PROGRAMME OF 2016 CONFERENCE
Our Call for Papers for the 2017 conference in Quinnipiac has a deadline of the 31st January. Please find the Great Hunger & Children CFP.
We will be sharing programme details of the 2017 conference in late spring.
TUESDAY 14th JUNE
CONFERENCE LAUNCH AT THE PERCY FRENCH HOTEL
8.00pm
Launch by Cormac O’Grada
8.30pm
Mark McGowan – The Missing 1490 Update
8.45pm
Owen Conlan – Great Famine Voices Update
WEDNESDAY 15th JUNE
IRISH FAMINE SUMMER SCHOOL DAY 1: Land War
8.30-9.15 am
9.30am
Summer School Registration in the Woodland Restaurant
Perry McIntyre and Richard Reid ‘John Tighe – a Sligo Convict’s Story’
10.30am
COFFEE
11.00am
Andrew Newby “Fighting together as at Bannockburn and Clontarf' Irish Radicals and the Land War’s Extension into Scotland'
12.00pm
1.00pm
Frank Rynne 'The Great Famine in Nationalist and Land League propaganda.'
LUNCH
2.30pm
Bus trip to Boyle Abbey and King House - €15 Please email danielle@irishheritagetrust.ie to reserve a place on this trip as there are limited spaces available. Bus departs from in front of Strokestown Park House.
2.00-3.30pm
6.00pm
Local craft display in the Percy French Hotel
Launch of the Graphic Novel 'The Bad Times. An Drochshaol' by Christine Kinealy and John Walsh at Strokestown Public Library
8.00pm
Music in Local Pub
THURSDAY 16th JUNE
IRISH FAMINE SUMMER SCHOOL DAY 2: Cultural Re-awakening
8.30-9.15 am
9.30am
Summer School Registration in the Woodland Restaurant
Richard McElligot 'Players, Poets, Patriots? The GAA in Pre-Revolution Ireland, 1900-1916.’
10.30am
COFFEE
11.00am
Kelly FitzGerald 'Béal Beo; the living tradition and the language revival'
12.00pm
1.00pm
Judith Hill ‘Finding a Voice: What was the inspiration for the folklore, mythology and playwriting that Lady Gregory began to write in 1899–1903’
LUNCH
1.30-3.00pm
Costumed Croquet Display in the Edwardian Pleasure Grounds
2.30pm
Open view & Curator's tour of '8 Independent Objects of the Irish Revolution' exhibition followed by an ‘in-conversation’ between Mark McGowan and Christine Kinealy about the twin impacts of WWI and 1916 in the Library. Please assemble for this event in front of the Woodland Restaurant.
2.30pm
Genealogy Centre Workshop - Please email Mary Skelly info@roscommonroots.com to reserve a place at this workshop.
8.00pm
Documentary Screening “Ireland’s Great Hunger and The Irish Diaspora” followed by a discussion by the documentary director Professor Rebecca Abbott in the Library at Strokestown Park House. Please come to the front door of the house for this event.
9.00pm
Music in Local Pub
FRIDAY 17th JUNE
IRISH FAMINE SUMMER SCHOOL DAY 3: Towards Independence
8.30-9.15 am
9.30am
Summer School Registration in the Woodland Restaurant
Christine Kinealy “Politicizing the Great Famine – How Parnell used the Famine as a way of increasing support for her political programme”
10.30am
COFFEE
11.00am
Mark McGowan “The Diaspora and their conflicted visions of Ireland 1912-1922”
12.00pm
1.00pm
Piaras MacEinri 'Post-victimhood: how is the legacy of the Famine still relevant?'
LUNCH
2.30pm
Bus trip to Carrick-on-Shannon Workhouse and Elphin Windmill - €15 Please email danielle@irishheritagetrust.ie to reserve a place on this trip as there are limited spaces available. Bus departs from in front of Strokestown Park House.
6.30pm
Launch of The Famine Irish: Emigration and the Great Hunger, the proceedings of the 2013 Strokestown Famine Conference edited by Dr Ciaran Reilly at the Woodland Restaurant.
8.00pm
THEATRE PERFORMANCE AT STROKESTOWN COURTHOUSE
The Trial of Charles Trevelyan
SATURDAY 18th JUNE
ANNUAL NATIONAL FAMINE CONFERENCE DAY 1
8.30am
Conference Registration in the Woodland Restaurant
9.15am
Session 1: The Quakers & The Famine: Relief, Reform, Release
Andrew Newby: ‘‘Acting in their appropriate and wanted sphere’ The Society of Friends and Famine Relief in Ireland and Finland, 1845-1857.’
Rob Goodbody: ‘Jonathan Pim and the Land Question.’
Kathleen Villiers-Tuhill: ‘Loyalty and Starvation are Not Compatible.’
10.45am
COFFEE
11.15am
Session 2a: New Lives: Transportation, Emigration, Diaspora - The Americas
Jarlath MacNamara: ‘A Haven of Hope from Famine to Freedom – The Success of Patrick. S. Gilmore in America.’
María Euginia Cruset: ‘The Political Actions of the Irish in Argentina.’
Session 2b: New Lives: Transportation, Emigration, Diaspora: The Australias
Joan Kavanagh: ‘Crime and Freedom – Transportation as a Means to Freedom.’
Perry McIntyre: ‘A Free Ride from Destitution’
12.15pm
Session 3: Land War
Brian Casey: ‘An organisation to ‘beget the Land League’: The Ballinasloe Tenant Defence Association, 1876-79.’
Fiona White: ‘Moore Hall, Co. Mayo and The Land War.’
Lawrence Geary: ‘‘Agrarian Secret Societies and the Land War in Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland.’
1.45pm
LUNCH
2.00pm
Ireland European Cup Match above the Woodland Restaurant
2.45pm
Great Famine Voices Demo
4.00pm
Session 4: The Fenians and 1916
Michael Blanch ‘The Tricolour from Young Ireland to the GPO.’
Questions and discussion to follow
5.00pm
DAY ENDS
8.00pm
CONFERENCE DINNER - Click Here to Book
9.00 pm
KEYNOTE: Myles Dungan 'The Height of Impudence': Punch and Ireland 1841-91.’
SUNDAY 19th JUNE
ANNUAL NATIONAL FAMINE CONFERENCE DAY 2
9.00am
Conference Registration in the Woodland Restaurant
9.30am
Session 5: Emigration, Education, Radicalisation and Social Change
Sarah Hillas: ‘Patterns of Inheritance and Superior Educational Attainment in Rural Ireland, 1861-1918.’
Regina Donlon: ‘‘To visit my mother (?)’: Returning to Co Roscommon during the Revolution Era, 1916-1923.’
10.30am
COFFEE
10.45am
Session 6: Negotiating and Interpreting Identity and Memory
Gareth Jenkins: ‘‘Group Religious Identity and a Question of 'Britishness': Belfast and Liverpool as Contrasting Case Studies of
Political Intervention, 1880-1922.’
Richard Reid: ‘The ‘diaspora’ on display – the 2011 National Museum of Australia’s ‘Not Just Ned’ exhibition.’
Elisia Di Franco: ‘Living Present: Great Famine representation in contemporary Ireland and Irish Foreign policy.’
12.15pm
LUNCH
1.00pm
Session 7a: The Famine in Literature and Film - The 19th Century
Anne O’Leary: ‘Imagery of the Great Famine in the Literature of the Irish Literary Revival.’
Matthew Skwiat: ‘Jane Elgee’s Poetry and the Irish Literary Revival.’
Session 7b: The Famine in Literature and Film - The 20th Century
Bryce Evans: 'The Greatest Famine Film Never Made.'
José-Luis Llamas Álvarez: ‘Life in a pre-Famine Donegal hedge school community as represented in Friel´s Translations: historical fact or dramatic fiction?’
2.00pm
COFFEE
2.30pm
Crisis, Relief and Migration - Past and Present Perspectives
Keynote Lecture: Catherine B. Shannon, Emerita Professor of History, Westfield State University “The Voyage of the USS Jamestown, 1847”
3.30pm
4.30pm
What Happened to the Missing 1490? A project update from Professor Mark McGowan and University of Toronto students Pamela Smofsky, Chiara Fallone and Jessica Bush.
In conversation about the migrant crisis – 1847 and 2016 – Paul Walsh and Mark McGowan
