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
- Pádraig King (Independent): The Liverpool IRA in the Irish Civil War
- Dr Mary MacDiarmada (DCU): ‘De Valera’s Man in London’: Art O’Brien and the impact of republican activity in Britain 1922/1923
- Eoin Hahessy (UCC): The Archbishop & Dev: Catholicism and nationalism in the Irish diaspora during Ireland's civil war period
Wednesday Afternoon Session 2 | 16:00 - 17:20
Panel D: Imperial Implications
- Dr Jerome Aan de Wiel (UCC): French military intelligence and Ireland, 1919-1923: From the Peace Conference to the Civil War
- Dr Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh (St Mary’s University College Belfast): Charlie Daly and the significance of partition in the genesis of civil war
- Gerry White (Independent): The Occupation of Victoria Barracks, Cork, 18 May 1922: A Compromise that Failed
Day 2: Thursday 16 June 2022
Boole 4
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 Morning Session 2 | 11:10 - 12:20am
Panel J1: Propaganda and Memory
Thursday Afternoon Session 1 | 14:00 - 15:20
Panel M: Civil War Lives
- Cormac O’Malley (Independent): Ernie O’Malley and the Civil War
- Eugene Coyle (Independent): The Harry Boland Enigma
Plenary Lecture | 15:40 - 16:40
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“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
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
- Dr John O’Callaghan (St. Angela’s College, Sligo): The Battle for Kilmallock
