Pop-up lunchtime seminar

Transitions, 1918-1919:

Marking the December 1918 General Election and post-war demobilization  

Chair Mary Harris, panellists Gearóid Barry, John Cunningham, Philip Dine & Cathérine Gagneux.                                                                                                                                                                                                         

Image: Hoffmann, Herbert: Kriegsende, Schlange für Entlassungspapiere, Germany, 1918; source: Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-2007-0007, via Wikimedia Commons.

This panel discussion of the importance of the 1918 General Election in Galway and Ireland will also consider the wider processes of military and social demobilization in the uncertain atmosphere of the Armistice period 1918/19. The first exercise of the parliamentary franchise by women in Britain and Ireland and the rise of new political forces make this a period of transformation just as Europe and its overseas empires transitioned to ‘wars after the War’.

This event also marks the opening of the exhibition,

‘A UNIVERSITY IN WAR AND REVOLUTION, 1913-1919: THE GALWAY EXPERIENCE/OLLSCOIL IN AM COMHRAIC, 1913-1919: COGADH AGUS RÉABHLÓID in the exhibition space of the Hardiman Research Building in December 2018.

ALL WELCOME/FÁILTE ROIMH CHÁCH