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Metahistory Conference Programme
Metahistory Conference Programme
THE METAHISTORY CONFERENCE,
UCC, 6-7 May, Boole 2 lecture theatre
Friday Evening:
KEYNOTE LECTURE
5.00-6.30 pm Shlomo Sand, University of Tel Aviv:
‘History and Nation: The Invention of the Jewish People’.
Saturday:
Metahibernia: Historians and History-writing in Ireland under the Union
9.30- 10.30:
Opening Remarks
Hiram Morgan, University College Cork: ‘Lost leaders: Fantasy Portraits of Gaelic Chiefs’.
Fintan Cullen, University of Nottingham: ‘Art, Union and Nationhood’.
10.30-11.00: Tea & Coffee
11.00-12.30:
Peter Woodman, University College Cork: 'Irish struggles with concepts of human antiquity and deep time'.
Jim McGeachie, University of Ulster: ‘Metahistory as metascience: Sir William Wilde and the uses of medical biography and history.’
Patrick Maume, Dictionary of Irish Biography, RIA: ‘William Cooke Taylor, Liberal Unionism and an enlightenment history in the Age of O’Connell’.
12.30-1.30: Lunch
1.30-3.00
Clare O'Halloran, University College Cork: ‘The Long Afterlife of Spenser's View of the Present State of Ireland: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives’.
Brian Jackson, University College Dublin: ‘In conformity with Modern Criticism": Denis Murphy, Edmund Hogan and the Irish approach to Jesuit Historiography’.
Alan Ford, University of Nottingham: ‘High or low? Writing the Irish reformation in the early nineteenth century’.
3.30-4.00: Tea & Coffee
Ciaran Brady TCD - 'J.P. Prendergast and the practice of history in 19th Century Ireland'.
Closing Remarks
KEYNOTE LECTURE
5.15 – 6.45 Tom Bartlett, Aberdeen
’How to write a history of Ireland in 45 minutes’.
Free – All Welcome
We would like to hear from possible attendees to get some idea of numbers.
Contact h.morgan@ucc.ie & o.walsh@ucc.ie