‘Reduced Service’ Sat Jun 18, 2022 11:37 | Anti-Empire
Inconvenient Questions for the “Specia... Wed Jun 15, 2022 16:32 | Anti-Empire
Who Dares Apply Anti-Interventionist Ana... Tue Jun 14, 2022 11:15 | Anti-Empire
Kiev Puts Its Military Deaths at 10,000 ... Mon Jun 13, 2022 05:58 | Anti-Empire
Rosgvard Wasn’t Told They’d Be Going... Sun Jun 12, 2022 14:24 | Rolo Slavsky Anti-Empire >>
A Blog About Human Rights
UN human rights chief calls for priority action ahead of climate summit Sat Oct 30, 2021 17:18 | Human Rights
5 Year Anniversary Of Kem Ley?s Death Sun Jul 11, 2021 12:34 | Human Rights
Poor Living Conditions for Migrants in Southern Italy Mon Jan 18, 2021 10:14 | Human Rights
Right to Water Mon Aug 03, 2020 19:13 | Human Rights
Human Rights Fri Mar 20, 2020 16:33 | Human Rights Human Rights in Ireland >>
Boris on the Brink: Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid Quit Government Tue Jul 05, 2022 19:03 | Will Jones Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Sajid Javid have both quit the Government this evening, saying we "cannot continue like this", bringing Boris Johnson's premiership to the brink of implosion.
The post Boris on the Brink: Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid Quit Government appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Financial Times Censors Criticism of Vaccine Article Tue Jul 05, 2022 18:30 | Toby Young The most liked and most commented upon comment below a Financial Times article about Covid vaccines has been removed on the grounds that it "violated our community standards". We have reprinted it in full.
The post Financial Times Censors Criticism of Vaccine Article appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
President of Brazil Says He Regrets Removing Liability From Pharmaceutical Companies for Vaccine Sid... Tue Jul 05, 2022 16:40 | Will Jones Brazil President Jair Bolsanaro has said he regrets removing liability from pharmaceutical companies for vaccine side-effects and is "sorry for all the deaths" as he confirms he is not vaccinated.
The post President of Brazil Says He Regrets Removing Liability From Pharmaceutical Companies for Vaccine Side-Effects and is “Sorry for All the Deaths” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Why Does the BBC Censor Content That Offends Muslims, But Not Christians or Hindus? Tue Jul 05, 2022 15:37 | Anonymous When Hindus are offended, the BBC describes what's offended them. When Christians are offended it does the same. But when Muslims are offended, it doesn't and the reader is left in the dark. Why the double standard?
The post Why Does the BBC Censor Content That Offends Muslims, But Not Christians or Hindus? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Hospitals Bring Back Masks and Social Distancing as Covid Admissions Surge ? But TWO THIRDS Are in H... Tue Jul 05, 2022 10:20 | Will Jones Hospitals have brought back face masks and social distancing following a recent surge in Covid infections and hospitalisations, despite two thirds of Covid admissions being treated primarily for something else.
The post Hospitals Bring Back Masks and Social Distancing as Covid Admissions Surge ? But TWO THIRDS Are in Hospital For Something Else appeared first on The Daily Sceptic. Lockdown Skeptics >>
Voltaire, international edition
The agony of the West, by Thierry Meyssan Tue Jul 05, 2022 08:30 | en
According to Sergei Shoigu, Ukraine suffered considerable losses in Luhansk Tue Jul 05, 2022 05:47 | en
Poland resurrects issue of WWII damage Mon Jul 04, 2022 07:00 | en
Russia takes on Big Pharma Sun Jul 03, 2022 10:48 | en
Russian army buys specimens of advanced Western armament Sun Jul 03, 2022 10:36 | en Voltaire Network >>
|
Galway - Event Notice Thursday January 01 1970 History of labour and class in Ireland -Thurs 21st and Fri 22nd Nov
galway |
history and heritage |
event notice
Monday November 11, 2013 16:36 by John Cunningham - Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour & Class

Major conference; free registration
Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour & Class
Inaugural conference
At James Hardiman library (new extension)
NUI Galway
21-22 November 2013
I'm posting the full programme below. It's rather long, I'm afraid Round One: THURSDAY 21 NOVEMBER, 9.00 – 10.30
Panel 1: Irish working life and politics: (i) Primitive rebels
Gary Hussey (NUI Galway), ‘Agrarian secret societies and a moral economy: the case of the Threshers’
Maura Cronin (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick) ‘Sawyers and vitriol-throwing in 1830s Cork’
John Cunningham (NUI Galway), ‘The working class revolt of September 1846’
Panel 2: Migrants and transnational labour
Kathy Powell (NUI Galway), ‘Mobile labour and violence’
Eilis Ward (NUI Galway), ‘Migrants or Victims? Debating Prostitution Law Reform in Ireland’
Margaret Brehony (NUI Galway), ‘Free Labour and Whitening the Nation: Irish Migrants in Colonial Cuba’
Panel 3: Workers’ art
James Curry (NUI Galway), ‘“An inspiration to all who gaze upon it?” The James Larkin monument on Dublin’s O’Connell Street’
Katy Milligan (TCD), ‘“Artist of the workers”: poverty and politics in the art of Harry Kernoff’
Jean Walker (NUI Maynooth), ‘“Plain and fancy workers”: women knitters and identity in Ireland’s nineteenth and twentieth century’
Round Two: THURSDAY 21 NOVEMBER, 10.50 – 12.20:
Panel 1: Irish working life and politics: (ii) c. 1850-1900
Laurence Marley, (NUI Galway), 'Georgeite radicals in late nineteenth-century Belfast'
John McGrath (MIC), ‘Organised labour in 19th century Limerick: violence and the struggle for legitimacy’
Brian Casey (Clonfert archivist), ‘Matt Harris and the cause of labourers during the Land War’
Panel 2: Causes and Campaigns in the Roaring Twenties
Niall Whelehan (University of Edinburgh), ‘Sacco and Vanzetti and Ireland’
Mark Phelan (NUI Galway), ‘“Strike breaking, union breaking, intolerance and bigotry”: Irish labour and Italian Fascism in the 1920s’
Gerard Watts (NUI Galway), ‘The battle for Liberty Hall, 1923-24’
Panel 3: Mobility and the intelligentsia
Tomás Finn (NUI Galway), ‘The influence of intellectuals in Ireland, 1940-80’
Mary Marmion (UCD), ‘From the land of bulrush and bog to the garden party at the Palace: The role of women in the emerging middle class, 1850-1970’
James O’Donnell (NUI Galway), ‘A Class of News: an all-Ireland managerial class in Irish newspapers c.1912-1939’
Round Three: THURSDAY 21 NOVEMBER, 1.30 – 3.00
Panel 1: Irish working life and politics: (iii) 1900-1950
Donal O'Drisceoil (UCC), ‘Sex & socialism: the class politics of immorality in early 20th century Ireland’
Niamh Puirséil , 'The Labourers' Party: class & politics in early 20th century'
Adrian Grant (Univ. Ulster), 'Radicals: the Irish working class, republicanism and the radical left, c.1900-1939'
Panel 2: Youth, class, and culture
Donal Fallon (UCD), ‘“Quick witted urchins”: Dublin’s newsboys, 1900-25’
Jonathon Hannon (NUI Galway), ‘Class, culture and John Cooper Clarke'
Julie McGrath (MIC), ‘Sir Edward De Vere and William O’Brien’
Paddy McMenamin, (NUI Galway), ‘What would James Connolly have made of it all'? Youth & class in late 1960s Belfast,
Panel 3: Class houses
Thomas Murray (UCD), ‘Ireland’s rebel cities: the untold history of an island’s Housing Action Committees’
Michael Dwyer (UCC), ‘Abandoned by God and the Corporation: The anti-slum campaign in Cork city, 1913-1930’
Padraic Kenna (NUI Galway), Historical overview of the development of the Irish housing system
Round Four: THURSDAY 21 NOVEMBER, 3.15 – 4.40
Panel 1: Biographies
Gerard Madden (NUI Galway), ‘Bishop Browne of Galway and anti-communism, 1937-1976’
John Kehoe (TCD), 'Garda Memoirs: autobiographical writing and occupational identity'
Maeve Casserly (TCD), ‘Rosie Hackett: bridging the divide’
Gerri O’Neill (Mater Dei), ‘The Deportation of James Gralton – de Valera and the 1933 Red Scare’
Panel 2: Religion and class politics
Dan Finn (New Left Review), ‘Irish Republicans and the Protestant working class, 1968-1998’
Tony Varley (NUI Galway), 'Bobby Burke, Christian Socialism and class politics in post-independence Ireland
Matthew Collins (Univ. Ulster), ‘“Scourge of the bigot and Tory”: The life and times of Jack Beattie’
Panel 3: 1913 and all that
Leo Keohane ((NUI Galway), ‘“Labour in Irish History”: a text in support of a Sorel type Syndicalism?’
Leah Hunnewell (TCD), ‘Irish working class struggle & postmillennial rhetoric 1911-16: a transatlantic perspective’
Meredith Meagher (Univ. of Notre Dame), ‘Ireland & American Labour: an international perspective on Lockout’
John O’Donovan (UCC) Canon Sheehan and Connolly: Labour, Nationality and Religion in Ireland 1910 – 1913
Round Five: THURSDAY 21 NOVEMBER, 4.45 – 6.00
Panel 1: Caipitlí as Oileán an Chrapaigh; cumannach as Árainn - Session in association with the Liam & Tom O’Flaherty Society
Seosamh Ó Cuaig (Independent film maker) ‘Tom O’Flaherty’
Jackie Uí Chionna (NUI Galway), ‘Máirtín Mór McDonogh’
Panel 2: Labour and archives
Kieran Hoare, NUI Galway
Catríona Crowe, National Archives of Ireland
Francis Devine, Irish Labour History Society
Panel 3: Class, conflict and amelioration in early nineteenth Ireland
Dominic Haugh (NUI Galway), ‘The origins and legacy of the Ralahine commune, 1831-1833’
Terry Dunne (NUI Maynooth), ‘Class in pre-famine Ireland’
Alan Noonan, ‘“Not the slightest appearance of an outbreak”: labour conflict in the mining regions of Ireland’
Round Six: THURSDAY 21 NOVEMBER, 8.00 – 9.30
Mechanics Institute, The Saothar symposium:
‘Forty years on: where next for the history of the Irish working class.’
Established in 1973, the Irish Labour History Society has published its annual journal Saothar since 1975. This discussion will feature the following speakers who will assess where to for the history of the Irish working class – Mary Jones, Michael Pierse, Francis Devine, Sarah-Anne Buckley and David Convery.
Caitriona Crowe will occupy the chair
Mechanics Institute: book launch of David Convery (ed.) Locked out: a century of Irish working class life
Round Seven: FRIDAY 22 NOVEMBER, 9.00 – 10.30
Panel 1: In dock, pew and street
Gerard Farrell (TCD), ‘Class divisions amongst the “mere Irish” of colonial Ulster’
Hilary Taylor (Yale University), ‘Rethinking lower-class “inarticulacy” in 18th-century Britain: some evidence from the Old Bailey’
Seán Farrell (Northern Illinois Univ.), ‘Beautiful Vision: Christ Church & Anglican children in early Victorian Britain’
Panel 2: The rights of labour
Cathal Smith (NUI Galway), ‘Irish Landlordism, American slavery and ‘”rural subjection”’
Timothy Keane (NUI Galway), ‘Revisiting Chartism in Ireland’
TBC
Panel 3: Sport, labour and class
Daryl Leeworthy (University of Huddersfield), ‘Class, labour migration and the making of commercial ice hockey in inter-war Britain and Ireland’
David Toms (UCC) and Alex Jackson, ‘The miner and the darling of the gods: football, work and migration in inter-war Britain and Ireland’
Brian Ward (NUI Galway), ‘Galway press attitudes towards the working classes in 1912’
Round Eight: FRIDAY 22 NOVEMBER, 10.50 – 12.10
Panel 1: Class and politics in Ireland in 1790s Ireland
Niall Gillespie (TCD), ‘The class dynamics of radical literary political culture,1791-98’
Timothy Murtagh (TCD), ‘Dublin’s journeymen - Hibernia’s sans culottes?’
Ultán Gillen (Teeside University), ‘Class and United Irish ideology’
Panel 2: Collective bargains
Alan Power (TCD), ‘Irish Trade Unionism, centralised bargaining and social justice, 1961-79’
Martin Maguire (Dundalk IT), ‘Confronting state power: civil service trade unions in independent Ireland, 1922-38’
Peter Murray (NUI Maynooth), ‘Adult education and labour movement division in Ireland, 1940s to 1960s’
Audrey Cahill, ‘Child poverty, intergenerational transmission of advantage and basic capital’
Panel 3: Oral History, letters and work
Mary Muldowney (TCD), ‘“Trusting to their honours for justice”: insights into class relations in the Irish railway industry after the introduction of the state old age pension in January 1909’
Liam Cullinane (UCC), ‘Fordism and Ford workers in Ireland, 1917-1932’
Ida Milne (Oral History Network), ‘Working in a newspaper industry: the gendering of internal elites’
Round Nine: FRIDAY 22 NOVEMBER, 12.15. – 1.30
Panel 1: Stage left
Aoife Monks (Birkbeck College, University of London) 'Virtuosity, technique, craft and the immaterials of Performance.'
Charlotte McIvor (NUI Galway) ‘”Take Me Down to Monto, Monto, Monto”: disrupting narratives of economic crisis as states of exception through the experimental Irish community theatre.’
Mark Phelan (Queen’s) ‘Performing class, culture and conflict in Belfast—class politics and labour relations in forgotten figures from the Irish dramatic canon.’
Lionel Pilkington (NUI Galway) ‘1985: Irish theatre and the new spirit of capitalism.’
Panel 2: Sustaining and forming children
Emma O’Toole (NCAD), ‘“Anxious to provide a good nurse”: employing the Irish wet nurse in upper class households in eighteenth-century Ireland’
Geraldine Curtin (NUI Galway), ‘Instilling the habit of labour: children, work and the early Irish reformatories’
Ian Miller (University of Ulster), ‘Undernourished infants and “school-day starvation”: politics, class and childhood feeding, c.1900-1918’
Sinéad Mercier (NUI Galway), ‘The Irish Magdalene Laundry: establishing state and social responsibility in the “disciplinary society”’
Panel 3: Class politics and the Irish revolution – session supported by the MA in Irish Studies, NUIG
Andy Bielenberg (UCC) Protestant emigration during the War of Independence and Civil War’
John Borgonovo, (UCC) ‘Republican civil administration and taxation in the “Munster Republic”, July-August 1922’
Dara Folan (NUI Galway), 'The Gaelic League and the labour movement: unlikely bedfellows?'
Panel 4: Perspectives on class and resistance
Michael Pierse (Queen’s), ‘Emigration, counter-culture and writing the Irish working class’
Paula Geraghty (Trade Union TV), 'The dialectics of resistance: digital media offering new possibilities for interpretation?
Paul Garrett (NUI Galway), ‘Destabilizing classifications: thinking with Ranciere about class and history’
7.30 pm Mechanics Institute: Preliminary workshop for conference participants interested in developing an oral history project on 20th century Galway industries.
FRIDAY 22 NOVEMBER: The tenth and final round
Mechanics Institute, ‘Class, conflict and culture: the songs’,
|