German Mausers being unloaded from the Asgard on Sunday July 26th, 1914

Saturday, July 26th, 2014

THE HOWTH GUN RUNNING; 100 YEARS ON

Collins Barracks, Dublin  

10.00am Welcome with Raghnall O’ Floinn, Director, National Museum of Ireland

10.10am The Guns of July Professor Michael Laffan, University College, Dublin

10.30am Ulster Volunteer Force Gun-running, 1913-14 Dr Tim Bowman, University of Kent

10.50am The Gun-running: Planning and Personalities Sandra Heise, National Museum of Ireland

11.10am Q&A session chaired by Brian Crowley, Curator, Pearse Museum

11.20 – 11.50am COFFEE BREAK

11.50am At home on the Asgard: the Accounts of Mary Spring Rice and Molly Childers

Professor Lucy McDiarmid. Marie Frazee-Baldassarre Professor of English at Montclair State University

12.10pm The Life of Robert Erskine Childers Professor Rory Childers, University of Chicago

12.30 – 12.50pm Q&A session chaired by Brian Crowley, Curator, Pearse Museum

12.50 – 2.00pm LUNCH

2.00pm Dublin Metropolitan Police: Personalities and Victims of the Howth Gun-running

Jim Herlihy, historian and genealogist

2:20pm A partial or uneven administration of the Law: Lawyers, the Law and the Importation

of Arms to Ireland, 1914 The Hon Justice Donal O’Donnell, Supreme Court

2.40pm Dublin’s forgotten Bloody Sunday: The Howth Gun-running and Bachelors’ Walk massacre

Padraig Yeates, historian and journalist

3.00 – 3.10pm Q&A Session chaired by Brian Crowley, Curator, Pearse Museum

3.10 – 3.30pm COFFEE BREAk

3.30pm Sailing to the Republic Theo Dorgan, poet, author and sailor

3.50pm Asgard: Memories and Responses Sean Rickard, Vincent Breslin, Niamh O’Sullivan

and Pat Murphy introduced by Edith Andrees, National Museum of Ireland

4.20 – 4.30pm Q&A session chaired by Theo Dorgan

Please note the programme may be subject to change.

Organised by the Education and Outreach Department, National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts & History, Collins Barracks, Benburb Street, Dublin 7

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