Conference events include:
Symposium
on Marriage in Ireland, 1660-1925, Friday 27th (Venue West Wing 5)
On the night
of Friday 27th May, Professor Maria Luddy, of the University of
Warwick, and Professor Mary O’Dowd of Queen’s University Belfast, will conduct
a symposium on their project on, Marriage in Ireland, 1660-1925, which was
funded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council.
This project
will produce a major study of the history of marriage in Ireland. Themes it set
out to examine included control of marriage by church and state; choosing a
marriage partner and negotiation of formal and informal marriages; experience
and reality of married life; and what happened when things went wrong,
including how partners separated and how separation was viewed by family,
community, church and state authorities.
Awarding
of the MacCurtain-Cullen Prize 2011
The
symposium will be followed by the awarding of the MacCurtain/Cullen prize for
history, named in honour of leading Irish historians Margaret MacCurtain and
Mary Cullen.
Keynote
speaker on Saturday, May 28th: Dr Leeann Lane on ‘Single Women and
Sex in the Newly Independent Irish State.’ (Venue G04, Brookfield Health
Sciences Complex, College Road)
On Saturday
28th Dr Leeann Lane, of DCU, will speak on ‘Single Women and Sex in
the Newly Independent Irish State.’
This is one
of the themes discussed in Dr Lane’s biography of Rosamond Jacob. (Rosamond
Jacob: Third Person Singular, Dublin: UCD Press, 2010)
Contact
information for Dr Lane: mobile 0860417394 or office 01-8086533
Themes on
Saturday 28th: Sexual Politics and Crime; Body Politics;
Mid-Twentieth Century Perspectives; and History and Current issues of
Sexuality.
To register for the conference: Dr Sandra McAvoy
087 238 1183 or 021 490 3654; email Sandra.mcavoy@ucc.ie
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