James Connolly conference

dublin | history and heritage | event notice Friday October 13, 2006 13:40 by John Cunningham - Galway Labour History Group

at Liberty Hall

IRISH LABOUR HISTORY SOCIETY ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2006
20th - 21st OCTOBER 2006, Liberty Hall, Dublin

90th ANNIVERSARY JAMES CONNOLLY (1868 - 1916)

Session 1 - Friday 20th October, 7.30 p.m.

Professor John Horne, Trinity College Dublin
"James Connolly and the Great Divide: Ireland, Europe and the First World War"

Session 2 - Saturday 21st October, 10.30 a.m.

Professor Emmet O´Connor, University of Ulster
"Labour & republicanism the unimportance of James Connolly"

Dr John Newsinger, Bath Spa University
"James Connolly & 1916"

Dr Colin Whitston, , Keele University
"James Connolly & Trade Unionism: The Struggle for an Independent Working Class Politics"

Session 3 - Saturday 21st October, 2.30 p.m.
Chair - Francis Devine, Education Dept. SIPTU

Manus O´Riordan, Senior Research Officer, SIPTU
"WWI - Why Connolly wanted a German victory"

Sinead McCoole, Jackie Clarke Library, Ballina,
"James Connolly & Labour women of 1916"

Full Conference Admission (including Clé Club Social, Sat. night) EUR10
Individual Sessions EUR5