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 *