CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh is Professor Emeritus in History at NUI, Galway. His numerous publications relate principally to the political, social and cultural history of modern Ireland. Dr Gerard Moran has lectured at NUI, Galway and NUI, Maynooth, where he established and directed the MA in Irish History. He has published extensively on nineteenth-century Ireland and research interests include Irish emigration and diaspora, agrarian agitation and social conditions in Ireland. He is the author of many books including Sending Out Ireland’s Poor: Assisted Emigration from Ireland in the Nineteenth Century Professor Christine Kinealy has lectured worldwide on the Great Famine. Recently appointed founding Director of Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac University, Connecticut. She has written sixteen books on modern Ireland with a focus on famine, including: This Great Calamity: The Great Irish Famine 1845-52 and Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland: The Kindness of Strangers Dr Regina Donlon graduated with a PhD from NUI Maynooth in 2014. Her research interests include Irish and European diasporas in North America during the nineteenth century, immigrant involvement in politics and transatlantic connections with the homeland. She has recently been awarded an Irish Research Council Post-doctoral Fellowship at NUI Galway. This research will examine Irish immigrants in Minnesota who left as part of James Hack Tuke's assisted emigration scheme. Kathleen Villiers-Tuthill is the author of six books and many other works on the history of West County Galway. She lectures frequently to local history societies and other groups throughout the country. She has received a number of awards for her work, including an honorary Master of Arts degree from NUI Galway.

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7.00 pm Official Opening Reception at Station House Hotel

SA TU R DAY 1 S T N O V EM B ER 20 14 9.00am – 9.45am Registration 9.45am – 10.00am Welcome & Introduction 10.00am – 10.45am The 'Great Departure Lounge': Ireland and the Irish experience of emigration in the nineteenth century Speaker: Professor Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh (Emeritus History, National University of Ireland, Galway) 10.45am – 11.30am ‘Loyalty and starvation are not compatible’: The state of the Clifden Union, 1876-84 Speaker: Kathleen Villiers-Tuthill (Writer & Historian) 11.30am – 12.00pm Coffee Break 12.00pm – 12.45pm From Great Famine to Forgotten Famine: James Hack Tuke, an English Quaker in the west of Ireland. Speaker: Professor Christine Kinealy (Quinnipiac University, Connecticut, USA) 1.00pm – 2.00pm Lunch 2.00pm – 2.45pm ‘The Benevolence of a Stranger’: James Hack Tuke’s Assisted Emigration Schemes from the Clifden Poor Law Union, 1882-4 Speaker: Dr Gerard Moran (Emeritus History, National University of Ireland, Maynooth) 2.45pm – 3.30pm ‘I will never forget your kindness and how you worked to get us to this country': The impact of the James H. Tuke assisted emigration scheme on Clifden's poor. Speaker: Dr Regina Donlon (National University of Ireland, Galway)

3.30pm – 3.45pm Coffee Break Ongoing Work 3.45pm – 4.00pm Blacksod Committee 4.00pm – 4.15pm Oughterard Committee 4.15pm – 4.30pm Tommy Burke: Inishbofin & Inishark 4.30pm – 4.45pm Clifden Committee 4.45pm – 5.00pm Open Forum Q & A

C ON F ER ENC E C O ST

€25.00 per person – includes lunch and coffee

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