Universities Ireland organised a one-day conference, attended by over 300 people, in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham in Dublin on 23 June, entitled ‘Reflecting on a decade of War and Revolution in Ireland 1912-1923: Historians and Public History’.
The keynote speakers were Professor Jay Winter of Yale University, Professor Diarmaid Ferriter of UCD and Professor Paul Bew of Queen’s University Belfast.
- Keynote speakers at the Historians and Public History Conference: From left to right Professor Diarmaid Ferriter, Professor Jay Winter, Ms Caitriona Crowe, Lord Mayor of Dublin Andrew Montague, Professor Gearóid Ó Tuaithaigh and Professor John Horne.
This will be the first in a series of annual all-Ireland conferences on the 1912-1923 period. The next one is planned for June 2013 with a Labour in Irish history theme.
Further details of the 2012 conference, including podcasts of speeches, are on www.universitiesireland.ie/2012/05/conference/
For further details please contact Patricia McAllister on p.mcallister@qub.ac.uk
