Comhaltas na gCumann Staire - Irish History Students' Association

Friday, 19 February

 

1900       Arrival at Moore Institute Rooms, Hardiman Research Building

 

1930       Speeches

 

Éamonn T. Gardiner, MC & Lead Organiser

 

Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley, Chair, IHSA National Committee

 

Prof. Dáibhí Ó Crónín, History Department Welcome

 

Prof. Steven Ellis, Formal Opening of Conference

 

2000       Reception & Exhibition

 

2100       Social: History Quiz in College Bar

 

 

Saturday, 20 February

 

0830-0855       Registration (€15) & Morning Coffee in Arts Millennium Building

 

0900-1015       Round A of Panels (75 mins)

 

1015-1035       Coffee Break

 

1035-1150       Round B of Panels (75 mins)

 

1150-1210       Coffee Break

 

1210-1325       Round C of Panels (75 mins)

 

1335-1420       Lunch (College Bar) / AGM (AM Building) (45 mins)

 

1430-1530       Workshop: Research Funding Opportunities (60 mins).

 

1535-1650       Round D of Panels (75 mins)

 

1650-1710       Coffee Break

 

1710-1825       Round E of Panels (75 mins)

 

1930-2030       Arrive at Harbour Hotel for Pre-Meal Reception

 

2030-2200       Dinner (Prosecco Reception & 5 Courses only €25)

 

2200-2245       Eamonn T. Gardiner MC.

  Introduction by Dr Mary Harris, Senior Lecturer, NUI Galway &

  ‘A Nation Rising’, 1916 Commemorative Programme Coordinator

  After-Dinner Speaker: Professor Emeritus Nicholas Canny, NUIG. 

 

2245-2315       Prize giving

 

2315+              Post dinner move to other venues

 

 

Sunday, 21 February

 

1200-1300       Walking Tour of Early Modern & Revolutionary Galway

 

 

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Papers

 

All papers are being presented in adjoining rooms in the Arts Millennium Building

 

 

 

Round A 09:00-10:15

 

 

 

(A1) Narratives from Christian Ireland

 

Chair: Kieran Hoare

 

• Ossory on the Eve of the Reformation
  • Bernadette O Brien, NUI Galway

 

• Brigit and pregnant women: discussion on the issue
  • Dmitrii Glass, Mary Immaculate College

 

• Is there a Problem of Saint Patrick? If so, is there a solution?
  • Nathan Dunphy, NUI Galway

 

 

 

(A2) Twentieth-Century Philosophical, Logical and Cultural Approaches

 

Chair: Dr Tomás Finn

 

• Catholic anti-communism, the Cold War, and peace and nuclear disarmament campaigns in Ireland
  • Gerard Madden, NUI Galway

 

• ‘A pioneering historian of ideas: Robert Blakey, and the birth of a disciplinary genre’
  • Stuart Mathieson, Queens University Belfast

 

• AUDIO-VISUAL: Letting the Sources Speak: Title: ‘Gainsbourg: A ‘Serge’ of Sexual Content in French Popular Culture, 1966-1991’
  • Robert Flatley, NUI Galway

 

 

 

(A3) Race in the Americas from the Colonies to the Civil War

 

Chair: Dr Enrico Dal Lago

 

• “A Rich Man’s Government… A Poor Man’s Fight”: Class Conflict and Unionist Dissent in the Confederate South
  • Jordan Markey, NUI Galway

 

• ‘Bound to Serve’ White indentured Labour in Colonial America
  • Leanne Mc Mullan, University of Ulster

 

• Religion, Racism, & Perfidious Albion: Irish Soldiers in the Union Army during the American Civil War
  • Florry O Driscoll, NUI Galway

 

 

 

(A4) Shades of Roman Catholicism in Ireland, 1844-1950

 

Chair: Dr Róisín Healy

 

• St Vincent de Paul in Dublin, 1844-1918: Friends of the Poor or Self-Serving Religious Zealots?
  • Bernadette O Connell, NUI Galway

 

• The Roman Catholic Church in Sligo during the Great War
  • Simone Hickey, St. Angela’s College

 

• The Irish Catholic Missionary Experience in the Twentieth Century
  • Kate Brophy, Trinity College Dublin

 

 

 

(A5) Nineteenth-Century Irish Nationalism

 

Chair: Dr Carmel Connolly

 

• Alternative solutions to the intractable Irish question, 1892-1902
  • Tony King, NUI Galway

 

• The Persistence of Nationalist and Anti-State Sentiment in Ulster, 1848-1867
  • Kerron Ó Luain, Independent Scholar

 

• The Road from Kilmorna: Canon Sheehan, Fenianism, and prefiguring 1916
  • John O Donovan, University College Cork

 

 

 

Round B 10:35-11:50

 

 

 

(B1) Warfighting as an aid to Civil Governance

 

Chair: Dr Pádraig Lenihan

 

• ‘Pax Romana’: The true triumph of the Roman people
  • George Baldry, NUI Galway

 

• ‘To defend those who have no swords’: The birth of Crusading as theological disruption and political evolution
  • Declan Mills, University of Limerick

 

• Between Success and Surrender: Thomas Wentworth, Lord Deputy of Ireland, 1633- 1639
  • Marie Sophie Hingst, Trinity College Dublin

 

 

(B2) A Postmodern History of Human Rights and Terrorism

 

Chair: Dr Kevin O Sullivan

 

• Operation Allied Force, Humanitarian Intervention and the Kosovo war of 1999
  
  • Cian Moran, NUI Galway

 

• Refugees and Humanitarian Aid as Weapons of War: Cambodia and Rwanda
  • John O Donnell, NUI Galway

 

• Bullets, Bombs & Blood: Chechen Terrorist Tactics and Beyond
  • Francesco Conti, NUI Galway

 

 

 

(B3) The Evolution of Warfare during Irish Revolution, 1916-1923

 

Chair: Dr Conor Mc Namara

 

• ‘Scattered, Ambushed and Laid Out’: War and Counterinsurgency in North Galway 1919-1921
  • Eamonn T. Gardiner, NUI Galway

 

• The importance of Dublin during the Irish War of Independence
  • Thomas Tormey, Trinity College Dublin

 

• ‘A Cycle of Violence’: Analysing the Role of the Bicycle during the Irish Revolutionary Period 1916-1923
  • Bryan Treanor, St. Patrick’s College of Education/DCU

 

 

 

(B4) Re-evaluating Education: Irish and American examples

 

Chair: Dr Jackie Uí Chionna

 

• The post-primary school in Ireland, 1940-58: A case study of the Presentation Order
  • Catriona Delaney, University of Limerick

 

• “To Educate Themselves”: African American Teachers in North Carolina’s Schools for the Freed People, 1861-1876
  • Anne Marie Brosnan, Mary Immaculate College

 

• Looking To The Past To Build For The Future’: State-Building, Curricular Developments, And School History In Post-Independence Ireland, 1924-69
  • Colm Mac Gearilt, Trinity College Dublin

 

 

 

(B5) Changes in Irish Political Landscape, 1913-1923

 

Chair: Dr Joe Regan

 

• The role of Lord Decies, Press Censor for the British Administration in Ireland, 1916-19, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Censor
  • Alan Mc Carthy, University College Cork

 

• Assessing the contributing factors leading to Sinn Fein’s victory in the 1918 General Election
  • Patrick Mulcahy, University of Limerick

 

• ‘Constitutional Nationalists still have considerable strength?' Examining the views of Home Rule activists 1919-21
  • Martin O Donoghue, NUI Galway

 

 

 

Round C 12:10-13:25

 

 

 

(C1) ‘Mythology and Máthair Chíche’ – Revisiting Old-Irish Texts and Stories

 

Chair: Dr Chris Doyle

 

• Gaelic Revival and the Ulster and Ossian Cycles: National heroes in Cúchulainn and Fionn Mac Cumhail
  • Erin Rae-Mac Kinney, University of Ulster

 

• An mháthair chíche sa Mheánaois in Éirinn
  • Aogán Ó hIarlaithe, NUI Galway

 

 

 

(C2) Children and Social culture; Ideas of Youth.

 

Chair: Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley

 

• ‘They go to England to preserve their Secret”: The emigration and assistance of the Irish unmarried mother in Britain 1926-1952’
  • Lorraine Grimes, NUI Galway

 

• ‘Changeling Children in Nineteenth Century Ireland
  • Jodie Shevlin, University of Ulster

 

• “They called them Edelweiss Pirates, where they Blossomed, Resistance Grew?!”- The Edelweiss Pirates as an Example of Oppositional Youth Movements in Nazi Germany
  • Annika Stendebach, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz

 

 

 

(C3) Complexities of the Anglo-Irish Interdependency

 

Chair: Dr Andrew Holmes

 

• Irish Catholics within the British Officer Corps: 1829-1899
  • Mark Scannell, NUI Galway

 

• ‘Help Wanted! No Irish need apply’. The effects of British prejudice and discrimination against Irish migrants in the early to mid 20^th centiury
  • Finian J.E. Halligan, University of Warwick

 

• Irish Immigrant Entrepreneurs in the Post-war Reconstruction of London
  • Michael B. Mulvey, Maynooth University

 

 

 

(C4) ‘Fight for Ireland and no other land’: Revolutionary Labour History

 

Chair: Dr John Cunningham

 

• The Age of Larkinism: ‘A Divine Mission’ (1907-1914)
  • Stephen Deyarmin, NUI Galway

 

• The Drapers’ Revolution, 1913-1924
  • Breandán Ó Conchúir, NUI Galway

 

• The Irish Citizen Army and the Anglo-Irish War
  • Jeffrey Leddin, University of Limerick

 

 

 

(C5) The Great War Generation, 1890-1924

 

Chair: Dr Kyle Hughes

 

• The Master of Mystery and the Great War: the spy novels of William Le Queux, 1914 – 1918
  • Jonathan Best, Queens University Belfast

 

• The best of enemies: South Africa and the Germans of South West Africa, 1914-1924
  • Gavan Duffy, NUI Galway

 

• 1916: Tolkien at the Battle of the Somme
  • Sandra Hartl, University of Bamberg

 

 

 

Round D 15:35-16:50

 

 

 

(D1) Lydon’s ‘Middle Nation’- The Old-English and the Irish in the later medieval period

 

Chair: Dr Kim Lo Prete

 

• The Bruce invasion of Ireland, 1315-1318
  • Eoghan Keane, Trinity College Dublin

 

• The Early Years of Gearóid Iarla, Third Earl of Desmond
  • Dónal Ó Catháin, NUI Galway

 

 

 

(D2) Gender, Class & Conflict

 

Chair: Dr. Paul O’Brien

 

• Post-war cinema-going and working-class communities: a case study of the Holyland, Belfast, 1945-1962
  • Sam Manning, Queens University Belfast

 

• Experiences of women in the Anglo-Irish War
  • Thomas Earls Fitzgerald, Trinity College Dublin

 

• POSTER: Emyr Estyn Evans : The Formative Years
  • Lauren Ferguson, Queens University Belfast

 

 

 

 (D3) Histories of Healthcare

 

Chair: Dr Ciarán Mc Cabe

 

• ‘Admitting the Mad’: Insanity in the Ulster District Lunatic Asylums, 1845-1914
  • Seaneen Larkin, University of Ulster

 

• ‘Where one journey ends, the next begins…’ Dr. Thomas Raleigh Phayer, Medical Doctor, Apothecarist, Surgeon and Physician of Newcastle West, Co. Limerick
  • John Phayer, Independent Researcher

 

• Historical development and economic impact of obesity
  • Cillian Moran, NUI Galway

 

 

 

(D4) Religious Communities in the Nineteenth-Century

 

Chair: Dr Alison Forrestal

 

• Truth and Error: Anti-Catholicism and the Free Church of Scotland in the mid-nineteenth century
  • Ryan Mallon, Queens University Belfast

 

• ‘We shall not shrink, where Justice demands it..’ Belfast Quaker influence on British Abolitionism utilising ‘The Irish Friend’, 1838-1842
  • Krysta Beggs-Mc Cormick, University of Ulster

 

• Women Religious in Nineteenth Century Ireland: Personal and Corporate Identity
  • Bridget Harrison, Queens University Belfast

 

 

 

(D5) Irish Finance and Taxation, Pre and Post-Independence, 1916-1931

 

Chair: TBC

 

• Shadow of a Taxman: How, and by whom, was the Republican Movement Financed in the Irish War of Independence?
  • Robin Adams, St. Peter’s College, Oxford

 

• Art Ó Briain and the Irish National Relief Fund of London, 1916-1919
  • Mary Nic Dhiarmada, St. Patrick’s College of Education/DCU

 

• Foreign versus Fashion: Chinese bacon and Parisian clothing in the Irish Free State
  • John Porter, Trinity College Dublin

 

 

 

(D6) Intergenerational effects of war

 

Chair: Dr Cathal Smith

 

• ‘Migrant, Refugee, Terrorist’ Asylum in Interwar France: The Case of the Spanish Exiles (1934-35)
  • Eoghan Moran, Queen Mary University, London

 

• The children of war and revolution?: Influence of the First World War, the 1916 Rising and WoI upon the Irish volunteers who joined the British forces WW2
  • Joseph Quinn, Trinity College Dublin

 

 

 

Round E 17:10-18:25

 

 

 

(E1) Politics and Power in Tudor Ireland

 

Chair: Prof. Steven Ellis

 

• ‘…to restrayne the Englishe from soche evells as Irishe infeccion poysoned theim with.’ Creating a pathology of Irishness during the ‘Tudor Conquest of Ireland’
  • Carla Lessing, NUI Galway

 

• The best of times, the worst of times – the thoughts of a Tudor administrator in Ireland
  • Deirdre Fennell, NUI Galway

 

 

 

(E2) The Lives of Ulster Women, 1890-1930

 

Chair: Dr. Caitriona Clear

 

• ‘Obscure Lives’: A Biographical Portrait of Queen’s District Nurses in Ireland (1890-1907)
  • Joyce Ní Ghiobuin, Trinity College Dublin

 

• ‘With fingers weary and worn’?: Factory legislation and the treatment of women workers in the Londonderry shirt industry, c.1860-1920
  • Chelsea Brownlee, Queens University Belfast

 

• Devolution, Northern Ireland, and the Illegitimate Children (Affiliation Orders) Act, 1924
  • Alex Tierney, Trinity College Dublin

 

 

 

(E3) History from Outside: Fringe histories during the Irish Revolution

 

Chair: Dr Mary Harris

 

• The Colonel, the Canadian and the Cork man: The  Irish Diplomatic Mission to South Africa in 1921
  • Madeline O Neill, NUI Galway

 

• Ireland’s forgotten diplomats: Nancy Wyse Power and Máire O’Brien’s quest for obtaining recognition for independent Ireland, 1919-23.
  • Ann Marie O Brien, University of Limerick

 

• ‘“Who were the Shoneens?”: Irish militant nationalists and association football, 1913-1923.
  • Aaron Ó Maonaigh, St. Patrick’s College of Education/DCU

 

 

 

(E4) The changing face of the Irish Economy

 

Chair: Prof. Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh

 

• After the Expiry Date: Wills of the lesser gentry in east Mayo, 1760-1880
  • Olivia Martin, NUI Galway

 

• Nineteenth century urban Irish artisans and protectionism: a study of popular economic nationalism
  • John Mc Grath, Mary Immaculate College

 

• ‘Closing Cowtown’ – The demise of the Dublin Cattle Market
  • Declan O Brien, Mary Immaculate College

 

 

 

(E5) Anglo-Irish Relations in the Post-Independence period

 

Chair: Dr Séan Ó Duibhir

 

• ‘A bit of news, which you may, or may not, care to use’: the influence of the Beaverbrook-Healy relationship on the construction of Ireland in the British press post-independence.
  • Elspeth Payne, Trinity College Dublin

 

• Anglo-Irish Relations during The Falkland’s War of 1982
  • Fiona Mc Kelvey, University of Ulster

 

• “A peace of sorts”: Changing expectations in Northern Ireland after the Belfast Agreement, 1998-2007
  • Éamonn Mc Namara, Australian National University