Spalpeens, Gombeens, Squireens: Class Relations in Nineteenth Century Ireland. Saturday 31 July, NUI Maynooth.
Saturday July 31st, 10am – 6pm
AX1, Auxilla House, North Campus, NUI Maynooth
9:30 – 9:45 Registration, Auxilia Foyer
9:45 – 10:00 Welcome; Eoin Flaherty (NUIM) and Terry Dunne (MIC)
10:00am – 11:00am Industry and Proto-Industry
Education in 19th century model villages in Ireland
Elena O’ Brien, Archaeology, (UCC)
Mapping social class in 19th century Ireland: towards a more systematic approach
Dr. Jane Gray, Sociology, (NUI Maynooth)
11:00am – 11:15am Break
11:15am – 12:15pm Health
‘In death there is no remembrance’: The evidence of post-medieval health from human skeletal remains
Linda G. Lynch, Archaeology, (UCC)
The silent voice: Narratives of health at the 19th century watering-place
Dr. Ronan Foley, Geography, (NUIM)
12:15pm – 12:30pm Break
12:30pm – 1:30pm Late Nineteenth Century
Social change in 19th century Ireland: The advent of narrow gauge railways in Munster
Edel Barry, Archaeology, (UCC)
The poorest classes? Language and social class in post-famine Ireland
Dr. Nicholas Wolf, History, (Virginia Commonwealth University)
1:30pm – 2:30pm Lunch
2:30pm – 4:00pm Pre-Famine
Class conflict in the 1830s Tithe War
Noreen Higgins-McHugh, History, (UCC)
Between a rock and a hard place: The reality of being a land agent in Ireland in the 1830s and 1840s
Laura Vickers, Moore Institute, (NUIG)
“No more at present from your friend, Captain Rock”: ‘Threatening letters’ and social attitudes in pre-famine Ireland
Terry Dunne, History, (MIC)
4:00pm – 4:15pm Break
4:15pm – 5:15pm Modes of Production
The rundale system in 19th century Ireland: Conceptualising and exploring the ecological dynamics of primitive communism
Eoin Flaherty, Sociology, (NUIM)
‘Wooden idols triumph and human beings are sacrificed’: Marx on legal theft in the Rhineland and Ireland
Dr. Eamonn Slater, Sociology, (NUIM)
Sponsored by the Comparative-Historical Research Cluster; Department of Sociology, NUI Maynooth.
Co-conveners: Terry Dunne and Eoin Flaherty.
Paper abstracts are available here. Conference registration is available here.