Annual Conference of Irish Labour History Society – Friday, October 12th and Saturday, October 13th

The theme of the Annual Conference of the Irish Labour History Society this year is – ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF THE LABOUR PARTY

Venue: ILHS centre, Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.

Friday

7.30pm: Emmet O’Connor, ‘The Century of the Party: Much to acclaim or labour in vain? 

Saturday

10.00am: Address by Eamon Gilmore, Labour Party leader and Tanaiste

Session 1 – 10.30am to 11.45am:

Session Chair: Theresa Moriarty

10.30am: Sean O’Donnell, The Labour Movement and the Clonmel Connection

11.00am: Brendan Byrne, Labour Must Wait

11.15: Brendan Halligan, Building Democracr: The Johnson Years

Session 2 – 11.45 to 1.00pm

Session Chair: Caitriona Crowe

11.45am: John Cunningham, ‘As much right to be termed a Labour man as a Transport worker’: The public career of T J O’Connell 

12.05: Kevin Murphy,  ‘The people as a whole are much more concerned about their own constitutions’: Labour’s opposition to the 1937 Draft Constitution

12.30 to 1.00pm: Questions and Answers

Lunch Break 1pm to 2pm : Sanwiches, tea and coffee provided

Session 3 – 2.00 to 3.00pm

Session Chair Jimmy Somers

2.00pm: Barry Desmond, The Norton Legacy

2.30pm: Niall Greene, Brendan Corish – ‘The man for Ireland’

Session 4 – 3.30 to 5.00pm

Session Chair Francis Devine

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Panel of Experience: Frank and Ger Lewis, Rayner Lysaght, Seamus Scally, Pat Magner, Jane Dillon Byrne and Eithne Fitzgerald

5.00pm: Closing summation by Francis Devine