Friday 17 June
9.30-10.45 Registration
10.45 Welcome (Thomas O’Connor, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Celtic Studies & Philosophy, NUIM, and Marian Lyons, Head of History Department, NUIM)
11.00 Gabriel Cooney, ‘Charting the changing relationship of the living and the dead over the course of Irish pre-history’
12.00 Edel Bhreathnach and Elizabeth O’Brien, ‘Burial in early medieval Ireland: politics and religion’
1.00-2.00 Lunch
2.00 Joe Clarke, ‘Scuffles in the cemetery: death, de-Christianisation and discord in revolutionary France’
3.00 Guy Beiner, ‘Skeletons in the closet: forgetting and remembering the dead of ’98 in Ulster’
3.50-4.10 Tea/Coffee
4.10-5.15 Graduate Student Session 1:
Darragh Gannon, ”The candles of God are already burning, row on row’: responses to death and dying among the Irish in Great Britain during the Irish Revolution’; James McCafferty, ”A new kind of death’: the Niemba massacre and Irish military funerary ceremonial’; Valerie Moffat, ‘Experiencing death in late eighteenth-century Dublin: the case of the Adlercron family, 1774-94′
5.30 John Wolffe, ‘The mutations of martyrdom in Britain and Ireland, c. 1850-2005′ (Chair: Marian Lyons)
6.45 Conference Reception: Launch of Power in History. From Medieval Ireland to the Post-Modern World (proceedings of the 2009 Conference) by Professor Keith Jeffery (Queen’s University, Belfast)
Saturday 18 June
10.00 James Kelly, ‘Suicide in eighteenth-century Ireland’
11.00 David Lederer, ‘Sociology’s one law: modernity, Protestantism and suicide in nineteenth-century statistical thinking’
12.00 Cormac Ó Grada, ‘Varieties of Famine death’
1.00-2.00 Lunch
2.30 Vanessa Harding, ‘The last gasp: death and the family in early modern London’
3.30-3.50 Tea/Coffee
3.50-4.10 Graduate Student Session 2:
Bronagh McShane, ‘Dying for the faith: early modern female martyrdom’; Justin E. Lane, ‘Communal death: ritual suicide in twentieth-century American new religious movements’; Natalie Wilcoxen, ‘Death in the diaspora: the evolution of Jewish death rituals and their impact upon the twentieth-century Jew’
5.30 Clodagh Tait, ‘Wandering graveyards, jumping churches and lone Protestants: devotion, sectarianism and problematic corpses in Irish folklore’
6.45 Conference Dinner
Sunday 19 June
10.00 Ciara Breathnach, ‘Obituaries in provincial Irish newspapers, 1860-1900′
11.10 William Murphy, ‘Dying, death and hunger strike: Cork and Brixton, 1920′
12.00 Eunan O’Halpin, ‘Problematic killing during the War of Independence’
Close of Conference: visit to Glasnevin Cemetery
