National Irish Studies Conference Speakers
Thank you to all the wonderful speakers who have given their time, free of charge, to provide a huge range of topics at our conferences (click on each year to see the speakers below!).
1988
- Prof. Emrys Evans: Keynote speech on Irish Studies in UK
- Prof. Pat Buckland: Irish Studies Institute, Liverpool University
- George Boyce: Irish Studies at A/S level
- Siobhan Ui Neill: Irish language Examinations at GCSE
- Teresa Quick & Les Hankin: Irish Cultural Studies pack
- Nessan Danaher, Chris Warn, Roger Swift: Irish Studies and the GCSE Modular Scheme
1997
- Fr. Sean O Duinn: Sacred Sites, myths and legends
- Meryn Busteed: Researching the Irish in 19th century M/c
- Professor Frank Neal: Famine fever – study of its affects in M/c 1840
- Kino films: Irish short films
- Kate Thompson: Developing and examining the Irish language
- Anna Martin: Irish women; heroines and writers
- Peter Gray: Great Irish Famine: Interpretation and responses
1998
- Eddie Lenahan: Irish Storytelling
- Meryn Busteed: Coping with Nineteenth Century Manchester
- Linda Sever: Ireland’s Opportunity: 1798
- Bernard Brown: 1798 rebellion
- Janet Wallwork: Nothing but the same old story.
- Michael Parker: Irish Novels by Mclaverty, Deane, Madden
- Mary McAndrew: Music of the Exiles: Irish trad. Music in UK
- Caoimhghin O Brollachain: White boys of Killkenny
- Caoimhghin O Brollachain: The dog with eight legs. Works of O Laoghair
- Fergus O Connor/Liam McLoughlin: Ireland’s Islands
- Prof. Emrys Evans: Celtic Gold and Celtic Genius
1999
- Prof. Emrys Evans: Irish words in the English language
- Frank Neal: The Orange Order in M/c and L/pool
- Fergus O Connor: The Blasket Island writers
- Janet Wallwork: The buildings of Ireland
- Mervyn Busteed: Anglo-Irish Landlordism
- Fran O Boyle: Stories from the Glens of Antrim
- Paul Gosling: Archaeology of Clare Island
- Professor Frank Neal: Sectanian violence in L/pool/Black 47
- Liam McLoughlin: Manchester Martyrs
2000
- Professor Christine Kineally: Great Calamity
- Mervyn Busteed: The Plantations of Ulster
- Sean Hutton: Works of Professor Joe Lee
- Jim O Hara: Irish history through political cartoons
- Michael Sheehan: Irish Manchester
- Loreto Todd: Origins of Irish surnames
2001
- Prof. Mary Hickman: Second generation Irish identity
- Prof. Marianne Elliot: Catholics of Northern Ireland
- Bernadette Dyer: Literature of the Troubles in NI
- Mary Warrener: Brigid; Saint and Goddess
- Mary Warrene: Colmcille of Ireland
- Kevin Bean: Future of Natl/Republicanism
- Michael Walsh: Irish contribution to TU
- Janet Wallwork: Origins of anti Irish racism
- Fergus O Connor: William Wilde 2001
2002
- Kath McLoughlin: Celtic women in legend
- Ian Mc Keane: The Boyne and After; Myths/realities
- Mervyn Busteed: Remembering the Martyrs in M/c
- Baroness May: Blood Irish women and Trade Unions
- Bill Sweeney: 70 yrs of RTE
- Catherine Morris: Cultural revivals in Belfast
- Mary Warrener: Chidren of Lir
- Ian McKeane: War of independence through french eyes
- Janet Wallwork: Private visit to John Rylands Library
2003
LIAM MCLOUGHLIN COACH TOUR OF MANCHESTER MARTYRES SITES 2003
2004
- Frank Nugent: Seek the Frozen lands
- Prof Patrick Buckland: Ireland in Schools programme
- Bill Simpson: Trinity College Library and it’s treasures
- Alan Keegan: Irish M/c in photographs
- Peter Watson: Surnames
- Professor Christine Kineally: A new history of Ireland
2005
- Fergus O Connor: Derek Hill and painters of Tory island
- Frank Nugent: South Aris
- Joe Bradley: Celtic Mind
- David McGuinness: St. Patrick and his legacy
- Eamonn Coleman: Works of Louis McNiece
- Paula Millward: Countess Markievicz
2006
- Prof. Alan Ford: Sectarianism and religious hatred in Northern Ireland
- Michael Sheehan: Manchester’s Irish Story
- Gemma Clarke: The Free State in flames
- Péidi Ó Seighin: A walk along the western seaboard of Ireland
- John Dunleavy: Michael Davitt
- Louise Campbell: Holy wells of Ireland
2007
- Liam Harte: Second-generation Irish identities in fiction and autobiography’
- Mervyn Busteed: Normans in Ireland
- Jarleth Cunnane: Northabout: Sailing the Northwest and Northeast Passages
- Maria Luddy: Magdeline Institutions in Ireland
- Niall Murph: An Leabhar Mhór (The Big Book)
- Mary Warrener: CELTIC YEAR; a spiritual dimension
2008
- Professor John McGurk: Flight of the Earls; prelude to the plantation of Ulster
- Professor John Belchem: Liverpool’s Irish Story
- Catherine Feeney & Maria Henderson: Maude Gonne – English-born Irish revolutionary, feminist and actress
- Nessan Danaher: Tom Barclay’s Memories and Medleys
- Mervyn Busteed: Castle Caldwell. Co. Fermanagh
- Brian Ryan: Irish Lights; story of Irish lighthouses
2009
- Maria Luddy: Prostitution in nineteenth century Ireland
- Brian Ryan: Irish Lights: Story of Irish lighthouses
- Jim Hunter: Ireland Land of Songs
- Yvonne Whelan: Symbolic landscapes of ireland
- Geraldine O Malley: Hammersley The assimilation of the Irish in Britain
2010
- Kevin McNamara: Aspects of Labour policy towards Northern Ireland
- Mervyn Busteed: Celebrating St. Patrick’s day in 19th century Manchester
- Mary Hickman: What does the Irish Diaspora mean
- Geraldine O Malley: Hammersley Exploring the polarity of 2nd generation Irish labour market
- Patrick Gallagher: The Irish Indentured / Slave trade to Barbados
- Arthur Taylor: Celtic history and language links
- Liam McLoughlin: The mapping of Ireland 2010
2011
- Maria Luddy: Matchmaking in Ireland
- Jim Hunter: Yeats and Sligo
- John McAuliffe: Seamus Heaney’s poems
- Mick Molloy: The titanic village of Ireland – Addergoole
- Gemma Clarke: Intimidation, expulsion & communities in conflict in Irish civil war
- Christine Kinealy: Kindness of Strangers
2016
- Liam Harte: The 1916 Rising: An Introduction on Film
- Sonja Tiernan: Countess Markieviez and the women of 1916
- Jim Hunter: The Earl Bishop
- Gemma Clark: Everyday Violence in the Irish civil war
- John McAuliffe: Terrible and beautiful: Yeats, poetry and history in 1916
2013
- Clare Cotter: Aran islands; 3 stepping stones out of Europe
- Sonja Tiernan: Eva Gore Booth
- John Brandon: Story of the Dingle to Tralee railway
- Angela Duffy: Irish infromers in the twentieth century
- Nessan Danaher: Migration Narrative crossing the irish sea 1880-1930
2014
- Franc Meyers: Archaology of 1916 battlefield survey
- Patrick Doyle: The Irish and the first World War
- James Hackland & Catherine Feeney: The Gathering
- Stephen Lally: Leaving of Loughrea
- John McAuliffe: Shemus Heaney
2015
- Svend Kjeldsen: Historical and current developments in Manchester Irish music
- Clare Downham: The Battle of Clontarf in Irish History and Legend
- Michael Sheehan: The history of the Irish in Manchester
- Francis O Neill: Beyond the Pale. Irish migration to Manchester before the great Famine
- Mervin Busteed: The Church and the Manchester Irish
2012
- Christine Kinealy: Kindness of Strangers
- Isabelle Bennett: Archaeology of the Dingle Peninsula
- Pat Shine: St Columba
- Michael Sheehan: Manchester Irish Identity
- Yvonne Whelan: Landscapes of Irish Famine Memory
- Mervyn Busteed: Irish Protestants in Manchester
2017
- Mervyn Busteed: The Manchester Martyrs, Reality, Myth and Legacy
- Maria Luddy: How 2b happy though married; courtship & marriage in Ire 19th and early 20th century
- Pat Shine: My Wild Altantic Way
- Denis Madden: The blood on the
- Fergus O Connor: Sir William Wilde, Dublin surgeon and father of Oscar
2018
- Kevin Bean: Twenty years since the Good Friday agreement
- Linda Ervine: The miracle that is Turas: Irish language in east Belfast
- Michael Sheehan: The Red and the Green. MUFC and their Irish Links
- Fergus O Connor: Valentia Island in the 19th century
- Catherine Feeney: Women of Ireland
2019
- Barra O Donnabhvan: The Victorian Convict Prison on Spike Island, Cork harbour 1847-1883
- Jim Hunter: Patsy Dan Rodgers, King of Tory Island and painter
- Francis O Neill Charles O Neill: Victorian polymath and Irish Nationalist
- Meryn Busteed: The Orange Order in the North West England 1807-1939 2019