From: McNamara Robert <[email protected]>
Subject: Churchills and Ireland Conference
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 19:21:02 -0400

Conference announcement

The Churchills and Ireland

An international conference at the University of Ulster Belfast Campus on
18/19 June 2009

Final Programme

Thursday 18th June 2009-

1400

Conference Registration

1445 Opening Remarks

Panel A The Early Churchills and Ireland

1. Coleman A. Dennehy (NUI Maynooth) Sir Winston Churchill (1620-88) in
Restoration Ireland.

2. John Cronin (European University Institute Florence) The first
independent command of the future military leader: Marlborough and the
Williamite campaign in Cork, 1690.

3. Dr Thomas Byrne, (NUI Maynooth) Writing and fighting the Churchills:
strange and surprising connections between the Churchills, the Hookes and
Ireland.

1800 Keynote Speaker

Professor Eunan O'Halpin (Trinity College Dublin)

'".. a beastly people with a beastly religion": Churchill, India and Ireland
during the Second World War'

Wine Reception to follow

Friday 19th June 2009 (Morning)

1. Professor Catherine Shannon, (Professor of History Emerita, Westfield
State College, Westfield, MA,)  Lord Randolph Churchill, Ulster and the
Orange Card

2. Michael McMenamin ( Churchill biographer and Contributing Editor for
Finest Hour, journal of the Churchill Centre) The untold story of how
Churchill's views on political economy, oratory and Ireland were influenced
by his Irish-American mentor Bourke Cockran.

1100 Tea / Coffee

1130 - 1300 Panel C

1. Dr Ian Chambers, Murdoch University, Western Australia

Winston Churchill and Irish Home Rule to 1914 2. David Freeman, Ph.D.
Department of History California State University, Fullerton:

The Thirty Year Relationship between Winston Churchill and Eamon de Valera

Friday 19th June (Afternoon) 1430 to 1600

Panel D

1. Dr. Kevin Matthews (George Mason University Virginia),

Churchill & Partition

2. Robert McNamara (Ulster) Churchillian History and Ireland

3. Dr Ivan Gibbons: Senior Lecturer in Irish Studies Department St Mary's
University College, Strawberry Hill, London:

"Re-occupying the Free State? -Winston Churchill as Colonial Secretary
1922".

1645 Keynote 2.

Charles Lysaght

(Writer and Barrister at law)

Churchill & Brendan Bracken

1800 Keynote 3

Professor Keith Jeffery (Queens University Belfast)

Winston Churchill, Secretary of State for War and Security Policy in Ireland
during the Irish Troubles

Further info is available from:

http://www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/schools/history_intern/

or  contact:

Dr Robert McNamara, Room C017, School of History and International Affairs,
University of Ulster, Coleraine campus, Cromore Road, Coleraine, Co.
Londonderry, BT52 1SA, +44 (0)28 70324007



The conference fee is £30 or £15 for Students/ OAPs/ Unwaged.


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