Friday, January 3, 2:30–4:30 p.m.

American Conference for Irish Studies

Women, Religion, and Power: Reexamining Gender, Culture, and Community in Modern Ireland

Hilton, Conference Room 4L

Chair: Patrick McDevitt, State University of New York at Buffalo

Papers: Crying out a Community: Mná Caointe (Keening Women), the Beansí (Banshee), and Sounds of Grief in the Wake of the Great Irish Famine
Christina Brophy, Boston College

The Clamor of the Women: Women, Priests, and Parish Conflicts in Catholic Ireland, 1850–1920
Cara Delay, University of Delaware

Women's Roles in Transition: The Deaconess Movement within the Irish Presbyterian Church, 1904–43
Janice Holmes, University of Ulster, Coleraine

Comment: Hasia Diner, New York University

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