Ireland, Europe and the World

Talks Saturday 12 August

Dr Gemma Clark: “Sectarianism” as an Interpretative Framework

Black ’47 Panel Discussion

Dr Charles Read – Famine and the Financial Crisis of 1847

Professor Melissa Fegan: Literature and the Famine

Panel Discussion: Reflecting on the triangular relationship between Ireland, Britain & Continental Europe.

Brendan Simms: ‘From back door to back stop. Britain, Ireland and Europe in historical perspective’.

Thomas O’Connor: ‘Strangers to Citizens: the Irish in Europe before the French Revolution’

Mary Murphy: ‘Europe and the British-Irish Relationship: Past, Present and Future’

Dan Mulhall: Declaring Independence – America 1776, Ireland 1919

Sylvie Kleinman – ‘Framing the Irish Republic 1796-2016’ A revisit of Tone’s exile in France for the Decade of Commemorations

John Horne: ‘At the Crossroads: Ireland, Britain and the International Context, 1919-1923’

Daisy Goodwin – Writing Victoria

Ruth Dudley Edwards – Reflecting on Attitudes in Southern Ireland to Northern Ireland

John Dorney: ‘Florence McCarthy and his Spanish Connections’

John Bruton: In Conversation with Carl Dinnen

Niamh O’Sullivan: Art & the Great Hunger

Eunan O’Halpin: A Catalogue of Errors – the British Government and Ireland in 1918

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