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
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