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8-Week Lecture Series: 'Civil War in Ireland: New Perspectives'

20 Oct 2022

The 'Atlas of the Irish Revolution' editorial team, in collaboration with the National Library of Ireland, bring you an 8-week lecture series as part of the NLI Decade of Centenaries Prorgamme. Entitled 'Civil War in Ireland: New Perspectives', the lecture series will complement the three-part RTE Documentary series 'The Irish Civil War due to air on RTE in December 2022.

The calendar of lectures is available below and you can register to attend as the links become available on the the NLI website 

 

Civil War in Ireland: New Perspectives 

An 8-week lecture series brought to you by the Atlas of the Irish Revolution editorial team in partnership with the National LIbrary of Ireland  

 

Thursday 13 October: Lecture 1 - 8:00pm

In person with a live audience in the NLI Reading Room and live streamed. 

Speaker: Dr Andy Bielenberg

Lecture Title: The Dead of the Irish Civil War:

Register to view online via Zoom here 

 

Tuesday 18 October: Lecture 2 - 7:00pm

Via Zoom

Speaker: Dr Donal O Drisceoil 

Lecture Title: War of Words: Censorship, Propaganda and Civil War 

Register to view online via Zoom here 

 

Tuesday 25 October: Lecture 3 - 7:00pm

Via Zoom

Speaker: Professor Heather Jones

Lecture Title: The Irish Civil War: the British Perspective 

Register to view online via Zoom here 

 

Tuesday 1 November: Lecture 4 - 7:00pm  

Via Zoom

Speaker: Dr Adrian Grant

Lecture Title: The Irish Civil War and Northern Ireland

Register to view online via Zoom here 

 

Tuesday 8 November: Lecture 5 - 7:00pm  

Via Zoom

Speaker: Dr John Borgonovo

Lecture Title: The Irish Civil War: a local and regional perspective

Register to view online via Zoom here 

 

Tuesday 15 November: Lecture 6 - 7:00pm  

Via Zoom

Speaker: Professor Fearghal McGarry

Lecture Title: The Civil War Legacy: Ireland in the 1920s and 30s 

Register to view online via Zoom here 

 

 

Tuesday 22 November: Lecture 7 - 7:00pm 

Via Zoom 

Speaker: Dr Síobhra Aiken

Lecture Title: When the Music Stopped: Rethinking the ‘traumatic silence’ of the Irish Civil War

Register to view online via Zoom here 

 

Tuesday 29 November: Lecture 8 - 7:00pm  

In person with a live audience in UCC, and live streamed. 

Speaker: Professor Lindsey Earner-Byrne

Lecture Title: Gender and the Civil War

Booking for In-Person at UCC here

The lecture will be Live streamed at:
https://www.ucc.ie/en/theirishrevolution/ucc-civil-war-cenetenary-programme/ucc-nli-civil-war-lecture/

 

The Irish Revolution Project

Scoil na Staire /Tíreolaíocht

University College Cork, Cork,

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