Day 1: Wednesday 15 June 2022
The Aula Maxima
Wednesday Morning Session 1 | 9:15 - 10:45
- Conference Welcome
- Dr Mervyn O’Driscoll, Head of the School of History, UCC
- Councillor Colm Kelleher, Lord Mayor of Cork City
- Professor John O’Halloran, President of Univeristy College Cork
Wednesday Morning Session 2 | 11:15 - 13:55
Plenary Papers
- The multiple connections between the Irish Civil War 1922-23 and other internal wars of the period | Professor Robert Gerwarth, Professor of Modern History at University College, Dublin, Director of the Centre for War Studies
- ‘The war in Spain’: European civil wars, 1917-47 through the prism of Spain | Professor Helen Graham, Professor of Spanish History, Royal Holloway, University of London
- Civil War: Ancient Fears, Contemporary Realities | Dr Bill Kissane, Reader in Politics, London School of Economics
Wednesday Afternoon Session 1 | 14:20 - 15:40
Panel A: The Irish Civil War and Global Comparisons
- Slimane Hargas (University of Lorraine/Université Sorbonne Paris Nord): The outcome of the Algerian revolution and the spectre of the Irish Civil War
- Niall Buckley (TCD): Navigating Empire, Free State and Republic: The Catholic Church and Legitimisation of Irish and Austrian Sovereignty 1918-1925
- Dr Andy Bielenberg (UCC): Comparing the Ukrainian and Irish Civil Wars
Wednesday Afternoon Session 2 | 16:00 - 17:20
Panel C: The View from America
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Dr Michael Doorley (The Open University): Justice Daniel Cohalan and Irish America’s response to the Irish Civil War
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Georgina Sweetnam (Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council): The Joseph McGrath Papers, 1920-1930
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Des Dalton (Independent): Arms and ideology: Joe McGarrity, Clan na Gael and the ‘Treaty Split’ in Transatlantic Republicanism
