From: McNamara Robert <[email protected]> Subject: Churchills and Ireland Conference Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 19:21:02 -0400
Conference announcement The Churchills and Ireland An international conference at the University of Ulster Belfast Campus on 18/19 June 2009 Final Programme Thursday 18th June 2009- 1400 Conference Registration 1445 Opening Remarks Panel A The Early Churchills and Ireland 1. Coleman A. Dennehy (NUI Maynooth) Sir Winston Churchill (1620-88) in Restoration Ireland. 2. John Cronin (European University Institute Florence) The first independent command of the future military leader: Marlborough and the Williamite campaign in Cork, 1690. 3. Dr Thomas Byrne, (NUI Maynooth) Writing and fighting the Churchills: strange and surprising connections between the Churchills, the Hookes and Ireland. 1800 Keynote Speaker Professor Eunan O'Halpin (Trinity College Dublin) '".. a beastly people with a beastly religion": Churchill, India and Ireland during the Second World War' Wine Reception to follow Friday 19th June 2009 (Morning) 1. Professor Catherine Shannon, (Professor of History Emerita, Westfield State College, Westfield, MA,) Lord Randolph Churchill, Ulster and the Orange Card 2. Michael McMenamin ( Churchill biographer and Contributing Editor for Finest Hour, journal of the Churchill Centre) The untold story of how Churchill's views on political economy, oratory and Ireland were influenced by his Irish-American mentor Bourke Cockran. 1100 Tea / Coffee 1130 - 1300 Panel C 1. Dr Ian Chambers, Murdoch University, Western Australia Winston Churchill and Irish Home Rule to 1914 2. David Freeman, Ph.D. Department of History California State University, Fullerton: The Thirty Year Relationship between Winston Churchill and Eamon de Valera Friday 19th June (Afternoon) 1430 to 1600 Panel D 1. Dr. Kevin Matthews (George Mason University Virginia), Churchill & Partition 2. Robert McNamara (Ulster) Churchillian History and Ireland 3. Dr Ivan Gibbons: Senior Lecturer in Irish Studies Department St Mary's University College, Strawberry Hill, London: "Re-occupying the Free State? -Winston Churchill as Colonial Secretary 1922". 1645 Keynote 2. Charles Lysaght (Writer and Barrister at law) Churchill & Brendan Bracken 1800 Keynote 3 Professor Keith Jeffery (Queens University Belfast) Winston Churchill, Secretary of State for War and Security Policy in Ireland during the Irish Troubles Further info is available from: http://www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/schools/history_intern/ or contact: Dr Robert McNamara, Room C017, School of History and International Affairs, University of Ulster, Coleraine campus, Cromore Road, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, BT52 1SA, +44 (0)28 70324007 The conference fee is £30 or £15 for Students/ OAPs/ Unwaged. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ChurchillChat?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
