ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF IRELAND

Annual Conference Friday 23/24 November 2001

Hosted by the Royal Irish Academy at Academy House, 19 Dawson St. Dublin.

People on the Move

Friday 23 November:

12.30-2 p.m. Registration

2-3.45 p.m THE WILD GEESE:

Dr. Ciaran Brady Dr, Declan Downey & Dr Colm O Conaill, (Trinity College Dublin, and University College Dublin), 'Irish Mercenary Movement 1600-1775: The TCD/CISS Database'

Dr. Marion Lyons, St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, 'Irish migrant cultures in late sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe'

3.45 p.m. coffee.

4.15 p.m. THE CONNELL LECTURE

Professor Bob Allen, Nuffield College Oxford, 'Progress and Poverty in Early-Modern Europe'

5.30 p.m. Reception.

7.30 p.m. Conference Dinner. Kildare St and University Club.

Saturday 20 November:

9.30 -11 a.m. EMIGRATION

Dr. Enda Delany, Queen's University Belfast, 'Emigration, Networks and Social Structure in Postwar Ireland'

Dr. Lindsey Earner-Byrne, University College Dublin, 'Pregnant from Ireland: Church and state and Irish unmarried mothers in Britain'

11.00-11.15 Coffee.

11.15 RESEARCH STUDENTS PANEL

Deirdre Bryan, Boston College, 'Irish women missionaries in British West Africa'

Catherine Cox, University College Dublin, 'Matters Mad: The Mission to Create an Asylum System in 19th century Carlow'

Jason Begley, University of Limerick: the response of Limerick businesses to the economic conditions in the 1930s.

12.30 AGM

2.p.m. TOURISM
Prof. Alastair Durie, Glasgow University, 'A country as absolutely unknown...as if it were in the backwoods of America: Ireland as a tourist destination in the nineteenth century'

Mary Davies, ''The Brighton of Ireland': Bray, Co. Wicklow, 1770-1970'

Irene Furlong, 'Céad míle Fáilte? State promotion of tourism in independent Ireland 1925-1955'

Michael Kennedy, RIA: Documents in Irish Foreign Policy, 'Aer Lingus, Pan-Am and the Dublin Rights Issue: tourism, aviation and Irish-American relations: 1966 - 1973'

Conference Organiser: Professor Mary E. Daly, Dept. Modern Irish History, University College Dublin 4. Tel 01-7168117 Fax 01- 7168602 e-mail :maryed@indigo.ie

Registration: Ir£25, (students and unwaged Ir £5); Conference Dinner Ir £32.

Accommodation: A list of B and Bs and hotels will be supplied on request.

Please make cheques payable to ESHSI Conference