PROGRAMME

• 10:00 - Welcome and (virtual) coffee.

• 10:15 - KEYNOTE ADDRESS:

"Union Networks and the Great Dublin Strike of 1878".

Professor David Finkelstein (University of Plymouth)

Respondents: Françoise Baillet and Christophe Gillissen

• 11:20 - SESSION 1: THE POLITICS OF THE PRESS

Chair: Christophe Gillissen

• Françoise Baillet (LSA) –“Invincible Brothers: The Pen and the Press in The Compositors’ Chronicle (1840-1843)”
• Olivier Coquelin (GREI) – “’Press and Social Unrest in Revolutionary Ireland (1919-1923): The Case of the Great Belfast Strike of 1919”.

• 12:30 - Lunch break

• 2:00 - SESSION 2: CONNECTIONS AND CIRCULATIONS

Chair: Françoise Baillet

• Michelle McNamara (Strasbourg) –"Breaking News? The Dublin Press's Dependence on the Postal Service in the early Nineteenth Century"
• Tony Dex Odounga (Dijon) -"The implementation of women's agenda through a highly proactive press network: the case of The English Woman's Journal (1858-1864)."
• Pascale Villate (LSA) – Expanding cultural networks: the bookstalls and libraries of W.H. Smith and Son, 1848-1900.  

• 3:20: (virtual) tea/coffee break

• 3:40 - SESSION 3: ADDRESSING OTHERNESS

Chair: Anne-Catherine de Bouvier

• Christophe Gillissen (GREI) – The Great Famine in The Times.
• Bertrand Cardin (GREI) –"‘Irish as Paddy’s Pig’: the persistence of stereotypes".

• 5:00. Closing remarks