This conference will feature more than fifty papers on Irish economic and social history by emerging and established scholars.

The conference will also include the K.H. Connell Memorial Lecture by Professof James Kelly of Dublin City University.

Day 1: Level 1 Trinity Business School, Pearse Street

Day 2: Arts Building

See the full programme below and at https://www.eshsi.org/conferences.html (https://www.eshsi.org/conferences.html)

Friday 4th December

All sessions will take place on level 1 of the Trinity Business School

9.00am Registration

9.30-11.00am

PANEL 1

Stephen Kennedy (University of Galway) The Irish Tenants’ Protection Society: grassroots activism and rent controls for Dublin’s working-class, 1934-1944

Filippo Barsi (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) Translating ‘industrial democracy’: a contested category in the Irish Labour Movement, 1897-1923

Suzanne Jobling (Queen’s University Belfast) ‘Worth more pay than your husband?’: attitudes towards women workers revealed in newspaper coverage of employment equality cases

PANEL 2

Seán Fenton (Trinity College Dublin) Living with the falling sickness: epilepsy, social circumstances and institutional care in late nineteenth-century Dublin

Sorcha Clarke (University of Galway) Experiences of female, upper-class lunacy in early twentieth-century Ireland: the case of Stella Moutray

Ciarán Casey (University of Limerick) The economics of mental hospital committals in twentieth-century Ireland

PANEL 3

Antonina Stankova (University of Galway) and Cathal O’Donoghue (University of Galway) Between independence and economic development: reconstructing the Irish production system, 1926-1956

Anna Devlin (Trinity College Dublin) The economics of peace-making in the Irish Free State during the 1920s and 1930s

Desmond Gibney (National College of Ireland) Municipal bonds in Ireland: the historical experience and potential for the future

11.00am Break

11.20am-12.50pm

PANEL 4

Natasha Mahony (Independent scholar) Hogs and hearths: a gendered analysis of medieval Dublin wills

Libor Melioris (Trinity College Dublin) Wealth distribution and social mobility in Ireland 1880-1980: new evidence from probate, census and marriage records

Gregory Walls (Trinity College Dublin) Finding ‘the story of us’: the 1926 Census

PANEL 5

Oluwaseun Williams (University College Dublin) Irish scientists and veterinary development in Africa: the career of Robert Pearson Lee in British Tanganyika and Nigeria

Ella Armstrong (Trinity College Dublin) Labouring to learn: obstetric education in Dublin 1950-2000

Kevin Finnan (Dublin City University) Identifying the doctors: treating the IRA during the war of independence

PANEL 6

Martin Quinn (Queen’s University Belfast) Clientalism and the wiring of rural Ireland: TDs as brokers in the rural electrification scheme

Peter Connell (Independent scholar) ‘The government wants a terrible lot of light’. Clearing the ‘slums’ and rehousing in 1930s Kilrush, Co. Clare

Maria Kane (Trinity College Dublin) ‘Earning their bread by their own exertions’: the Irish White Cross Parish Committee, Enniscorthy 1921-22

12.50-1.00pm Launch of the New Society Webpage

1.00-2.00pm Lunch and Postgraduate Meeting

2.00-3.50pm

PANEL 7

A panel based on the ERC project VOICES: Voices of women in Early Modern Ireland

Speakers:

Jane Ohlmeyer

Daniel Patterson

Claire McNulty

Felix Vanden Bore

Bronagh McShane

Michael Flaherty

Donal Farrell

(Trinity College Dublin)

PANEL 8

Maeve Hagerty (University of Edinburgh) Locating the Irish witch: folklore, modernity, and gendered magic belief in Ireland, c. 1880-1945

Christopher West (University of Aberdeen) ‘Hutchings’ Angels’: an odd rector or a rector at odds?

Fionnuala Walsh (University College Dublin) Atheists, freethinkers and rationalists: explorations of ‘unbelief’ in early twentieth-century Ireland

Peter Gray (Queen’s University Belfast) Presbyterianism and land reform, c. 1845-57

PANEL 9

Charles Read (Oxford) Gender, economic policy and the politics of Irish manufacturing in the 1840s

Adam Kane (University College Dublin) Investing in times of trial: Irish women, finance, and the Famine, c. 1840-1852

Rebecca O’Regan (University of Limerick) Accounting for networks: how financial records can be used to reconstruct women’s socio-economic communities in the mid-west of Ireland, 1850-1860

Kathleen O’Sullivan (Independent scholar) Becoming Dublin's Dior: Sybil Connolly, women’s networks and the making of an international fashion house

3.50-4.00pm Break

4.00-5.00pm

PANEL 10

Rebecca Mowbray (Queen’s University Belfast) ‘Keep in step’? Gender, conflict and Northern Irish educational policymaking, 1965-1972

Aislinn Hoy (Trinity College Dublin) Till deaths do us part? Childhood exposure to group-motivated violence and intergroup relationship formation in Northern Ireland

PANEL 11

Lianglu Wu (University of Galway) ‘Do like other women did’: mobilities, intimacy and the lives of the ‘wrens of the Curragh’

Máire Hussey (Trinity College Dublin) ‘I was

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