Past Conferences
Treaty Ports Conference, 28-29 November 2008 The Seventieth Anniversary of the Anglo-Irish Agreement, 1938
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
Treaty Ports Conference
Anglo-Irish Agreement, 1938 – Seventieth Anniversary
The 1938 Anglo-Irish Agreement ended the ‘Economic War’ and returned the ‘Treaty Ports’ to Ireland.
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
Organiser – Dr Andrew McCarthy, History Department, Tel 4903584 a.mccarthy@ucc.ie
Conference Speakers Include : -
Dr Kate O’Malley Dr Michael Kennedy Dr Martin Mansergh Dr Gerard Hogan Dr Jonathan Bardon Prof Eunan O’Halpin
Other Speakers: - Professor Dermot Keogh,Dr Donal Ó Drisceoil, Dr Mervyn O’Driscoll, Commandant Liam Campbell, Commandant (AR) Thomas O’Neill, Colonel Maurice Walsh
Full Conference Programme
Friday 28 November
Venue - Council Room
6.15- 7.30pm – Session I- Chair Professor Dermot Keogh
6.15pm – Professor Dermot Keogh – Conference Opening
6.20pm – Dr Andrew McCarthy – Context and Setting for 1938 Agreements
6.40pm – Dr Kate O’Malley – Ireland and India: Intra-imperial backdrop to the Anglo-Irish Agreement 1938
7.30pm – Close of First Session
Saturday 29 November
Venue - Brookfield BHSC_G04
9.15am – 11-am Session II Chair Professor Eunan O’Halpin
Dr Donál Ó Drisceoil - From Dungloe to Downing Street: the politics of the land annuites
Dr Mervyn O’Driscoll – Nazi Germany and the International Factor in the Anglo-Irish Negotiations
Dr Michael Kennedy - The Treaty Ports as a geopolitical and international relations issue
11-11-30am - Break
11.30 – 12.45 - Session III Chair - Professor David Gwynn Morgan
Dr Gerard Hogan – The Anglo-Irish Agreement (1938) and the Constitution (1937)
Professor Eunan O’Halpin – Intelligence and Post-colonial Politics
12.45pm - 2.00 pm Lunch
2.00 – 3.00pm – Session IV – Chair – Professor Dermot Keogh
Dr Jonathan Bardon – ‘Ulster is not for sale’: Northern Ireland and the 1938 Anglo-Irish Treaty
Dr Martin Mansergh - The 1938 Agreement in the context of Anglo-Irish Agreements
3.00pm – 3.15pm – Short Break
3.15-4.45pm Session V – Chair – Commandant Victor Laing
Commandant Liam Campbell - The military significance of the return of the Treaty Ports
Commandant (AR) Thomas O’Neill – Spike Island 1800 – 2008
Colonel Maurice Walsh – Spike Island Memoirs
4.45pm – Conference closing - Prof D Keogh