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The Lusitania and the War at Sea 1914-8
Live Stream (Boole 1 Lecture Theatre
Programme
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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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| 5.05pm |
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/