th IASIL–Japan Conference.
a) Time: October 19 & 20, 2002.
b) Place: Hiroshima City Universityc)

Conference Theme: Crossing Bordersd)

Guest Speakers: Matthew Sweeney and Glenn Patterson.

e)Symposiai) “Dracula” (Chair & Organizer: Prof. Masazumi Toraiwa)

ii) Some theme related to the conference theme. (Chair & Organizer:Prof. Seishi Matsuda)f)Call for Papers!
Applicants for the paper reading are requested to send the office a
synoposis by the end of May. The following items must be either
1. saved in FD and sent with a hard copy typed on A4-sized sheetsor
2. sent by e-mail as an attached file or as written in the message
Name, University or other Affiliation, Address, Title of the Paper and250–300 Words Summary.
Papers read at the conference should be 3,000 words and given within
20 minutes.
4. Request for Information of Your Publication
Please read the letter below from Prof. Kazuhiro Doki who is compiling theIASIL bibliography for the year 2001 and send the information by the end of
May to Prof. Doki.
★★★★★
To IASIL members:
We are compiling the IASIL bibliography for the year 2001 (from January toDecember). Please send a bibliography of your publications to Kazuhiro Dokiby the end of May, 2002. The bibliography should include: books, articles,and translations. It has been our policy that translations should not becounted as publications, but considering their significant contributions toour society, we have decided to include them in the bibliography. Also, when
you send your bibliography, please pay attention to the following conditions:
1. Your bibliography should follow the Oxford Style Sheet. Here are someexamples below, and if you need more examples, please refer to the latest
number of the Harp.
Ex. (1) Bourke, Angela, “Yeats and Irish Folklore in the 1890s”,

in Yeats Studies (Bulletin of The Yeats Society of Japan),30,

pp.3-22, 1999.

(2) Coote, Stephen, W.B.Yeats: A Life, Hodder andStoughton (London), 612,
2. If your article is written in Japanese, please attach its original title inRomaji after the Englsih title.
Ex.

Izubuchi,Izubuchi

Hirosi,Hiroshi1,

DialogueMisuzu

with

shobo

Yeats,Worksof(Tokyo),writtenin

Japanese: Yeats to no Taiwa, Izubuchi Hiroshi Chosaku shu 1.
3. In transcribing Japanese words into Romaji:(a) Follow the Hepburnian system (ヘボン式), whose table you can findin Kenkyusha’s New Japanese-English Dictionary, 4th ed, 1991.
Ex. Not ti but chi; not tu but tsu, etc.
(b) Do not use any phonetic signs such as ∧ or − over vowels in order toindicate their length.
(c) English names should be spelled in English; Do not transcribe into
Romaji even though the article is written in Japanese:Ex.

Not: Yeitsu to no Taiwa, but: Yeats to no Taiwa.

4. Please send your bibliography either by e-mail or by postal mail.
5. Address:
Doki, Kazuhiro
1-2-302 Hirosawa, Igaya-cho
Kariya-city, Aichi 448-0001
e-mail: kdoki@auecc.aichi-edu.ac.jp
5. IASIL 2002 in Brazil
For further information:
Associacao Brasileira de Estudos Irlandeses
Av. Prof Luciano Gualberto, 403
Departamento de Letras Modernas-FFLCH-USP
Sao Paulo/SP- Brasil
05508-900
Phone: 55(11)3818-4296

Fax: 55(11)3032-2328
6. The 2001 Membership Fee
The postal transfer sheet is enclosed for those who have not paid themembership fee. Please forgive us if the correspondence is crossed on theway.
Regular membership–8,000 yen
Married couples––12,000yen
Student membership––5000 yen. (Students who would like to receive IUR
have to pay 8,000 yen.)
The name of the Bank and the account no. for IASIL-JAPAN will be changed
at the beginning of April, 2002. New information will be announced in thenext newsletter.

WISH YOU ALL A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

IASIL–JAPAN OFFICE
c/o Akiko Manabe
Shiga University, Faculty of Economics
1–1–1 Banba, Hikone, Shiga 522–8522
tel&fax: +81-(0)749–27–1111
e–mail:akiko–m@biwako.shiga–u.ac.jp