CONFERENCES
Irish women and the diaspora: a symposium organized by the John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies, UCD
10th June 2010, 9.30am-6.00pm
Venue: NovaUCD [map]
9.30-11.15 Irish women, diaspora and the Catholic church (Chair: Jim MacPherson, UCD)
- Louise Ryan (Middlesex University), 'Building walls or bridges: the role of ethnic chaplaincies and Irish migrant women in Britain'.
- Charlotte Wildman (University of Nottingham), ‘Irish-Catholic women and modernity in 1930s Liverpool’.
11.15-11.30 Coffee
11.30-1.00 Travel, work and economic development (Chair: Lindsey Earner-Byrne, UCD)
- Breda Gray (University of Limerick), ‘The gendered contradictions of economic development and diaspora membership'.
- Jennifer Redmond (NUI Maynooth), ‘Discovering diversity in the Irish women's diaspora: analysing data from Irish travel permits during World War II’.
1.00-2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.30 Irish women, transnationalism and empire (Chair: Catherine Cox, UCD)
- Bronwen Walter (Anglia Ruskin University), ‘Placing Irish women within and beyond the British empire: contexts and comparisons’.
- Karly Kehoe (UHI, Millennium Institute's Centre for History), ‘Border crossings: being Irish in nineteenth-century Scotland and Canada’.
3.30-3.45 Coffee
3.45-5.30 Plenary discussion on Irish women and the diaspora (Chair: Jim MacPherson, UCD)
- Mary J. Hickman (London Metropolitan University and John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies, UCD) and Mary E. Daly (UCD).
5.30 Wine reception