The third Home Rule crisis: centenary perspectives Friday, 25th May, National Library of Ireland.

Thanks to BH for bringing notice of the following. For any of us interested in the decade of commemoration this is well worth a look in. On a slight tangent I’ve said it before, but I can’t help but feel that any efforts aimed at reshaping the history as regards reifying Home Rule are doomed to failure given the nature of that enterprise when examined closely. But that is no doubt a discussion for another day.

The third Home Rule crisis: centenary perspectives

Friday, 25th May (9.30am – 5.45pm) to Saturday 26th May (10am -1.15pm)

The Third Home Rule Crisis: Centenary Perspectives

Free but booking is essential. To book contact 01 603 0200

Programme

9.30: Welcome and registration

9.55: Opening remarks

10.00: Panel One
Dr James McConnel (University of Northumbria): “Coming events cast their shadows before”: Imagining Home Rule before the Rising.

Dr Frank Callanan (Independent Scholar): The introduction of the third Home Rule Bill.

Dr Senia Paseta (St Hugh’s College, Oxford):Suffrage, citizenship and nationhood in the Third Home Rule Bill.

11.30: Tea/coffee

12.00: Keynote Lecture (1)
Professor Roy Foster (Hertford College, Oxford): “Free to fight out our battle here ourselves”: Volunteering and the logic of violence, 1912-1914.

1.15: Lunch

2.15: Panel Two
Dr Lauren Arrington (University of Liverpool): The Irish Worker and the Third Home Rule Bill: James Connolly, John Scully, and the Battle of the South Dublin Union.

Dr Matthew Kelly (University of Southampton): “A clear line of demarcation”: Irish Freedom (1910-14) and the re-articulation of the Fenian ideal.

Dr Margaret O’Callaghan (Queen’s University Belfast): Democratisation and Polarisation in Ireland: the third Home Rule bill.”

3.45: Tea/coffee

4.15: Panel Three
Dr Michael Wheatley (Independent Scholar): Rhetoric and responses to the Home Rule Bill, 1912.

Dr Will Murphy (Mater Dei, DCU): The emergence of the hunger strike in modern Ireland, 1912-4.

Dr Dan Jackson (University of Northumbria): “Friends of the Union”: Popular opposition to Irish Home Rule in England, Scotland and Wales.

5.45 Close of first day

Saturday 26 May
10.00: Panel Four
Dr Eve Patten (Trinity College Dublin): Talking of honour and of truth: 1912 and English literary narratives.

Dr Colin Reid (Oxford): “Carsonading” and its enemies: George Berkeley and the Volunteering experience in Belfast.

Conor Mulvagh (UCD): Accepting the unthinkable: selling partition to the Irish Party leadership, 1912-14.

11.30: Tea/coffee

12.00: Keynote Lecture (2)
Professor Ronan Fanning (UCD), The Liberal Party and the Third Home Rule Bill: an Exercise in Hypocrisy.

1.15 Close

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