Past Conferences
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