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Landed estates & Irish society
June 13, 2013 @ 2:00 pm
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Landed estates & Irish society
Moore Institute, NUI Galway
13 – 14 June 2013
(Revised Programme)
Thursday 13 June
2.15 William Smyth (Professor Emeritus, UCC), ‰Û÷Landlordism, Evictions and the Great Famine’
Chair: James Harrold (Arts Officer, Galway City)
3.45. Singular figures of landed background
Pauline Scott (NUI Galway), ‘Agent, tenant, advocate & agitator: Michael Kelly & the Burke & Pollok estates’
Leo Keohane (NUI Galway), ‰Û÷”Quare folk”: the Whites of Whitehall’
Madeline O’Neill (NUI Galway), ‰Û÷Senator Colonel Maurice Moore of Moore Hall’
Chair: Gerard Moran (NUI Maynooth)
7.00. Reception marking Patrick Melvin’s Estates and landed society in Galway (Dublin: de B̼rca, 2012). Speaker: Tadhg Foley.
Introduced by Marie Mannion (Heritage Officer, Co. Galway)
8 pm. Philip Bull (Visiting Fellow, An Foras Feasa, NUI Maynooth & La Trobe University, Melbourne)
‘A nineteenth-century Irish estate: New records for the history of Irish landed estates’
Chair: Noel Wilkins (President Galway Arch. & Hist. Society)
Friday 14 June
10.00. Texts, cultures and contexts: new scholarship.
Joanne McEntee (NUI Galway) ‰Û÷Squires and Solicitors: an important relationship in 19th century Ireland’
Conor Montague (NUI Galway), ‘The Light of Evening, Lissadell’
Laura Vickers (NUI Galway) ‘”A well abused set of men”: The land agent in nineteenth century Ireland’
Chair: John Cunningham (NUI Galway)
2.00. Accessing the estate record.
Marie Boran (NUI Galway), ‰Û÷”Can you help me to find out?” The Landed Estates database, five years on’
Brigid Clesham (NUI Galway), ‘Solicitors’ Collections – an unrecognised source?’
Chair: Adrian Frazier (NUI Galway)
3.00. Class, gender and landed society
Adrian Grant (NUI Galway) ‰Û÷Using landed estate records to better understand the rural Irish worker: some findings from the estates of Connacht and Ulster.’
Maeve O’Riordan (UCC) ‘The social and cultural world of women of the Munster landed class, 1860-1914’
Chair: Laurence Marley (NUI Galway)
4.30. Olwen Purdue (Queen’s, Belfast), ‘”The price of our loyalty”: the Northern Ireland Land Act of 1925’
5.15 Closing remarks from GearÌ_id ÌÒ Tuathaigh (NUI Galway)
Conference organisers: Marie Boran; John Cunningham; Joanne McEntee
Registration free; inquiries to john.cunningham@nuigalway.ie
* Event supported by HEA under PRTLI Cycle 4 *