Newspaper & Periodical History Forum of Ireland Annual Conference 2011
‘Writing the Press into History’
18 & 19 November,
National Library of Ireland, Dublin
Friday 18 November
- 9:45 Welcome: Fiona Ross, Director of the National Library of Ireland
- 10:00 – 11:30 Session 1 War & Words
- Dr Chiara Chini, University of Florence: The Italian Perspective on the Irish War of Independence
- Anne Drumm, Freelance Academic: Irish Newspaper Coverage of the First Opium War, 1839-42
- David Reid, Trinity College, Dublin: The Representation of the Tithe War in Nationalist & Conservative Papers, 1830-38
- 11:30 – 12:00 Coffee Break
- 12:00 – 13:30 Session 2 News Supply & Effects
- James O’Donnell, National University of Ireland, Galway: The Foundation of the Press Association: Creating an Established Network of News Supply in Britain & Ireland in the 19th and 20th Centuries
- Pol Dalmau Palet, European University Institute: From Opinion to Information: The Case of ‘Le Vanguardia’ and the Transformation of the 19th Century Spanish Press
- Celine Lambert, Université de Franche-Comté: The Doxic use of History in Editorials
- 13:30 – 14:30 Lunch
- 14:30 – 15.30 Session 3 The Press & History
- Prof. Teresa Jo Styles, North Carolina A & T State University, USA: Writing Press History
- Prof. Debra Reddin van Tuyll, Augusta State University: Writing the Press into American Civil War History
- 15.30 – 16.30 Keynote Address: Prof. Chris Morash, National University of Ireland, Maynooth: Thinking Spatially about Newspaper History
- 17.00 – 18:00 Reception
- 18:30 – Late Conference dinner
Saturday 19 November
- 10:00 – 11:30 Session 4 War Correspondents
- Prof. Brian Cathcart, Kingston University London: Peter Finnerty, Pioneer War Correspondent
- Dr Maurice Walsh, Kingston University London: Denis Johnson, War Correspondent 1942-1945
- Michael Foley, Dublin Institute of Technology: Edmund O’Donovan: War Correspondent
- 11:30 – 12:00 Coffee Break
- 12:00 – 14:00 Session 5 Representations
- Dr Ida Milne, Trinity College Dublin: Pandemic Influenza in the News
- McKayla Sutton, Marquette University, USA: ‘An Angel, a Beauty and a Cook’: The Newspaper Campaign Promoting the Shannon Hydroelectric Scheme to Irish Women
- Dr Kenneth L. Shonk, University Wisconsin-Superior, USA: I’m Glad I’m Not Beautiful! The Women’s Page in the Irish Press, 1931-37
- Dr Simon Potter, University of Bristol: Researching Transnational History using Digital Newspaper Archives
- 14:00 – 14:30 Lunch
- 14:30 – 16:00 Session 6 Press & Politics
- Dr Bryce Evans, University College Dublin: Making Mischief: Seán Lemass, ‘Dáil Reporter’, and the First Inter-Party Government
- Dr Stephanie Seul, University of Bremen: International Press Responses to German anti-Semitism during the Weimar Republic, 1918-33 – A Transnational Perspective
- James Curry, Trinity College Dublin: ‘More than any Strikes have ever Achieved?’ Evaluating the Legacy of James Larkin’s Irish Worker Newspaper, 1911-14
- 16:00 – 16:30 AGM of the Newspaper & Periodical History Forum