The School of History and Anthropology, in conjunction with the Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities, is hosting a conference in Clifton House, Belfast, 11-12 April 2014 entitled ‘Poverty and Famine in Ireland: The Great Famine, its contexts and legacy’. The programme can be found below. It is open to any and all who would like to attend though for reasons of space and catering it is limited to approx. 50-60 attendees. If you would like to attend please contact Georgina Laragy by email g.laragy@qub.ac.uk as soon as you decide. Admission is free and all are welcome. The conference will hear from some of the leading researchers in the field and it should be a excellent event.
Poverty and Famine in Ireland: The Great Famine, its contexts and legacy
11-12 April 2014, Clifton House, North Queen Street, Belfast
Friday 11 April
12.30-1.45 Private lunch for research partners
2 Welcome
2.15-3 Session 1: Niall Ó Ciosain (NUIG), ‘Irish poverty in the Poor Inquiry and Nicholls Reports’
3-4 Session 2: Robyn Atcheson and Peter Gray (QUB), Epidemics and Fever Hospitals in pre-Famine Belfast and during the Great Famine
4-4.30 Coffee
4.30-5.30 Session 3 Olwen Purdue and Georgina Laragy (QUB), Poverty and welfare in post-Famine Belfast
5.30-6.30 Private Advisory Board meeting
7 Private Dinner
Saturday 12 April
9.30-10.30 Session 4: Eoin McLaughlin (Edinburgh) and Chris Colvin (QUB), Evidence for Famine Nutrition from the Irish Prison Registers
10.30-11 Coffee
11-12 Session 5: Ciaran Reilly (NUIM), ‘Culpability and the Great Famine: What the Strokestown archive reveals’
12-1 Session 6: Andy Newby (Helsinki), ‘”Regarded in a Different Light”? Imperial Relations and Famine Relief in Finland, 1867-8’.
1-2 Lunch
2-3 Session 7: Marguerite Corporaal, Chris Cusack and Lindsay Jannsen (Nijmegen), ‘”At the verge of ruin”: Poverty and Feudalism in Famine Fiction’
3-4 Session 8: Emily Mark-Fitzgerald (UCD), ‘Representations of poverty in Irish Famine memorials’
4 Close