Incarcerated Bodies Kilmainham 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 (Kilmainham Gaol), Dr Ian Miller (Ulster University).
9.30 Tea/coffee registration 10.00 SESSION ONE: MUSEOLOGY (Chair, Niall Bergin)
10.00 Helen O’Carroll (Kerry County Museum): ‘Casement's Long Shadow in Kerry’ 10.10 Maeve Murphy (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland): ‘Force feeding implements in the RCSI Heritage Collections’. 10.20 Michael Lynch (Kerry Library), ‘Thomas Ashe curating the Kerry Library Collection’. 10.30 Pat Cooke, University College Dublin, ‘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 National Famine Museum, Strokestown, 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]