SouthernIrishLoyalisminContextFriday21&Saturday22July2017

MaynoothUniversity

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Day1:Friday21July201709.00–09.25 Registration&coffee–IontasKitchen09.25–09.40 Welcomeaddress–IontasSeminarRoom(1.33)09.45–11.15 ParallelSession1:Panel1a–IontasSeminarRoom(1.33)VotingfortheCrown:LoyalistElectoralPoliticsChair:DanPurcell(TCD)

Panel1b–IontasMeetingRoom(1.25)PersonalExperiencesofRevolutionChair:DrEveMorrison(UCD)

JackKavanagh&NealeRooney(Maynooth)MappingconstituenciesofSouthernUnionistelectoralsupport1885-1932DrElaineCallinan(TCD)VotingtomaintaintheUnionin1918:‘thestrongestpillarsuponwhichtheystood’

AlanMcCarthy(UCC)AproudBritonandCorkman:ThelifeandcareerofHenryLawrenceTivy(1848-1929)KatherineMagee(Maynooth)FromKilderrytoBallynagard:ColonelJohnGeorgeVaughanHartandtheUnionistexperienceoftheIrishRevolutioninEastDonegal,1919-c.1944.

11.20–11.40 Coffee–IontasKitchen11.45–13.15 ParallelSession2:Panel2a–IontasSeminarRoom(1.33)FittingintoIreland?LoyaltyMeetsPatriotismChair:BarbaraMcCormack(Maynooth)

Panel2b–IontasMeetingRoom(1.25)SouthernLoyalistCommunitiesinRevolutionChair:DrDarraghGannon(UCD)

DrIdaMilne(Maynooth)TwoBartons:sharedreligion,dividedpolitics,andthecaseofthevolunteersinWexford,1914DrMiriamMoffitt(StPatrick’sCollege,Maynooth)“ProudofbeingIrishmen”:CanonDudleyFletcherandthechallengeofIrishnessDrIand'Alton(TCD)Seekingacongenialcitizenship:theloyalistreimaginationofsouthernIrelandafter1922

SeamusCullen(DCU)SouthernIrishLoyalistsinagarrisoncounty:KildareUnionism,1912-23DrPatMcCarthy(Independent)TheexperienceofWaterfordloyalistsintherevolutionarydecade1912-1923DrPhilipMcConway(Independent)LoyalisminKing'sCounty,1920–1923

13.15–14.10 Lunch–IontasKitchen

14.15–15.45 ParallelSession3:Panel3a–IontasSeminarRoom(1.33)Exodus?SouthernProtestantDeclineChair:DrAnneDolan(TCD)

Panel3b–IontasMeetingRoom(1.25)SouthernLoyalistPoliticsinRevolutionandBeyondChair:DrConorMorrissey(Oxford)

DrJohnM.Regan(Dundee)ThesouthernProtestantexodusmythandethniccleansingintwentieth-centuryIrelandDonaldWood(Independent)RevisitingProtestantdeclineinIreland1911-26

DrElaineByrne(Independent)TheIrishSenate,1922–28DrOwenMcGee(Independent)OutmanoeuvringtheDáil:thesouthernunionistpoliticalstrategy1919-1922

15.50–17.30 Keynote–Chair:DrAnneDolan(TCD)

DrTimWilson(St.Andrews)GreatBetrayalorSoftLanding?ThefateofSouthernIrishLoyalistsin

comparativeperspective

17.30 CloseofDay1&Dinner

Day2:Saturday22July2017

09.15–09.40 Arrival&coffee–IontasKitchen09.45–11.15 ParallelSession4:Panel4a–IontasSeminarRoom(1.33)TheGreatWaranditsLegaciesChair:JackKavanagh(Maynooth)

Panel4b–IontasMeetingRoom(1.25)AccommodationandCoexistence?TheSouthernLoyalistGentryChair:ProfJacquelineHill(Maynooth)

DrFionnualaWalsh(TCD)‘ThefuturewelfareoftheEmpirewilldependmorelargelyonourwomenandgirls’:southernloyalistwomenandtheBritishwareffortinIreland1914-1918DrPaulHuddie(Maynooth)Disputedlegacies:Britishmilitarycharities,thenewIrishstateandthecourts,1923-29

DrConorMorrissey(Oxford)Towardsgentryhomerule?TheIrishReformAssociationandself-governmentforIreland,1904-1910DrJonathanCherry(DCU)Adaptiveco-existence?LordFarnham,southernloyalistandtheIrishFreeState

11.20–11.40 Coffee–IontasKitchen

11.45–13.15 ParallelSession5:Panel5a–IontasSeminarRoom(1.33)LostCounties?BorderLoyalismChair:DrTimWilson(St.Andrews)

Panel5b–IontasMeetingRoom(1.25)ImperialConnections:LoyalistsandBritishServiceChair:DrPaulHuddie(Maynooth)

DrArleneCrampsie(UCD)&DrJonathanCherry(DCU)One,butnotthesame?ThegeographyofthesigningoftheUlsterSolemnLeagueandCovenant,September1912DanPurcell(TCD)BuildingaSouthernLoyalism:CavanandMonaghanUnionistsandUlster1912-1923

DrSeánGannon(TCD)"MyColonialOfficepasswouldhaveprovedapasstothenextworld":IrishcolonialservantsandtheIrishRevolutionDrJosephQuinn(UCD)“Itwasthedonething”:Irishunionistattitudestowarandneutrality,andsouthernIrishProtestantvolunteersintheBritishforcesduringtheSecondWorldWar

13.15-14.10 Lunch–IontasKitchen14.15-15.45 ParallelSession6:Panel6a–IontasSeminarRoom(1.33)ThePulpitandtheFactory:SouthernProtestantExperiencesChair:DrIdaMilne(Maynooth)

Panel6b–IontasMeetingRoom(1.25)RegionalPolitics:LoyalisminDublin&CorkChair:DrJenniferRedmond(Maynooth)

ProfBrianM.Walker(QUB)SouthernprotestantvoicesduringtheIrishWarofIndependenceandCivilWar:reportsfromChurchofIrelandsynodsProfFrankBarry(TCD)SouthernProtestantManufacturingInterests:theUnion,PartitionandProtection

DrCiaránWallace(TCD)MunicipalUnionistsinDublin,1898-1922JohnO'Donovan(UCC)Conservatismwithasmall‘c’;Loyalismwithasmall‘l’?The‘SkibbereenEagle’anditsturbulenthinterland1900-1922

15.50-17.30 RoundtableDiscussion:LoyalisminIrishHistory–IontasSeminarRoom(1.33)Chair:DrBrianHughes(Maynooth)ProfJaquelineHill(Maynooth)DrMiriamMoffitt(StPatrick’sCollege,Maynooth)DrIand'Alton(TCD)

17.30 Conferencecloses&Dinner