Panel 1A: Medical and social institutions

• Brian Casey (Durham), ‘Collaboration, confrontation and care: The Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood and the provision of healthcare in provincial Ireland, 1942-1970’.

• Helen Doyle (Maynooth), ‘Institutions of care or confinement? The success and failure of the Irish District Lunatic Asylum system in the nineteenth-century.’

• Cormac Leonard (TCD), ‘Deaf People in Irish Institutions, 1851 – 1922’

Chair: Prof. Crawford Gribben (QUB)

Panel 1B: Political, military and security institutions

• Shane Browne (UCD), ‘‘“Playing at soldiering”: the National Volunteers, 1914-17’’
• Amélie Gaillat (MIC Limerick), ‘The establishment of intelligence services as institutions in Europe at the end of the 19th century’
• Tom McGrath (Maynooth), Begrudging republicans? An examination of the Irish Republican Association of South Africa, 1919–22

Chair: Prof. Marie Coleman (QUB)

Panel 2 (Part 1): Ireland in time of war

• Susie Deedigan (QUB), ‘‘Another winter here would finish us off’: female political prisoners in Armagh and Mountjoy, 1939-45’
• Tim Ellis Dale (Teeside), ‘“Neuter-ality?” The Irish Defence Forces as an institution of masculinity during the Emergency, 1939-1945’

Chair: Dr Keira Williams (QUB)

Panel 2 (Part 2): Family matters

• David Ryan (Limerick), ‘Personal or public? The relationship between public history and genealogy’

Chair: Dr Kiera Williams (QUB)

Lunch

Keynote 1: Professor Martin Heale 'Lesser and greater monasteries in Henry VIII's England'

Chair: Prof. Steven G. Ellis (University of Galway / ICHS)

Panel 3A: Leisure, past-times and volunteering

• Nebiha Guiga (ZfL Berlin), ‘Social conflicts and volunteer work in the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (1850-1914)’
• Conor Heffernan (Ulster), ‘“Gossip from the Emerald Isle”: Associational Physical Culture in 1950s Ireland’

Chair: Dr Hiroki Shin (QUB)

Panel 3B: Institutions in late 19th and early 20th century Dublin

• Carly Collier (UCD), ‘The first “Lady Sanitary Sub-Officers” in Dublin, c. 1898-1920’
• Joe Curran (TCD), ‘The Slimy Fount Revisited? Dublin Castle in its Urban Context c. 1801-1923’
• Adrian Kirwan (Maynooth), ‘An Irish Radium Institute: The Royal Dublin Society and the promotion of radioactive therapy in twentieth-century Ireland’

Chair: Prof. Peter Gray (QUB)

Wine reception

Keynote 2 (Keith Jeffery Lecture): Professor Heather Ann Thompson (University of Michigan), ‘America’s Prison Uprisings Past and Present: Why They Matter Across the world’

Chair: Prof. Marie Coleman (QUB)