What They’re Saying
About Re-Imagining Ireland…

The time is indeed ripe for taking stock of Irish culture and identity at the dawn of a new era….‘Re-Imagining Ireland’ will be the first major forum where the changing contours of Ireland are mapped in terms of contemporary cultural and critical debates… a landmark event in itself, defining the self-images of a society in an era of rapid change.

Luke Gibbons

It seems to me to be timely, well-conceived and of great potential importance… I genuinely believe that such an exploration can have real effects in the coming years, contributing to the emergence of a new intellectual climate in which old disabilities can be turned into new possibilities.

Fintan O’Toole

This event has the capacity to contribute significantly to the ‘re-imagining’ which will help Ireland to address old separations as it moves into the 21^st century with an imagination and energy which can be of importance globally.

Maurna Crozier

The public is more than ready for this kind of program.  It is long overdue… the Re-Imagining Ireland project …is the most imaginative and exciting project on the Irish diaspora that has been conceived to date on either side of the Atlantic.   

Mick Moloney

I am extremely impressed both with the quality of the people you have participating, and the thoughtful and constructive way that the forum is being devised.  Something very useful will be the result.

Donald A. Akenson

[Re-Imagining Ireland] will give all the participants a rich set of perspectives on what has been happening in Ireland in recent years.  The pace of change has been so rapid that it is sometimes difficult to know whether we are still in touch with what we have inherited from the past.

Tomas O Cathasaigh

Through understanding America’s complex relationship with a small country which has contributed so much to the evolution of America, might we not all hope to find strategies for making our way through a complex and sometimes bewildering start to this new century?

Theo Dorgan

The tentative peace into which Ireland is currently attempting to settle requires that we re-imagine all of our old concepts of culture and identity…The proposed conference…will make a significant contribution to this.

Susan McKay