A half-day conference on the meaning and significance of the 1916 Rebellion in Irish History

Programme

12:00–13:00: Lunch
13:00–15:00: Explaining 1916

• Roy Foster (Oxford), ‘1916: An ending as well as a beginning?’.
• Maurice Walsh (Brunel), ‘”Nations leap forward or fall backward”: The Darwinian moment of 1916’.
• Ronan Fanning (UCD), ‘Eamon de Valera and the 1916 Proclamation’.
• Paul Bew (QUB), ‘1916: A disaster for Ireland?’.

15:00–15:30: Tea and coffee
15:30–17:30: The Legacies of 1916

• Caoimhe Nic Dhaibheid (Sheffield), ‘Surviving the Rising: Carrying on after Easter 1916’.
• Ian McBride (KCL), ‘Irish historians and 1916’.
• Fearghal McGarry (QUB), ‘From Pearse to pluralism: Commemorating 1916 in 2016’.
• Roisín Higgins (Teesside), ‘“Remember, Reflect, Re-imagine”: Official and unofficial messages during the centenary of the Easter Rising’.

17:30: Wine Reception