State Formation, Political Violence, and Civil Disobedience Ireland North and South, 1919-22

State formation, political violence, and civil disobedience Ireland North and South, 1919-22 SatOurday N7 th NoLvemINber 2E020 #historians2020 State formation, political violence, and civil diSobedience ireland north and South, 1919-22 Webinar, 7 November 2020 RUNNING ORDER 10.00 Welcome dr anthony Soares , Secretary to Universities Ireland 10.05 civil reSiStance Chair: dr John borgonovo , University College Cork Soviets in Ireland dr emmet o’connor , Ulster University The Gendered Experience of Trauma Siobhra aiken , National University of Ireland, Galway Local Government dr matthew potter , Curator of Limerick Museum 11.35 virtUal coffee breaK 11.45 political violence Chair: dr marnie Hay , Dublin City University British reprisals in 1920 dr andy bielenberg , University College Cork 3rd (Northern) Division IRA / The Belfast Pogroms Jim mcdermott Grassroots Unionist Sentiment, 1920 dr connal parr , Northumbria University 13.15 virtUal lUncH 14.00 KeYnote Historical contexts and the Government of Ireland Act, 1920 dr conor mulvagh , University College Dublin Respondent: dr margaret o’callaghan , Queen’s University Belfast Chair: dr mary mcauliffe , University College Dublin 15.00 repreSentinG violence Thomas MacGreevy and Political Violence: ‘the little world was spinning on’ dr lucy collins , University College Dublin ‘Assault and Battery of the Wind’: W. B. Yeats, Violence and the Law dr adam Hanna , University College Cork Chair: dr conor mulvagh , University College Dublin 16.00 cloSe CONFERENCE SPEAKERS dr anthony Soares is Director of Síobhra aiken recently the Centre for Cross Border completed her PhD at the Studies. His role includes leading National University of Ireland, in the development and advocacy Galway. A former Fulbright of policies at regional, national Scholar, her publications include and European levels that support The Men Will Talk to Me: Ernie sustainable cross-border and O’Malley’s Interviews with the transnational cooperation. This Northern Divisions (Merrion has increasingly meant Press, 2018), An Chuid Eile Díom coordinating CCBS’s responses to the UK’s referendum Féin: Aistí le Máirtín Ó Direáin (Cló IarChonnacht 2018), on EU membership and its aftermath, publishing and peer-reviewed articles on Irish-language literature, Briefing Papers and reports, submitting evidence to the Gaelic Revival and Irish Revolution. parliamentary committees in both Westminster and Dublin, and consulting with a range of political dr matthew potter is Curator of representatives and organisations on the island of Limerick Museum and Honorary Ireland, Great Britain and in Europe. Fellow of the Department of History of the University of dr John borgonovo is a Lecturer Limerick. He has published in the School of History at sixteen books and numerous University College Cork. His articles with a primary focus on scholarship focuses on various the history of local government, aspects of Ireland’s revolutionary and the history and heritage of and First World War experiences. Limerick. He is perhaps best known for his extensive work on Cork, which dr marnie Hay is a lecturer in includes five books and History at Dublin City University. numerous journal articles and book chapters. In 2017, Her publications include: Na he was associate editor of the Atlas of the Irish Fianna Éireann and the Irish Revolution , a best-seller which won numerous awards. Revolution, 1909-23: Scouting for Rebels (Manchester, 2019); dr emmet o’connor lectures in Rebellion and Revolution in Ulster University. Between 1983 Dublin: Voices from a Suburb, and 2001 he co-edited Saothar, Rathfarnham, 1913-23 (Dublin, and is an honorary president of 2016; co-edited with Daire Keogh); and Bulmer Hobson the Irish Labour History Society. and the Nationalist Movement in Twentieth-Century He has published widely on Ireland (Manchester, 2009). Labour history, including, with UCD Press, R eds and the Green: Ireland, Russia, and the Communist Internationals (2004), A Labour History of Ireland, 1824–2000 (2011), Big Jim Larkin: Hero or Wrecker? (2015), and, with Barry McLoughlin, In Spanish Trenches: The Mind and Deeds of the Irish in the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War (forthcoming, 2020). dr andy bielenberg undertook a dr conor mulvagh is Lecturer in PhD at the London School of Modern Irish History at the Economics on Irish industry School of History, University during the British industrial College Dublin with special revolution. He has been lecturing responsibility for the Decade of in Irish economic and social Centenaries (2013-23). His history at the School of History, research centres primarily on UCC since 1992. In recent years British and Irish political history his research and writing have also and the history of Ireland during focused on aspects of the Irish revolution. Publications the decade of the Irish revolution and the First World include ‘The Irish economy 1815-1880; agricultural War. His current research focusses on a comparative transition, the communications revolution and the limits study of partitions. He lectures on memory and of industrialization’ in James Kelly (ed) The Cambridge commemoration; the Irish revolution; and Northern History of Ireland (Cambridge, 2018) vol. 3, and with Ireland. He is the author of Irish Days, Indian Memories: John Borgonovo and Jim Donnelly JR, ‘Something in the V. V. Giri and Indian Law Students at University College nature of a massacre’; the Bandon valley killings Dublin, 1913-1916 (Irish Academic Press, 2016) and The revisited’, Éire-Ireland (2014) vol 49, Fall/Winter, pp. 7- Irish Parliamentary Party at Westminster, 1900-18 59. (Manchester University Press, 2016) which was awarded the 2017 NUI Special Commendation Prize in Jim mcdermott went to Queen’s Irish History. He is a contributor to the landmark University Belfast leaving in 1972 Cambridge History of Ireland (Cambridge University with a degree in History and Press, 2018). English. He taught in St Thomas’ Secondary School Belfast which amalgamated with three other dr margaret o’ callaghan is an Secondary Schools to become historian and political analyst at Corpus Christi College Belfast in the School of History, 1988. He taught in Corpus Christi Anthropology, Philosophy and until 2005 as Head of History. He has taught various Politics, Queen’s University, courses at the History Department of Stranmillis Belfast. Amongst her publications Training College Belfast on a part time basis. At are British High Politics and a Stranmillis his Hidden History classes proved popular Nationalist Ireland; Criminality, and he has been active giving additional history talks to Land and the Law under Forster community and sporting organisations. While teaching and Balfour and ‘Women and Politics in Independent he represented the INTO on the Belfast Education and Ireland, 1921-58’ in Vol 5 of The Field Day Anthology of Library Board. In 2001 he wrote a history book which Irish Writing . Some of her works have been on history- became a local best seller. It was called Northern writing and the Troubles, republicanism, the role of the Divisions; The Old IRA and the Belfast Pogrom . Since state in nineteenth-century Ireland, and Roger then he has written and had printed numerous articles Casement. She has co-edited with Mary E. Daly 1916 in on various areas of Irish and European history. 1966; Commemorating the Easter Rising (Royal Irish Academy, 2007) and published more recently on the dr connal parr is Senior Lecturer commemoration of the Easter Rising in 1966 and 1976 in History at Northumbria and Conor Cruise O’ Brien and the Rising. Her most University. He previously held recent publication is ‘Women’s Political autobiography postdoctoral and teaching posts in Independent Ireland’ in Liam Harte (ed), A history of at the University of Oxford and Irish autobiography (CUP, 2018). She is working on a Fordham University's London book on Alice Stopford Green and her national and Centre. His first book Inventing global networks. the Myth: Political Passions and the Ulster Protestant Imagination was published by Oxford University Press in 2017 and was shortlisted for the Ewart-Biggs Literary Prize and the Royal Historical Society’s Whitfield Prize. dr mary mcauliffe is an Dr Adam Hanna is a lecturer in Assistant Professor in Gender Irish Literature at University Studies at UCD and holds a PhD College Cork and the author of from the School of History and Northern Irish Poetry and Humanities, Trinity College Domestic Space (Palgrave, 2015). Dublin. Her latest publications are His recent research concerns the We were there; 77 women of the relationship between literature Easter Rising (co-written with Liz and law in Ireland. Forthcoming Gillis), and Kerry 1916; Histories publications include Law and and Legacies of the Easter Rising on which she was a co- Literature: The Irish Case (with Eugene McNulty) and a editor. Her latest research includes a biography of second monograph, Poetic Justice: Poetry, Politics and Margaret Skinnider (UCD Press, Irish Life and Times the Law in Modern Ireland (Syracuse University Press). series, 2020), and a major research project on gendered and sexual violence during the Irish revolutionary period, 1919-1923, to be published in late 2020/early 2021. She is also writing on Kilkenny and the Revolution for the Four Courts Press ‘The Irish Revolution, 1912– 23’ County Series. Lucy Collins is Associate Professor of English at University College Dublin. Books include Poetry by Women in Ireland: A Critical Anthology 1870–1970 (2012) and a monograph, Contemporary Irish Women Poets: Memory and Estrangement (2015), both from Liverpool University Press. She has published widely on contemporary poets from Ireland, Britain and America, and is co-founder of the Irish Poetry Reading Archive, a national digital repository. CONTACTS The Secretary of Universities Ireland is anthony Soares and its Administrator is tricia Kelly . They can be contacted at the centre for cross border Studies , 39 Abbey Street, Armagh BT61 7EB. tel: 028 (048 from Republic of Ireland) 3751 1616 e-mails: [email protected] and [email protected] Websites: www.universitiesireland.ie and www.crossborder.ie.

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