IHSA 2016 Proceedings

Dear followers,

 

We at IHSA2016 have just received some great news! Owing to a budget surplus, we have been fortunate enough to be in a position whereby we can offer those who spoke at our conference in February, the opportunity to have their papers published in our proceedings journal. Retrospective will be the first student led IHSA publication in over a decade and judging by the calibre of the papers heard in February, there should be no shortage of excellent papers to read!

 

Stay tuned for further information.

IHSA 2016 – Photographs

Dear Colleagues,

 

Apologies the delay in posting our images of the conference weekend, but things have been hectic! Please find below our images taken by our fantastic Official Photographer, Katya Radovanova!

 

 

Kind regards,

 

 

 

 

Eamonn & Team

 

 

IHSA 2016 Volunteer – Cian Moran

 

Name: Cian Moran

Course: PhD law

Historical interest: UN peacekeeping, the Middle East, Military history,

military intervention

Short Personal Bio: Cian is currently a PhD candidate at NUIG School of Law where he is researching the use of military force for protecting civilians. Cian graduated with an LLM from the University of Nottingham and an LLB from NUI Galway. Outside of academia, Cian worked for a Middle East NGO in Washington DC and is a serving reservist with the Irish Defence Forces.

IHSA 2016 Volunteer – Brendan Mc Nelis

 

Name: Brendan Mc Nelis

Course: BA (History & Geography)

Historical interest: Home Rule Movement, 17th^th Century Ireland, Dutch Golden Age & World War I

Short Personal Bio: I am in the final year of my BA (International) in NUIG, taking History & Geography. This will be my first IHSA Conference that I will be attending. I have been involved with NUIG’s History Society (Cumann Staire) since 2013 where I am currently the Public Relations Officer. My society work has also expanded throughout my collage life in areas such as: the collage radio station (Flirt FM), the chess society and the Comic Book Society which has broaden my horizons and expanded my responsibilities in college.

 

Accommodation Information

Accommodation

 

The Irish History Students Association, 66^th Annual Conference will take place in Galway, from 19-21 February 2016. As a major tourist location, Galway boasts both a considerable volume and diversity of accommodation sources.  The vast majority of these are within a two-mile radius of the University.  Prices and quality vary considerably, but as the conference is being held in February, it is envisaged that accommodation should be reasonable. Nonetheless, advance booking is essential. For groups travelling together there are a large number of student hostels in the city, which may suit your needs.

 

This list is intended as a starting point to help the attendee. We have broken down matters by the type of accommodation, then further by star-rating and price.  Web links are included throughout, as well as photographs, guide prices, reviews, maps and distance from the University and Bus/Train station.  Those travelling are advised to book early and to ‘shop around’ so as to secure good value and reasonable price where possible.

 

There may well be slightly cheaper options available, however many of these are of a less acceptable standard than we are willing to select for you, our guests. We have borne these considerations in mind, adding in cost and distance also, to give you the best information possible to make your choice.

 

Hotels

     

1. Jurys Inn (Quay Street,Galway, H91 E8D7 +353 (0) 91 566444)
   1. Arrival Date: 19/02/16 – Departure Date: 21/02/16

Rate:  €260 (bed & breakfast, single)/€280 (bed & breakfast, twin /double)

 

1. 19 minute, 1.6 km walk to Arts Millennium Building
2. More information can be found at: https://goo.gl/eozukP

 

2. Harbour Hotel (New Dock Road, Galway +353 (0) 91 894 800)
   1. Priced from €134 per night- €270 total for double and twin rooms. (Please note that the Harbour is running a 16% discount on all rooms booked before 14 January 2016).
   2. 20 minute, 1.6 km walk to Arts Millennium Building
   3. More information can be found at: http://www.harbour.ie/

 

3. Eyre Square Hotel (Forster St, Eyre Square, Galway +353 (0)91 569 633)
   1. Priced from €110 per night- €220 total for double and twin rooms.
   2. 18 minute, 1.5 km walk to Arts Millennium Building
   3. More information can be found at: http://www.eyresquarecom/

 

 

Bed & Breakfasts/ Guesthouses

         

1. Asgard House (21 College Road, Galway +353 (0) 91 566 855)
   1. Priced from €80 for two nights for double and twin rooms.
   2. 26 minute, 2.1 km walk to Arts Millennium Building.
   3. More information can be found at: http://www.galwaycityguesthouse.com

 

 

2. Abbeygate Guesthouse (11 Mary St, Galway +353 (0) 91 458 550)
   1. Priced from €180 for two nights for double and twin rooms.
   2. 13 minute, 1.0 km walk to Arts Millennium Building.
   3. More information can be found at: http://theabbeygate.com/

 

3. Eyre Square Townhouse (35 Eyre St, Galway +353 (0) 91 568 444)
   1. Priced from €210-230 for two nights for double and twin rooms.
   2. 14 minute, 1.2 km walk to Arts Millennium Building.
   3. More information can be found at: http://www.eyresquaretownhouse.com/

 

4. Desota B&B (54 Newcastle Road, Cookes Corner, Galway +353 (0) 91 585064
   1. Priced from €220 for two nights for double rooms.
   2. 9 minute, 0.9 km walk to Arts Millennium Building.
   3. More information can be found at: http://www.galwaybandb.ie/

 

 

5. There are many other B&B’s located on College Road and Father Griffin Road that are well priced and can easily be found on booking.com

 

 

Hostels

 

1. Snoozles Hostel (Forster Street, Galway. Beside the Coach Station) + 353 (0) 91 530 064
   1. Priced from €37/€40 for two nights in 10 bed mixed dorm/6 bed mixed dorm.
   2. 21 minute, 1.7 km walk to Arts Millennium Building https://ggl/by9Hki
   3. More information can be found at: http://goo.gl/78kLmw

 

2. Savoy Hostel (Eglington Street, Galway +353 (0) 91 375 421)
   1. Priced from €48-52 for two nights in 4-6 bedroom dorm.
   2. 14 minute, 1.1 km walk to Arts Millennium Building https://goo.gl/5eOPIO
   3. More information can be found at: http://www.galwayhostel.ie/index.html

 

3. Kinlay Hostel (Merchants Road (Off Eyre Square), Galway) (0)91 562 618)
   1. Priced from €25-35 for two nights in a 3-8 bedroom dorm.
   2. 18 minute, 1.5 km walk to Art Millennium Building https://goo.gl/sNFzS5
   3. More information can be found at: http://www.woodquayhostel.hostel.com/

 

4. Galway City Hostel (Eyre Square, Galway +353 (0)91 561 133)
   1. Priced from €58 for two nights in a 6-16 bed mixed dorm.
   2. 18 minute, 1.5 km walk to Arts Millennium Building https://goo.gl/bYfeTY
   3. More information can be found at: http://www.galwaycityhostel.com/

 

 

5. Barnacles (10 Quay St, The Latin Quarter, Galway +353 (0)91 568 644)
   1. Priced from €50-54 for two nights for rooms ranging from eight bed mixed dorm to a four bed ensuite.
   2. 17 Minute, 1.4 km walk to Arts Millennium Building
   3. More information can be found at: http://www.barnacles.ie/galway/

 

 

 

 

 

Helpful sites to search for deals on accommodation:

• booking.com
• tripadvisor.ie
• http://www.hostels.com/
• http://www.hostelworld.com/
• http://www.discoverireland.ie/places-to-go/Galway

IHSA2016 Schedule & Programme

It is our pleasure to publish our conference programme and schedule of events for IHSA2016. Any queries may be addressed to ihsa2016@gmail.com

 

Eamonn & Committee

 

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Friday, 19 February

1900                Arrival & Exhibition, Moore Institute Rooms, Ground floor, Hardiman Research Building

1930                Speeches.

Eamonn T. Gardiner, MC & Lead Organiser

Dr. Sarah-Anne Buckley, Chair, IHSA National Committee

Prof. Dáibhí Ó Crónín, History Department Welcome

Prof. Steven Ellis, Formal Opening of Conference

2000                Reception & Exhibition

2100                Social: History Quiz in College Bar.

 

Saturday, 20 February

0830-0855       Registration (€15) & Morning Coffee 1 in Arts Millennium Building.

0855-0900       Welcome/Health & Safety Briefing

0900-1015       Round A of Panels (75 mins).

1015-1035       Coffee Break 2

1035-1150       Round B of Panels (75 mins)

1150-1210       Coffee Break 3

1210-1325       Round C of Panels (75 mins)

1325-1335       Move from Arts Millennium to College Bar (10 mins)

1335-1420       Lunch (College Bar)/AGM (AM Building) (45 mins)

1420-1430       Move from College Bar to Arts Millennium for Workshop.

1430-1530       Workshop: Research Funding Opportunities (60 mins).

1530-1535       Leave Workshop and move to rooms for Round D

1535-1650       Round D of Panels (75 mins)

1650-1710       Coffee Break 4

1710-1825       Round E of Panels (75 mins)

1825-1835       Closing remarks and final reminder dinner timings & Sunday programme.

1835-2030       Arrive at Harbour Hotel for Pre-Meal Reception

2030-2200       Dinner (Prosecco Reception & 5 Courses, €25)

2200-2245       Eamonn T. Gardiner MC.

Introduction by Dr. Mary Harris, Senior Lecturer, NUI Galway & ‘A Nation Rising’, 1916 Commemorative Programme Coordinator

After-Dinner Speaker: Professor Emeritus Nicholas Canny, NUIG. http://erc.europa.eu/organisation/canny-nicholas

2245-2315       Prize giving

2315+              Post Dinner & Move to other venues.

 

 

Sunday, 21 February

1200-1300       Walking Tour of Galway.

Early Modern & Revolutionary Galway

 

Round A 09:00-10:15

 

(A1) Narratives from Christian Ireland

            Chair: Kieran Hoare

• Ossory on the Eve of the Reformation
  • Bernadette O’Brien, NUI Galway

 

• Brigit and pregnant women: discussion on the issue
  • Dmitrii Glass, Mary Immaculate College

 

• Is there a Problem of Saint Patrick? If so, is there a solution?
  • Nathan Dunphy, NUI Galway

 

 

(A2) Twentieth-Century Philosophical, Logical and Cultural Approaches

Chair: Dr. Tomás Finn

• Catholic anti-communism, the Cold War, and peace and nuclear disarmament campaigns in Ireland.
  • Gerard Madden, NUI Galway

 

• ‘A pioneering historian of ideas: Robert Blakey, and the birth of a disciplinary genre.’
  • Stuart Mathieson, Queens University Belfast

 

• AUDIO-VISUAL: Letting the Sources Speak: Title: ‘Gainsbourg: A ‘Serge’ of Sexual Content in French Popular Culture, 1966-1991’
  • Robert Flatley, NUI Galway

 

(A3) Race in the Americas from the Colonies to the Civil War

Chair: Dr. Enrico Dal Lago

• “A Rich Man’s Government… A Poor Man’s Fight”: Class Conflict and Unionist Dissent in the Confederate South.
  • Jordan Markey, NUI Galway

 

• ‘Bound to Serve’ White indentured Labour in Colonial America.
  • Leanne McMullan, University of Ulster

 

• Religion, Racism, & Perfidious Albion: Irish Soldiers in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
  • Florry O’Driscoll, NUI Galway

 

(A4) Shades of Roman Catholicism in Ireland, 1844-1950

Chair: Dr. Roisín Healy

• St Vincent de Paul in Dublin, 1844-1918: Friends of the Poor or Self-Serving Religious Zealots?
  • Bernadette O’Connell, NUI Galway

 

• The Roman Catholic Church in Sligo during the Great War.
  • Simone Hickey, St. Angela’s College

 

• The Irish Catholic Missionary Experience in the Twentieth Century
  • Kate Brophy, Trinity College Dublin

 

(A5) Nineteenth-Century Irish Nationalism

            Chair: Dr. Carmel Connolly

• Alternative solutions to the intractable Irish question, 1892-1902.
  • Tony King, NUI Galway

 

• The Persistence of Nationalist and Anti-State Sentiment in Ulster, 1848-1867
  • Kerron Ó Luain, Independent Scholar

 

• The Road from Kilmorna: Canon Sheehan, Fenianism, and prefiguring 1916
  • John O’Donovan, University College Cork

 

Round B 10:35-11:50

 

(B1) Warfighting as an aid to Civil Governance.

Chair: Dr. Pádraig Lenihan

• ‘Pax Romana’: The true triumph of the Roman people
  • George Baldry, NUI Galway

 

• ‘To defend those who have no swords’: The birth of Crusading as theological disruption and political evolution
  • Declan Mills, University of Limerick

 

• Between Success and Surrender: Thomas Wentworth, Lord Deputy of Ireland, 1633- 1639.
  • Marie Sophie Hingst, Trinity College Dublin

 

 

(B2) A Postmodern History of Human Rights and Terrorism

            Chair: Dr. Kevin O’Sullivan

• Operation Allied Force, Humanitarian Intervention and the Kosovo war of 1999Cian Moran, NUI Galway

 

• Refugees and Humanitarian Aid as Weapons of War: Cambodia and Rwanda.
  • John O’Donnell, NUI Galway

 

• Bullets, Bombs & Blood: Chechen Terrorist Tactics and Beyond
  • Francesco Conti, NUI Galway

 

(B3) The Evolution of Warfare during Irish Revolution, 1916-1923

Chair: Dr. Conor McNamara

• ‘Scattered, Ambushed and Laid Out’: War and Counterinsurgency in North Galway 1919-1921
  • Eamonn T. Gardiner, NUI Galway

 

• The importance of Dublin during the Irish War of Independence
  • Thomas Tormey, Trinity College Dublin

 

• ‘A Cycle of Violence’: Analysing the Role of the Bicycle during the Irish Revolutionary Period 1916-1923
  • Bryan Treanor, St. Patrick’s College of Education/DCU

 

(B4) Re-evaluating Education: Irish and American examples

Chair: Dr. Jackie Uí Chionna

• The post-primary school in Ireland, 1940-58: A case study of the Presentation Order
  • Catriona Delaney, University of Limerick

 

• “To Educate Themselves”: African American Teachers in North Carolina’s Schools for the Freed People, 1861-1876
  • Anne Marie Brosnan, Mary Immaculate College

 

• Looking To The Past To Build For The Future’: State-Building, Curricular Developments, And School History In Post-Independence Ireland, 1924-69
  • Colm MacGearilt, Trinity College Dublin

 

(B5) Changes in Irish Political Landscape, 1913-1923

Chair: Dr. Joe Regan

• The role of Lord Decies, Press Censor for the British Administration in Ireland, 1916-19, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Censor
  • Alan McCarthy, University College Cork

 

• Assessing the contributing factors leading to Sinn Fein’s victory in the 1918 General Election
  • Patrick Mulcahy, University of Limerick

 

• ‘Constitutional Nationalists still have considerable strength’? Examining the views of Home Rule activists 1919-21
  • Martin O’Donoghue, NUI Galway

 

Round C 12:10-13:25

 

(C1) ‘Mythology and Máthair Chíche’ – Revisiting Old-Irish Texts and Stories

Chair: Dr. Chris Doyle

• Gaelic Revival and the Ulster and Ossian Cycles: National heroes in Cúchulainn and Fionn Mac Cumhail
  • Erin Rae-MacKinney, University of Ulster

 

• An mháthair chíche sa Mheánaois in Éirinn
  • Aogán Ó hIarlaithe, NUI Galway

 

(C2) Children and Social culture; Ideas of Youth.

Chair: Dr. Sarah-Anne Buckley

• ‘They go to England to preserve their Secret”: The emigration and assistance of the Irish unmarried mother in Britain 1926-1952.’
  • Lorraine Grimes, NUI Galway

 

• ‘Changeling Children in Nineteenth Century Ireland
  • Jodie Shevlin, University of Ulster

 

• “They called them Edelweiss Pirates, where they Blossomed, Resistance Grew?!”- The Edelweiss Pirates as an Example of Oppositional Youth Movements in Nazi Germany.
  • Annika Stendebach, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz

 

(C3) Complexities of the Anglo-Irish Interdependency

Chair: Dr. Andrew Holmes

• Irish Catholics within the British Officer Corps: 1829-1899
  • Mark Scannell, NUI Galway

 

• ‘Help Wanted! No Irish need apply’. The effects of British prejudice and discrimination against Irish migrants in the early- to mid-20^th
  • Finian J.E. Halligan, University of Warwick

 

• Irish Immigrant Entrepreneurs in the Post-war Reconstruction of London
  • Michael B. Mulvey, Maynooth University

 

(C4) ‘Fight for Ireland and no other land’: Revolutionary Labour History

Chair: Dr. John Cunningham

• The Age of Larkinism: ‘A Divine Mission’ (1907-1914).
  • Stephen Deyarmin, NUI Galway

 

• The Drapers’ Revolution, 1913-1924.
  • Breandán Ó’Conchúir, NUI Galway

 

• The Irish Citizen Army and the Anglo-Irish War.
  • Jeffrey Leddin, University of Limerick

 

(C5) The Great War Generation, 1890-1924

Chair: Dr. Kyle Hughes

• The Master of Mystery and the Great War: the spy novels of William Le Queux, 1914 – 1918
  • Jonathan Best, Queens University Belfast

 

• The best of enemies: South Africa and the Germans of South West Africa, 1914-1924
  • Gavan Duffy, NUI Galway

 

• 1916: Tolkien at the Battle of the Somme
  • Sandra Hartl, University of Bamberg

 

Round D 15:35-16:50

 

(D1) Lydon’s ‘Middle Nation’- The Old-English and the Irish in the later medieval period

Chair: Dr. Kim Lo Prete

• The Bruce invasion of Ireland, 1315-1318
  • Eoghan Keane, Trinity College Dublin

 

• The Early Years of Gearóid Iarla, Third Earl of Desmond
  • Dónal Ó Catháin, NUI Galway

 

(D2) Gender, Class & Conflict

Chair: Dr. Paul O’Brien

• Post-war cinema-going and working-class communities: a case study of the Holyland, Belfast, 1945-1962.
  • Sam Manning, Queens University Belfast

 

• Experiences of women in the Anglo-Irish War
  • Thomas Earls Fitzgerald, Trinity College Dublin

 

• POSTER: Emyr Estyn Evans : The Formative Years
  • Lauren Ferguson, Queens University Belfast

 

 (D3) Histories of Healthcare

Chair: Dr. Ciarán McCabe

• ‘Admitting the Mad’: Insanity in the Ulster District Lunatic Asylums, 1845-1914.
  • Seaneen Larkin, University of Ulster

 

• ‘Where one journey ends, the next begins…’ Dr. Thomas Raleigh Phayer, Medical Doctor, Apothecarist, Surgeon and Physician of Newcastle West, Co. Limerick.
  • John Phayer, Independent Researcher

 

• Historical development and economic impact of obesity
  • Cillian Moran, NUI Galway

 

(D4) Religious Communities in the Nineteenth-Century

            Chair: Dr. Alison Forrestal

• Truth and Error: Anti-Catholicism and the Free Church of Scotland in the mid-nineteenth century
  • Ryan Mallon, Queens University Belfast

 

• ‘We shall not shrink, where Justice demands it..’ Belfast Quaker influence on British Abolitionism utilising ‘The Irish Friend’, 1838-1842
  • Krysta Beggs-McCormick, University of Ulster

 

• Women Religious in Nineteenth Century Ireland: Personal and Corporate Identity
  • Bridget Harrison, Queens University Belfast

 

(D5) Irish Finance and Taxation, Pre and Post-Independence, 1916-1931

Chair: TBC

• Shadow of a Taxman: How, and by whom, was the Republican Movement Financed in the Irish War of Independence?
  • Robin Adams, St. Peter’s College, Oxford

 

• Art Ó Briain and the Irish National Relief Fund of London, 1916-1919.
  • Mary MacDiarmada, St. Patrick’s College of Education/DCU

 

• Foreign versus Fashion: Chinese bacon and Parisian clothing in the Irish Free State
  • John Porter, Trinity College Dublin

 

(D6) Intergenerational effects of war

Chair: Dr. Cathal Smith

• ‘Migrant, Refugee, Terrorist’ Asylum in Interwar France: The Case of the Spanish Exiles (1934-35)
  • Eoghan Moran, Queen Mary University, London

 

• The children of war and revolution?: Influence of the First World War, the 1916 Rising and WoI upon the Irish volunteers who joined the British forces WW2.
  • Joseph Quinn, Trinity College Dublin

 

Round E 17:10-18:25

 

(E1) Politics and Power in Tudor Ireland

Chair: Prof. Steven Ellis

• ‘…to restrayne the Englishe from soche evells as Irishe infeccion poysoned theim with.’ Creating a pathology of Irishness during the ‘Tudor Conquest of Ireland’.
  • Carla Lessing, NUI Galway

 

• The best of times, the worst of times – the thoughts of a Tudor administrator in Ireland
  • Deirdre Fennell, NUI Galway

 

(E2) The Lives of Ulster Women, 1890-1930

Chair: Dr. Caitriona Clear

• ‘Obscure Lives’: A Biographical Portrait of Queen’s District Nurses in Ireland (1890-1907)
  • Joyce Ní Ghiobuin, Trinity College Dublin

 

• ‘With fingers weary and worn’?: Factory legislation and the treatment of women workers in the Londonderry shirt industry, c.1860-1920
  • Chelsea Brownlee, Queens University Belfast

 

• Devolution, Northern Ireland, and the Illegitimate Children (Affiliation Orders) Act, 1924.
  • Alex Tierney, Trinity College Dublin

 

(E3) History from Outside: Fringe histories during the Irish Revolution

 

Chair: Dr. Mary Harris

 

• The Colonel, the Canadian and the Cork man: The  Irish Diplomatic Mission to South Africa in 1921
  • Madeline O’Neill, NUI Galway

 

• Ireland’s forgotten diplomats: Nancy Wyse Power and Máire O’Brien’s quest for obtaining recognition for independent Ireland, 1919-23.
  • Ann Marie O’Brien, University of Limerick

 

• ‘“Who were the Shoneens?”: Irish militant nationalists and association football, 1913-1923.
  • Aaron Ó Maonaigh, St. Patrick’s College of Education/DCU

 

(E4) The changing face of the Irish Economy

            Chair: Prof. Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh

• After the Expiry Date: Wills of the lesser gentry in east Mayo, 1760-1880.
  • Olivia Martin, NUI Galway

 

• Nineteenth century urban Irish artisans and protectionism: a study of popular economic nationalism.
  • John McGrath, Mary Immaculate College

 

• ‘Closing Cowtown’ – The demise of the Dublin Cattle Market.
  • Declan O’Brien, Mary Immaculate College

 

(E5) Anglo-Irish Relations in the Post-Independence period

Chair: Dr. Séan Ó Duibhir

• ‘A bit of news, which you may, or may not, care to use’: the influence of the Beaverbrook-Healy relationship on the construction of Ireland in the British press post-independence.
  • Elspeth Payne, Trinity College Dublin

 

• ‘Anglo-Irish Relations during The Falkland’s War of 1982.’
  • Fiona McKelvey, University of Ulster

 

• “A peace of sorts”: Changing expectations in Northern Ireland after the Belfast Agreement, 1998-2007.
  • Eamonn McNamara, Australian National University

Aaaannnnnnd…..That’s a Wrap

Ladies and gentlemen, all good things must come to a close and it is with great happiness that I can tell you that the Call for Papers has closed. The deadline has also elapsed for the submission of papers for the Galway County Council Prizes, the James Lydon Memorial Prize for Medieval History and the Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh Memorial Prize for the History of Medicine and Society.

Prof. James F. Lydon

Dr. Margaret ÓhÓgartaigh

The conference has been fully planned and organised at this stage. Lunch will take place in the nearby College Bar, a 300m walk.

College Bar

Tea & Coffee Breaks will take place in the Arts Millennium Building (AMB) ground floor foyer. The panels will be held in the adjacent tutorial rooms (each can seat 30 participants) in the Arts Millennium Building. The rooms open directly out on to the foyer, meaning it will take less than a minute to reach the lovely tea! The workshop will also take place in the AMB, in the Ó Tnuthail Theatre, accessed via the stairs in the atrium of the AMB and also via the rear exit on the ground floor of the AMB.

 

Hardiman Research Building

The Launch on Friday evening will take place in the Moore Institute rooms, on the ground floor of the Hardiman Research Building (HRB). The HRB is directly across from the AMB and you can access the building by the Main Library door, then walk through the foyer, past the large information screen and turn right. The College Bar will also host the History Quiz and again finger food will be served.

After-Dinner Speaker: Prof. Nicholas Canny

Prof. Nicholas Canny

 

The 66th Conference of the Irish History Students’ Association is delighted to announce that Professor Nicholas Canny has agreed to deliver the After-Dinner speech to the Conference Dinner, in the Harbour Hotel, Galway.

Prof. Daniel Bradly, Prof. Tony Kavanagh, Prof. Nicholas Canny (President, RIA), Prof. Damien McManus, Prof. Marina Lynch, Prof. David Taylor and Prof. Kevin Bourke. Photo TCD

 

Professor Emeritus Canny, author of 9 books and over 70 published papers, is an alumnus of University College Galway and is a native of Clifden, in West Galway. After graduating from UCG, Nicholas took his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania, USA, and also studied at the Institute for Historical Research in London.

He was in 1995, elected member of the Academia Europaea, in 2005 as a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, and in 2007 as a Member of the American Philosophical Society.

http://www.dri.ie

Nicholas has served as Vice-President of Research at NUI Galway (2005-2008), President of the Royal Irish Academy (2008-2011) and he was the Established Chair in Galway from 1979-2009. He was also the Funding Director of the university’s Moore Institute from 2000-2011. At present Nicholas is serving with the European Research Council. His areas of interest include Early Modern Irish History, Colonialism and Migration.

Nicholas Canny [misspelled Kenny] on left c.1984

Nicholas is also a former Auditor of An Cumann Staire (1963-1964) and as a former IUHSA rep (1964-1965). When the IHSA came to Galway during his tenure, he organised the IHSA conference. He has also served as President of the IHSA.

We are sure that this speech will be the highlight of the evening’s events and not to be missed!

‘Call for Papers’ extended to 19 January 2016

The Irish History Students’ Association is pleased to announce that due to an increased interest, the Call for Papers for its Annual Conference, which will take place in NUI Galway from 19–21 February 2016, has been extended until 19 January 2016.

Proposals are invited for papers (in English or Irish) from both undergraduates and postgraduates in Ireland, on any historical topic or period and from those studying Irish history abroad. Abstracts of no more than 250 words for 20 minute research papers (approx. 2,500–3,000 words in length) should be submitted, along with a short personal biography of no more than 100 words.

Poster presentations are also invited. Posters should be A0 in size and may encompass any style or theme, similar to the criteria for written papers. Presenters should be prepared to speak for up to 10 minutes regarding their posters, with or without an accompanying short paper. Further details will be provided on request by emailing ihsa2016@gmail.com

As usual there is no specific conference theme. However there are also four conference specific prizes on offer for the History of Galway during the Revolutionary Decade 1913-1923, the Heritage of Galway, the James Lydon Memorial Prize for Medieval History and the Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh Prize for the History of Medicine and Society. Further details can be found at www.ihsa2016.wordpress.com

 

All proposals (for those entering both prize and non-prize papers) should be submitted by email to ihsa2016@gmail.com no later than Tuesday 19 January, 2016. Abstracts and biographies should be submitted in the form of a word document attached to the email and should include: Full Name, Institutional Affiliation (if any), and Paper/Poster Title.

For more information please see:

www.ihsa2016.wordpress.com

https://www.facebook.com/groups/59725016016/

Conference Workshop: ‘Funding Opportunities for Historical Research’

The organising committee of IHSA 2016 are delighted to announce that the conference will play host to a workshop on ‘Funding Opportunities for Historical Research.’ The workshop will take the format of a panel discussion, chaired by the eminently capable and esteemed Professor Dan Carey, of the Moore Institute, NUI Galway. Panelists will include Professor Marie-Louise Coolahan, NUI Galway, Dr. Sarah-Anne Buckley, NUI Galway and a representative from the NUI Galway Research Office.

Dan Carey

Prof. Carey, prior to assuming the mantle of Director of the Moore Institute (NUIG’s Humanities and Social Sciences Research hub) has a long record of research in his own fields of English literature in the early modern period, relationship between travel and natural history, intellectual history including Locke, the Scottish Enlightenment and philosophies of human nature, the history and philosophy of money in the Enlightenment.

He is an alum of of McGill University, Trinity College Dublin, and Oxford University. His book on Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson: Contesting Diversity in the Enlightenment and Beyond appeared with Cambridge University Press in 2006. He has previously been awarded a Senior Research Fellowship by the Irish Research Council for Humanities & Social Sciences for his project: ‘A Critical Edition of Richard Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations (1598-1600).’

 

Marie-Louise Coolahan

 

Prof. Coolahan is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin (BA 1994), Oxford University (MPhil 1996), and Nottingham Trent University (PhD 2000). Previously she has received a doctoral bursary to work with the AHRB-funded Perdita Project (researching sixteenth-seventeenth century women’s manuscript compilations.

She has been awarded a research fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C., and elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK) in 2012. Recently, she secured a European Research Council Consolidator Grant (Principal Investigator) for her project, RECIRC: The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550-1700 (July 2014-June 2019).

 

 

Sarah-Anne Buckley

Dr. Buckley works in the Department of History, NUI Galway. Her research interests include the history of child welfare/child protection, gender history, history of family and the history of medicine. She has published on the history of the Haematology Association of Ireland, The Cruelty Man: Child Welfare, the NSPCC and the State in Ireland, 1889-1956.

Recently she co-edited a volume on gender in Ireland with Dr Rebecca Barr and Dr Laura Kelly which was published in 2015. In 2015 she was awarded a Charlemont Scholarship for research on Irish foundlings in London.

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