Timetable for 20th Annual John Boyle O'Reilly Autumn School

Old Drogheda Society

TIMETABLE

 

 

10:00                   Coffee and registration

 

10:30 - 11:15      Brian Hanley        World War One and Ireland: look back in anger.

11:15 -12:00       Phillip Orr             Unionism and the Great War

12:00 - 12:45      Brendan Matthews   Kill or Cure – A Local Commercial Scheme to Collect Wild Medicinal Herbs for Use in the War (Researched by Liz King & Brendan Matthews)

 

LUNCH  12:45 – 2:00

 

2:00 – 2:45         Mary Muldowney Overcoming barriers of class and gender: The experience of Irish women workers during the First World War.

2:45 - 3:30          Francis Devine    James Connolly and the Irish Neutrality League

3:30 - 4:15          Seán Corcoran    The Dead of Drogheda Arise – local impact of the First World War.

 

4:15 - 5:00          Open Forum

  

 

 

 

Old Drogheda Society - History, Archaeology & Heritage

Millmount, Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland. Tel. 041-9833097