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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
