From Civil Rights to the Bailout: Social movements, workers agitation, and left-wing activism in Ireland, 1968-2010

Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour & Class,

http://fromcivilrightstothebailout.wordpress.com/

Conference Overview

Friday 19 June

13.00-13.45 Registration

13.45 Welcome address

14.00-15.30 Panel 1: The context of Northern Ireland

15.30-15.45 Break

15.45-17.15 Panel 2: Varieties of Protest

19.30 Mechanics’ Institute, Middle Street: ‰Û÷Civil Rights and Union Rights: Veteran Voices from the West of Ireland’

Saturday 20 June

10.00-11.30 Panel 3: Radical Politics

11.30-11.45 Break

11.45-13.15 Panel 4: Challenging legal and cultural constraints

13.15-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.30 Panel 5: Engaging Beyond Ireland

15.30-15.45 Break

15.45-17.45 Panel 6: Preserving History: Oral History and Archives

CLOSE OF CONFERENCE

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Registration: ‰âÂ5

This will help cover the costs which include coffee, tea and biscuits to be provided at all

breaks, and a lunch of sandwiches to be provided on Saturday. If you would like to attend,

but feel you cannot afford the registration fee, please let us know.

In order to provide for catering, we need an estimate of the number of attendees. If you would

like to attend, please contact David Convery at david.convery@nuigalway.ie and please also

make us aware of any special dietary requirements.

This conference is organised with the generous support of the Discipline of History, NUI

Galway, and the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities & Social Sciences.

For more information, please see the conference website at http://fromcivilrightstothebailout.wordpress.com