Catholic Historical Society of Ireland Annual Conference

Saturday, September 12, 2015 - 10:00 to 15:15
St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, Dublin

10.00-10.30am      Registration and Tea/Coffee
 
10.30am                   ‘The use of relics and images in late medieval and early modern Ireland’
                                    Raghnall Ó Floinn (National Museum of Ireland) 
 
11.15am                   ‘Negotiating religious change and conflict in Ireland: female religious communities, c.1560-c.1640’
                                    Bronagh McShane (National University of Ireland, Galway)
 
12.15pm                   Lunch
 
1.30pm                     ‘“God never prosper the king”: sedition and Catholicism in seventeenth-century Ireland’
                                    Eamon Darcy (Maynooth University)
 
2.15pm                     ‘A grand fancy fair and drawing of prizes: Catholic fundraising and Irish economic culture, 1850-1921’
                                    Sarah Roddy (University of Manchester)
 
3.15pm                     Close
 
 
Registration on morning of the conference
                       
Registration fee (lunch not included): €15 (€10 unwaged)
 
 
Inquiries to Marian Lyons, Conference secretary, Department of History, Maynooth University (marian.lyons@mu.ie)