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Keynote: A photograph uncovered my grandmother's republican activism: Prof Caitríona Beaumont

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How a photograph uncovered my grandmother's republican activism: family photos, contested memories and re-imagining past lives

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February 14, 2025
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The Canada Room, Lanyon Building, QUB
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15:00 - 16:30
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Free
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We are very excited to welcome Professor Caitríona Beaumont to Belfast on Friday `14 February. Her keynote lecture is entitled: 'How a photograph uncovered my grandmother's republican activism: family photos, contested memories and re-imagining past lives.'

Prof Caitriona Beaumont is Professor of Social History in the School of Law and Social Sciences, London South Bank University (LSBU) and Visiting Full Professor at University College Dublin.

Her research focusses on the history of female activism and women's social movements in Ireland and Britain across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She has published numerous articles and chapters and her book Housewives and Citizens: Domesticity and the Women's Movement in England, 1928 to 1964 (2013) was published by Manchester University Press. She is currently lead investigator for two funded research projects: 'Afterlives: uncovering the life stories and contributions of activist women in the wake of revolution and civil war: Ireland, Finland and Germany 1918-1980s' and AHRC funded research network 'Agency and Advocacy: Locating Women's Grassroots Activism in England and Ireland, 1918 to the present'.

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