The 50th Economic and Social History Society of Ireland Conference takes place at University College Dublin, 17th and 18th November 2023.
50th Economic and Social History Society of Ireland Conference
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Registration: 9.00-9.30
Session 1 (Panels 1, 2 & 3): 9.30-10.50
Panel 1: Provision for Hunger and Poverty in 19th Century Ireland
Humanities Institute H204 (top floor)
Chair: Catherine Cox
Lauren Smyth (Queen’s University Belfast) – Belfast Charitable Society and pauper apprenticeships in the growing industrial town, 1800-1851
Sorcha Clarke (Ulster University) – The language of letters: Petitioning for charity on an Ulster landed estate, 1850-1900
Constantin Torve (Queen’s University Belfast) – Moll Doyle and her children: The evolution of a lower-class protest repertoire, 1807-1860
Panel 2: Economic Development in 20th Century Ireland
Agnes McGuire SWB C001 (ground floor)
Chair: Robin Adams
Cathal Burke O’Leary (Dublin City University) – Taxation and State-building in the Irish Free State
Anna Devlin (Trinity College Dublin) – ‘Ireland, for some time, has been living in a fever of economics’: Economic interest associations and national development in early twentieth century Ireland
Alan de Bromhead (University College Dublin) – Irish Regional GDP since Independence
Panel 3: Impacts of War and Revolution
Agnes McGuire SWB C102A (first floor)
Chair: Carly Collier
Barry Keane (Independent) – Protestant population dynamics in early twentieth-century Ireland
Olesia Zhytkova (Dublin City University) – Corruption, Russian war, and post-war reconstruction of Ukraine
Andrew Dorman (Trinity College Dublin) – ‘Subduing the civil power’: The army-societal relationship in eighteenth century Ireland
Break: Humanities Institute (Top Floor) 10.50-11.10
Session 2 (Panels 4, 5 & 6): 11.10-12.30
Panel 4: Trade and Urban Development in Early Modern Ireland
Agnes McGuire SWB A006 (ground floor)
Chair: Sarah Roddy
Sandrine Tromeur (Maynooth University) – “Except for the risks, perils and fortunes of the sea and war”: Irish merchants of La Rochelle and maritime trade during the second Anglo-Dutch war, 1665-1667
David Brown (Trinity College Dublin) – Trading their way through it: Ireland’s imports and exports during and after the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1641-1670
Bríd McGrath (Trinity College Dublin) – Local democracy in early modern Limerick
Panel 5: Women in 20th Century Ireland
Humanities Institute H204 (top floor)
Chair: Catherine Cox
Kate O’Keeffe (South East Technological University) – Lady Clerks to CEO’: A biographical narrative exploration of the challenges, opportunities, and educational programmes for female bank workers since the lifting of the Marriage Bar in Ireland
Shannon Hughes Spence (South East Technological University) – ‘The Control of Women’s Bodies in Ireland – from 1930s Dance Halls to Modern Nightclubs’
Patrice Maguire (Dublin City University) – Irish youth, a changing Ireland and agony aunt columns, 1963 -1975
Panel 6: Industries and Industrialisation in 19th Century Ireland
Agnes McGuire SWB C102A (first floor)
Chair: Robin Adams
Leslie E. E. Donaldson (Independent) – “… wretched, crowded little buildings …”: The application of The Artizans and Labourers Dwellings Act, 1875 in Belfast 1877
Norma Owens (University of Galway) – Was the Cong lace industry better than Home Rule?
Catherine Ann Cullen (University College Dublin) – Lasting Impressions?: Mapping two printers of the nineteenth-century Dublin tenements, their clients and audiences
Declan Monaghan (Maynooth University) – The origins and the history of the Irish National Stud from 1900 to 2021
Lunch: Humanities Institute (Top Floor) 12.30-13.30
Session 3 Roundtable: ‘The past and prospects for social and economic history in Ireland’: 13.30-15.00
Humanities Institute H204 (top floor)
David Dickson (Trinity College Dublin)
Catherine Cox (University College Dublin)
Graham Brownlow (Queen’s University Belfast)
Eoin McLaughlin (Heriot-Watt University)
Deirdre Foley (Trinity College Dublin)
Aine Doran (Ulster University)
Break 15:00-15:10
Session 4 (Panels 7 and 8) 15:10-16:10
Panel 7: Histories of Irish LGBTQ+ Emigration
Humanities Institute H204 (top floor)
Chair: Catherine Cox
Daniel Gallen (University of Galway) – London Calling: Imagining the Irish LGBTQ+ emigrant experience in London, 1967-1993
Michael Lawrence (Queen’s University Belfast) – “I cannot forget that I am supposed to be something that I am not”: Male Homosexuality and Emigration in Ireland, 1891-1922
Panel 8: Trade and Urban Development in Medieval Ireland
Agnes McGuire SWB C102A (first floor)
Chair: Robin Adams
Catherine Swift (Mary Immaculate College) – Episcopal development of urban manors and market towns in thirteenth-century Limerick
Tadgh Farrell (Trinity College Dublin) – A Gaelic Merchant Prince: Turlough “an fhiona”, the first O’Donnell fish lord?
Break 16.10-16.25
Session 5 (Keynote): 16.25-17.40
Humanities Institute H204 (top floor)
Chair: Catherine Cox
Erika Hanna (University of Bristol) – ‘Rainfall and the Irish City, 1800-2000’
Conference Reception at UCD University Club 18.00-20.00
Saturday, 18th November 2023
Session 6 (panels 9, 10 & 11): 09.30-10.50
Panel 9: Buffeting the Irish Free State Coffers: Post-Civil War Economic Challenges of Independence
Humanities Institute H204 (top floor)
Chair: Daithí Ó Corráin (Dublin City University)
Pat O’Brien (Dublin City University) – The Irish Tax Man Cometh: Building the tax system in the Irish Free State, 1923-25
Daithí Ó Corráin (Dublin City University) – ‘The most serious financial problem of all’: post-civil war compensation
Gerard Hanely (Dublin City University) – Unemployment 1922-32: ‘a menace to the state’
Panel 10: Histories of the Irish Diaspora in the 20th C
Agnes McGuire SWB C001 (ground floor)
Chair: Robin Adams
Aydin Anil Mucek (University College Dublin) – The racial hierarchies of Irish Missionaries in Africa and their impact on Irish society
Eleanor O’Leary (South East Technological University) – American Parcels: Irish American Diasporic Exchange 1930-2000
Tom McGrath (Maynooth University) – The Irish and the 1922 Rand Revolt: an introductory survey
Panel 11: Social and Cultural Histories of the First World War
Agnes McGuire SWB C102A (first floor)
Chair: Ciarán McCabe
Pauline Gardiner (National Museums NI) and Patrick Fitzgerald (Mellon Centre for Migration Studies) – Wastrels, loafers and drunken rowdies: The life and times of the Irish Corner-boy
Rachel Newell (Queen’s University Belfast) – ‘I did not know he was discharged from the army’: female criminality surrounding separation allowance during the First World War.
Brian Griffin (Maynooth University) – Cartoons in Conflict: Larry O’Hooligan and the First World War
Break 10.50-11.10
Session 7 (panels 12, 13 & 14): 11.10-12.30
Panel 12: Irish Histories of Childhood
Humanities Institute H204 (top floor)
Chair: Carole Holohan
Ursula Callaghan (Independent) and Hélène Bradley Davies (Mary Immaculate College) – Blue Coat: A History of the Blue Coat School Limerick 1724-1881
Jane O’Brien (University of Galway) – “I have nowhere and nothing for him” – Family Involvement at Children’s Committal to the Sister of Mercy run Irish Industrial Schools, 1868-1936
Liam Kennedy (Queen’s University Belfast) – Religious affiliation and child mortality in Ireland: A country-wide analysis based on the 1911 Census
Panel 13: Female Power and Agency in Ireland
Agnes McGuire SWB C001 (ground floor)
Chair: Ciarán McCabe
Fiona Slevin (University College Dublin) – Underestimating women: assessing female proprietorship in post-Famine rural Ireland
Katie Tate (Queen’s University Belfast) – ‘Quite capable of being Governor…herself’: The Northern Irish Governorship and the influence of the Governors’ Wives
Emma Lyons (University College Dublin) – ‘The Christian name belongs to the world of fancy the surname to that of tradition’: Property bequests to daughters in seventeenth-century Ireland
Panel 14: Provision of Education in 19th and 20th C Ireland
Agnes McGuire SWB C102A (first floor)
Chair: Alice Mauger
Declan O’Keeffe (Clongowes Wood College SJ) – ‘Influencing the influential’: Irish Jesuit periodicals
Conor Galvin (University College Dublin) – The Standing Conference on Teacher Education North and South (SCoTENS), Ireland: a social history perspective on a unique and enduring cross-border Learning Community
Seán Lyons (University College Dublin) – Domestic technology and human capital formation: rural electrification and secondary school participation in Ireland
Lunch and ESHSI AGM: 12.30-13.30
Lunch in Humanities Institute (top floor) and AGM in H204
Session 8 (panels 15, 16 & 17): 13.30-14.50
Panel 15: Economic and Social Impacts of War
Humanities Institute H204 (top floor)
Chair: Paul Huddie (University College Dublin)
Jim Deery (Maynooth University) – ‘The socio-economic impact of British recruitment on Ireland during the Napoleonic Wars 1808-1815’
Jack Kavanagh (University College Dublin) – ‘The Free State response to National Army casualties’
Stephen Callaghan (Independent) – ‘The Economics Influences of Birr Barracks’
Panel 16: Transgressive Women in 19th Century Ireland
Agnes McGuire SWB C001 (ground floor)
Chair: Catherine Cox
Helen Doyle (Maynooth University) – Was Bridget McCreedy a ‘dangerous lunatic’?
Marc Caball (University College Dublin) – Prostitution, murder and urban space in an Irish provincial town in 1829
Panel 17: Marginalised Irish Histories in the 20th C
Agnes McGuire SWB C102A (first floor)
Chair: Morgan Wait
Oisín Wall (University College Cork) – ‘National Trauma Dumping: The Memorialisation of Traumatic Social History in Dublin’s North Inner-City’
Darren Coleborne (Queen’s University Belfast) – Whose Movement is it, Anyways?: A Relational Approach to Social Movement Coalescence in Northern Ireland’s People’s Democracy, 1968
Jack Crangle (Maynooth University) – ‘I hated being Irish’: exclusion, discrimination and empowerment in oral histories of Black and mixed race Ireland
Break: 14.50-15.00
Session 9 (panels 19 & 20): 15.00-16.45
Panel 18: 20th C Irish Healthcare Systems
Humanities Institute H204 (top floor)
Chair: Alice Mauger
Julie Crowley (South East Technological University) – Caregiving at Irish Military Hospitals during the First and Second World Wars
Kevin Finnan (Dublin City University) – The January 1921 Hospital Order
Brian Casey (Durham University) – ‘Collaboration, confrontation and care: The Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood and the provision of healthcare in provincial Ireland, 1942-1970’
Marie Lynch (St Patrick’s University Hospital) – A decade of Disturbance (1916-1925): The impact of revolution and civil war on presentations of mental illness to Ireland’s oldest psychiatric hospital
Panel 19: Questions of Land and Hunger
Agnes McGuire SWB C001 (ground floor)
Chair: Anna Devlin
Mary Curtin (University of Limerick) – The Legacy of History: Females and Irish Land Ownership
James Beirne (Maynooth University) – The colonisation of Ireland and the history of political economy
David Gahan (Maynooth University) – The 1933 Land Act: Fianna Fáil and land reform
Charles Read (University of Cambridge) – Food-market integration and humanitarian-relief policy: the case of the Great Irish Famine of 1845-52
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