Micheál Martin TD, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, will
deliver the annual Schuman Lecture at UCC on Friday next, 5 May
2006. Hosted by UCC's Department of History, the lecture, titled
"Perspectives on the 1916 Rising", will be delivered in Boole I Lecture
Theatre at 7pm.
The Schuman lecture is held in honour of Robert Schuman, the visionary
French statesman whose unrelenting work in support of the ideal of
European co-operation entitles him to be considered him as the
philosophical father of the European Union.
Included amongst those who have previously delivered the lecture are
the former Taoisigh Garret FitzGerald and John Bruton; the former
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, the late Dr Mo Mowlam; the
former leader of the SDLP and Nobel Prize winner, Mr John Hume; the
former Ombudsman for Northern Ireland, Senator Maurice Hayes; the
former Speaker of the European Parliament, Mr Pat Cox; the former
British Ambassador to Ireland, Mr Ivor Roberts; the Irish Ambassador to
France, Pádraig MacKernan; and the Irish Ambassador to the Holy See,
Philip McDonagh.
Prior to the talk, the Department of History will host a launch of
three new books produced by former postgraduates of the Department:
Seosaimh Ó Longaigh, whose book Emergency law in independent Ireland
1922-1948 has just been published by Four Courts Press; and Paula Wylie
(Ireland and the Cold War: Recognition and Diplomacy 1949-1963) and
John Borgonovo (Florence and Josephine O'Donoghue's War of
Independence: A Destiny That Shapes Our End) whose books have also just
been published, by Irish Academic Press. The launch takes place in the
Staff Common Room in the North Wing of the Quadrangle, at 5.30pm. Light
refreshments will be served.
Both events are free and all members of the general public are invited to attend.
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