Programme

10-10.15 Coffee & Welcome

10.15-11.45am Panel 1 

Marriage & Spinsterhood (Chair: Rebecca O'Regan)

• Carmel Hannan, 'A social history of intermarriage in Ireland since 1971'

• Claire Dagger, 'Military marriages and relationships in Ireland, 1830-1922'

• Leanne Calvert, ' "he wou’d marry no nody but her who bak’d that bread": food, sex, and the making of marriage in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Ulster'. 

• Mary Matthews, ‘From home-worker to career-woman: middle class spinsters in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ireland’

11.45-1.15pm Panel 2

Gender & Agency (Chair: Naomi Rice)

• Mark Lloyd, 'Finding Constance’

• Julien S. de Mello, ‘Healing roots: women and traditional medicine in nineteenth-century Ireland’

• Rebecca O'Regan, ‘Lady Augusta Dunraven and the local economy in County Limerick, 1850-1860’

• Anna-Maria Hajba, ‘Building Faith: Caroline Wyndham Quin's Architectural Legacy’

1.15-1.45pm Lunch

1.45-3pm Panel 3  

Gender & Revolutions (Chair: Leanne Calvert)

• Aislinn Adams, ‘Militant sisters: family, sibling relationships, and the negotiation of gender norms during Irish Revolution 1913-1923’

• Dounia Medjouri, 'Colonial Power and Female Resistance: The Struggle for Liberation’

• Naomi Rice, 'The connection between Republicanism and masculinity during the Troubles in the North of Ireland'

• Shannon Freegrove, ''The Irish Bachelor: Sexuality, Celibacy, and Catholicism in early Twentieth Century Ireland'

3-3.30pm Let's Talk Postgrad Panel

• Chair: Rebecca O'Regan

• Panellists: Mark Lloyd, Naomi Rice, Robert Collins, Una Buckley

3.45pm End & Thank-you

PG students will be hosting a 'Let's Talk Panel'. Add your questions here