2019 Summer School
In 2019 the Parnell Summer School will take place from 11-15 August at Avondale House, Rathdrum, Co Wicklow.
The Parnell Society acknowledge the support of
Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
and Coillte Teoranta.
Booking/Fees
Fees Daily rate for attendance at the Summer School (including lunch) is €75.
Inclusive cost: €270 if paid in full before 1 August 2019, and €275 after that date. The inclusive fee covers all lectures and events, coffee and lunch (Monday to Thursday) and the Summer School Gala Dinner.
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Final Programme
16.00 Official opening address
EU Special Representative for Human Rights, Mr. Eamon Gilmore.
17.00 Parnell Lecture:
Chair: Prof Donal McCartney
Dr Margaret Ward (Queen’s University Belfast) – Forging a feminist path: Anna Parnell and Irish political life
10.00 Dr Jennifer Redmond (Maynooth University)“Venturing beyond borders: Irish Women’s Emigration and the ‘Problematic’ Diaspora of the 19th and 20thcenturies’
11.00 Dr Darragh Gannon (Queen’s University Belfast)
‘Where in the world was the Irish Revolution? Power, politics, and the place of global commemoration’
Chair: Ronan McGreevy, Irish Times
14.00 Panel on Irish society and the wider world in 2019
Chaired: Sinéad O’Carroll of TheJournal.ie and Virgin TV
Dr Ebun Joseph (University College Dublin)
Donnah Vuma (University of Limerick)
Zak Moradi, Leitrim County hurler; Lory Meagher Cup winner 2019.
19.30 Evening entertainment: Screening of In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America followed by Q and A with filmmaker Maurice Fitzpatrick
10.00
Dr Daithí Ó Corráin (Dublin City University)’Keeping electoral promises: the opening of the first Dáil and the mission to Paris’
Dr Mary MacDiarmada (Dublin City University) ‘The foolish catchword of self-determination’: Art O’Brien and the London campaign for Irish independence, 1919 to 1921.
Dr Brian Murphy (Technological University, Dublin) ‘President Seán T. O’Kelly’s visit to the United States, 1959: A game-changer in Irish-American relations’.
Chair: Dr Will Murphy, Dublin City University
12.00
Dr. Gerard Keown (Historian and, diplomat, prev. Ambassador to Poland)
‘The Harp in the Orchestra of Nations: Reflections on the Beginnings of Irish Foreign Policy’
14.00
Afternoon field trip to Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation
10.00 Keynote Lecture: Dr David McCullagh (RTÉ) – Éamon de Valera
Chair: Prof Pauric Travers
11.30 Dr Róisín Healy (NUI Galway) ‘Ireland and Poland: historical symmetries and asymmetries’
14.00
Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley (NUI Galway) – Child welfare in Ireland in a global perspective, 1919-2009
Prof Pat Dolan (NUI Galway) ‘Corporal punishment in Irish schools: Unfinished business’
10.00 Panel on the centenary of the Department of Foreign Affairs from the DIFP team, Royal Irish Academy
Dr Michael Kennedy – ‘“The Ambassador’s cine camera” – the diplomatic career of Ambassador Denis Holmes through his home movies’
Dr John Gibney – ‘Irish diplomats and the end of the sixties: diplomatic reports from the US, 1969’
11.30 Panel Discussion – ‘Beyond Brexit? Ireland and the wider world’
Chair: Elaine Loughlin, The Irish Examiner Political Correspondent
Saoirse McHugh (Green Party)
Barry Andrews (Fianna Fáil)
Senator Ian Marshall (Independent)
Visitor Information
Accommodation: a variety of accommodation is available in the Avoca/Rathdrum area visit: http://www.discoverireland.ie/where-to-stay/
Venues: Avondale House and Conference Hall and the Woodenbridge Hotel, Avoca, the evening venue during the Summer School.
Public Transport: Trains and buses to Rathdrum. See irishrail.ie or buseireann.ie
Lectures begin each day at 10.00 a.m.
Lunch will be served from 12.30 – 2.30 p.m.
A variety of entertainment is provided, including guided tour and the Summer School Gala Dinner.
Previous Schools
Images from the 2016 Summer School
Images from the 2011 Summer School
Images from the 2010 Summer School
Images from the 2009 Summer School
The 2009 Parnell Summer School was the Society’s eighteenth annual Summer School. Images below feature some of the highlights of the week including:
The official unveiling of two commerative seats, dedicated to two former founding members of the Society – Marie Toibin and Mairin Lindsay, by US Ambassador, Dan Rooney;
Guest speakers including Dairmaid Ferriter UCD, Christy Cooney GAA President, Michael O’Muircheartaigh, Broadcaster, Robert Fitzpatrick – CEO Odyssey, Jennifer Kelly and Tom Hunt.
Launch of two books from UCD Press – Words of the Dead Chief (eds, Donal McCartney and Pauric Travers); and J.J. Horgan (ed.), From Parnell to Pearse, by Mr Martin Mansergh, T.D.
Plus a review of the on-going redevelopment of the ‘Big Shed’ by the OPW at Avondale House.
