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Ireland and European Integration: Membership, Influence, and Contribution

13 Jan 2010
Ireland and European Integration: Membership, Influence, and Contribution

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 European integration:

membership, influence and contribution

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

 

FRIDAY

Aula Maxima

6.00pm

Registration

 

7.00pm

Official Conference Opening

 

7.05pm

Mary McAleese, President of Ireland

 

7.40pm

End of session

 

SATURDAY

brookfield G10

8.30-9.00am

Registration

 

9.00am

Tom McCarthy, Chief Executive, Irish Management Institute

‘European Integration & Irish Economic Development’

 

9.50am

Break

 

10.10am

Áine Hyland, Emeritus Professor of Education, University College Cork

‘The Influence of membership of the EEC/EU on Irish educational policy 1973-2009’

 

11.00am

Break

 

11.20pm

David Begg, General Secretary, Irish Congress of Trades Unions

‘Whither now the European Union social model?’

 

12.10pm

Lunch Break

 

2.00pm

Dr Martin Mansergh, Minister of State, Departments of Finance and Arts, Sports and Tourism

‘The issue of sovereignty’

 

2.50pm

Break

 

3.10pm

Garret FitzGerald, former Taoiseach and former Chancellor, National University of Ireland

‘TITLE TBC’

 

4.00m

End of conference

 

For further information and details on tickets please telephone 021-4903477, email mervod@ucc.ie or s.cuneen@ucc.ie

Please address any correspondence to: ‘Europe Conference’, School of History, University College Cork.

The conference is organised with financial assistance from the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Organisers: Dermot Keogh, Mervyn O’Driscoll, Katherine McGarry, Gabriel Doherty

School of History

Scoil na Staire

Tyrconnell,Off College Road,Cork,Ireland.

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