Sixteenth Conference
of
Irish Historians in Britain
Women, Gender and Nation
University of Warwick
12-14 September, 2008
Convenors:
Dr Ian McBride (King’s College London)
Professor Maria Luddy (University of Warwick)
With the generous sponsorship of the Irish Embassy,
the Humanities Research Centre, University of Warwick, the Department of History,University of Warwick, and the Women’s History Association of Ireland
Sixteenth Conference of Irish Historians in Britain
University of Warwick
12-14 September, 2008
Women, Gender and Nation
Friday 12th September
15.30 – 16.30Registration and Tea (Ground Floor, Humanities)
17.00 – 18.30Professor Anne Laurence (Open University), ‘“I have had considerable losses...by the fall in our money in this kingdom”: Mrs Bonnell and the conduct of Anglo-Irish business affairs 1699-1745’.
Professor Toby Barnard (Hertford College Oxford), ‘Women as authors in eighteenth-century Ireland: Charlotte McCarthy’.
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18.30Drinks Reception Hosted by the Irish Embassy
19.00 Dinner (Rootes Restaurant)
Saturday 13th September
07.30 – 09.00Breakfast (Rootes Restaurant)
09.00 – 09.30Registration for day delegates (Ground Floor, Humanities)
09.30 – 11.00Dr James Kelly (St Patrick’s College, DCU), ‘“Bleeding, vomiting and purging”: ill-health and the medical profession in late early modern Ireland’.
Dr Padhraig Higgins (Mercer County Community College, NJ),
‘Playing the Man: the Volunteers and Masculinity’
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11.00 – 11.30Coffee (Ground Floor, Humanities)
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11.30 -13.00Dr Oonagh Walsh (Aberdeen), ‘A privileged elite?: nineteenth -century women psychiatric patients and the formulation of a gendered medical discourse’.
Dr Olwen Purdue (Queen’s University Belfast), ‘Presbyterians, paupers and the poor law: a case study of women and the workhouse’
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13.00Lunch (Rootes Restaurant) – AFTERNOON FREE
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Saturday 13th September (cont’d)
16.30Tea (Ground Floor, Humanities)
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16.45Prof Roy Foster (OxfordUniversity), ‘“A family affair” : Augusta
Gregory, Hugh Lane, W.B.Yeats, and educating the nation’ .
Dr Lindsey Earner Byrne (UniversityCollegeDublin), ‘Reinforcing the family: understandings of gender and sexuality in the Irish welfare debate, 1922-44’.
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18.15 All conference delegates are invited to the launch, by Oonagh
Walsh, of Pauline Prior’s book, Madness and Murder: Gender, Crime and Mental Disorder in Nineteenth-Century Ireland(Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2008) and by James Kelly of Toby Barnard’s new book, Improving Ireland? Projectors, Prophets and Profiteers, 1641-1786 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008).
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20.00Conference Dinner (Sutherland Suite)
Guest Speaker: Professor Tom Dunne
Sunday 14th September
08.00 – 09.00Breakfast (Rootes Restaurant)
09.30 – 11.00Aurelia Spottiswoode Annat (Oxford), ‘Gender in the
republican imagination of Ella Young and Sidney Gifford
Czira, 1900-1945’.
Dr William Murphy (Mater Dei, Dublin), ‘“What is good
enough for the suffragettes…”: methodological kleptomania
and prison protest in Ireland’
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11.00 – 11.30Coffee (Ground Floor, Humanities)
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11.30 – 13.00Caoimhe nic Dhaibheid (Queen’s University Belfast), ‘Irish
republican women and the Second World War: a case study of
Maud Gonne MacBride and Iseult Stuart’.
Dr Leanne McCormack (University of Ulster), ‘“Confused with
prejudice and muddled thinking”: the establishment of family
planning clinics in Northern Ireland, 1950-74’.
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13.00Lunch (Rootes Restaurant)
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Unless otherwise indicated all sessions will take place in
Room H052, Ground Floor, HumanitiesBuilding
FOR BOOKING FORMS AND FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT PROFESSOR MARIA LUDDY AT