Cork Studies in the Irish Revolution:
Ireland and the First World War:
‘in defence of right, of freedom, and of religion’?
University College Cork
Friday 24th and Saturday 25th January 2014
| Friday 24th |
O’Rahilly Building (ORB) 212 |
| 9.10am |
Opening remarks Gabriel Doherty, University College Cork |
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Session 1: Military |
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9.20am
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The Connaught Rangers and the Gallipoli Campaign Damien Quinn, national university of Ireland, Galway |
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9.45am
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The Royal Dublin Fusiliers and the First World War Tom Burke |
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10.10am
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Blackpool and the Gallipoli Campaign Mark Cronin |
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10.35am
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Coffee Break |
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11.00am
11.25am
11.50am
12.15pm
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| Session 2a: MediaORB 132 |
Session 2b: CultureORB 156 |
| Reporting live from Ireland: coverage of the Great War in Irish newspapers Catherine Thewissen, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium |
A Changed Reception – O’Casey’s The Silver Tassie and McGuinness’s Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme compared Conal Parr |
| The press in Westmeath and the Gallipoli campaign Ian Kenneally, National University of Ireland, Galway |
Ireland’s Memorial Records, 1914-1918: Engravings Professor Marguerite Helmers, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh |
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War poets Colleen Watkins, University College Cork |
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Recovering Lehmann James Oppenheimer and Eric Newton for the narrative of the Honan Chapel, Cork James Cronin, Michael Holland University College
Cork |
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| 12.40pm |
Lunch break |
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2.00pm
2.25pm
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| Session 3a: Politics IORB 132 |
Session 3b: ReligionORB 156 |
| The nationalist counter recruiting campaigns 1902-1914 Alan Drumm, University College Cork |
‘This mischievous and misleading manifesto’ – Protestant nationalists and the conscription crisis Conor Morrissey, Trinity College Dublin |
| The red shamrock: Ireland and international socialism during the First World War Nicholas Stark, Florida State University |
The churches and the just war: a comparative evaluation Andrew McGrath |
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| 2.50pm |
break |
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3.00pm
3.25pm
3.50pm
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| Session 4a: Politics IIORB 132 |
Session 4b: ConscriptionORB 156 |
| ‘Account yourselves as men not only in Ireland itself, but wherever the firing line extends’. Advancing the cause of Home Rule at the outset of World War One Elaine Callinan, Trinity College Dublin |
The 1918 conscription crisis – a forgotten chapter Dr Fiona Devoy McAuliffe, University College Cork |
| ‘Votes for women now! Damn your war!’ -The impact of the First World War on the Irish suffrage movement Fionnuala Walsh, Trinity College Dublin |
The conscription crisis in county Galway Dr Maria Rodriguez, Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona |
| “From imperial periphery to national actorness: The internationalisation of the Irish and Polish causes during the First World War” Jens Boysen |
A declaration of war: parliament, the press and the 1918 Irish conscription crisis Daniel Joesten, University of Utah |
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| 4.15pm |
Coffee break |
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4.35pm
5.00pm
5.25pm
5.50pm
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| Session 5a: LegacyORB 132 |
Session 5b: SocietyORB 156 |
| The Committee on claims of British ex-servicemen and the Irish Free State Jason Myers, University of Denver |
Sport in a time of war: the Great War’s impact on the Gaelic Athletic Association, 1914-8 Dr Richard McElligott, University College Dublin |
| Ireland and the memory of Gallipoli: a comparative perspective Dr Jenny Macleod, University of Hull |
‘Tell her gently’ – death and bereavement in Irish families in the First World War Tara Doyle, independent scholar |
| Ireland’s forgotten World War One landscapes Damian Shiels, University College Cork |
Irish academic experts in a world war Tomas Irish |
| Commemorating the Great War in the Irish Free State: the politics of enmity Emmanuel Destenay |
Did Ireland nearly starve during the First World War? Ian Miller |
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| 6.15pm |
Dinner break |
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Official conference OpeningBoole IV Lecture Theatre |
| 7.45pm |
The approach of the UK and Ireland to the centenary of the First World War Dr Andrew Murrison MP, Special representative of the British Prime Minister for the Centenary Commemoration of the First World WarThe First World War in European history Professor Gary Sheffield, University of Wolverhampton |
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Saturday 25th
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Boole I Lecture Theatre |
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10.00am
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Commemoration of the Great War in Ireland, the United Kingdom and beyond Dr Catherine Switzer, independent scholar
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11.00am
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Coffee break
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11.20am
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The Irish factor: Ireland and the diplomacy of war Dr Jerome aan de Wiel, University College Cork
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12.20pm
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Lunch Break
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2.00pm
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It’s a long way to Tipperary: Irish nationalism and the Great War Dr James McConnel, Northumbria University |
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3.00pm
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Unionism and the war Emeritus Professor D.G. Boyce, University of Swansea |
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4.00pm
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Coffee break
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4.20pm
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The Irish soldier in action Dr Myles Dungan, adjunct lecturer, University College Dublin |
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5.20pm
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Closing remarks Gabriel Doherty, University College Cork |
Conference organised by the School of History University College Cork, with generous assistance from the Research Fund, School of History, University College Cork, and the Reconciliation Fund of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Please address any correspondence to: ‘1914 World War One conference’, School of History, University College Cork.
Conference web site http://www.ucc.ie/en/history/conferences
Organiser: Gabriel Doherty, School of History, University College Cork.