Panels & Presentations

C.W. Sullivan III presented his essay, "Political and Personal: Two Visions of Home in Denis B. Cashman's Hougoumont Diary, 1867-1868," at the North East regional meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies, Boston, 28-29 September 2001. Sullivan's paper, quoting from Cashman's diary and other historical records, discussed Cashman's changing personal view of home, which allowed him to relocate his family from Ireland to Boston, and his steadfast political view of home, an Ireland that needed to be freed from its British oppressors, which he continued to support while living in Boston.

Tom Douglass's biographical study, "The Strange Case of Edgar Allan Poe and the True Story" was part of the 18th Southern Writers Symposium at Methodist College in Fayetteville, NC, Sept., 28 -29. His paper discussed how biography and legend influence the understanding of fiction.