1916 Easter Rising Conference to take place in Dublin

Exploring what happened when the Irish Rising took place

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Published Monday, February 11, 2013, 7:48 AM

Updated Monday, February 11, 2013, 9:02 AM

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Last Battlefield of 1916, on Moore Street

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Joanna Brück of University College Dublin and Lisa Godson of the National College of Art and Design/GradCAM have organized the conference, Object Matters: Making 1916, which will take place at the Wood Quay venue in Dublin’s Civic Offices on 26 and 27 April.

Speakers from a range of disciplines will speak at the event, which will showcase new research on "visual and material culture of the Rising, looking at the origins of the tricolour, Celtic Revival dress, the politics of commemoration, how 1916 is displayed in museums, Volunteer uniforms, prison art and more," reports TheJournal.ie.

Three main speakers are scheduled for the conference: Nicholas Allen, from the University of Georgia, and Pat Cooke and Mary E Daly, both from the University College Dublin.

The themes of the event include the materialization of memory; the meaning of place; the creation of national symbols; text as material culture; and representing the Rising in art and film.

Tickets and more information can be found at the official conference website, here.

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FallsRNat | Feb 15, 2013, 10:02 AM EST

if it looks at the politics of the people who took part, evrybody wilkl see how the whole ideal of their concept of a Free Ireland was as compared to the antics of the so called republican movement from 1922 onwards, that includes 90% of my family who forgot what a free state should have stood for & debased themselves on a squalid little sectarian war, i find it very hard to believe that anything we come of this, so why bother.

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IrelandNorth | Feb 13, 2013, 01:45 PM EST

Reading a number of 1916 related history books to prepare for its centenary, I am reminded of just how spectularly audacious the whole Easter Rising thing was. Either the last acts of mad impetuous fools intoxicated with idealism. Or that of a generation with uncommon foresight denied to the contemporary masses. May even have been a variety of religious experience.

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seanomelb | Feb 12, 2013, 08:14 PM EST

I hope their endgame is not to re-write history to suit the kenny and his free State mates

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WoundedKnee | Feb 11, 2013, 04:36 PM EST

Sounds like a few nonentity academics preening themselves. Give it a miss.

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IrelandNorth | Feb 11, 2013, 01:53 PM EST

Attorney at Law/Headmaster/Schoolteacher/Irish Patriot Comdt P H Pearse encapsulated the Via Dolorosa that was/is Anglo-Irish h[y]st[e]ry when he wrote: "There are some things much worse than bloodshed. And slavery is one of them!" A peculiar phenomenon of the abolishion of slavery in the Confederate States of America was that many such liberated slaves returned to their southern masters out of a sense of learned helplessness.

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Seanmor | Feb 11, 2013, 08:55 AM EST

It appears as though none of the speakers at this conference is scheduled to discuss the primary objective of the 1916 rising, which wa to obtain full independence "for the whole nation and all its parts. In recent years revisionist historians, partitionist politicians and misleading journalist try to make us believe that the Anglo-Irish Tyraty granted Independence to Ireland, which is NOT the case. The fact is that establishing and upholding Partition was never the goal of the great patriots who signed the Proclamation and paid for it with their lives.

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