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Reflecting on a decade of War and Revolution in 1912-1923 HISTORIANS AND PUBLIC HISTORY

Keynote speakers Professor Jay Winter, Charles J. Stille Professor of History, Professor Paul Bew, Queen’s University Professor Diarmaid Ferriter, University College

The Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin Saturday 23rd June 2012 Reflecting on a decade of War and Revolution in Ireland 1912-1923 HISTORIANS AND PUBLIC HISTORY

PROGRAMME CONFERENCE SPEAKERS AND CHAIRPERSONS Saturday 23rd June The Great Hall, The Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin Lord of Dublin Andrew Montague was elected Lord Mayor on Chair: Professor John Horne, Professor of Modern 27 June 2011. A member of the Labour European History, Party, he was first elected to in 2004 for the -Whitehall 9.00 am Registration and refreshments ward, and was re-elected in 2009 for the Artane-Whitehall ward. He was Deputy Lord 10.00 am Official Opening byLord Mayor of Dublin, Mayor in 2004-2005. He has Bachelor’s and Andrew Montague Master’s degrees in Veterinary Medicine from UCD. He spent several years working in the UK before returning to Ireland in 10.15 am Professor Diarmaid Ferriter, Professor of Modern 1998 to take up a research post at the Veterinary College in Irish History, University College Dublin: UCD. Two years later he set up his own web business, Driocht Scrambling for the bones of the patriot dead: The web. He is founder and Chairperson of the City Council’s politics of commemorating the Irish Revolution Cycling Forum; Chairperson of the Social Regeneration Committee of Ballymun Regeneration, and Chairperson of 10.55 am Professor Jay Winter, Charles J. Stille Professor Ballymun’s Local Drugs Task Force. of History, Yale University: Commemoration: Between history and memory, followed by Profesor John Horne is Professor of questions to the first two speakers Modern European History at Trinity College Dublin and a board member of the research 11.55 am Refreshments centre of the Historial de la Grande Guerre (the international Museum of the First World 12.20 pm Archive session War) in Péronne, Somme, France. He has Chair: Professor Eunan O’Halpin, Professor of published widely on the history of the First Contemporary Irish History, Trinity College Dublin World War and of 20th century France and with Mr Luke Smith, First World War Centenary Europe. Among his recent books are (ed.) Our War: Ireland Programme, Imperial War Museums, London and the Great War ( 2008), Vers la guerre totale: le tournant Ms Catriona Crowe, Head of Special Projects, de 1914-15 (2010) and A Companion to World War One (2010). National Archives of Ireland He has been appointed to the advisory council of the French Mr Stephen Scarth, Head of Public Government’s Mission for the Centenary Commemoration Services, Public Record Office of of 2014.

1.20 pm Lunch Professor Diarmaid Ferriter was appointed Professor of Modern Irish Chair: Mr Denis Staunton, Deputy Editor, The Irish Times History at UCD in 2008. He has published extensively on twentieth century Irish 2.35 pm Professor Paul Bew, Professor of Politics, Queen’s history. His books include the bestsellers University Belfast: Nationalism and Unionism in The Transformation of Ireland 1900- 1912-1922: Two in conflict 2000 (2004); Judging Dev: A Reassessment of the life and legacy of Eamon de Valera 3.15 pm Panel discussion: The Challenges of (2007) and Occasions of Sin: Sex and Society in Modern Ireland Commemoration in Public History (2009). He is a regular broadcaster with RTE radio and television Chair: Professor Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh, where he has presented the programmes What if?, The History Professor Emeritus in History, National University of Show and The Limits of Liberty, and is a contributor to various Ireland national newspapers. His new book, Ambiguous Republic: The Professor Keith Jeffery, Professor of Irish Seventies, will be published in October 2012. British History, Queen’s University Belfast Dr Anne Dolan, Lecturer in Modern Irish History, Professor Jay Winter is Charles J. Stille Trinity College Dublin Professor of History at Yale University. Dr Mary Cullen, former Senior Lecturer in Modern He came to Yale from the University of History, National University of Ireland Cambridge where he taught from 1979 Dr Emmet O’Connor, Lecturer in History, to 2001. He is the author of Sites of University of , followed by questions and Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great discussion War in European Cultural History (1995); Remembering War (2006) and Dreams of 5.00 pm End of conference Peace and Freedom (2006), and (with Antoine Prost) René Cassin et les droits de l’Homme: Le projet d’une génération (2011). In 1997 he received an Emmy award for the best Reflecting on a decade of War and Revolution in Ireland 1912-1923 HISTORIANS AND PUBLIC HISTORY documentary series of the year as co-producer and co-writer for all visitor related services for both onsite of The Great War and the shaping of the twentieth century, an and online users. He is also responsible eight-hour series broadcast on PBS and the BBC, and shown for the delivery of exhibitions and events subsequently in 28 countries. He is one of the founders of and for the marketing of PRONI at Titanic the research centre of the Historial de la Grande Guerre, the Quarter, and is also a board member of the international museum of the Great War, in Péronne, Somme, Centre of Migration Studies at Omagh. He France. He is editor-in-chief of the three-volume Cambridge is the PRONI representative on the Alliance History of the First World War, to be published of Libraries, Museums and Archives in 2014. (ALMA); the Archive Accreditation Workstream led by the National Archives of England and Wales, and the NI Community Professor Eunan O’Halpin holds the Relations Council-led Roundtable Marking Anniversaries. Chair of Contemporary Irish History at Trinity College Dublin. Among Mr Denis Staunton has been Deputy his books are The Decline of the Union: Editor of The Irish Times since August British government in Ireland, 1891-1920 2011, and is also a member of the board (1987); Defending Ireland: the Irish state and of The Irish Times Ltd. He was previously its enemies since 1922 (1999), and Spying the newspaper’s Foreign Editor and has on Ireland: British intelligence and Irish served as its correspondent in Washington, neutrality in the Second World War (2008). He is a joint editor of Brussels and Berlin. Born in Dublin and Documents on Irish Foreign Policy. He is currently completing raised in , he reported from Berlin for (with D. O Corrain) The Dead of the Irish Revolution 1916- The Observer and The Guardian before joining The Irish Times 1921, to be published by Yale University Press. This sets out to in 1997. identify and to describe every death arising from Irish political violence in this period, and to analyse each death by cause, Professor Paul Bew (Baron Bew of type, responsibility, locality and other relevant markers. Donegore) is Professor of Politics at Queen’s University Belfast. He was made Mr Luke Smith is Digital Lead for the a crossbench peer in the First World War Centenary Programme at in 2007, where he acts as secretary to the Imperial War Museums. He is responsible All Party Group on Archives and History. for delivering online, mobile and broadcast He was formerly a historical adviser to the projects in the run up to 2014 and during Tribunal and an adviser to the centenary years. At the heart of these Ulster Unionist leader . He has recently published are plans to develop ‘citizen history’ by Enigma: A new Life of (2011) which was engaging a mass public in researching named by as a biography of the year. He is and sharing the life stories of those who served in the First also author of Ireland: The Politics of Emnity 1789-2006 (part of World War. Those lives are recorded in the official documents, the Oxford History of Modern Europe series,2007); The Making newspapers, letters, diaries and photographs held in archives, and Remaking of the (2007); Between museums, libraries and family collections across the world. As War and Peace: the Political Future of Northern Ireland (with part of this activity, Imperial War Museums are determined to Henry Patterson and Paul Teague, 1997); and Ideology and the uncover large numbers of Irish life stories from the war. Irish Question: Ulster Unionism and Irish Nationalism 1912-1916 (1994). Ms Catriona Crowe is Head of Special Projects at the National Archives of Ireland. Professor Gearóid Ó Tuaithaigh is She is Manager of the Irish Census Online Professor Emeritus in History at the Project, which has placed the 1901 and National University of Ireland, Galway. His 1911 censuses online free of charge over publications – in Irish and English – are the last four years. She is an editor of mainly in the fields of nineteenth and Documents on Irish Foreign Policy, and of twentieth century Irish political history, Dublin 1911, published by the Royal Irish cultural change and the history of ideas. Academy. She is Vice-President of the Irish Labour History Among his books are Ireland Before the Society, and a former President of the Women’s History Famine 1798-1848 (1979); The Age of De Valera (with Joseph Association. She is Chairperson of the Irish Theatre Institute, Lee, 1982); and The National University of Ireland 1908-2008, which promotes and supports Irish theatre. She is Chairperson Centenary Essays (with Tom Dunne, John Coolahan and of the Project, a rehabilitation initiative for women with Maurice Manning, 2008).He is a Member of President Michael addiction problems based in Dublin’s North Inner City, and also D. Higgins’ Council of State and a Fellow of the Royal of the Inner City Renewal Group, which delivers employment Historical Society. and welfare rights support to the community in the North Inner City. Professor Keith Jeffery is Professor of British History at Queen’s University Belfast. In 1997–98 he was a Visiting Mr Stephen Scarth is Head of Public Services at the Public Scholar at the Australian National University and the Australian Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) and has responsibility Defence Force Academy. In 1998 he gave the Lees Knowles Reflecting on a decade of War and Revolution in Ireland 1912-1923 HISTORIANS AND PUBLIC HISTORY

Lectures in Military Studies at Trinity College, 1824-2000 (2011). At present he is working on an extended Cambridge, and in 2003–4 he was Parnell biography of Jim Larkin and a study of communism in Ireland Fellow in Irish Studies at Magdalene College, since 1941. Cambridge. He is the author or editor of 14 books, including Ireland and the Great War, The GPO and the , and a BACKGROUND NOTE prize-winning biography of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, the Irish-born Chief of the This conference is organised by Universities Ireland, the (British) Imperial General Staff who was assassinated on his network of university presidents and vice-chancellors in London doorstep in 1922 by two IRA men. His official history, Ireland and Northern Ireland founded in 2003. Universities MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service, 1909–49, Ireland runs North-South scholarship schemes (including one was published in 2010. for PhD students working on the 1912-1923 period); links Irish universities with their counterparts in Britain and Africa; Dr Anne Dolan lectures in Modern Irish supports persecuted scholars from countries where freedom History at Trinity College Dublin and is of expression and inquiry is under threat; and undertakes secretary of the Irish Historical Society. She a number of other initiatives to bring Irish and Northern Irish is author of Commemorating the Irish Civil universities closer together. It is managed by the Centre for War: History and Memory 1922-2000 (2003), Cross Border Studies. and, with Cormac O’Malley, is co-editor of No Surrender Here! the Civil War Papers The Universities Ireland Historians Group was started in of Ernie O’Malley (2008). She is currently 2011. This conference initiates a multi-annual programme working on a book on violence and revolution in Ireland. of activities led by the UI Historians Group to reflect on the 1912-1923 period in Irish history. The aim is that this will be a Dr Mary Cullen is a former Senior Lecturer high-level, scholarly and sustained initiative, and thus a unique in Modern History at NUI Maynooth. She contribution to reflection on a decade of history-changing is currently a Research Associate at the events by the island’s intellectual leaders, the 10 universities Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies at (and, in particular, their Departments of History). The outline Trinity College Dublin where she teaches a programme of activities will include research scholarships for course on the M.Phil programme. Her main young historians (the first two to be awarded in July 2012); research interest is in the history of Irish lobbying British and Irish museums and archives to enhance feminism and she has published widely in access to key historical materials from the period; collaborative this area. A book of her collected essays will be published in history teaching initiatives, and joint conferences and seminars. September 2012 by Arlen House. The Irish Times ‘Century’ project on the decade of Dr Emmet O’Connor is a Lecturer in the commemorations was recently launched with a supplement School of History and International Affairs ‘1912 – Home Rule and the Ulster resistance’ (irishtimes. in Magee College, University of Ulster. He com/homerule), which will be followed this autumn with is an honorary president of the Irish Labour another on women’s suffrage, and the opening of a dedicated History Society. He has published widely ‘Century’ website. Suggestions and contributions are welcome on labour history, including Syndicalism in to [email protected] Ireland, 1917-23 (1988); A Labour History of Waterford (1989); (2002); Reds and the Green: Ireland, Russia, and the Communist Internationals, 1919-43 (2004), and A Labour ,

CONTACTS

The Secretary of Universities Ireland is Andy Pollak, and its Administrator is Patricia McAllister. They can be contacted at the Centre for Cross Border Studies, 39 Abbey Street, Armagh BT61 7EB

Tel: 028 (048 from ) 3751 1550/8282 Fax: 028 (048) 3751 1721 E-mails: [email protected] and [email protected] Websites: www.universitiesireland.ie and www.crossborder.ie