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Women and the First World War

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Women and the First World War

Women’s Studies Seminar – Sat. 1st March, 2014

Kane GO1 at 10.00 a.m. (registration from 9.30 a.m.)

 

Contact sandra.mcavoy@ucc.ie for further information and to register an interest in attending

 

All Welcome

Location: UCC Kane Building G01

Session 1 (Chair Dr Clare O’Halloran)

10:00 Seminar opening

Poetry reading by Eadaoin O'Donaghue:

 

Munition Wages by Madeline Ida Bedford

Hallow-e’en 1915 by Winifred M. Letts (1916)

 

10:15 – 11:25: Panel 1: Women and Forms of Work

Dr Mary Muldowney: ‘Unsuitable work for women’. Employment in munitions and railways during the First World War.

Dr John Borgonovo (UCC) Unionists, Nationalists, and Separation Women:  The Mobilisation of Cork Women, 1914-1918.

Dr Sandra McAvoy (UCC) Relief Work in a War Zone: Cork Suffragist Susanne Day’s Experience.

11:25 – 11:30 short break

 

Session 2 (Chair Maeve O’Riordan)

11:30 – 12:05 Keynote Speaker

 

Rosemary Cullen-Owens: 'WOMEN OF EUROPE, WHEN WILL YOUR CALL RING OUT?' Appeal by Louie Bennett in Jus Suffragii, 1 March 1915, (Journal of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance).

12:05 -12:20: Break

Teas and coffees will be served

 

Session 3 (Chair Dr Sandra McAvoy)

12:20 – 1:10 Panel 2: Women and remembrance

Maeve O’Riordan (UCC): ‘I read the Times every day’: Lady Inchiquin’s First World War experience.

Dr Clodagh Tait (Mary Immaculate College): Landscapes of loss: mourning and memory in an east Cork parish.

1:10 – 1:30 The Diary of Mary Martin

Rachel Murphy MA (UCC): We have started saying the rosary together for you every night’: A Mother’s Perspective on the First World War, based on The Diary of Mary Martin 1916, a Digital Project.

Close of event

Studies in the Irish Revolution

 

Cork Studies in the Irish Revolution:

Ireland and the First World War: ‘in defence of right, of freedom, and of religion’?

University College Cork, Friday 24th and Saturday 25th January 2014

 

Download conference programme here Ireland and the First World War

The History Show - RTÉ Radio 1 (download a podcast of this programme from Sunday 19 January)

 

 


 

Conference organised by the School of History University College Cork, with generous assistance from the Research Fund, School of History, University College Cork, and the Reconciliation Fund of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

 

 

 

Treaty Ports Conference Programme

Treaty Ports Conference Programme <<Click Here

THE LUSITANIA AND THE WAR AT SEA, 1914-18

 

 

Boole I Lecture Theatre, University College Cork

Wednesday 6th May 2015

9.00am

Opening remarks

            Gabriel Doherty, School of History, University College Cork

 

9.10am

The Royal Navy’s reaction to submarine warfare

            Dr Duncan Redford, National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth

 

9.55am

The sinking of the Lusitania: the local relief effort

            Michael Martin, author of RMS Lusitania: it wasn’t and it didn’t

 

10.40am

Coffee break

 

11.00am

The response in Liverpool

            Dr Bryce Evans, Department of History, Liverpool Hope University

 

11.45pm

Contingency, service, loss and reparation: Cunard's war

            Dr Steve Cobb, independent scholar

 

12.30pm

Lunch break

 

1.50pm

The Lusitania: the personal stories

            Peter Kelly, http://www.lusitania.net/

 

2.35pm

The sinking of the Lusitania and the propaganda war

            Ann Murray, Department of Art History, University College Cork

 

3.20pm

Coffee break

 

3.35pm

Warship or passenger ship? The origins of the Lusitania revisited

            Matthew Seligmann, Department of Politics, History and Law, Brunel University

 

4.20pm

The sinking of the Lusitania: the French dimension

            Professor Grace Neville, School of Languages, University College Cork

 

5.05pm

Break

 

5.15pm

The American response to the sinking of the Lusitania

            Speaker TBC

 

6.00pm

Closing remarks

            Professor David Ryan, School of History, University College Cork

 

Conference organised by the School of History University College Cork, with assistance from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, and the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, University College Cork

For further information please telephone 021-4902783, email g.doherty@ucc.ie. Please address any correspondence to: ‘Lusitania conference’, School of History, University College Cork. 

Organiser: Gabriel Doherty, School of History, University College Cork.

LUSITANIA AND THE WAR AT SEA

 

The event is free to all who wish to attend, and members of both the UCC community and the general public are, of course, very welcome.

Details of the programme of events that will be held along the coast on Thursday 7th may (the exact centenary of the sinking) can be found at: http://visitcorkcounty.com/lusitania100cork/

 

  

THE RISING OF POETS & PLAYWRIGHTS?

Cork Studies in the Irish Revolution:

The Rising of poets & playwrights? The arts & the 1916 Easter Rising 

University College Cork

Friday 29th and Saturday 30th January 2016

 

Friday 29th

Kane Building, Lecture Theatre G18

2.20pm

Opening remarks

            Gabriel Doherty, School of History, University College Cork

 

 

Session One

2.30pm

The politics of erasure: Lehmann James Oppenheimer and the Honan chapel, Cork

            James Cronin, School of History, University College Cork

2.55pm

Revisiting three historical paintings by Jack B. Yeats

            Patricia Curtin-Kelly, Freelance art historian

 

3.20pm

Coffee break

 

 

Session Two

3.50pm

Pirate poetry

            Morgan Daniels, Queen Mary, University of London/Arcadia University, London Centre

4.15pm

‘The nation is ashamed of its past’: Patrick Pearse and the quest for the ‘authentic Ireland’

            Conor MacNamara, National University of Ireland Galway

 

4.40pm

Session ends

 

 

Official Opening

 

Aula Maxima

7.45pm

Welcoming address

            David Ryan, Chair, School of History, University College Cork

 

8.00pm

‘Where folk and art meet’: Carolan, Ó Riada, and the music of cultural mediation

            Micheál Ó Suilleabháin, Professor of Music, University of Limerick

 

9.15pm

Session ends

 

 

Saturday 30th

Boole I lecture theatre

9.45am

A plaque on both your houses: monuments of the Easter Rising

            Ray Bateson, author

 

10.45am

Coffee break

 

11.00am

Theatre and revolution, experiences of a theatre producer/writer

            Maria Young, Theatre producer

 

12.00pm

A standing army of poets

            Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Emeritus Professor of English, Trinity College Dublin

 

1.00pm

Lunch break

 

2.15pm

Film and the Irish revolution

            Kevin Rockett, Fellow Emeritus, Trinity College, Dublin

 

3.15pm

Coffee Break

 

3.30pm

Literature and the Rising

            Irina Ruppo Malone, Department of English, National University of Ireland, Galway

 

4.40pm

Representing the Rising

            Robert Ballagh, artist

 

5.40pm

Closing remarks

 

Conference organised by the School of History University College Cork. For further information please telephone 021-4902783, email g.doherty@ucc.ie. Please address any correspondence to: ‘1916 conference’, School of History, University College Cork. 

Organiser: Gabriel Doherty, School of History, University College Cork.

Violent Contexts: Ireland and the Wider World : Friday 1 April 2016

Violence, as a subject of scholarly enquiry, is of central importance to the human experience.  We often think of each incident as unique, but unique to what and to whom?  Violence is universal and ubiquitous and it can be felt in domestic, religious, ethnic, gender, political, criminal and international contexts.  Thus, the purpose of this interdisciplinary symposium is to consider how violence is conceived, portrayed, remembered, and experienced both communally and globally through a range of discourses and approaches which include literature, history, sociology philosophy, religion, language, and law.  The goal is to create a forum in which themes of violence can be explored and compared from local and global perspectives through a variety of analytical methodologies.  And, by doing so, violent encounters will be examined in their peculiar and universal contexts.

 

Organisers: Dr Ruth Canning and Dr David Fitzgerald, School of History.

Violent Contexts programme

Venue: CACSSS Seminar Room, O'Rahilly Building

Opening Address - 11:00

 

Panel 1: Early Modern Violence and Ireland - 11:15-12:45

James O’Neill (UCC) – Like sheep to the shambles? Slaughter and surrender during Tyrone’s Rebellion, 1593-1603

Matthew Woodcock (University of East Anglia) – Thomas Churchyard and the Rehearsal of Violence in Early Modern Ireland

Clodagh Tait (MIC) – 'Whereat his wife tooke great greef & died’: dying of sorrow and killing in anger in seventeenth-century Ireland

 

Lunch: 1:00-2:00

 

Panel 2: Violence, Gender, and the Family - 2:00-3:30 

Linda Connolly (UCC) - Obstectric Violence and 'Modern' Ireland: the Practice of Symphysiotomy 1940-1989

Lindsey Earner-Byrne (UCD) – “Behind closed doors”: Society and domestic violence in Ireland, 1922-1995

Sandra McAvoy (UCC) - ‘An act to make further and better provision for the protection of young girls’: the women’s movement and the sexual crime sections of the Criminal Law(Amendment) Act, 1935

 

Panel 3: Torture, Violence and Memory: Ireland and Beyond - 4:00-5:30

John Borgonovo (UCC) – ‘Another Flake of the Hammer’: The Torture of Republican Prisoners, Narratives and Discourses of the Irish Revolutionary Period 

Vittorio Bufacchi (UCC) – Violence, Memory and Community

Aoife Duffy (NUIG) – Interrogation, Violence and International Law

 

 

Plenary: Aula Maxima 6:00-7:15

Fergal Keane (BBC) - The ethics and obligations of memorialising violence - from Listowel to Visegrad.

Keynote speaker - Fergal Keane

Our keynote speaker is the award-winning BBC Foreign Correspondent Fergal Keane, who will be giving a public lecture on “The Ethics and Obligations of Memorialising Violence - From Listowel to Visegrad" at 6pm.  Keane’s investigative coverage of international war zones and humanitarian crises has been instrumental in raising global awareness for the brutality inflicted upon civilian populations during times of conflict.  A witness to genocide in Rwanda, Keane has produced a book, “Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey” (winner of the 1995 Orwell prize), as well as several candid and compassionate documentaries which detail the ferociousness and tragic consequences of ethnic violence while highlighting the need for more proactive humanitarian intervention by western powers.  Keane is also the author of a number of other acclaimed books, including ”Road of Bones: The Siege of Kohima 1944”, and was the presenter of the five-part BBC/RTE documentary series ”The Story of Ireland”.

‘Ireland, Russia and a revolutionary world’

 

Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, University College Cork

Lecture Room GO5

Friday 3 November 2017

 

9.20am

Opening remarks

          Gabriel Doherty, School of History, University College Cork

 

9.30am

‘The fourth path’: Ireland and the Polish question, 1916-8

          Gabriel Doherty, School of History, University College Cork

 

10.20am

Irish self-determination and the Soviet revolution, and the shots that reverberated a long time, 1916-1931

          Jerome aan de Wiel, School of History, University College Cork

 

11.10am

The Irish revolution and its American dimensions, 1916-1922

          John Borgonovo, School of History, University College Cork

 

12.00pm

Lunch break

 

1.10pm

The international dimensions of the Bolshevik revolution

          Geoff Roberts, School of History, University College Cork

 

2.00pm

Revolutionary identities and violence: some reflections from the Russian and Irish revolutions

          James Ryan, School of History, Archaeology and Religion,

          Cardiff University

 

2.50pm

Language and emotion in the Russian revolution

          Judith Devlin, School of History, University College Dublin

 

3.40pm

Concluding remarks

          David Ryan, School of History, University College Cork

 

 

Conference organised by the School of History University College Cork,

For further information please telephone 021-4902783, email g.doherty@ucc.ie.

Please address any correspondence to: ‘Ireland-Russia conference’, School of History, University College Cork.

Organiser: Gabriel Doherty, School of History, University College Cork.

 

 

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