1912: Irish Women before the Revolution
Women’s History Association of Ireland -Annual Conference
25-26 May 2012
Hosted by the Department of Irish Studies, Mater Dei Institute of Education (a
college of Dublin City University)
Programme
Friday 25 May
Venue Theatre C1
5.30-6.00
Registration
6.00-7.00
Keynote Address:
Dr Senia Paseta, St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford
Suffrage, Citizenship and Nationality in the 1912 Home Rule Bill
7.00
Wine Reception and awarding of the MacCurtain/Cullen Prize AND Anna Parnell
Travel Grant
Saturday 26 May
9.00-9.30
Registration and Coffee
9.30-11.00
Session 1 – Theatre C1
Chelsea Jeffery (University of Toronto)
Dr Mary Louise O’Donnell (UL)
Dr Ian Miller (UCD)
11.00-11.30
Domestic Issues in the Public Sphere
‘Murder in the media’: reporting the trial of
Mary Anne Feeney
The Home life of Mary Brigid Pearse
Undernourished Infants and ‘School-Day
Starvation’: Women, Politics and Childhood
Feeding, c.1900-1918
Coffee/Tea
1912: Irish Women before the Revolution
11.30-1.00 Session 2 – Theatre C1
Dr Rosemary Cullen Owens (UCD)
Dr Leeann Lane (MDI, DCU)
Dr William Murphy (MDI, DCU)
1.00-200
Varieties of Activism
‘Suffrage campaigners had a rough road to go
and out chief opponents were the powerful
Irish Party and its machine.......we were a
pestilential red herring across the trail of
Home Rule'
‘put them out’, ‘kick ‘em out’: responses to
suffrage activism in Waterford in the context of
the 1912 Home Rule Bill.
'On the Eve of Militancy?:Suffragists
and the Census of Ireland in 1911.'
Lunch
2.00-3.30 Session 3
Panel 1 – Theatre C1
Gerri O’Neill (MDI, DCU)
Activist Individuals
Elizabeth Bloxham – the Quiet Revolutionary
Dr Jyoti Atwal (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Margaret Cousins: The Irish Feminist in
Colonial India
Alice Stopford Green: the making of an Irish
nationalist public intellectual, c. 1877-1912.
Conor Morrissey (TCD)
Panel II – Theatre C2
Dr Margaret O hOgartaigh (Harvard)
Gillian McCelland (QUB)
Dr Clara Cullen (UCD)
3.30-3.45
Education
The Noiseless Revolution in Women’s
Education before the Noisy Political
Revolution, 1878-1911
Victoria College Belfast and the creation of a
Unionist identity for middle class women,
1874-1912
In pursuit of ‘sound scientific truth’: The Royal
College of Science for Ireland (1867-1926)
and the women who studied there.
Coffee/Tea
1912: Irish Women before the Revolution
3.45-5.45 Session 4 Theatre C1
Catriona Crowe (NAI)
Lived lives
Ordinary Women’s Lives in 1911 as seen in the
Census
Dr Ríona Nic Congáil (SPD, DCU)
Women, Children’s Culture and the Public
Sphere
Therese Moriarty (Museum of Labour History) The Rising of the Women, 1912
James Curry (TCD)
‘Apparently unimportant things’: The Irish
Worker’s “Women Workers Column” and
Delia Larkin’s gendered debate about Irish
identity, 1911-12.
7.00pm
Conference Dinner
A conference dinner will be held in Wallaces Italian Restaurant, Russell Square, on the night of
Saturday 26th May 2012(provided enough delegates attend to make this viable.) The cost of the
dinner will be €22.50
For information on registration and on the conference dinner on Saturday 26th May, contact Dr
Leeann Lane/Dr Mary McAuliffe at whai@materdei.dcu.ie or see the WHAI website at
www.whai.ie