NEWSPAPER AND PERIODICAL HISTORY FORUM OF IRELAND

 

Newspaper & Periodical History Forum of Ireland

 

Conference 2009 – Programme

 

Friday 20 November

Start 10:30 with coffee

10 minute address by DIT President

 

11:00-12:30 Session 1 Newspapers, Periodicals & History

{Chair: S. Potter}

Ian Kenneally – The Irish Bulletin: Propaganda Sheet, First Draft of History, or Both?

Patrick Maume – The First 70 Years: Reflections on the History of the Irish Independent 1891-1961

Mark Werhly – ‘Blessed with the Faculty of Mirthfulness’: Arthur Malley, The Sligo Champion and Nationalist

Interpretations of Irish History, 1899-1900

 

12:30-13:30 – Lunch

 

13:30-15:00 Session 2 Women & the Media {Chair: C. Connolly}

Sonja Tiernan – The Periodical Urania (1916-40): An Alternative Archive of Radical Feminist Thought

Catherine Morris – Imagining a democratic community: Alice Milligan and Irish newspapers, 1880-1950

Mary Muldowney – Bringing women into an ‘undesirable association’: How the railway industry trade press portrayed the employment of women workers during the First World War.

 

15:00-15:30 – Coffee

 

15:30-17:30 Session 3 The Irish Times: 150 Years of Good Times and Bad

{Chair: M. Foley}

Ian d’Alton

Mark O’Brien

Fintan O’Toole

 

17:30-18:30 – Reception

 

19:00 – Conference dinner at Fallon & Byrne

 

Saturday 21 November

 

11:30-13:00 Session 4 Northern Ireland & the Media

{Chair: R. Ui Chollatáin}

Kevin Rafter – Bombers and mavericks: Magill magazine’s coverage of Northern Ireland, 1977-1990

Ray Burke – The Irish Press of the Troubles: Scéala Eireann 1968-1995

Dónal McAnallen – Northern Irish Newspapers and the Politics of Sports Coverage, 1920-72

 

13:00-14:00 – Lunch

 

14:00-15:30 Session 5 Keynote Speaker {Chair. F. Larkin}

Robert Schmuhl – Peering through the Fog: American Newspapers and the Easter Rising

 

15:30-16:00 – Coffee

 

16:00-17:00 AGM