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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