Sports History Ireland - Conference

Thanks to BH for this… it will be of interest to a fair few here I suspect.

Programme
for the
Eighth Annual Conference
of
Sports History Ireland
Department of History, University College Cork
Saturday, 15 September 2012.

Registration: 9.00-9.30

ORB 1.01 Session 1a: 9.30-10:30: Boxing and the Irish

Diarmuid O’Donovan (Independent Scholar):’Patrick Mahony, Empire Heavyweight Boxing Challenger.’
James Curry (TCD):
‘Muhammad Ali & the Irish press, 1963-67.’

ORB 1.23 Session 1b: 9.30-10:30: A French Connection?

Declan O’Keefe (Independent Scholar):
‘Killing dragons and taming ogres: Irish Mountaineering from the Eiger to Everest.’
Rhudhán Cooke (NUI Galway):
‘Connacht Rugby and the French Connection in the Professional Era.’

Coffee : 10:30-10:45

ORB 1.01 Session 2a: 10:45-12:15 Soccer and the Free State

Mark Tynan (NUI Maynooth):
‘The Dissemination of Irish Soccer in the Irish Free State’

Cormac Moore (UCD):
‘The Soccer Split’

David Toms (UCC):
‘Notwithstanding the discomfort involved Fordson’s Cup win in 1926 and how “the old contemptible” were represented in Ireland’s public sphere during the 1920s.’

ORB 1.23 Session 2b: 10:45-12:15 Sport in post Famine Ireland

Pat Bracken (DeMontfort University):
‘Not quite yet on death’s door: Hurling 1840-1884.’

Sean Reid (University of Huddersfield):
‘Cricket in Ireland 1848 – 1866.’

Maeve O’Riordan (UCC):
‘Active Participant or passive bystander? The sporting activity of women in the Irish landed class, 1860-1914.’

Lunch: 12:15-1:15

ORB 1.01 Session 3: 1:15-2:15 Plenary Speaker
Prof Alan Titley (UCC)
‘A Rational Continuation of the Past’: How the History of Irish Games Could Inform the Future.’

Five Minute Break

ORB 1.01 Session 4a: 2:20-3:50 Gaels and Gaelic Games

Irial Glynn (UCD):
‘Éamon Bulfin: Argentina’s best ever hurler?

Donal McAnallen (O’Fiach Library, Armagh):
‘Student Rebels: Gaelic Sports at QCC / UCC, the early days of the Fitzgibbon Cup, and the National Question, 1884-1924′.

Brian Hanley (University of Liverpool):
‘A fair trail of destruction’ The GAA confronts hooliganism.’

ORB 1.23 Session 4b: 2:20-3:50 Sport and Politics in Partition Ireland

Seamus Morris (Boston College):
‘Sport, politics and Northern Ireland – a potent brew.’

Conor Curran (DeMontfort University):
‘Sport and cultural nationalism: The conflict between Association and Gaelic football in Donegal, 1905-1934.’

Philip McConway (TCD):
‘No sports. Remember death. Sport in the Midlands during the Civil War and aftermath, 1922-24.’
: 3:50-4:00

ORB 1.01 Session 5a: 4:00-5:00 Sport and Irish Identity

Liam O’Callaghan (Liverpool Hope University):
‘Rugby football and identity politics in Free State Ireland 1922-37.’

Tom Hunt (Independent Scholar):
‘Ireland and the London Olympics of 1948, political fun, and games.’

ORB 1.23 Session 5b: 4:00-5:00 Sport and Community

Rhona McCord (TCD):
‘Dublin Soccer Street Leagues, circa 1950.’

DarlyLeeworthy (Swansea University):
‘From Shamrocks to Wolfe Tones: Sport and Community amongst the Irish Diaspora in South Wales, 1880-1939.’

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