REMEMBERING 1919 - War, Politics & Sport in Revolutionary Ireland

Presented by Maynooth University Decade of Commemorations Committee in association with the Department of History

Renehan HallMaynooth

Event Details

  • Sat 28 Sep  2019
  • 9.30am - 4.00pm

  • Cost: €20 Registration fee

  • Venue Details
    Renehan Hall

    NUI Maynooth
    Maynooth



Conference Programme is accessible via:  

https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/remembering-1919-war-politics-sport

DOWNLOAD ProgrammeRemembering 1919 Programme

All are welcome to attend.

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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

9.00 Registration (tea/coffee on arrival)

9.30 Welcome

Session 1 Chair: Prof R V Comerford

9.45 Tom Nelson Class tensions and conflicted allegiances in Kildare in 1919

10.15 Terence Dooley 'Sunday last will go down in history as the day of days for Kildare':

The 1919 All-Ireland Final

10.45 Ciaran Reilly - James 'Ginger' Moran (1889-1987): From full-back to IRA leader

11.15 Coffee

Session 2 Chair: Prof Terence Dooley

11.45 Aogán Ó Fearghail - Gaelic Sunday, 1918 and its consequences

12.15 Dónal McAnallen - Northern revolution: The GAA in Ulster in a radical year

12.45 Q&A

1.00-2.00 Lunch in Pugin Hall

Session 3 Chair: Prof Marian Lyons

2.00 Liz Gillis - Soloheadbeg and the IRA Campaign against the RIC

2.30 Brian Hughes  - 'I refused payment': Dáil Éireann local government and rate collection,

1919-22

3.00 Ailbhe Rogers  - 'It was only women who could appreciate the small pin-pricks',

Irish republican women in 1919

3.30 Q&A

ABSTRACTS AND BIOGRAPHIES OF CONTRIBUTORS

Full details are in the Programme:  Remembering 1919 Programme

R V Comerford
Vincent Comerford is a native of Tipperary and a graduate of Maynooth (NUI) and Trinity College Dublin.
He taught history at Maynooth for more than thirty years and was Professor of Modern History from 1989 to 2010.

Terence Dooley
'Sunday last will go down in history as the day of days for Kildare' The 1919 All-Ireland Final
This lecture is about a football match, the 1919 All-Ireland Final in which Kildare defeated Galway.
Professor Terence Dooley is Director of the Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates, History Department, Maynooth University. 

Liz Gillis
Soloheadbeg and the IRA Campaign against the RIC
Historian and author Liz Gillis works as a researcher for the History Show on RTE Radio. She is a lecturer at Champlain College, Dublin, and runs the 'Revolution in Dublin Walking Tours''. She is also the historical consultant for the new Hyatt Centric: The Liberties Hotel, scheduled to open in 2019. 

Brian Hughes

'I refused payment': Dáil Éireann local government and rate collection, 1919–22
One of the more ambitious experiments carried out by the underground Dáil Éireann after its formation in 1919 was its takeover of local government.
Dr Brian Hughes, a graduate of Maynooth University and Trinity College Dublin, is a lecturer in the Department of History at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. 

Marian Lyons
Marian Lyons is Professor of History at Maynooth University and Chair of the University’s Decade of Commemorations Committee. She is joint-editor of The Irish Revolution series (Four Courts Press) and honorary editor of the Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society.

Dónal McAnallen
Northern revolution: The GAA in Ulster in a radical year
Dr Dónal McAnallen works as a Community Engagement Officer for National Museums NI.
He is currently the Irish-language editor of Dúiche Néill, a member of the GAA’s National History Committee, and cultural officer for his local GAA club, An Eaglais.

Tom Nelson
Class tensions and conflicted allegiances in Kildare in 1919
Dr Tom Nelson is a native of Maynooth and is a retired History and English teacher.
In 2007, he completed a PhD thesis on the history of Kildare County Council which was subsequently published as Through Peace and War: Kildare County Council in the Years of Revolution 1899-1926 (2015, supported by Kildare County Council’s decade of commemoration committee).

Aogan O Fearghail
Gaelic Sunday, 1918 and its consequences
Aogan O Fearghail is former President of the GAA, having served from 2015 to 2018. Prior to this, he served at every level of GAA administration. He is a native of Maudabawn, Cootehill, Co. Cavan. 

Ciaran Reilly
James 'Ginger' Moran (1889-1987): From full-back to IRA leader
Dr Ciaran Reilly is an historian of nineteenth - and twentieth-century Ireland based at Maynooth University.

Ailbhe Rogers
'It was only women who could appreciate the small pin-pricks'  - Irish republican women in 1919
Ailbhe Rogers is a PhD candidate at Maynooth University working under the supervision of Prof Terence Dooley. Her thesis is entitled 'Nationalist women in County Louth, 1900-1924'. She has worked as a tour guide at Kilmainham Gaol Museum and as a researcher for Louth and Monaghan County Councils, the Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates at MU, and the Expert Advisory Group on Commemorations. 

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