Britain and the Easter Rising: a one-day symposium on the impact of the Easter Rising on Britain, University of Central Lancashire, Preston

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Britain and the Easter Rising: a one-day symposium on the impact of the Easter Rising on Britain, University of Central Lancashire, Preston

 

Registration – 9.00am to 9.45am (with tea/coffee) Livesey café, Livesey House.

Livesey House 013 (LH013)

Opening remarks: Dr Nick Mansfield, University of Central Lancashire

 

Session 1 – Macro and micro perspectives (10-12pm)

  • ‘The British State and the Irish rebellion of 1916: An intelligence failure or a failure of response’

Dr Geoffrey Sloan, University of Reading

  • ‘Responses to the Easter Rising in the West Riding of Yorkshire’

Andrew Maguire, Ulster University

 

LUNCH: 12.00-1.00pm

 

Session 2 – Protagonists and antagonists (1-3pm)

  • ‘From Shepherd’s Bush to Sackville Street: Volunteers from Britain in the Easter Rising’

Dr Gerard Noonan, Trinity College, Dublin

  • ‘Political imprisonment and the Irish in Great Britain’

Dr Darragh Gannon, National Museum of Ireland

 

BREAK FOR TEA/COFFEE

 

Session 3 – Fighting pensioners (3-5pm)

  • ‘English 1916 pension applications’

Dr Keiko Inoue, Trinity College, Dublin

  • ‘Advocacy, memory and the Scots 1916 pensioners’

Dr Máirtín Ó Catháin, University of Central Lancashire

 

CONCLUDING REMARKS

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