Day 1: Wednesday 15 June 2022 

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Wednesday Afternoon Session 1 | 14:20 - 15:40

Panel B: Great Britain and Her Empire

Wednesday Afternoon Session 2 | 16:00 - 17:20

Panel D: Imperial Implications

Day 2: Thursday 16 June 2022 

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Thursday Morning Session 1 | 9:30- 10:50

Panel G: Truce Troubles 

• Mark Bulik (New York Times): Easter Week, 1922: Cruxy Connors and Bloody Anniversaries

• Dr Tom Mahon (Independent): 'The Fecking War is Over': The Capture of the Upnor and the Civil War

• Ronan McGreevy (The Irish Times): Ireland's Sarajevo: How the assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP started the Civil War

Thursday Afternoon Session 1 | 14:00 - 15:20

Panel M: Civil War Lives  

• Cormac O’Malley (Independent): Ernie O’Malley and the Civil War

• Dr Gerald Hanley (DCU): ‘I go forth now scarcely knowing whereto I go’: Cathal Brugha and the Civil War

• Eugene Coyle (Independent): The Harry Boland Enigma

Plenary Lecture | 15:40 - 16:40

• “By the end of 1923 Ireland...had ceased to be interesting”: Wondering about the wake of civil war | Dr Anne Dolan, Associate Professor in Modern Irish History, Trinity College Dublin

   

Day 3: Friday 17 June 2022 

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Friday Morning Session 1 | 9:20 - 10:40

Panel Q: Politics and Ideology

• Prof Thomas Mohr (UCD): The Civil War and the 1922 Constitution of the Irish Free State

• Dr Sean Donnelly (Teesside University): Revolution and Nationalism in Treatyite Political Thought, 1891-1923 

• Dr Aodh Quinlivan (UCC): The Zeal for Centralisation: Local Democracy as a Civil War Casualty

Friday Morning Session 2 | 11:10- 12:30

Panel U: War, Fighting and The National Army

• Dr Jack Kavanagh (Maynooth University): The creation and growth of the National Army, July-November 1922

• Robert Delaney (Maynooth University/Irish Defence Forces): The 18-pounder field gun and the Irish Civil War

• Lt Col. Gareth Prendergast (UCC/Irish Defence Forces): The National Army and the counter-insurgency campaign in Cork, 1922-23

Friday Afternoon Session 1 | 13:50 - 15:10    

Panel Y: Cycles of Violence

• Orson McMahon (Leiden University): The Violence of the Irish Civil War: Exaggeration or Understatement in County Kerry

• Claire Guerin (UCC): Unfriendly fire? Fratricide and accidental deaths involving combatants in the Irish civil war

• Aaron Ó Maonaigh (DCU): The trajectory of revolutionary violence in Co. Wexford during the Civil War

Friday Afternoon Session 2 | 15:30 - 16:50

Panel C1: Battlefields

• Liz Gillis (Champlain College): The Battle for Dublin

• Frank Fagan (Independent): The Forgotten IRA Victory at Ballina, September 1922

• Dr John O’Callaghan (St. Angela’s College, Sligo): The Battle for Kilmallock

Day 4: Saturday 18 June 2022 

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Saturday Morning Session 1 | 9:30 - 10:40 

Panel 2: Labour

• Chair: Dr John Cunningham, (NUIG)
• Dr Emmet O'Connor (University Ulster)
• Dr Padraig Yeates (SIPTU)
• Theresa Moriarty
• Dr Niamh Purséil

Saturday Morning Session 2 | 10:50 - 12:10 

Panel 4: Diplomacy

• Chair: Dr Michael Kennedy (RIA)
• Prof Fearghal McGarry (QUB)
• Prof Dermot Keogh (UCC)
• Prof Bernadette Whelan (University Limerick)

Saturday Afternoon Session 1 | 13:20 - 14:40  

Panel 6: Literature

• TBA

Saturday Afternoon Session 2 | 14:55 - 16:05  

Panel 8: Gender

• Chair: Prof Lindsey Earner-Byrne (UCC)
• Dr Fionnuala Walsh (UCD)
• Dr Margaret Ward (QUB)
• Prof Catriona Beaumont (London Southbank University)
• Prof Sonja Tiernan (University of Otago)

Saturday Afternoon Session 3 | 16:10 - 17:20 

Panel 10: Memory

• Chair: TBD
• Prof Diarmaid Ferriter (UCD)
• Dr Laura McAtackney (Aarhus University)
• Dr Lisa Godson (NCADD)
• Prof Gavin Foster (Concordia University)