Irish Historiographies Symposium

Irish Historiographies - A Symposium
Lock Keeper’s Graduate Centre, Queen Mary, University of London

Saturday 12 May 2007

10:00 Registration and Coffee
10:30 Prof. Hugh Kearney, (Amundson Professor of British History Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh): ‘In Search of Irish History’
11:30 Break
11.45 Prof. Ciaran Brady (Dept. of History, TCD):
‘Retarded Developments: Academic Professionalisation and the Roots of Revisionism, 1848 – 1938’
12:45 LUNCH
2:00 Dr Graham Dawson (Faculty of Arts and Architecture, University of Brighton):
‘The Intractable Past: Memory, Trauma and the Irish Troubles’
3:00 Break
3:15 Prof. Angela Bourke (UCD, and Parnell Fellow, Cambridge): ‘Inadvertent Histories’
4:15 Professor Joseph Lee (Glucksman Ireland House, NYU): Closing Reflections
5:00 Drinks


Organisers: Dr Ian McBride, Kings College, London ian.mcbride@kcl.ac.uk; Professor Clair Wills, Queen Mary, University of London c.e.wills@qmul.ac.uk

For further information and to register please contact Alistair Daniel, School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London a.daniel@qmul.ac.uk

Supported by: London Irish Studies Seminar, School of Advanced Study; British Association for Irish Studies; School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London; Kings College, London.