Incarcerated Bodies Gaol, 13 October 2016

Supported by the Irish Research Council New Foundations Decade of Centenaries strand.

Organisers: Dr Ciara Breathnach (University of Limerick), Dr Laura McAtackney (Aahrus University), Niall Bergin (), Dr Ian Miller ( University).

9.30 Tea/coffee registration 10.00 SESSION ONE: MUSEOLOGY (Chair, Niall Bergin)

10.00 Helen O’Carroll (): ‘Casement's Long Shadow in Kerry’ 10.10 Maeve Murphy (Royal College of Surgeons in ): ‘Force feeding implements in the RCSI Heritage Collections’. 10.20 Michael Lynch (Kerry Library), ‘ curating the Kerry Library Collection’. 10.30 Pat Cooke, University College , ‘The art of interpreting dark or challenging history’. 10.40 Discussion 11.00 Coffee/Tea

11.15 SESSION TWO: HUNGER STRIKE HISTORY (Chair, Ian Miller) 11.15 William Murphy (Dublin City University): ‘Hunger strikes in Irish history’. 11.25 Elaine Farrell (Queen’s University, Belfast):‘Rescued from their evil courses’: women in the Irish convict prison, 1853-1900’. 11.35 Greta Jones (Ulster University): 'Narratives of Imprisonment and the Historian'. 11.45. Ian Miller (Ulster University): ‘Hunger Strikes, Prisons and Medical Ethics, c.1909-74’. 11.55 Discussion 12.15 Lunch

13.30 SESSION THREE: COMMEMORATION (Chair, Laura McAtackney) 13.30 - Elizabeth Crooke (Ulster University Magee): ‘Representation without Engagement: prison objects in museum collections’. 13.45 Séanna Walsh (ex-Hunger Striker): ‘Hunger Strike, the Protest of Last Resort’ 14.00 Eunan O’Halpin, (Trinity College Dublin): ‘Bí cúramach: commemorating 2016-2022’. 14.15 Discussion 14.30 Coffee/Tea

14.50 SESSION FOUR: Final Roundtable (Chair, Ciara Breathnach) Danielle O’Donovan, Irish Heritage Trust/ the Irish , , Barry Godfrey, University of Liverpool, Charles Forsdick, University of Liverpool, Katherine McSharry, National Library of Ireland. Register https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/incarcerated-bodies-hunger-striking-and-internment-tickets- 27848000118 or contact [email protected]