Day 2: Thursday 16 June 2022
Boole 2
Thursday Morning Session 1 | 9:30 - 10:50
Panel F: The Southern Loyalist Experience
- Dr Ian D’Alton (TCD): What did the Irish Civil War mean for Southern Protestants?
- Dr Brian Hughes (Mary Immaculate College): Southern Irish loyalists as 'refugees', 1922–23
- Barry Keane (Independent): Protestant decline in Ireland 1901-1926: abstracts from the census material
Thursday Morning Session 2 | 11:10 - 12:30
Panel I: Agrarian Unrest
- Dr Tony Varley (NUI Galway): Agrarian Disturbances and State-building during the Irish Civil War
- Adam Coleman (Maynooth University): The case of Runnamoat, Co. Roscommon. What can a case study of a big house burning reveal about social conflict during the Irish Civil War?
- Fergal Browne (Independent): The killing of Eric Seymour Wolfe - Ringenane, Kinsale, December 1922
Thursday Afternoon 1 | 14:00 - 15:20
Panel L: Civil War Archaeology and Material Culture
- Dr Marion Dowd (Atlantic Technological University): A Civil War hideout: archaeological investigations at Tormore Cave, Slievemore, Co. Sligo
- Daniel Breen (Cork Public Museum): The Only Elephant in the Room? A Brief History of Collecting the Irish Civil War at Cork Public Museum
- Helen O’Carroll (Kerry County Museum): Power to the People: The Building of the Thomas Ashe Memorial Hall in Tralee
Day 3: Friday 17 June 2022
Boole 2
Friday Morning Session 1 | 9:20 - 10:40
Panel O: Remembering and Memorialising
- Kieran Doyle (Independent): The stone is mightier than the pen - Understanding the power and role of the Irish Civil War memorials in Cork
- Caitlin White (TCD): Civil War remembrance in the Irish Free State
- Tony McGrath (Independent): Stone Never Refused Carving: A Study of Republican Memorials, 1919 – 1923
Friday Morning Session 2 | 11:10 - 12:30
Panel S: Gendered Violence
- Dr Mary McAuliffe (UCD): 'Violence and indiscipline? The treatment of 'die hard' anti-treaty women by the National Army, 1922-1923'
- Susan Byrne (TCD): Women’s experience of internment during the Irish Civil War, 1922-1923
- Dr John Regan (University of Dundee): New Perspectives of the Kenmare Incident and the Writing of History
Friday Afternoon Session 1 | 13:50 - 15:10
Panel W: The IRA and its Strategies
- Prof Tim Hoyt (US Naval War College): Army Without Banners: The Strategy of the anti-Treaty IRA, 1922-1923
- John Dorney (The Irish Story): 'A Peculiar form of warfare': Anti-Treaty guerrilla strategy and rival state formation projects, 1922-23
- Karl Picard (Independent): The Demise of the Munster Republic: The Strategic Success of the Free State Offensive
Friday Afternoon Session 2 | 15:30 - 16:50
Panel A1: The War in the Localities
- Dr Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc (Independent): Spies and Robbers Beware! – The IRA’s assassination of alleged spies during the Irish Civil War
- Niall Murray (UCC): Béal na Bláth: Revolutionary Crossroads
