University Collage Cork Friday 29th and Saturday 30th January 2016
The event is open to the public, is free to all who wish to attend, and there is no need either to pre-book or to attend all of the programme.
| Friday 29th | Kane Building, Lecture Theatre G18 |
| 2.20pm | Opening remarks
Gabriel Doherty, School of History, University College Cork
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| Session One | |
| 2.30pm | The politics of erasure: Lehmann James Oppenheimer and the Honan Chapel, Cork
James Cronin, School of History, University College Cork |
| 2.55pm | Constructing Constance: Art and Performativity in the Fashioning of Constance de Markiewicz
Fionna Barber, Manchester School of Art |
| 3.20pm | Revisiting Three Historical Paintings by Jack B. Yeats
Patricia Curtin-Kelly, Freelance art historian
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| 3.45pm | Coffee break
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| Session Two | |
| 4.10pm | Pirate Poetry
Morgan Daniels, Queen Mary, University of London/Arcadia University, London Centre |
| 4.35pm | ‘The nation is ashamed of its past’: Patrick Pearse and the quest for the ‘authentic Ireland’
Conor MacNamara, National University of Ireland Galway
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| 11.15am | Session ends
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| Official Opening | |
| Aula Maxima | |
| 7.45pm | Welcoming address
David Ryan, Chair, School of History, University College Cork University College Cork |
| 8.00pm | ‘Where folk and art meet’: Carolan, Ó Riada, and the music of cultural mediation
Micheál Ó Suilleabháin, Professor of Music, University of Limerick |
| Saturday 30th | Boole I lecture theatre |
| 9.45am | A plaque on both your houses: monuments of the Easter Rising
Ray Bateson, author
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| 10.45am | Coffee break
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| 11.00am | Theatre of the revolution
Maria Young, Theatre producer
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| 12.00pm | A standing army of poets
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, emeritus Professor of English, Trinity College Dublin
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| 1.00pm | Lunch break
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| 2.15pm | The Rising on film
Kevin Rockett, Associate Professor in Film Studies, Trinity College, Dublin
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| 3.15pm | Coffee Break
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| 3.30pm | Literature and the Rising
Irina Ruppo Malone, Department of English, National University of Ireland, Galway
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| 4.40pm | Representing the Rising
Robert Ballagh, artist
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| 5.40pm | Closing remarks |
Conference organised by the School of History University College Cork. For further information please telephone 021-4902783. Conference web http://www.ucc.ie/en/history/conferences/