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Act 2

Act 2

Saturday 7 May Boole 2 :



Metahibernia: Historians and History-writing in Ireland under the Union

9.30- 10.30:


Opening Remarks

Hiram Morgan, University College Cork: ‘Lost leaders: Fantasy Portraits of Gaelic Chiefs’

Fintan Cullen, University of Nottingham: ‘Art, Union and Nationhood’

10.30-11.00: Tea & Coffee


11.00-12.30:


Peter Woodman, University College Cork: 'Irish struggles with concepts of human antiquity and deep time'

Jim McGeachie, University of Ulster: ‘Metahistory as metascience: Sir William Wilde and the uses of medical biography and history.’


Patrick Maume, Dictionary of Irish Biography, RIA: ‘William Cooke Taylor, Liberal Unionism and an enlightenment history in the Age of O’Connell’

12.30-1.30: Lunch


1.30-3.00:


Clare O'Halloran, University College Cork: ‘The Long Afterlife of Spenser's View of the Present State of Ireland: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives’

Brian Jackson, University College Dublin: ‘In conformity with Modern Criticism'

Denis Murphy, 'Edmund Hogan and the Irish approach to Jesuit Historiography’


Alan Ford, University of Nottingham: ‘High or low? Writing the Irish reformation in the early nineteenth century’.

3.30-4.00: Tea & Coffee




4.00 – 5.00:


Ciaran Brady Trinity College Dublin:  'J.P. Prendergast and the practice of history in 19th Century Ireland'


Closing Remarks

University College Cork

Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh

College Road, Cork T12 K8AF

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