1917: aftermath of rebellion - Public Symposium
Join us to hear explained what life in Ireland was like in the aftermath of the 1916 Rising
09.30 Welcome by Professor James Kelly (Head of the School of History & Geography)
09:40 SESSION 1: ORDINARY LIFE IN EXTRAORDINARY TIMES
Dr Ruth McManus (DCU) “Our Herodian City Fathers and their baby-killing tenements”: perspectives on Dublin's housing crisis in 1917
Dr Marnie Hay (DCU) Irish childhood in a time of war and revolution
Dr Daithí Ó Corráin (DCU) ‘The question of compensation is a burning one’: bricks, breadwinners and the bereft
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:40 SESSION 2: THE CHANGING POLITICAL TIDE AT HOME AND ABROAD
Dr Gearóid Barry (NUI Galway) 1917: a year of mutiny and revolt
Dr Conor Mulvagh (UCD) Re-orientating policy: the Irish Party leadership between the Rising and the Irish Convention
Dr Mel Farrell (Maynooth University) The Irish Convention and unionism: the missed opportunity?
12:45-14:00 LUNCH BREAK
14:00 KEYNOTE
Professor Michael Laffan (UCD) From the bullet to the ballot?’ Radical nationalism in 1917
Chair: Professor John Doyle (Executive Dean of Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, DCU)
15:00 SESSION 3: PROTEST AND RESISTANCE
Dr Leeann Lane (DCU) Expanding roles for women: the Irish National Aid and Volunteer Dependants' Fund
Dr Will Murphy (DCU) Challenging the state: the first wave of nationalist hunger strikes, August 1917-March 1918
Professor John Horgan (DCU) The press and protest