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Economic and Social History
Society of Ireland |
Programme:
Friday 8 November
12.30 - 2 p.m. Registration
2.00 - 2.15 p.m. Opening of Conference
2.15 - 4.00 p.m. Panel 1: 'Hidden' Cultures [Room SG1, Summerville House, MIC]
- Denise Richardson, Dept. History and International Affairs, University of Ulster, Coleraine, 'Women in nineteenth century Irish Tinsmith Families: Reading Popular Culture in Anthropology, Folklore and Local Historical Geography'.
- Sean O'Connell, School of History, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, '"Up the Joyriders! Popular culture, masculinity and anti-social activity in Belfast since 1930'.
- Richard McMahon, Faculty of Law, UCD, 'Homicide, the courts and popular culture in Ireland, 1800-50'.
4.00 - 4.30 p.m. Tea/Coffee
4.30 - 6.15 p.m. Connell Lecture [Room SG1, Summerville House]
- Professor Gary Owens, Huron College, University of Ontario:
'"A Brief but Desperate Deed of Blood": Popular culture, popular memory and the Carrickshock Incident of 1831'.
6.30 Reception [Staff Dining Room, MIC]
Launch of Irish Economic and Social History Society publication: Enda Delaney,
Irish Immigration.
8.30 Conference Dinner [Locke Restaurant, Locke Quay, Limerick]
Saturday 8 November
9.30 - 11.00 a.m. (Parallel Sessions)
Panel 2: Literature, Popular Culture & Identity [Rm. SG, Summerville House]
- Tom Clyde, Editor, Honest Ulsterman, 'Popular political culture and the new Irish State: the Bulmer Hobson Generation'.
- Peter Martin, Dept. Modern History, TCD, 'Censorship and Irish popular culture 1922-1939.'
- Diarmuid Scully, History Dept., UCC, 'Gerald of Wales and the Irish: the creation of a popular ethnic stereotype'.
Panel 3: Religion, belief, and Popular Culture [Room SG2, Summerville House]
- Síle de Cléir, Limerick County Library, 'The Irish Messenger of the Sacred Heart: religious publishing and popular culture in Ireland in the early twentieth century.'
- Andrew Holmes, School of History, QUB, 'The religious dimension of popular culture: Ulster Presbyterianism 1770-1840'.
- Gillian Smith, Dept. of History, UCC, 'Interpreting "folk" and folklore: Ordnance Survey debates about popular culture in Ireland 1828-1842'.
11.00 - 11. 15 Tea/Coffee
11.15 - 12.45 (Parallel Sessions)
Panel 4: The State and Popular Culture [Room SG1, Summerville House]
- Mike Cronin, Dept. of History, de Montfort University, 'Ireland and Home: Selling Irish culture through the 1950s - An Tóstal'.
- Gillian McIntosh, Institute of Irish Studies, QUB, 'Art and industry: Northern Ireland government and the shaping of popular taste in the inter-war years'.
- John Paul McCarthy, Dept. of History, UCC, 'The depiction of Irish popular culture in de Valera's rhetoric 1932-1960'.
Panel 5: Sociability and Popular Culture [Room SG2, Summerville House
- Conor McCabe, Dept. Modern History, NUI Maynooth, 'Dancing by the gaslights: Irish trade unionism and popular culture, 1917-1923'.
- Petri Mirala, Research and Postgraduate Studies Office, University of Helsinki, 'An Eighteenth-Century Masonic Lodge: Education and Entertainment'.
- Tom Hayes, History Dept., MIC, 'The open course: sociability and the "promiscuity" of sports clubs in late nineteenth century Limerick.'
12.45 - 2.00 A.G.M [Staff Dining Room, MIC.] Soup and sandwiches available
in Canteen.
2.00 - 3.30 Panel 6: Popular Culture in a Divided Society [Room SG1, Summerville
House]
- Fintan Vallely, Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages, University of Ulster, Magee Campus, '"Pick 'n Mix" in the culture supermarket: the Ulster Scots quest for music as identity'.
- Neal Garnham, Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages, University of Ulster, Magee Campus, 'The roles of cricket in Victorian and Edwardian Ireland'.
- Guy Beiner, Dept. Modern History, TCD, 'Unpopular cultures in Ulster: controversies over memories of "The Turnout"'.
3.30 - 3.50 Tea/Coffee
3.50 - 4.50 Concluding Discussion. [Room SG1, Summerville House]
For more information about the society:
Membership
Secretary
ESHSI
Department of Modern History
Trinity College
Dublin
Republic of Ireland