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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.
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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.
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From a Far Country
17 Dec 2013
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Transmission, Translation and Dissemination in the European Middle Ages
04 Oct 2012
Transmission, Translation and Dissemination in the European Middle Ages, 1000–1500 ad, is an interdisciplinary, international, two-day conference to be held at University College Cork on 28–29 September 2012. The papers will explore issues of textual transmission and the movement of ideas across medieval Europe. Indeed, going beyond consideration of literary texts alone, the scope of discussions will include the transmission of images, music, scientific learning, and related areas.
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School of History RTE TV50 Confernece: Celebrating 50 Years of Television in Ireland
08 Sep 2012
Dr Finola Doyle-O'Neill of the School of History, UCC is pleased to present the TV50 Conference. UCC is a leading centre for the study of Irish media history and this conference will be of particular interest to students and practitioners of media, history, communications and journalism and to all those with a keen interest in media. Read more -
Crisis and Recovery: Church and Society in Twelfth Century Ireland
11 Nov 2011
Conference at University College Cork and St Patrick’s College, Thurles
Crisis and recovery: Church and society in twelfth-century Ireland marks the nine-hundredth anniversary of the synod of Ráith Bressail, and follows Reform and renewal: Ireland and Europe in the twelfth century, a conference held in 2001 to commemorate the nine-hundredth anniversary of the first synod of Cashel.
The conference is held under the auspices of the School of History, University College Cork, and the County Tipperary Historical Society and will take place at University College Cork and St Patrick’s College, Thurles, Co Tipperary, on 11 – 13 November 2011. Details of the conference, including the programme, can be found here.
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Irish History Students' Association (IHSA) Conference 2011
25 Feb 2011
The School of History, UCC and UCC Historical Society proudly present the 2011 IHSA conference
25-27 February 2011
For information & registration,
Email: 2011ihsa@gmail.com
Website:
http://www.ucc.ie/en/history/ihsa
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Solidarity Movement Conference
16 Aug 2010
The School of History, in conjunction with the Institute of History, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, is pleased to announce the hosting of a conference to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the foundation of the Solidarity movement in Poland, the event to take place in the Boole IV lecture theatre on Saturday 18thSeptember.
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Ireland and European Integration: Membership, Influence, and Contribution
13 Jan 2010
Conference hosted by the School of History, University College Cork and the IRCHSS-funded project ‘Ireland and European integration in a comparative context’
Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd January 2010
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Ireland and Rome: Some Historical Perspectives
15 Dec 2008
A seminar organised by the Department of History, University College Cork and hosted by the Pontifical Irish College, Rome.
Monday 15 December 2008
Organized by Dr. Damian Bracken
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Treaty Ports Conference, 28-29 November 2008 The Seventieth Anniversary of the Anglo-Irish Agreement, 1938
10 Nov 2008
The History Department marks this momentous event with a conference in UCC on Friday-Saturday 28-29 November. Admission Free – All Welcome Full Programme and Venues Below in PDF document
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Treaty Ports Conference Programme
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Jack Lynch: Politics and Sport, Personality and Leadership
03 Oct 2008
Plenary: An Taoiseach Brian Cowen
"Jack Lynch: An Appreciation"
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Postgraduate Forum Council Room, UCC, Free |
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The Long Revolution: The 1916 Rising in Context
27 Jan 2006
Friday 27th and Saturday 28th January 2006
Plenary: President Mary McAleese
"1916 – A view from 2006"
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14th Irish-Australian Conference, 22-24 June 2005
22 Jun 2005
Conference Organizer Dr. Larry Geary, and Dr. Andrew McCarthy
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The World After 9/11
04 Feb 2005
The History Department Hosted a one-day conference with guest speakers: Peter Sutherland, Chairman, BP and Goldman Sacs; Professor John Dumbrell, University of Leicester, UK; and Professor Mark Lytle (Mary Ball Washington Professor of American History at UCD.
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THE LUSITANIA AND THE WAR AT SEA, 1914-18
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Boole I Lecture Theatre, University College Cork Wednesday 6th May 2015 |
| 9.00am |
Opening remarks Gabriel Doherty, School of History, University College Cork
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| 9.10am |
The Royal Navy’s reaction to submarine warfare Dr Duncan Redford, National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth
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| 9.55am |
The sinking of the Lusitania: the local relief effort Michael Martin, author of RMS Lusitania: it wasn’t and it didn’t
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| 10.40am |
Coffee break
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| 11.00am |
The response in Liverpool Dr Bryce Evans, Department of History, Liverpool Hope University
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| 11.45pm |
Contingency, service, loss and reparation: Cunard's war Dr Steve Cobb, independent scholar
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| 12.30pm |
Lunch break
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| 1.50pm |
The Lusitania: the personal stories Peter Kelly, http://www.lusitania.net/
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| 2.35pm |
The sinking of the Lusitania and the propaganda war Ann Murray, Department of Art History, University College Cork
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| 3.20pm |
Coffee break
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| 3.35pm |
Warship or passenger ship? The origins of the Lusitania revisited Matthew Seligmann, Department of Politics, History and Law, Brunel University
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| 4.20pm |
The sinking of the Lusitania: the French dimension Professor Grace Neville, School of Languages, University College Cork
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Break
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| 5.15pm |
The American response to the sinking of the Lusitania Speaker TBC
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| 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.
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
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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
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| 3.20pm |
Coffee break
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Session Two |
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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
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| 4.40pm |
Session ends
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Official Opening |
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Aula Maxima |
| 7.45pm |
Welcoming address David Ryan, Chair, School of History, University College Cork
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| 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
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Session ends |
| Saturday 30th |
Boole I lecture theatre |
| 9.45am |
A plaque on both your houses: monuments of the Easter Rising Ray Bateson, author
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| 10.45am |
Coffee break
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| 11.00am |
Theatre and revolution, experiences of a theatre producer/writer Maria Young, Theatre producer
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| 12.00pm |
A standing army of poets Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Emeritus Professor of English, Trinity College Dublin
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Lunch break
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Film and the Irish revolution Kevin Rockett, Fellow Emeritus, Trinity College, Dublin
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Coffee Break
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| 3.30pm |
Literature and the Rising Irina Ruppo Malone, Department of English, National University of Ireland, Galway
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| 4.40pm |
Representing the Rising Robert Ballagh, artist
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| 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
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| 9.30am |
‘The fourth path’: Ireland and the Polish question, 1916-8 Gabriel Doherty, School of History, University College Cork
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| 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
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| 11.10am |
The Irish revolution and its American dimensions, 1916-1922 John Borgonovo, School of History, University College Cork
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| 12.00pm |
Lunch break
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| 1.10pm |
The international dimensions of the Bolshevik revolution Geoff Roberts, School of History, University College Cork
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| 2.00pm |
Revolutionary identities and violence: some reflections from the Russian and Irish revolutions James Ryan, School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University
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| 2.50pm |
Language and emotion in the Russian revolution Judith Devlin, School of History, University College Dublin
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| 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.