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SCHEDULE.

THURSDAY - 28th MARCH

​11:30-12:00

COFFEE & REGISTRATION

​12:00-12:05

WELCOME

Dr. Edward Kessler MBE  (Woolf Institute)

12:00 - 13:00​

PANEL 1: MILITANT CAMPAIGNING IN THE ERA OF THE TROUBLES

Chair: Charlotte Kenealy (University of Cambridge)

Jordan Brown (University of St. Andrews)                

Spongers' Revolt: Reframing the UWC Strike in an Era of Radical Industrial Action

Bethan Johnson (University of Cambridge)              

The Conflicting Faces of Separatism: The Alleged Origins of Militant Campaign Strategies in the Troubles                                                       

13:00 - 14:00

LUNCH AT WESTMINSTER COLLEGE 

​14:00 - 15:30

PANEL 2: IRISH MIGRATION AND THE POLITICS OF THE DIASPORA

Chair: Professor Claire Connolly (University College, Cork)

Kyle Martin (Trinity College, Dublin)                       

The Irish Roots of E.L. Godkin

Christopher Morash (University College Cambridge)         

'The Stranger who is within our Gates,' Young Ireland and the Politics of Culture                                                    

Trisha Kessler (University College, Dublin)                 

The Stop List: Travel Permits and the Dynamics of Social Power in Modern Ireland, 1939-45

​13:30 - 15:45

COFFEE

​15:45 - 17:15

PANEL 3: POVERTY AND CHARITY IN THE IRISH IMAGINATION

Chair: Dr. Charles Read (University of Cambridge)

Dr. J.P. McGuaran (IT Sligo)                 

The Irish Poor Law: Cultural Politics in Action

Dr. Hedetaka Hirota (Waseda University)               

The Undeserving Irish: The Transatlantic Convergence of Poverty Ideology in Ireland, Britain, and the United States

Aiofe O'Leary McNeice:      

Networks of Global Humanitarianism and the Great Irish Famine

17:15 - 17:45​

DRINKS RECEPTION

17:45 - 19:15

                     

KEYNOTE LECTURE

Chair: Christopher Morash (University of Cambridge)               

Professor R.F. Foster (Queen Mary University of London)     

Culture, Anarchy and History in Modern Ireland

19:45

DINNER AT SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE

FRIDAY - 29th MARCH

08:45 - 10:45​

PANEL 4: VISUALISING AND RECORDING IRISH HISTORY

Chair: Dr. Niamh Gallagher (University of Cambridge)

Joyce-Elena Ní Ghiobúin (Independent Researcher)

'An Enemy of the People': Nationalising the Anti-Tuberculosis Campaigns  in Ireland through Visual and Literary Cultures                                                 

Tim Ellis (Teeside University)                          

The Politics of Visual Culture and the Irish Civil War, 1922-3

Charlotte Kenealy (University of Cambridge)            

Commemoration as Reconciliation: The Impact of the Northern Ireland Peace Process on World War Remembrance

Dr. Richard Parfit (University of Oxford)                 

Political Archives and Cultural History

​10:45 - 11:00

COFFEE

11:00 - 12:30

PANEL 5: INTELLECTUALS AND POLITICAL IDEAS

Chair: Aoife O'Leary McNeice (University of Cambridge)

Hugh Hanley (University of Cambridge)                    

Conor Cruise O'Brien and the Public Role of Writers

Max Lambert (Independent Researcher)                   

'An Historical Mafia': The UCD-Peterhouse Connection

​Séan Donnelly (Teeside University)               

Purging the 'Slave Mind': Cumann na nGaedheal and the Philosophy of Irish Ireland, 1892-1922

​12:30 - 13:00

COFFEE

​13:00 - 14:00

CONCLUDING ROUND-TABLE

Chair: Bethan Johnson (University of Cambridge)

Discussants:       

Professor Eugenio Biagini (University of Cambridge) 

Professor Richard Bourke (University of Cambridge) 

Professor Claire Connolly (University College, Cork) 

Professor Clair Wills (University of Cambridge) 

                  

The organisers are grateful for the support and generosity of the Cambridge Group for Irish Studies, the Woolf Institute, and the Brian Lenihan Memorial Fund of the Cambridge Modern Irish History Seminar fotheir support in organizing and financing this conference.

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