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.
Accommodation
The Irish History Students Association, 66th 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
Rate: €260 (bed & breakfast, single)/€280 (bed & breakfast, twin /double)
Bed & Breakfasts/ Guesthouses
Hostels
Helpful sites to search for deals on accommodation:
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
(A2) Twentieth-Century Philosophical, Logical and Cultural Approaches
Chair: Dr. Tomás Finn
(A3) Race in the Americas from the Colonies to the Civil War
Chair: Dr. Enrico Dal Lago
(A4) Shades of Roman Catholicism in Ireland, 1844-1950
Chair: Dr. Roisín Healy
(A5) Nineteenth-Century Irish Nationalism
Chair: Dr. Carmel Connolly
Round B 10:35-11:50
(B1) Warfighting as an aid to Civil Governance.
Chair: Dr. Pádraig Lenihan
(B2) A Postmodern History of Human Rights and Terrorism
Chair: Dr. Kevin O’Sullivan
(B3) The Evolution of Warfare during Irish Revolution, 1916-1923
Chair: Dr. Conor McNamara
(B4) Re-evaluating Education: Irish and American examples
Chair: Dr. Jackie Uí Chionna
(B5) Changes in Irish Political Landscape, 1913-1923
Chair: Dr. Joe Regan
Round C 12:10-13:25
(C1) ‘Mythology and Máthair Chíche’ – Revisiting Old-Irish Texts and Stories
Chair: Dr. Chris Doyle
(C2) Children and Social culture; Ideas of Youth.
Chair: Dr. Sarah-Anne Buckley
(C3) Complexities of the Anglo-Irish Interdependency
Chair: Dr. Andrew Holmes
(C4) ‘Fight for Ireland and no other land’: Revolutionary Labour History
Chair: Dr. John Cunningham
(C5) The Great War Generation, 1890-1924
Chair: Dr. Kyle Hughes
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
(D2) Gender, Class & Conflict
Chair: Dr. Paul O’Brien
(D3) Histories of Healthcare
Chair: Dr. Ciarán McCabe
(D4) Religious Communities in the Nineteenth-Century
Chair: Dr. Alison Forrestal
(D5) Irish Finance and Taxation, Pre and Post-Independence, 1916-1931
Chair: TBC
(D6) Intergenerational effects of war
Chair: Dr. Cathal Smith
Round E 17:10-18:25
(E1) Politics and Power in Tudor Ireland
Chair: Prof. Steven Ellis
(E2) The Lives of Ulster Women, 1890-1930
Chair: Dr. Caitriona Clear
(E3) History from Outside: Fringe histories during the Irish Revolution
Chair: Dr. Mary Harris
(E4) The changing face of the Irish Economy
Chair: Prof. Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh
(E5) Anglo-Irish Relations in the Post-Independence period
Chair: Dr. Séan Ó Duibhir
IHSA 2016, NUI Galway are proud to announce that Red Bull have kindly agreed to provide part sponsorship to Galway’s hosting of the 2016 conference.
Dear Colleagues, the organising committee of the Irish History Students’ Association, Annual Conference for Galway 2016 are pleased to announce that in addition to the prizes being offered by the IHSA, the Galway organising committee have secured additional external sponsorship from Cambridge Scholars Publishing for two additional, once-off, prizes for 2016.
Students are sometimes asked to think about which figure from history they would most like to invite to a dinner party. Dr. Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh, nee Whelan, has to be up there with the absolute best. A native of Killaloe, Co. Clare, Margaret first came to Galway in 1985, where she threw herself into An Cumann Staire, serving in a multitude of offices, including chair of the IHSA. She was also quite an astute businesswoman, boosting sales of the Cumann’s Journal Stair with a free pint of Guinness! But there was also a serious and earnest side to Margaret. She was tireless in her research, even working on her latest book while she was unwell. She helped open new avenues of historical research into areas which this prize hopes to broadly emulate for a new generation of scholars to take up her mantle. With her intrepid zeal for life and for her work and family, we are proud to be associated with and to be able to offer this prize in her memory.
The prize will be awarded to the best paper in any one (or multiple) category listed on the following sheet. They will be independently judged PRIOR to being given, which means that all interested parties must pre-submit their paper (or latest working draft), no later than the 19th January 2016, i.e. one calendar month before the conference.
Further details are listed below on each particular prize. The adjudicator’s decision is final and no discussion whatsoever will be entered into. Prizes will be awarded at the Conference Dinner (Harbour Hotel, Galway, 20 February, 8pm). All entrants must attend the conference AND deliver their papers. Failure to attend and/or speak is grounds for disqualification.
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Dr. Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh memorial Prize
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Name: Katya Radovanova
Institution: Technische Universität Dresden
Course: British and American Studies and Art History, B.A.
Age: 26
Most recent IHSA Paper: The Native American Fight for Sovereignty and Self-Determination: The Period of Red Power
Was 2015 your first IHSA Conference? First IHSA & first time presenting at a conference
What attracted you to the IHSA Conferences? I’ve heard legendary stories about the previous IHSA conferences. I was also a committee member of An Cumann Staire (NUIG), so I thought participating would be a great opportunity to meet other like-minded people from all over Ireland, Britain, and the continent.
Best memory of the conferences? The second my panel was over was the best moment of the conference. I enjoyed presenting but since it was my very first conference, I was really afraid that I won’t be able to answer a question or, even worse, that I’ll say something stupid. The second my panel was over, I could finally relax and fully enjoy the rest of the conference and Limerick.
Worst memory of the conferences? Getting the flu and missing out on a great night out in town. It was so bad even hot whiskeys couldn’t help me.
What are you looking forward to most about Galway 2016? I am looking forward to a weekend of fascinating papers, new people, and a whole lot of craic. I have nothing against Limerick, but Galway is the Capital of Craic, so I have really high expectations of IHSA 2016! *no pressure, guys!*
Anything else you’d like to add? Sin é.
Do you remember that song from the 1965, ‘California Dreamin [on a Winter’s Day]’, by The Mama’s & The Papas? It was a great hit at the time and has shown true resilience over the intervening decades. As a matter of fact I had started to write this entry in a very different fashion and he lyric entered my head and I had to listen to it….and then the entire timbre of the article changed before my eyes! Anyway I digress, but seriously, please take a listen to some great 60’s counter-culture! California Dreamin. I have a link and although tentative, I think its relevant.
As a PhD student (final year, thank the gods!), take it from me; money does not fall from the sky like autumnal leaves. Even as the aforementioned song describes “All the leaves are brown/And the Sky is grey”, one must marvel at the metaphorical sight of all those fivers and tenners slowly spiralling down to form a blanket on the ground. Wouldn’t it be a great thing, if the simple things in life were, if not free, then at least valued and funded appropriately?
As a conference organiser seeking funding, I can tell you money does most definitely not fall in such a fashion! But yet again at CAO time we have a talking head pop up to tell us about this great knowledge economy we have here and how our third level institutions are so well funded, etc, etc. We as anyone in academia knows, they’re not. I heard from a colleague a few years back that a leading Irish Third Level department had to sell some of their PHOTOCOPIERS to make ends meet after a budgetary shortfall.
The Royal Irish Academy (hat tip for kudos), have come out with a sensible position/advice paper aimed toward central government and perhaps as a broader conversation starter also in the Irish Third Level sector regarding not just the perennially raw topic of funding, but also the more pressing topic of student funding. We all remember the terrible hardship caused in 2012/2013/2014 by the disastrous SUSI website for online grants “processing.” Part-time (and personally I have MASSIVE issues with that misleading and pejorative term) students are being persecuted by the Irish education system and successive administrations for not being good little drones and entering into courses in the desire full-time fashion with other Secondary School graduates.
Grants are being withheld from people who, lets face it here, are trying to better themselves. Professor Mary Daly succinctly presents the case of the
“…bank official working full-time on €25,000 a year is being charged fees to study in the evenings, while the child of the bank’s CEO is entitled to the free fees scheme to study during the day?”
The Higher Education Authority has reported a significant drop of 9% of students embarking on a PhD and a 2% drop in those engaging with 3rd Level as a Mature Student in recent years. With all the Brouhaha (yes, I dropped the B-Bomb!) in recent years about the need for ‘re-training’ and ‘internships’, it should come as a significant surprise that during the same period Postgraduate students have had their access to maintenance grants significantly undermined by SUSI and the Irish government, the body pushing this great ‘knowledge economy.’
Now in ‘post-crisis’ Ireland (another massive bone of contention btw), with everything rising but the dead, students are faced with increased accommodation costs, not only in Dublin, but also throughout the country as a whole. So people will just commute from home or a cheaper place to live? Also on the rise is petrol/diesel, parking, public transportation fares. Fees are also continually and incrementally rising, with increases being used to offset declining central government funding. Those claiming that grants are quite generous are living in cloud cuckoo land; wages rose during the Great War also, but inflation effectively destroyed those paltry increases! Free Education, isn’t, basically.
There’s a massive disconnect between what the government want (and not just this one wither, in case I’m accused of Fine Gael/Labour bashing…though Ruairí Quinn, the former ‘Hypocrite-in-Chief’, did their credibility few favours) and what they’re willing to invest in. Perhaps as the RIA suggests a new model of student support should be entered into? I’m not blind to the needs of universities or IT’s to investment and upgrading of facilities and infrastructure, but something has to give here; many have an aging (and expensive) building stock, which were expanded during the 1960’s and 70’s and need modernising. And its probably going to be parents and students who will have to give in. A model which is used at the national and international level might be worth considering; a bond issue. If colleges were to issue a long term bond, which would accrue with profits generated over a thirty year period, it might provide for some financial stability and guaranteed income. Some profits from these campus based start-ups and spin-offs we hear so much about, could be channelled into this area, etc.
As a conclusion, we as a Third Level community must acknowledge that the system is at present not effective. it is creaking along and certainly not operating at the peak efficiency, which is desired. Unfortunately, one must wait and see are there any in the sector, especially the national parliament, who posses the ability to engineer and herald such dramatic and much needed change.
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