Committee Members: James Kelly, Niall Ó Ciosáin, Ciarán McCabe, Sarah Roddy.
Representative on the Irish Committee for Historical Sciences: Catherine Cox.
Rowena Pecchenino stepped down from the Committee during the year.
Journal
Graham Brownlow has stepped down from the journal after at least a decade of service; Eoin McLaughlin has succeeded him (on the economic history side). Jonathan Wright remains as book reviews editor. Juliana Adelman remains as co-editor (social history side).
Volume 50 is due to appear in December 2023. It will contain seven research articles, as well as book reviews, a bibliographic listing and the secretary's report.
The 50th anniversary of the society and of the journal will be acknowledged in volume 51, including short papers based on the roundtable at the 2023 conference.
Annual Conference 2023, University College Dublin
The annual conference was held on 17 and 18 October in University College Dublin and was organised by Alice Mauger and Morgan Wait. The Connell Lecture was presented by Erika Hanna of the University of Bristol. The title of the lecture was ‘Rainfall and the Irish City, 1800–2000’. The conference also featured a round table on ‘The Future Prospects of Social Economic History’ where the panel was: David Dickson (Trinity College Dublin), Catherine Cox (University College Dublin), Graham Brownlow (Queen's University Belfast) and Eoin McLaughlin (Heriot-Watt University).
The following papers were presented:
FRIDAY: Lauren Smyth (Queen's University Belfast) – Belfast Charitable Society and pauper apprenticeships in the growing industrial town, 1800–1851; Sorcha Clarke (Ulster University) – The language of letters: petitioning for charity on an Ulster landed estate, 1850–1900; Constantin Torve (Queen's University Belfast) – Moll Doyle and her children: the evolution of a lower-class protest repertoire, 1807–1860; Cathal Burke O’Leary (Dublin City University) – Taxation and state-building in the Irish Free State; Anna Devlin (Trinity College Dublin) – ‘Ireland, for some time, has been living in a fever of economics’: economic interest associations and national development in early twentieth-century Ireland; Alan de Bromhead (University College Dublin) – Irish regional gross domestic product since independence; Barry Keane (Independent) – Protestant population dynamics in early twentieth-century Ireland; Olesia Zhytkova (Dublin City University) – Corruption, Russian war and post-war reconstruction of Ukraine; Andrew Dorman (Trinity College Dublin) – ‘Subduing the civil power’: the army-societal relationship in eighteenth-century Ireland; Sandrine Tromeur (Maynooth University) – ‘Except for the risks, perils and fortunes of the sea and war’: Irish merchants of La Rochelle and maritime trade during the second Anglo-Dutch war, 1665–1667; David Brown (Trinity College Dublin) – Trading their way through it: Ireland's imports and exports during and after the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1641–1670; Bríd McGrath (Trinity College Dublin) – Local democracy in early modern Limerick; Kate O’Keeffe (South East Technological University) – ‘Lady Clerks to CEO’: a biographical narrative exploration of the challenges, opportunities, and educational programmes for female bank workers since the lifting of the marriage bar in Ireland; Shannon Hughes Spence (South East Technological University) – The control of women's bodies in Ireland: from 1930s dance halls to modern nightclubs; Patrice Maguire (Dublin City University) – Irish youth, a changing Ireland and agony aunt columns, 1963–1975; Leslie E. E. Donaldson (Independent) – ‘… wretched, crowded little buildings …’: the application of The Artizans and Labourers Dwellings Act, 1875 in Belfast 1877; Norma Owens (University of Galway) – Was the Cong lace industry better than Home Rule?; Daniel Gallen (Maynooth University) – London calling: imagining the Irish LGBTQ+ emigrant experience in London, 1967–1993; Michael Lawrence (Queen's University Belfast) – ‘I cannot forget that I am supposed to be something that I am not’: male homosexuality and emigration in Ireland, 1891–1922; Catherine Ann Cullen (University College Dublin) – Lasting impressions?: mapping two printers of the nineteenth-century Dublin tenements, their clients and audiences; Declan Monaghan (Maynooth University) – The origins and the history of the Irish National Stud from 1900 to 2021; Catherine Swift (Mary Immaculate College) – Episcopal development of urban manors and market towns in thirteenth-century Limerick; Tadgh Farrell (Trinity College Dublin) – A Gaelic merchant prince: Turlough ‘an fhiona’, the first O’Donnell fish lord?
SATURDAY: Pat O’Brien (Dublin City University) – The Irish tax man cometh: building the tax system in the Irish Free State, 1923–1925; Daithí Ó Corráin (Dublin City University) – ‘The most serious financial problem of all’: post-civil war compensation; Gerard Hanely (Dublin City University) – Unemployment 1922–1932: ‘a menace to the state’; Aydin Anil Mucek (University College Dublin) – The racial hierarchies of Irish missionaries in Africa and their impact on Irish society; Eleanor O’Leary (South East Technological University) – American parcels: Irish American diasporic exchange 1930–2000; Tom McGrath (Maynooth University) – The Irish and the 1922 Rand Revolt: an introductory survey; Pauline Gardiner (National Museums NI) and Patrick Fitzgerald (Mellon Centre for Migration Studies) – Wastrels, loafers and drunken rowdies: the life and times of the Irish corner-boy; Rachel Newell (Queen's University Belfast) – ‘I did not know he was discharged from the army’: female criminality surrounding separation allowance during the First World War; Brian Griffin (Maynooth University) – Cartoons in conflict: Larry O’Hooligan and the First World War; Ursula Callaghan (Independent) and Hélène Bradley Davies (Mary Immaculate College) – Limerick blue coats: managing an urban charity school, 1810–1881; Jane O’Brien (University College Dublin) – ‘I have nowhere and nothing for him’: family involvement at children's committal to the Sister of Mercy-run Irish industrial schools, 1868–1936; Liam Kennedy (Queen's University Belfast) – Religious affiliation and child mortality in Ireland: a country-wide analysis based on the 1911 census; Fiona Slevin (University College Dublin) – Underestimating women: assessing female proprietorship in post-Famine rural Ireland; Katie Tate (Queen's University Belfast) – ‘Quite capable of being Governor…herself’: the Northern Irish governorship and the influence of the governors’ wives; Emma Lyons (University College Dublin) – ‘The Christian name belongs to the world of fancy the surname to that of tradition’: property bequests to daughters in seventeenth-century Ireland; Declan O’Keeffe (Clongowes Wood College SJ) – ‘Influencing the influential’: Irish Jesuit periodicals; Conor Galvin (University College Dublin) – The Standing Conference on Teacher Education North and South (SCoTENS), Ireland: a social history perspective on a unique and enduring cross-border learning community; Seán Lyons (University College Dublin) – Domestic technology and human capital formation: rural electrification and secondary school participation in Ireland; Jim Deery (Maynooth University) – The socio-economic impact of British recruitment on Ireland during the Napoleonic Wars 1808–1815; Jack Kavanagh (University College Dublin) – The Free State response to national army casualties’; Stephen Callaghan (Independent) – The economic influences of Birr Barracks; Helen Doyle (Maynooth University) – Was Bridget McCreedy a ‘dangerous lunatic’?; Marc Caball (University College Dublin) – Prostitution, murder and urban space in an Irish provincial town in 1829; Oisín Wall (University College Cork) – National trauma dumping: the memorialisation of traumatic social history in Dublin's north inner-city; Darren Coleborne (Queen's University Belfast) – ‘Whose movement is it, anyways?’: a relational approach to social movement coalescence in Northern Ireland's People's Democracy, 1968; Jack Crangle (Maynooth University) – ‘I hated being Irish’: exclusion, discrimination and empowerment in oral histories of Black and mixed race Ireland; Julie Crowley (South East Technological University) – Caregiving at Irish military hospitals during the First and Second World Wars; Kevin Finnan (Dublin City University) – The January 1921 Hospital Order; Brian Casey (Durham University) – Collaboration, confrontation and care: the Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood and the provision of healthcare in provincial Ireland, 1942–1970; Marie Lynch (St Patrick's University Hospital) – A decade of disturbance (1916–1925): the impact of revolution and civil war on presentations of mental illness to Ireland's oldest psychiatric hospital; Mary Curtin (University of Limerick) – The legacy of history: females and Irish land ownership; James Beirne (Maynooth University) – The colonisation of Ireland and the history of political economy; David Gahan (Maynooth University) – The 1933 Land Act: Fianna Fáil and land reform; Charles Read (University of Cambridge) – Food-market integration and humanitarian-relief policy: the case of the Great Irish Famine of 1845–1852.
