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Women and the Decade of Commemorations Series
Keynote by Professor Lucy McDiarmid, Montclair State University - The Muse on the Train: 21st Century Irish railroad poems
When: Monday, 03 October 2016
After the Rising, After the Somme: Reflections on Commemoration in 2016
Keynotes by Dr Marie Coleman, Queen’s University Belfast; Prof Guy Beiner, Ben Gurion University and Prof Dominic Bryan, QUB; followed by roundtable discussions. All welcome. Funding is available to postgrads, doctoral students and community workers to cover travel expenses.
When: Thursday, 08 September 2016
What is a Republic? An occasion of definitional controversy inspired by the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Proclamation
Debating the Irish republican proclamation and heritage in a larger international and historical context, and investigating the range of aspirations implied by republican definitions. Keynote contribution from Prof Philip Petitt, Princeton University.
When: Monday, 23 May 2016
Irish-Latin American Solidarity in the Context of the 1916 Rising
Irish-Latin American Solidarity in the Context of the 1916 Rising
When: Friday, 13 May 2016
The Country House and Landed Estate in Time of Revolution
Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates 14th Annual Conference
When: Monday, 09 May 2016
Women and the Decade of Commemorations
Roundtable discussions with talks by: Catriona Crowe, National Archives; Martina Devlin, Writer, Journalist and Broadcaster; Professor Gerardine Meaney, Director of Global Irish Studies, University College Dublin; Professor Margaret Ward, Department of History, Queen’s University Belfast.
When: Wednesday, 06 April 2016
Launch of ‘Domhnall Ua Buachalla: An Exhibition’
Celebrating the 1916 Rising Centenary
When: Thursday, 10 March 2016
Launch of Maynooth College and 1916: An Exhibition
The exhibition, launching in the Russell Library, will aim to tell the story of the College during the Easter Rising.
When: Wednesday, 02 March 2016
Department of English - "All’s Changed: 1916 and Modernism" Symposium
This symposium will address the complex relationship between revolutionary politics and modernist art in the period between the outbreak of World War I and the foundation of the Irish Free State.
When: Friday, 26 February 2016
Women and the Decade of Commemorations: An All Island Perspective
Scholars, writers, art practitioners, activists and community workers are invited to attend to participate in roundtable discussions, with the longer term goal of establishing an inclusive, all-island commemoration network.
When: Tuesday, 19 January 2016