Portrait of a Nation: Art, Politics and the Anglo-Irish Treaty
Portrait of a Nation: Art, Politics and the Anglo-Irish Treaty
Programme
Friday 22nd April 2022
9.00am Registration
9.15am Welcome, Dr Audrey Whitty, Deputy Director and Head of Collections, National Museum of Ireland
9.30am – 10.30am Truce to Treaty in Ireland
Mark Duncan – Chair
Gretchen Friemann – Fom self-proclaimed Republic to reluctant Dominion: The imperial realities behind the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty
Dr Sinéad McCoole – Unreal? Who were the Laverys and what was their Nation State?
10.30am – 11:00am Coffee
11:00am – 12.40pm Politics of Identity and Place
Dr Leeann Lane – Chair
Dr Mary Staines – Identity and Place in the Treaty Debates
Dr Conor Morrissey – Protestant nationalists, and Protestant servicemen, and the Treaty
Dr Mary McAuliffe – Recognise that it was ‘Sister against Sister’ too! Splits, divisions and violence between women during the Irish Civil War, 1922 – 1923
Dr Cormac Moore – ‘The Root of all Evil’ – Northern Irish Nationalists and Unionists’ reaction to the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty
12.40pm – 2:00pm Lunch
2.00pm – 4.00pm Cultural legacy of the Treaty
Dr William Shortall – Chair
Niamh McNally – Estella Solomons – Still Moments
Terry Moylan – “Those in power don’t write the songs”
Dr Éimear O’Connor – Art, Ireland and the Irish American diaspora: Tensions in representation between 1922 and 1930
Professor Paul Rouse – Sport on a partitioned island: The Tailteann Games
Saturday 23rd April 2022
9.30am Registration
9.45am Opening Words – Dr Edith Andrees
10.00am – 11.15am Divided Families
Dr Georgina Laragy – Chair
Flor McCarthy – A Family on Both Sides – and the ripples through a Century
Liz Gillis – They Place their All on the Altar of their Century: The Hales Brothers and the Irish Civil War
Valerie Cox – Ordinary People in a time of War
11.20am – 11.45am Coffee
11.45am – 1.00pm The Artist as Witness
Logan Sisley – Chair
Niamh McCann – foreground, middleground, background
Amanda Dunsmore – Art making as Longitudinal Social Archiving
Anthony Haughey – Socially Engaged Art: Contesting Cultures, Histories and Narratives
HOW TO BOOK: Fee: €5 per day ticket for attending the conference in person at Collins Barracks or free for viewing live online. Tickets are available via Eventbrite here https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/portrait-of-a-nation-art-politics-and-the-anglo-irish-treaty-tickets-305523668517