National Famine Commemoration 2014 Lecture Series

Strokestown Park House in conjunction with the Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses & Estates, NUI Maynooth presents a series of public lectures as part of the National Famine Commemoration, 2014.

5 May    Launch of Exhibition: The Famine Irish: Emigrant Faces from county Roscommon
by Dr Ciarán Reilly (CSHIHE, NUI Maynooth).

6 May    Dr Emily Mark FitzGerald (School of Art History & Cultural Policy, UCD), Commemorating the Irish Famine: Memory and the Monument

7 May    Professor Mark McGowan (University of Toronto) Seeking the plain people of the Famine: Strategies to uncover the Roscommon migrants of 1847 from the Canadian sid

8 May    Professor Christine Kinealy (Director, Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute, Quinnipiac University), ‘Forgotten heroes’: Women, children and charity during the Great Hunger

9 May    Dr Ciarán Reilly (CSHIHE, NUI Maynooth) , ‘Famine was written on the faces of these women’: The plight of females in Roscommon during the 1840s

10 May
2pm: Dr Richard Reid, There is no person starving here: Australian responses to the Great Famine
2.30pm: Dr Perry McIntyre (Chair of the Australian Great Irish Famine Commemoration Committee, 2013), Remembering and commemorating the Great Famine in Australia
3.30pm  Professor Terence Dooley, (Department of History, NUI Maynooth & Director of CSHIHE) The making of the Irish National Famine Museum at Strokestown
4.00pm    Professor Vincent Comerford, (Professor Emeritus, Department of History, NUI Maynooth), The Great Famine and the Great War: writing the history of calamity

(Lectures will be held at 8pm in Strokestown Park House unless otherwise stated.
Admission is free, but booking is advised)

Enquiries to Strokestown Park t: (071) 9633013 or e:">

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