Thursday, March 5, 2020 - 18:00 to 19:00
Room 1.33, First Floor, Iontas Building, North Campus
Speaker:
Dr Sylvie Kleinman (Trinity College Dublin)
Synopsis:
This talk will locate Madeleine ffrench-Mullen within the historiography of women of the Irish Revolution. It will then discuss the brief but compelling diary she wrote in Kilmainham and Mountjoy jails after the Rising. Reflecting inner feelings and circulating rumours, but also recording events ‘hot from memory’, this multi-layered private text is also an assertion of history unfolding, in which silences speak volumes.
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Preceded by:
Dr Fionnuala Walsh (School of History, University College Dublin), ‘My husband’s in Salonika’: the soldier’s wife in wartime Ireland 1914-1918. Synopsis here.