A Peculiar Society? Ireland, 1970s-1990s

Programme

PROGRAMME

‰Û÷A peculiar society’? Ireland, 1970s-1990s

Moore Institute, Hardiman Research Building,National University of Ireland Galway24-25 April 2015

‰Û÷Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century’ (John McGahern)

24 April 201510.30 – Registration

11.15 – Welcome and Introductory Remarks: A Peculiar Society?

11.30 – Parallel Sessions 11a. Urban VoicesErika Hanna (University of Edinburgh)Discovering ghosts in Dublin’s derelict spaces: the Urban Folklore Project, 1979-80

Elizabeth DeYoung (University of Liverpool)Belfast in the 1970s: deindustrialisation, development, and ‰Û÷the Troubles’

Marina NÌ_ DhubhÌÁin (NUI Galway)Performing oral history: some methodological challenges in staging the real

1b. The International ContextCiarÌÁn O’Driscoll (University College Dublin)Accession into troubled waters: Ireland and the Common Fisheries Policy of the EU

Marie-Violaine Louvet (Toulouse 1, Capitole University)The Ireland-Israel Friendship League: Israel supporters in Irish civil society, 1970s-1990s

Gerald Power (Metropolitan University Prague)Irish newspaper reporting on the Falklands War

13.00 – Lunch

13.45 – Parallel Sessions 22a. Managing Political ChangeJohn Mulqueen (Trinity College Dublin)The rhetoric of class politics and the Cold War: from Sinn F̩in to Workers’ Party

TomÌÁs Finn (NUI Galway)The praxis of power: Patrick Lynch and the Irish state

Elaine Byrne (Global Irish Studies Centre)1970s-1990s: an era of delayed accountability. Why?

2b. Theatréine Phillips (Burren College of Art, NUI Galway)Performance art in Ireland: a history

Barry Houlihan (NUI Galway)Citizens, streets and stages: Irish theatre in the 1970s

Patrick Lonergan (NUI Galway)From Rolo to Anglo: advertising at the Abbey Theatre from the 1970s to the 1990s

15.15 – Break

15.45 – Parallel Sessions 33a. MovementsKevin Ryan (NUI Galway)‰Û÷The revolution is us’: art and politics in Ireland, 1974-1993

Connal Parr (University of Oxford)Filling the void left by politics: the Field Day Theatre movement

Kevin O’Sullivan (NUI Galway)Global citizens? Humanitarianism, belonging, and the Dunnes Stores strike, 1984-87

3b. Northern Ireland: The Political ContextSeÌÁn McKillen (University of Limerick)The rise of constitutional nationalism and the fracturing of the Unionist political orthodoxy, 1970-1998

James Greer (Queen’s University, Belfast)Northern Ireland and the 1975 EEC referendum

Stuart Aveyard (Queen’s University, Belfast)Social policy in Northern Ireland and the Labour government, 1974-79

17.15 – Close of Day 1

20.00 – History Ireland Hedge School: Ireland in the 1970sMechanics Institute, Middle Street, GalwayParticipants: Sarah-Anne Buckley, Brian Hanley, Tom Inglis, Mary KennyChair: Tommy Graham

25 April 201509.00 – Parallel Sessions 44a. New FearsBarry Sheppard (Queen’s University, Belfast)Fearing a social explosion? The Church, the media and ‰Û÷satanic cults’ in Ireland

Cian Anthony Manning (University College Cork)Carnsore Point: the birthplace of environmentalism and popular protest in Ireland

Maeve Casserly (National Library of Ireland)Radharc: a television history

4b. Youth and the TroublesGareth Mulvenna (Queen’s University, Belfast)‰Û÷Our boys of tomorrow’: Tartan gangs and Loyalist paramilitarism in early 1970s Belfast

Angela Stephanie Mazzetti (Queen’s University, Belfast)The long-term impact of ‰Û÷growing-up’ during ‰Û÷the Troubles’ on coping behaviours

Paddy McMenamin (Independent Scholar)Armed struggle and the ‰Û÷beautiful game’, Belfast 1970

10.30 – Break

10.45 – Parallel Sessions 55a. MusicM̩abh NÌ_ FhuarthÌÁin (NUI Galway)‰Û÷Lisdoonvarna’: A model of festivity for a ‰Û÷peculiar society’

Verena Commins (NUI Galway)‰Û÷Blurring and erasure’? De-nationalising Irish traditional music practices, 1970s-1990s

SeÌÁn Shanagher (Ballyfermot College of Further Education)Clubbing, dance music and Ireland in the 1990s

5b. Public HistoryDominic Bryan (Queen’s University, Belfast)Parades and the decline of the civic in 1970s Belfast

Margaret O’Callaghan (Queen’s University, Belfast)Commemoration during conflict: commemorating 1916 in 1976

Gillian McIntosh (Queen’s University, Belfast)When is a jubilee not a jubilee: the creation of Ulster ’71

12.15 – Lunch

13.00 – Parallel Sessions 66a. Gender and SexualityNina Holmes (Kingston University, London)Representations of women in Irish government health pamphlets, 1970s-1980s

Orla Egan (University College Cork)Cork’s LGBT community, 1970s to 1990s

6b. Northern Ireland: The View from the SouthGerard Madden (NUI Galway)Responses in the west of Ireland to civil rights protest in Northern Ireland, 1968-72

Brian Hanley (Independent Scholar)‰Û÷Are we trying to create a new Chile here?’ The Sunday World versus the National Coalition

Stephen Kelly (Liverpool Hope University)A peculiar peacemaker: Charles J. Haughey and the early stages of the peace process, 1986-1992

14.30 – Break

15.00 – Parallel Sessions 77a. MulticulturalismMichael Kennedy (Royal Irish Academy)‰Û÷All the Raj’: how the Indian restaurant went mainstream in 1980s and 1990s Ireland

VukaÁin Nedeljkovic (Dublin Institute of Technology)A peculiar society: asylum seekers in Ireland

7b. Culture and the Early TroublesMartin McCleery (Independent Scholar)The evolution of the early Troubles outside of Belfast and Derry

Jonathan Hannon (NUI Galway)Punk and Northern Ireland in the 1970s

DaithÌ_ ÌÒ CorrÌÁin (St Patrick’s College, Dublin City University)‰Û÷Negotiating the non-negotiable’: the Northern Ireland Troubles and the development of inter-church relations in Ireland

16.30 – RoundtableTom Inglis (University College Dublin)Mary KennyGearÌ_id ÌÒ Tuathaigh (NUI Galway)

17.30 – Close of Conference

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Registration: ‰âÂ20 (‰âÂ10 students & unwaged).

For further details, please contact the conference organisers Sarah-Anne Buckley, TomÌÁs Finn, & Kevin O’Sullivan (Discipline of History, National University of Ireland, Galway).

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