The British Labour Party & Twentieth-Century Ireland

The British Labour Party

& Twentieth-Century Ireland

Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway

8- 9 March, 2013

Keynote Address: Dr. Kevin McNamara(former Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland)Other Speakers Include: Joan Allen (Univ. of Newcastle) Peter Collins (St. Mary’s, Belfast) Aaron Edwards (Sandhurst Acad.) Ivan Gibbons (St. Mary’s, London) Stephen Howe (Univ. of Bristol) MÌÁirtÌ_n ÌÒ CathÌÁin (UCLan) Emmet O’Connor (Univ. of Ulster) Niall ÌÒ Dochartaigh (NUI Galway) Henry Patterson (Univ. of Ulster)Bob Purdie (Aberdeen University)For further information, contact: Dr. Laurence Marley, History Dept., NUI, GalwayEmail: laurence.marley@nuigalway.ie Tel: (091) 493791

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Friday, 8 March, 2013

9.30 – 9.45: Opening Remarks

9.45 ‰ÛÒ 11.00:Session 1British Labour, Ireland and the Union – Chair: Dr. Mary Harris

Emmet O‰۪Connor (Magee College, University of Ulster)

‰Û÷British Labour, Belfast Labour, and the Third Home Rule Crisis‰۪

Ivan Gibbons (St. Mary‰۪s University College, London)

‰Û÷A Parliamentary Victory: The British Labour Party and Irish Republican Deportees, 1923‰۪

11.00 ‰ÛÒ 11.30: Coffee

11.30 ‰ÛÒ 1300: Session 2: Regional Perspectives – Chair: Dr. Adrian Grant

Joan Allen (University of Newcastle)

‰Û÷Transitional Allegiances and the Role of the Irish Catholic Press in Britain in the early Twentieth-Century‰۪

John Cunningham (National University of Ireland, Galway)

‰Û÷‰ÛÏA Great Believer in the Internationale‰۝: British Labour and Galway , c. 1911-36‰۪

MÌÁirtÌ_n ÌÒ CathÌÁin (University of Central Lancashire)

‰Û÷The Derry and Londonderry Labour parties, 1942-62‰۪

13.00 ‰ÛÒ 14.30:Lunch

14.30 ‰ÛÒ 16.00: Session 3Partition and the Politics of Labour – Chair: Dr. Sarah-Anne Buckley

Peter Collins (St. Mary‰۪s University College, Belfast)

‰Û÷British Labour and Developments in the Immediate Post-War Years‰۪

Bob Purdie (University of Aberdeen)

‰Û÷‰ÛÏWhere the Tories Rule‰۝: Geoffrey Bing MP and Partition, 1945-55‰۪

Aaron Edwards (Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst)

‰Û÷The British Labour Party and the Tragedy of Northern Ireland Labour‰۪

18.30 ‰ÛÒ 19.45:Keynote Address, Harbour Hotel, Galway:

Dr. Kevin McNamara (former Labour Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland)

Chair: Professor GearÌ_id ÌÒ Tuathaigh

Saturday, 9 March, 2013

9.30 ‰ÛÒ 11.00:Session 4British Labour, Ireland and the Wider World – Chair: Dr. Lionel Pilkington

David Shaw (University of Liverpool)

‰Û÷The Labour Party and the Irish in the New Elizabethan Age‰۪

Melinda Sutton (University of Newcastle)

‰Û÷The British Labour Party and Anglo-Irish Relations in the 1980s‰۪

Stephen Howe (University of Bristol)

‰Û÷Some Intellectual Origins of the Labour Left‰۪s Thoughts about Ireland, c. 1979-1997‰۪.

11.00 ‰ÛÒ 11.30: Coffee

11.30 ‰ÛÒ 13.00: Session 5The Northern Ireland Conflit – Chair: Dr. Laurence Marley

Niall ÌÒ Dochartaigh (National University of Ireland, Galway)

‰Û÷Withdrawal on the Table? Labour Party Policy on Northern Ireland, 1974-79‰۪.

Stuart C. Aveyard (Queen‰۪s University Belfast)

‰Û÷The Labour Government and Security Policy in Northern Ireland, 1974-79‰۪

Henry Patterson (Jordanstown, University of Ulster)

‰Û÷New Labour and the Peace Process‰۪

13.00 ‰ÛÒ 13.20: Commentary: GearÌ_id ÌÒ Tuathaigh

13.20: Closing remarks

Conference supported by the following: Moore Institute, the College of Arts and School of Humanities, History Department, Centre for Irish Studies, Community Knowledge Initiative, NUI Galway; Department of Foreign Affairs Reconciliation Fund and by the Irish Labour History Society.