19 Jan 2006

"The Long Revolution: The 1916 Rising in Context" - UCC Conference, 27/28 January

A two-day conference to mark the ninetieth anniversary of the Easter Rising is scheduled to take place in University College Cork on Friday, 27 and Saturday, 28 January 2006.  The conference, entitled "The Long Revolution: the 1916 Rising in Context", has attracted a wide range of distinguished speakers from the worlds of academia, politics, the military and the law, each of whom will analyse different aspects of the political, social, economic and cultural background to, and the events and legacy of, this crucial event in the history of modern Ireland.

The principal speakers on the opening night of the conference (27 January) are the President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, and Professor Keith Jeffery of Queen's University Belfast. The list of speakers for Saturday (28 January) includes the Hon Mr Justice Adrian Hardiman, Judge of the Supreme Court; Dr Jérôme aan de Wiel of the University of Rheims; Dr Rosemary Cullen-Owens of University College Dublin; Dr Brian P. Murphy OSB of Glenstal Abbey; Dr Owen Magee, University College Dublin; and Brendan O'Shea and Gerry White, military historians.

The conference is being organised by Professor Dermot Keogh and Gabriel Doherty of the Department of History in UCC, and is the latest in a series of events organised by the Department the purpose of which is to examine the origins and evolution of the independent Irish state.

The proceedings will take place in the following venues:  Friday, 27 January in the College's Aula Maxima, and Saturday, 28 January in the Boole I Lecture Theatre. A limited number of tickets are available for the general public (fee €15 with a reduction to €5 for students, OAPs and the unwaged). Further details can be obtained from Gabriel Doherty at 021 4902783, email g.doherty@ucc.ie. Additional information can be obtained at the conference website: http://www.ucc.ie/academic/history/pages/Welcome/1916

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