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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3There is a conference fee of €10 which includes light refreshments and lunch. Please register by July 16th using the accompanying form, as space is limited. The summary programme is below and full programme attached.
Spalpeens, Gombeens and Squireens: Class Relations in 19th Century Ireland
Conference
Saturday July 31st, 10am – 6pm
AX1, Auxilla House, North Campus, NUI Maynooth
9:30 – 9:45 Registration, Auxilia Foyer
9:45 – 10:00 Welcome; Eoin Flaherty (NUIM) and Terry Dunne (MIC)
10:00am – 11:00am Industry and Proto-Industry
Education in 19th century model villages in Ireland
Elena O’ Brien, Archaeology, (UCC)
Mapping social class in 19th century Ireland: towards a more systematic approach
Dr. Jane Gray, Sociology, (NUI Maynooth)
11:00am – 11:15am Break
11:15am – 12:15pm Health
‘In death there is no remembrance’: The evidence of post-medieval health from human skeletal remains
Linda G. Lynch, Archaeology, (UCC)
The silent voice: Narratives of health at the 19th century watering-place
Dr. Ronan Foley, Geography, (NUIM)
12:15pm – 12:30pm Break
12:30pm – 1:30pm Late Nineteenth Century
Social change in 19th century Ireland: The advent of narrow gauge railways in Munster
Edel Barry, Archaeology, (UCC)
The poorest classes? Language and social class in post-famine Ireland
Dr. Nicholas Wolf, History, (Virginia Commonwealth University)
1:30pm – 2:30pm Lunch
2:30pm – 4:00pm Pre-Famine
Class conflict in the 1830s Tithe War
Noreen Higgins-McHugh, History, (UCC)
Between a rock and a hard place: The reality of being a land agent in Ireland in the 1830s and 1840s
Laura Vickers, Moore Institute, (NUIG)
“No more at present from your friend, Captain Rock”: 'Threatening letters' and social attitudes in pre-famine Ireland
Terry Dunne, History, (MIC)
4:00pm – 4:15pm Break
4:15pm – 5:15pm Modes of Production
The Rundale System in 19th Century Ireland: Conceptualising and Exploring the Ecological Dynamics of Primitive Communism
Eoin Flaherty, Sociology, (NUIM)
‘Wooden idols triumph and human beings are sacrificed’: Marx on legal theft in the Rhineland and Ireland
Dr. Eamonn Slater, Sociology, (NUIM)
Sponsored by the Comparative-Historical Research Cluster; Department of Sociology, NUI Maynooth.
Co-conveners: Terry Dunne and Eoin Flaherty.