Ireland, the Revolution and the First World War.Continuities, Ruptures and Legacies (1913-1919)

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCEIRISH CULTURAL CENTRE

Paris, 27 June 2019

THURSDAY 27 JUNE

09:00. Registration/coffee09:30. Opening talk: Her Excellency Patricia O’Brien, Ambassador for Ireland to France

Panel One: Ireland in War and Revolution

Chair: Emmanuel Destenay (University College Dublin)

10:00- 10:20: Conor Mulvagh (University College Dublin); Armaments and instability in Ireland on the eve of the First World War10: 20-10:40. Richard Grayson (Goldsmiths, University of London); Dublin’s Great Wars

10:40-11:00. John Borgonovo (University College Cork): The Flying Corps and the Flying Column: Irish Revolutionaries and First World War Culture11:00-11:20. Shane Browne (University College Dublin): Ireland’s Fighting Sons.11:20-11:40. Discussion11:40-12: 10. Round-table: What is left of the 1916 Rising?

Panel Two: Ireland and the Paris Peace Conference

Chair: Anne Goarzin (Rennes University)

13:00-13:20. Gerard Keown 'The most clamorous of all the national groups'. Ireland and the Paris Peace Conference. 13:20-13:40. Fearghal McGarry (Queen’s University Belfast). Irish and Korean nationalists in 1919: a Wilsonian moment?13:40-14:00. Síobhra Aiken (NUI Galway): Revelations and Silences: The First World War in Irish Republican Autobiographies14:00-14:20. Anne Goarzin (University of Rennes): From the Somme to the Versailles Peace Conference: Wiliam Orpen’s pictorial record of the Great War14:20-14:50. Discussion

Panel Three: Commemorations, Memories and Representations ofthe Great War in Ireland

Chair: Cornelius Crowley (Nanterre University) 15:20-15:50. Sylvie Mikowski (University of Reims): Sebastian Barry16:00-16:20. Antía Román-Sotelo (University of Santiago de Compostela): Reverberations of Trauma through Irish Literature of the Great War16:20-16:40. Clíona Ní Ríordáin (Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle): Remembering the Great War in Irish Children's Literature16:40-17:00. Marion Sarrouy (University of Rennes): Commemorating in music: from Ulster’s sacrifice to piper’s courage17:00-17h30. Discussion17:30-18:00. Round-table: Sense of belonging: Towards a Collective Memory of the First World War?

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We would like to express our gratitude to the Embassy of Ireland to France for their generousfunding without which it would have been impossible to organise this event. We are equallythankful to the Irish Cultural Centre in Paris for welcoming the event and to the French Mis-sion du Centenaire (Centenary Partnership Program) for awarding the conference the Cente-nary Certification (project 07 CONF 118).

REGISTRATION

Please contact the conference organiser Emmanuel DESTENAY (emmanuel.destenay@ucd.ie)to register before 22 June 2019.