About this Event
The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) invites you to a one-day symposium on Spying on Hibernia: Intelligence Gathering in Ireland, 1660-1900.
Opening Remarks: Stephen Scarth, Head of Public Services (PRONI)
PANEL 1: The Seventeenth Century: 10.00-11.30am
Dr Neil Johnston (The National Archives UK, Head of Early Modern Records) - Securing Ireland, 1660–1685: State Intelligence in the reign of Charles II
Dr Eoin Kinsella (Royal Irish Academy, Managing-editor of the Dictionary of Irish Biography) - Acting in plain sight: Catholic agents and double agents in Jacobite and Williamite Ireland
Dr Frances Nolan (University College Dublin, SFI-IRC Pathway Fellow) - Zealous for ‘the Cause’: Irish women as Jacobite agents, 1689-1720
PANEL 2: The Eighteenth Century: 12.00 -1.30pm
Prof Thomas Bartlett ( University of Aberdeen, Professor Emeritus of Irish History)- Opposing Insurgency: The letters of George Holdcroft, postmaster, Kells, County Meath, to Dublin Castle, 1793-1803
Dr Jonathan Wright (Maynooth University, Lecturer)- The clergyman and the informer: John Cleland, Nicholas Mageean and the gathering of intelligence in late eighteenth-century Saintfield
Ruairí Nolan (Independent Scholar, creator of Ireland and the Age of Revolution newsletter) - Pyrrhic Justice: the success and failure of British Intelligence in the arrest and trial of Revd. William F. Jackson 1794-5
Lunch Break 1:30 pm-3:00 pm
PANEL 3: The Nineteenth Century: 3.00 - 4.30pm
Hugh Murphy (Maynooth University, PhD and Deputy Librarian) - To discover the origin, nature and extent of the Evil’: distilling truth from fiction in managing unrest in early nineteenth century Ireland
Dr Jay Roszman (University College Cork, Lecturer) - Creating ‘Intelligence’ out of Chaos: Outrage Papers and the Production of Political Knowledge, 1836-1855
Prof William Nolan ( University College Dublin, Emeritus Professor of Geography) - Spies and Informers and the collapse of the Young Ireland movement 1848
CONCLUDING REMARKS/DISCUSSION
4:30 pm- 5:00 pm
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, 2 Titanic Boulevard Titanic Quarter, Belfast, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
