2016 Press Releases
1916 events at UCC
The School of History at University College Cork will host a major conference this weekend on 'The Rising of Poets and Playwrights? The Arts and the 1916 Rising.' Admission is free and all are welcome.
Historian Gabriel Doherty is also giving a series of lectures on 'The Revolutionary Decade and the Catholic Church in Ireland' (1912-1923), which will be on the 1st and the 8th February. See below the conference programme for more information on the lecture series. UCC also offers courses covering the Revolutionary Decade period and you will find more information visit http://www.ucc.ie/en/history/
Irish artist Robert Ballagh to speak at @UCC conference on The Arts and the 1916 #Rising https://t.co/9JxecGjplL pic.twitter.com/YOlMazPvyv
— Irish Examiner (@irishexaminer)
January 20, 2016
CONFERENCE IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK
Friday 29 – Saturday 30th January 2016
THE RISING OF POETS & PLAYWRIGHTS? THE ARTS & THE 1916 EASTER RISING
The School of History at UCC is pleased to announce that a free, two-day, public conference on the subject of the arts and the 1916 Rising is scheduled to take place in UCC on Friday 29th and Saturday 30th January 2016.
The event – which is free and open to all members of the general public who wish to attend – is the latest in a series of conferences organised by UCC’s School of History and collectively entitled ‘Cork Studies in the Irish Revolution’ The purpose of the series is to mark the centenary of the ‘revolutionary decade’ in modern Irish history (1912-23) by bringing the cream of Irish, British and international scholars to Cork. Previous events have examined the home rule crisis of 1912-4, the 1913 Dublin lock-out, and Ireland and the First World War.
Note re venues: The Kane Building is the Science Building just inside the main vehicular entrance on College Road. The Aula Maxima is in the Main Quad on the clock tower side of the Quadrangle while the Boole Lecture theatres are at the side of the Boole Library.
Cork Studies in the Irish Revolution:The Rising of poets & playwrights? The arts & the 1916 Easter Rising
| Friday 29th |
Kane Building (Science building), Lecture Theatre G18 |
| 2.20pm |
Opening remarks Gabriel Doherty, School of History, University College Cork
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Session One |
| 2.30pm |
The politics of erasure: Lehmann James Oppenheimer and the Honan Chapel, Cork James Cronin, School of History, University College Cork |
| 2.55pm |
Constructing Constance: Art and Performativity in the Fashioning of Constance de Markiewicz Fionna Barber, Manchester School of Art |
| 3.20pm |
Revisiting Three Historical Paintings by Jack B. Yeats Patricia Curtin-Kelly, Freelance art historian
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| 3.45pm |
Coffee break
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Session Two |
| 4.10pm |
Pirate Poetry Morgan Daniels, Queen Mary, University of London/Arcadia University, London Centre |
| 4.35pm |
‘The nation is ashamed of its past’: Patrick Pearse and the quest for the ‘authentic Ireland’ Conor MacNamara, National University of Ireland Galway
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| 5pm |
Session ends
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Official Opening |
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Aula Maxima |
| 7.45pm |
Welcoming address David Ryan, Chair, School of History, University College Cork University College Cork |
| 8.00pm |
‘Where folk and art meet’: Carolan, Ó Riada, and the music of cultural mediation Micheál Ó Suilleabháin, Professor of Music, University of Limerick |
| Saturday 30th |
Boole I lecture theatre |
| 9.45am |
A plaque on both your houses: monuments of the Easter Rising Ray Bateson, author
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| 10.45am |
Coffee break
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| 11.00am |
Theatre of the revolution Maria Young, Theatre producer
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| 12.00 noon |
A standing army of poets Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, emeritus Professor of English, Trinity College Dublin
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| 1.00pm |
Lunch break
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| 2.15pm |
The Rising on film Kevin Rockett, Associate Professor in Film Studies, Trinity College, Dublin
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| 3.15pm |
Coffee Break
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| 3.30pm |
Literature and the Rising Irina Ruppo Malone, Department of English, National University of Ireland, Galway
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| 4.40pm |
Art and the Rising Robert Ballagh, artist
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| 5.40pm |
Closing remarks |
Organiser: Gabriel Doherty, School of History, University College Cork
Artist Robert Ballagh to speak at @UCC conf on 'The Arts and the #1916Rising' https://t.co/ACLZZYBnsN pic.twitter.com/LYrFmv9XOq
— theirishrevolution (@theirishrev)
January 25, 2016
The Revolutionary Decade and the Catholic Church in Ireland’ (1912-1923).
Series of lectures on the 1st and 8th February
6pm Boole 1 Lecture Theatre All welcome
To mark the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising, the Chaplaincy in UCC is pleased to announce its hosting of a series of lectures on the subject of ‘The Revolutionary Decade and the Catholic Church in Ireland’ (1912-1923).
The talks, which will be delivered by Gabriel Doherty of the School of History, will take place over three successive weeks (Monday 25th January and 1st and 8th February), be of approximately one hour duration (starting at 6pm), and will take place in the Boole I lecture theatre. Following each lecture there will be an opportunity to meet and discuss the subject over tea and biscuits in the chaplaincy.
Among the subjects to be addressed in the course of the lectures are the church’s engagement with the home rule crisis of 1912-14; its attitude towards the question of female suffrage; its role during the Dublin Lockout of 1913; the range of its response to the challenges posed by the outbreak of the First World War; the Church and the 1916 Rising; and its position on the wide variety of issues created by the campaign for independence 1919-21, the partition of Ireland in 1920-21, and the Civil War of 1922-23.