About this Event
The conference will also include the K.H. Connell Memorial Lecture by Professof James Kelly of Dublin City University.
Day 1: Level 1 Trinity Business School, Pearse Street
Day 2: Arts Building
See the full programme below and at https://www.eshsi.org/conferences.html
Friday 4th December
All sessions will take place on level 1 of the Trinity Business School
9.00am Registration
9.30-11.00am
PANEL 1
Stephen Kennedy (University of Galway) The Irish Tenants’ Protection Society: grassroots activism and rent controls for Dublin’s working-class, 1934-1944
Filippo Barsi (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) Translating ‘industrial democracy’: a contested category in the Irish Labour Movement, 1897-1923
Suzanne Jobling (Queen’s University Belfast) ‘Worth more pay than your husband?’: attitudes towards women workers revealed in newspaper coverage of employment equality cases
PANEL 2
Seán Fenton (Trinity College Dublin) Living with the falling sickness: epilepsy, social circumstances and institutional care in late nineteenth-century Dublin
Sorcha Clarke (University of Galway) Experiences of female, upper-class lunacy in early twentieth-century Ireland: the case of Stella Moutray
Ciarán Casey (University of Limerick) The economics of mental hospital committals in twentieth-century Ireland
PANEL 3
Antonina Stankova (University of Galway) and Cathal O’Donoghue (University of Galway) Between independence and economic development: reconstructing the Irish production system, 1926-1956
Anna Devlin (Trinity College Dublin) The economics of peace-making in the Irish Free State during the 1920s and 1930s
Desmond Gibney (National College of Ireland) Municipal bonds in Ireland: the historical experience and potential for the future
11.00am Break
11.20am-12.50pm
PANEL 4
Natasha Mahony (Independent scholar) Hogs and hearths: a gendered analysis of medieval Dublin wills
Libor Melioris (Trinity College Dublin) Wealth distribution and social mobility in Ireland 1880-1980: new evidence from probate, census and marriage records
Gregory Walls (Trinity College Dublin) Finding ‘the story of us’: the 1926 Census
PANEL 5
Oluwaseun Williams (University College Dublin) Irish scientists and veterinary development in Africa: the career of Robert Pearson Lee in British Tanganyika and Nigeria
Ella Armstrong (Trinity College Dublin) Labouring to learn: obstetric education in Dublin 1950-2000
Kevin Finnan (Dublin City University) Identifying the doctors: treating the IRA during the war of independence
PANEL 6
Martin Quinn (Queen’s University Belfast) Clientalism and the wiring of rural Ireland: TDs as brokers in the rural electrification scheme
Peter Connell (Independent scholar) ‘The government wants a terrible lot of light’. Clearing the ‘slums’ and rehousing in 1930s Kilrush, Co. Clare
Maria Kane (Trinity College Dublin) ‘Earning their bread by their own exertions’: the Irish White Cross Parish Committee, Enniscorthy 1921-22
12.50-1.00pm Launch of the New Society Webpage
1.00-2.00pm Lunch and Postgraduate Meeting
2.00-3.50pm
PANEL 7
A panel based on the ERC project VOICES: Voices of women in Early Modern Ireland
Speakers:
Jane Ohlmeyer
Daniel Patterson
Claire McNulty
Felix Vanden Bore
Bronagh McShane
Michael Flaherty
Donal Farrell
(Trinity College Dublin)
PANEL 8
Maeve Hagerty (University of Edinburgh) Locating the Irish witch: folklore, modernity, and gendered magic belief in Ireland, c. 1880-1945
Christopher West (University of Aberdeen) ‘Hutchings’ Angels’: an odd rector or a rector at odds?
Fionnuala Walsh (University College Dublin) Atheists, freethinkers and rationalists: explorations of ‘unbelief’ in early twentieth-century Ireland
Peter Gray (Queen’s University Belfast) Presbyterianism and land reform, c. 1845-57
PANEL 9
Charles Read (Oxford) Gender, economic policy and the politics of Irish manufacturing in the 1840s
Adam Kane (University College Dublin) Investing in times of trial: Irish women, finance, and the Famine, c. 1840-1852
Rebecca O’Regan (University of Limerick) Accounting for networks: how financial records can be used to reconstruct women’s socio-economic communities in the mid-west of Ireland, 1850-1860
Kathleen O’Sullivan (Independent scholar) Becoming Dublin's Dior: Sybil Connolly, women’s networks and the making of an international fashion house
3.50-4.00pm Break
4.00-5.00pm
PANEL 10
Rebecca Mowbray (Queen’s University Belfast) ‘Keep in step’? Gender, conflict and Northern Irish educational policymaking, 1965-1972
Aislinn Hoy (Trinity College Dublin) Till deaths do us part? Childhood exposure to group-motivated violence and intergroup relationship formation in Northern Ireland
PANEL 11
Lianglu Wu (University of Galway) ‘Do like other women did’: mobilities, intimacy and the lives of the ‘wrens of the Curragh’
Máire Hussey (Trinity College Dublin) ‘I was very surprised how very naïve she is’: a microhistory of Irish migration and sex work in late twentieth-century London
PANEL 12
Scott McCarthy (Deakin University) Class, gender, and socialisation in the settle diaspora: Australia, 1875-1914
Emer O’Brien (University College Dublin) Self-strengthening in Ireland and the world: transnational racial discourses and the social world of Irish-Ireland, 1902-1912
5.00-6.00pm
The K.H. Connell Memorial Lecture
Professor James Kelly (Dublin City University)
The evolution of worker association 1660-1870: the trade combination revisited
7.15pm Conference Dinner in Dunne & Crescenzi, 16 South Frederick Street, Dublin 2
Saturday 5th December
All sessions will take place on level 2 of the Arts Building
10.00-11.30am
PANEL 13
Michael Flaherty (Trinity College Dublin) ‘The net income of practically all the parishes are quite inadequate in view of present conditions and in a large number of cases quite impossible’: the financial difficulties of Church of Ireland parishes in Kildare and west Wicklow, 1900-1950
Davide Lamparelli (University of Edinburgh) The loaf of bread and the spade: expectations and emotional reactions to Famine relief among the Irish rural classes, 1846-1847
Fiona Slevin (Independent scholar) The workhouse as driver of local commerce and entrepreneurship in post-Famine Ireland: a microstudy
PANEL 14
Ciara Henderson (Trinity College Dublin) The archive as vernacular memorial: reconstructing Ireland’s lost history of infant mortality through the National Folklore Collection
Daithí Ó Corráin (Dublin City University) and Michael Loughman (Dublin City University) The provision, religious dimensions, and evolution of legal adoption in Ireland, 1933-1979
Deirdre Foley (Trinity College Dublin) Maternity policy and provision in twentieth-century Ireland
11.30am Break
12.00-1.30pm
PANEL 15
Mel Cousins (Trinity College Dublin) Women, poverty and poor relief in nineteenth-century Dublin: or, what Eliza did next
Susan Byrne (Trinity College Dublin) Marginalised women - Muriel Mahony, repeat offender (1918-1937) and 2026 echoes
Pauline Gorman (Queen’s University Belfast) Women jurors and economic exclusion
PANEL 16
Conor Curran (Trinity College Dublin) The origins and growth of association football in Derry, 1879-1913
Conor Heffernan (University of Ulster) The £300 match that never happened: wrestling and the business of entertainment in Edwardian Dublin
Matthew Potter (Limerick Museum) The retailing revolution in Donegal town 1800-1975
1.30-2.30pm Lunch and Annual General Meeting
2.30-4.00pm
PANEL 17
Olivia Hamilton (University of Oxford) The ‘culture war’: the politicisation of showband culture
Orla Hogan (University of Oxford) No fundamental change’: the 1967 Censorship of Publications (Amendment) Act and the persistence of Irish print censorship
Ronan Kennedy (University of Edinburgh) Post-punk, polarisation and participation: alternative music in divided Belfast, Outta Control, and the A-Centre
PANEL 18
Cormac Wilkinson (University of Galway) Charitable mobilisation and civilian participation in the Great War: a comparison of Connacht and the West Riding of Yorkshire, 1914-1918
Declan O’Keeffe (Clongowes College) Time, energy and brass: why Studies did not fail
Nadzieja Kolodziejski (University of Bristol) Denied and delayed: women's fight for military pensions in post-revolutionary Ireland, 1918-1950
Event venue
Trinity College Dublin, College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland
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