Posts Tagged ‘Home Rule’
8-11 June 2017: Programme of events to mark centenary of the death of Major William (Willie) Redmond MP, Wexford
Between Thursday 8 June and Sunday 11 June 2017 Wexford County Council organised a sequence of events to commemorate the death of Major William (Willie) Redmond MP (1861-1917), the younger brother of the Home Rule leader John Redmond, who was killed on the Western Front. Willie Redmond was MP for East Clare, and having briefly…
Read More10 March 2017: ‘Commemorating partition and Civil Wars in Ireland’, Queen’s University Belfast
On Friday 10 March 2017 the Institute of Irish Studies, Queen’s University Belfast, hosted a symposium on ‘Commemorating partition and Civil Wars in Ireland, 2020-23: Civil Wars and their legacies in Ireland’. Speakers included Bill Kissing (LSE), Gemma Clark (Exeter), and David Armitage (Harvard). Download the full schedule. From History Ireland: Michael Laffan on the partition…
Read More17 February 2017: Irish Legal History Society Spring Discourse: ‘The Irish Convention’, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2
On Friday 17 February 2017 John F. Larkin QC (NI Attorney-General) presented the Irish Legal History Society Spring Discourse on ‘The Irish Convention’. This was the forum established in 1917 to facilitate negotiations between Irish unionists and constitutional nationalists, to explore the basis for an agreement that would permit the implementation of Home Rule; it…
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