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History Staff/Postgraduate Seminar Series

Spring Semester 2012/2013

22 March

Lisa Bogert: ‘Irish Tastes: 20thc. Irish American Identity Construction through Alcohol and Pub Culture’  

19 April

Kerron O’Louain: 'Post-Famine Ribbonism in South Ulster'   

26 April

Stuart Irwin: ‘Belfast Corporation and the provision of public amenities, c. 1876-96’  

3 May

Leanne Calvert: ‘Marriage and the Ulster Presbyterian community, 1780-1844’ 

10 May

Lauren Ferguson: ‘Emyr Estyn Evans and the cultural identity of Ulster, c.1929-1969’

All seminars take place in the Postgraduate Seminar Room, 18 College Green at 4pm.

The seminar series is kindly sponsored by the Queen’s University Student-led Initiative & the School of History and Anthropology

Seminar conveners: Lisa Bogert (lbogert01@qub.ac.uk), Kerron O’Louain (kolouain01@qub.ac.uk), 
                             Stuart Irwin (sirwin10@qub.ac.uk)

Drinks and refreshments provided and all are welcome

 

Autumn Semester 2012

28 September: Lisa Butterly, NUIM - ‘An important work of architecture will create polemics’: the architectural discourses of the County Louth Mental Home, 1933

5 October: Kevin McCarthy, UUC - Bob Briscoe: Ireland’s unknown Zionist

12 October: James McCafferty, NUIM - The Irish Defence Forces with the UN in the Congo 1960–1964: the political motivation of the Irish government

19 October: Amy Hill, Newcastle University - ‘We Want Bread!’ Patterns of Civilian Protest during the Allied Occupation of Puglia, 1943–1946

26 October: Emma Edwards, NUIM - The transition from the League of Nations to the U.N.

2 November: Mark Tynan, NUIM - The Irish Dispute: the formation of the Football Association of Ireland and its pursuit of international recognition, 1921–1939

16 November: Michael Quinn, NUIM - The political reports of Dr E.J. Brennan, Ireland’s first ambassador to the Soviet Union, (1974–80), to Iveagh House

30 November: Chloe Ross, University of Aberdeen - Land, Labour and Nationalism: James Connolly and transnational agitation in 1890s Scotland and Ireland

7 December: Regina Donlon, NUIM - A reputation of respectability – an analysis of immigrant social and cultural institutions in the American Midwest 1850–1900

14 December: Jennifer Scammell, Newcastle University - Popular perceptions of royal deaths in news and print culture, 1751–1817

All seminars take place in the Postgraduate Seminar Room, 18 College Green at 4pm.
The seminar series is kindly sponsored by the Queen’s University Student-led Initiative & the School of History and Anthropology
Drinks and refreshments provided and all are welcome

Seminar conveners: Emily Haire (e.haire@qub.ac.uk), Chris Magill (cmagill10@qub.ac.uk) & Daniel Ritchie (dritchie05@qub.ac.uk)

Spring Semester 2012

All this semester's speakers are QUB History postgrads.

3 February
Daniel Ritchie: Preaching the gospel of antislavery: Isaac Nelson and the Evangelical Alliance.

17 February
Emily Haire: Anglo-French intelligence liaison in the 1930s.


24 February
Pamela McIlveen: ‘Indifferent to both Boyne and Rome’: The Belfast Jewish Community's experience of the ‘Troubles’, 1920-22.


9 March:
Chris Magill: Loyalist violence and the Protestant community in east Ulster, 1920-22.


23 March
Karst de Jong: Richard Robert Madden: Special Magistrate in Jamaica (1832-34).


30 March
Stephen Goss: 'Extra-special, indeed ... sometimes quite extra-ordinary’: Relations between Stormont and Westminster in a Cold War context.


27 April
Aoife Loughlin: Race and Manifest Destiny in the Mexican-American War.


4 May
Peter Leary: Fishing on the frontier: the disputed border and contested fishing rights of the Lough and River Foyle.


All seminars take place in the Postgraduate Seminar Room, 18 College Green, at 4pm.
The seminar series is kindly sponsored by the Queen’s University Student-led Initiative & the School of History and Anthropology


Seminar conveners:

Emily Haire (erobinson14@qub.ac.uk)
Chris Magill (cmagill10@qub.ac.uk)
Daniel Ritchie (dritchie05@qub.ac.uk)


Drinks and refreshments provided and all are welcome

Autumn Semester 2011

7 October
James Curry (TCD): ‘More harm to the Big Fellow than any employer’ or ‘One of the most outstanding women of her time’? The issue of Delia Larkin’s historical legacy.

21 October
McKayla Sutton (Marquette University, USA): ‘A Lasting Boom and Blessing to the Countryside’: Promoting the Shannon Hydroelectric Scheme.

28 October
John Reynolds (University of Limerick): ‘Violence and Visionaries’ – The Templemore Miracles, 1920.

4 November
Joseph Quinn (TCD): The responses of the Irish Government towards desertion from the Irish Defence Forces to the British Armed Forces during the Second World War.

18 November
Raymond Whelan (University of Aberdeen): William King and defence of Protestantism under the rule of James II in Ireland.

9 December
Melinda Sutton (Newcastle University): The unionism of New Labour, 1997- 2007: the rhetoric and the reality.


All seminars take place in the Postgraduate Seminar Room, 18 College Green at 4pm.

The seminar series is kindly sponsored by the Queen’s University Student-led Initiative & the School of History and Anthropology

Seminar conveners:  

Erica Doherty (edoherty20@qub.ac.uk)
Jim O’Neill (joneill30@qub.ac.uk)
Neil Watt (nwatt02@qub.ac.uk)

 

Drinks and refreshments provided and all are welcome!

Spring Semester 2011

11 February
John Bell (Institue for Conflict Research): The troubles aren’t history yet - young people’s perceptions of the past.

25 February
Neil Watt: Akin to a nunnery? Spinsters and spinsterhood in upper-class Ireland, 1860−1920.               

4 March
Paul Huddie: The shamrock and Sebastopol: the responses of Irish high politics to the Crimean War, 1854−6.

11 March
Chris Loughlin: Beaten and crushed? Violence and intimidation against the Belfast labour movement, 1924−39.
 
18 March
Jim O’Neill: Death in the Lakelands: War in Fermanagh 1593−4.

25 March
Erica Doherty: The Irish Party’s ‘evil genius’; the political career of Thomas Power O’Connor, 1916−1918.

1 April
Tim Watt: Franco-Irish privateers and the threat to the establishment of order in Ireland, 1692−1716.

8 April
Daniel Brown: The evolution of formulae and protocol in the charters of Hugh de Lacy, earl of Ulster- 1191x1243.

13 May
Rachel Wilson: Women and marriage in the Irish aristocracy, c. 1692−1737.

All seminars take place in the Postgraduate Seminar Room, 18 College Green at 4pm.

The seminar series is kindly sponsored by the Queen’s University Student-led Initiative & the School of History and Anthropology

Seminar conveners:     Erica Doherty (edoherty20@qub.ac.uk)
Jim O’Neill (joneill30@qub.ac.uk)
Neil Watt (nwatt02@qub.ac.uk)

Drinks and refreshments provided and all are welcome

Autumn Semester 2010

1 October

Brandon Marriott (Oxford): Jews, Christians, and the End of the World: The Importance of Transnational Networks in the Study of Seventeenth-Century Religion 

8 October

Shane Kenna (TCD): The Fenian dynamite Campaign of 1881-85

29 October

Mel Farrell (NUI Maynooth): Few Supporters and no organisation’? Cumann na nGaedheal party organisation in the constituencies of Clare, Dublin North and Longford/Westmeath 1923-27

5 November

Angela Ballone (Liverpool): Authority and Legality: a Negotiable topic in Colonial Mexico?

12 November

Dayna Barnes (LSE): The US and China: American Planning for the Occupation of Japan

26 November

Christopher Cooper (Liverpool): Dealing with Dev: Hailsham’s Irish Question 1932-38

10 December

Alan Noonan (UCC): Teaching the Irish a lesson they will not soon forget: F.W. Bradley and the Irish miners of the Bunker Hill Mining Company  

All seminars take place in the Postgraduate Seminar Room, 18 College Green at 4pm.

The seminar series is kindly sponsored by the Queen’s University Student-led Initiative & the School of History and Anthropology

Seminar conveners:   Stuart Aveyard (saveyard01@qub.ac.uk)
Matthew Lewis (wlewis01@qub.ac.uk)
Dale Montgomery (dmontgomery10@qub.ac.uk)

Spring Semester 2010

26 February
Stuart Aveyard: ‘Plus ça change’?: Rees, Mason and Labour security policy in Northern Ireland, 1974-77

 

5 March
Matthew Lewis: Frank Aiken as guerrilla leader, 1918-23

12 March
Burak Ozdemir: Limits of Coexistence:  Persecution and Toleration in Early Modern Ireland

26 March
 Marisa McGlinchey: Formation and progression of the Social Democratic and Labour Party 1970-1985

23 April
 Brandon Marriott (University of Oxford): Jews, Christians and the End of the World: the importance of transnational networks in the study of seventeenth-century religion

7 May
Liam Kelly: ‘ Let's face it ... we took on the Shankill for two nights and beat them on their knees’ - Historical Snapshots and August '69 in the city of Belfast

14 May
Dale Montgomery: Ritual, Tradition and Power:  Blueshirt Political Aesthetics in 1930s Ireland  

All seminars take place in the Peter Froggatt Centre, Room 02/011 (previously 206), at 4pm. 

The seminar series is kindly sponsored by the Queen’s University Student-led Initiative & the School of History and Anthropology

 

Seminar conveners:   Stuart Aveyard (saveyard01@qub.ac.uk), Matthew Lewis (wlewis01@qub.ac.uk), Dale Montgomery dmontgomery10@qub.ac.uk)

 

Drinks and refreshments provided and all are welcome

 

Autumn Semester 2009

 

2 October
David Shiels (Peterhouse College Cambridge): Enoch Powell and Ulster

9 October
Brian Casey (NUI Maynooth): The political rhetoric of Matt Harris, 1880-1885; a forgotten Irish revolutionary

23 October
 Anne Byrne (University of London): Thinking about ceremonies and the court: the role of change and chance in 18th century France  

6 November
Zsuzanna Zarka (NUI Maynooth): Contrasting Irish impressions of steamboats on the Danube and of Hungary during the mid 1800s

20 November
Matt Treacy (TCD): Irish Republicanism and Modernisation

27 November
Jessica Gerrard (Cambridge): Hegemony, political power and utopian imagination: experience and interpretation of British Socialist Sunday Schools

4 December
Dawn Marie Gibson (UU Jordanstown): A ‘New Beginning’ for Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam 

11 December
Adrian Grant (UU Magee College): Labour, socialism and the republic: the potential working class threat to the political dominance of Sinn Féin, 1918-21

  All seminars take place in the Postgraduate Centre, 18 College Green, at 4pm.

The seminar series is kindly sponsored by the Queen’s University Student-led Initiative & the School of History and Anthropology

Seminar conveners:   Aidan Enright (aenright02@qub.ac.uk) Patrick Smylie (psmylie01@qub.ac.uk) Gordon Rees (grees01@qub.ac.uk)

 Drinks and refreshments provided and all are welcome

 

Spring Semester 2009

6 February Aidan Enright
The politics of Catholic landlordism:  O’ Conor Don and the Irish University Question circa 1870-1880 (Room 210 PFC)

20 February Patrick Smylie
Communists, Cold War and the National Question in Belfast, 1945-60
(Room 210 PFC)
 
13 March Pierre Ranger
 French colonial policy in Irish nationalist propaganda
 (Room 210 PFC)

20 March Clare O’ Kane
Rural Northern Ireland and the Second World War
(Room 210 PFC)

27 March Anelise Shrout
Against “The Question of Races; So Commonly Discussed”: Reading the Famine in The British Provincial Press.
(Room 210 PFC)
 
1 May Sandra Ann Millsopp
A "favorite and fashionable watering-place"?: an examination of the seaside resort of Bangor in the 1830s and 1840s. (Postgraduate Centre, 18 College Green)
 
8 May Gordon Rees
Issues preoccupying Irish pamphleteers c. 1727-49
(Postgraduate Centre 18 College Green)

15 May Daniel Brown
The Freedpeople, The Federal Government and the Dislocations of War in North Carolina
 (Postgraduate Centre 18 College Green)
 

Spring Semester, 2008

1 February
Claire Allen  The Belfast Police Commissioners and Committee c. 1800-32.

15 February
Sarah Roddy  The Irish churches and emigration from convert communities 1845-55.

22 February
Elaine Farrell ‘Doing time’: the experience of women convicted of infanticide 1849-1900.

7 March
Lisa Meaney  Politics and society in Belfast and Derry, c. 1740-80: comparisons and contrasts.

14 March
Patricia Marsh ‘Mysterious malady spreading’: The 1918-19 influenza pandemic in the province of Ulster. (Room Peter Froggat Centre, room 209)

11 April
Peter Ludlow  Challenging the Irish identity:  The Newfoundland Irish in industrial Cape Breton, 1890-1914.

2 May
Eoin Clarke  The role of women in Irish republican politics between the years 1967 and 1983.

9 May (Postgraduate Centre, College Green)
Shaun McDaid  Conflicting conceptions? Northern and Southern proposals for the Sunningdale Council of Ireland.

Seminars will take place at 4pm in Seminar Room 1 in the Institute of Irish Studies
(except, 14 March which is in PFC 209 and 9 May which will take place in the Postgraduate Centre, 18 College Green).
 
Papers last 40 minutes followed by lively discussion.  Refreshments will be provided.
All are welcome.