Culture and Politics in Ireland and the British Empire

Culture and Politics in

Ireland and the British Empire

A one-day workshop – part of the Texts, Contexts, Cultures research programme

Supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Moore Institute Seminar Room, NUI, Galway

Friday 14 May 2010, 9.30am – 6pm

9.30am-11am – Session 1 – Chair: Prof. GearÌ_id ÌÒ Tuathaigh (NUI, G)

Dr Philip Ollerenshaw (University of the West of England) – ‰Û÷Politics and Conflict in Northern Ireland, 1935-50′

Ian Kenneally (NUI,G) – ‘Truce to Treaty: Irish journalists and the peace process of 1920-21’

Tea/Coffee

11.15am-1.15pm – Session 2 – Chair: Prof. Nicholas Allen (NUI, G)

John Towler (GMIT) – ‰Û÷Mapping Galway’s mid-Seventeenth-Century Settlement Morphology’

Dr Donal Lowry (Oxford Brookes University) – ‰Û÷Irish Catholics in the British Empire’

Patricia Bergin (NUI,G) – ‰Û÷Education and the Open Competitive Examination System: Irish Civil Servants in India, 1855-1914′

Lunch

2.15pm-3.45pm – Session 3 – Chair: Dr. Mary Harris (NUI, G)

Philip Legg (University of the West of England) – ‰Û÷The Land War in King’s County, 1879-1882′

å_å_å_å_å_å_å_å_å_å_å_James O’Donnell (NUI,G) – ‰Û÷”A brave and valiant nation combating against a power by whose heel she herself has been crushed”: Irish news gathering and editorial comment on the South African War (1899-1902) – a case study of Co. Clare newspapers.’

Tea/Coffee

4-6pm – Session 4 – Chair: Dr Mark McCarthy (GMIT)

Dr Jeff Dann (NUI,G) – ‰Û÷Sport and Hegemony in the British Empire’

Dr Kent Fedorowich (University of the West of England) – ‰Û÷Family Matters? The Dominion High Commissioners in Wartime Britain, 1938-42′

Alan Lyons (NUI,G) – ‰Û÷Foreign Office attitudes towards the Arabs of Palestine’

Further Information: Dr. Simon J. Potter (NUIG) simon.potter@nuigalway.ie