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Workshop
Friday 8 November
2.00pm – 2.30pm Welcome and Opening Remarks
2.30pm – 3.30pm Opening Keynote Speaker
Scotland and Ireland, 1889-1941: Labour directions and radical connections Emmet O’Connor, University of Ulster
Chair: Chloe Ross, University of Aberdeen
3.30pm – 4.00pm Tea and coffee
4.00pm – 5.30pm Session 1
19th Century Scottish and Irish Labour History
‘Better to die by the sword than to die of starvation’: popular protest and resistance to famine in Ireland and Scotland, 1846-47. John Cunningham, NUI Galway
The Irish migrants’ experience in nineteenth-century Greenock: Poverty, Strikes and Disturbance Shaun Kavanagh, University of Glasgow
Chair: Andrew Blaikie, University of Aberdeen
5.30pm Reception
7.00pm Dinner (non-speakers please get in touch beforehand if you would like to attend the meal chloe.ross@abdn.ac.uk)
Saturday 9 November
9.30am – 11.00am Session 2
Early Twentieth Century Scottish and Irish Labour History
Transatlantic socialism and the crisis of faith in Scotland and Ireland, 1889-1914. Leah Hunnewell, Trinity College Dublin
The Worker (1914-15): James Connolly’s short-lived ‘Organ of the Irish Working Class’ James Curry, Moore Institute, NUI Galway
Chair: Colin Barr, University of Aberdeen
11.00am – 11.30am Tea and coffee
11.30am – 1.00pm Session 3
The Decade of Revolution in Scottish and Irish Labour History
‘The dear little, sweet little, Shamrock of Ireland’! The Lochee Irish and Female Strike Activity in Dundee, 1911-1912. William Kenefick, University of Dundee
Scottish responses to the 1913 Dublin Lock-out and the 1916 Easter Rising. Chloe Ross, University of Aberdeen
Chair: Annina Cavelti-Kee, University of Aberdeen
1.00pm – 2.00pm Lunch
2.00pm – 3.30pm Session 4
Scottish and Irish Labour History in the 1970s
168 Days: The Irish Steel Strike of 1977 Liam Cullinane, University of Cork
Community Mobilisation and Historical Tradition: The Anti-Poll Tax Movement on Clydeside, 1988-1990 Ewan Gibbs, University of Glasgow
Chair: Michael Brown, University of Aberdeen
3.30pm – 4.00pm Tea and coffee
4.00pm – 5.00pm Closing Keynote Speaker
Oral history, labour history and the body at work Arthur McIvor, University of Strathclyde
Chair: Chloe Ross, University of Aberdeen
For further information please contact chloe.ross@abdn.ac.uk
- Hosted by
- RIISS, University of Aberdeen
- Venue
- HMG1, Humanity Manse, 19 College Bounds