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The Irish Civil War National Conference: live from UCC's Boole 4

The Conference takes place in UCC from June 15-18th.
The Conference takes place in UCC from June 15-18th.

On 15-18 June, University College Cork will host a national conference to mark the centenary of the Irish Civil War. Supported with funding from the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, the four-day conference is one of the key events in the State's Decade of Centenaries Programme for 2022. You can watch a livestream of the sessions in UCC's Boole 4 theatre on Saturday 18 June 2022 here. You can also view a livestream of the Wednesday and Saturday sessions in the Aula Maxima here.

Day 4: Saturday 18 June 2022

Boole 4

Saturday Morning Session 1 | 9:30 - 10:40

Panel 2: Labour

Chair: Dr John Cunningham, (NUIG)

Dr Emmet O'Connor (University Ulster)

Dr Padraig Yeates (SIPTU)

Theresa Moriarty

Dr Niamh Purséil

Saturday Morning Session 2 | 10:50 - 12:10

Panel 4: Diplomacy

Chair: Dr Michael Kennedy (RIA)

Prof Fearghal McGarry (QUB)

Prof Dermot Keogh (UCC)

Prof Bernadette Whelan (University Limerick)

Saturday Afternoon Session 1 | 13:20 - 14:40

Panel 6: Literature

Cancelled

Saturday Afternoon Session 2 | 14:55 - 16:05

Panel 8: Gender

Chair: Prof Lindsey Earner-Byrne (UCC)

Dr Fionnuala Walsh (UCD)

Dr Margaret Ward (QUB)

Prof Catriona Beaumont (London Southbank University)

Prof Sonja Tiernan (University of Otago)

Saturday Afternoon Session 3 | 16:10 - 17:20

Panel 10: Memory

Chair: Dr Heather Laird (UCC)

Prof Diarmaid Ferriter (UCD)

Dr Laura McAtackney (Aarhus University)

Dr Lisa Godson (NCADD)

Prof Gavin Foster (Concordia University)