The event is organised by Dr Andy Bielenberg and Dr Raymond Ryan of UCC’s School of History.
This conference, which encompasses the Annual Conference of the Irish Economic and History Society, will place the current crisis in the wider context of Irish economic history by examining both long-run trends and short-term fluctuations in Irish economic performance, from the eighteenth century to the present.
The Annual Connell Lecture will be delivered by Liam Kennedy, Professor of Economic & Social History, Queen’s University Belfast, on "Ireland and Ulster: Religion, Politics, Demography, 1600-2001".
Other contributors include historians Professor Louis Cullen, Trinity College Dublin, Professor Mary Daly, University College Dublin, Professor Peter Solar, Vesalius College Brussels and Professor Brian Girvin, University of Glasgow.
Economists contributing to the conference include Professor John Fitzgerald, Economic & Social Research Institute, Professor Frank Barry, Trinity College Dublin and Dr Eoin O’Leary, UCC. The discipline of Geography will be represented by Dr Proinsias Breathnach, National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Full details on the conference are available from the UCC history department website, http://www.ucc.ie/en/history
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