Society for the Study
Of Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Call for Papers
An International Conference on
Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
University College Cork, June 17th and 18th, 2010
The Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland will take place at University College Cork in 2010. This conference will address the theme of ‘philanthropy’, broadly defined, and examine the manner in which philanthropic endeavour underpinned State initiatives for the poor and vulnerable, but also provided opportunities for special interest groups in Ireland. Charitable and voluntary organisations provided a wide range of services for the disadvantaged, the sick, and those in need of temporary assistance. But the poor were not helpless: philanthropic history shows a high level of active engagement with a range of charities, and evidence that individuals employed a sophisticated knowledge of charitable ambitions to secure advantages for themselves. It is hoped that the conference papers will address some of these complex and wide-ranging factors in nineteenth-century Irish history.
Themes might include:
• The politics of philanthropy
• Individual charitable initiatives
• Philanthropy and medicine
• Religion and philanthropy
• The uses of charity by the poor
• Gender and philanthropy
Organisers: Dr Larry Geary and Dr Oonagh Walsh, Dept. of History, University College Cork, Ireland.
The organisers welcome proposals, and suggestions for panels, on additional themes. Please send your proposals as attachments to both Larry Geary at l.geary@ucc.ie, and Oonagh Walsh at o.walsh@ucc.ie Please also note that selected proceedings from this conference will be published.
Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Royal Irish Academy – ‘Science and Technology in nineteenth-century Ireland’
Conference registration is now open. The registration fee is set at 120 euro and 80 euro concessions. Please see the registration form at the end of this page for details.
2-3 July 2009
Thursday
Registration: 10.00 – 11.00
Session I: 11.00 – 1.00
Christine Kinealy and Barry Quest, ‘What hath God wrought?’: Ireland – the hub of the nineteenth-century world’
Patrick Maume, ‘Dominic McCausland and Adam’s Ancestors: A Victorian Irish Evangelical’s response to the scientific challenge to biblical inerrancy’
Eadaoin Agnew, ‘A microscopic look at Mary Ward: Gender, Science and Religion in nineteenth-century Ireland’
James Murphy, ‘Science, Catholics and the school in nineteenth-century Ireland: the case of Castleknock College’
LUNCH: 1.00 – 2.00
Session II: 2.00 – 3.30
Juliana Adelman, ‘Humans and animals in the city: an ecological view of nineteenth-century Dublin’
Vandra Costello, ‘The Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland and the Royal Dublin Society: Botanical societies, sectarianism and nineteenth-century Ireland’
Sherra Murphy, ‘The Learned Gentlemen are in Town: the British Association and the Natural History Museum in Dublin’s popular press, 1857’
Session III: 2.00 – 3.30
Ian Elliott, ‘Grubbs of Dublin: Telescope makers to the World’
Tanya O’Sullivan, ‘Keeping origins in site: outlining geographies of reception in Dublin. A late Victorian case study.'
Kevin Rockett, ‘The magic lantern in Ireland’
COFFEE: 3.30 – 4.00
Session IV: 4.00 – 6.00
Larry Geary, ‘The Medical Press and the Great Famine’
Oonagh Walsh, ‘Scientific discourse in nineteenth-century Irish psychiatry: cause or effect?’
Joe Nugent, ‘The human snout: pigs, priests and peasants in the parlor’
Elizabeth Neswald, ‘Asserting medical identities in mid nineteenth-century provincial Ireland: The case of the Water-Cure in Cork’
COFFEE: 6.00 – 6.30
PLENARY: 6.30 – 7.30
Dr. Tom Duddy, National University of Ireland, Galway, ‘The Irish response to Darwinism’
DINNER: 8.00 LOCAL RESTAURANT
Friday
Session V: 9.30 – 11.00
Jason McElligott, ‘Interrogating the Asylum: the archives of the Richmond Lunatic Asylum’
Mel Cousins, ‘Smallpox and the technology of public health in Ireland’
Michelle Mangan, ‘Medical mistrust among the poor: why Cholera sparked a riot’
Session VI: 9.30 – 11.00
Tadhg O’Keefe, ‘Cartographic v(o)ices: reconstructing Dublin's nineteenth-century red-light district from the Ordnance Survey’
Eamon O’Flaherty, ‘State control of the sources: mid nineteenth-century surveys, Griffith’s valuation and the Ordnance Survey’
Jacinta Prunty, ‘The science of surveying under real world pressures: the Ordnance Survey town mapping in the later nineteenth century’
COFFEE: 11.00 – 11.30
Session VII: 11.30 – 1.00
Se O’Connor, ‘Spectroscopy in Ireland, 1880-1900’
James McGeachie, ‘John Connellan Deane: Irish impresario of the arts and sciences’
Andrew Holmes, ‘Lord Kelvin and Ireland: A Reassessment’
LUNCH: 1.00 – 2.00
Session VIII: 2.00 – 4.00
Giulia Bruna, ‘Micro-Travelogues: The environmental writings of Emily Lawless’
Mary Burke, ‘We’re a queer lot these times’: the post-Darwin universe of Synge’s Playboy’
Sean O’Duinnshleibhe, ‘Pilf’ring from the First Creation: Daibhi de Barra’s Parliament of Weavers’
Bob Smart, ‘The wonderful power of money: ‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Ireland and the New Science’
Session IX: 2.00 – 4.00
Miguel DeArce, ‘The multi-layered anti-Darwinism of Jeremiah Murphy’
Ian Miller, ‘The Irish Stomach: Abdominal illness in the nineteenth-century’
Peter Childs, ‘Manufacturing chemicals from seaweed in nineteenth-century Ireland’
Clara Cullen, ‘A pure school of science: The Royal College of Science for Ireland and scientific education in Victorian Ireland’