Sociology

Humanities Series

Panel discussion, chaired by Catriona Crowe with Margaret O’Callaghan, Margaret MacCurtain and author Lucy McDiarmid. 

The discussion is followed by the launch of At home in the revolution - what women said and did in 1916. 

At Home in the Revolution as a publication derives its material from women’s own accounts of the Easter Rising, interpreted broadly to include also the Howth gun-running and events that took place over the summer of 1916 in Ireland. These eye-witness narratives -- diaries, memoirs, letters, autobiographies, and official witness statements -- were written by nationalists and unionists, Catholics and Protestants, women who felt completely at home in the garrisons, cooking for the men and treating their wounds, and women who stayed at home during the Rising. The book’s focus is on the kind of episode usually ignored by traditional historians: cooking with bayonets, arguing with priests, resisting sexual harassment, soothing a female prostitute, doing sixteen-hand reels in Kilmainham Gaol, or disagreeing with Prime Minister Asquith about the effect of the Rising on Dublin’s architecture. The women’s ‘small behaviours’, to use Erving Goffman’s term, reveal social change in process, not the official history of manifestoes and legislation, but the unofficial history of access to a door or a leap through a window; they show how issues of gender were negotiated at a time of revolution.

Speakers: 
-Mary E. Daly, President of the Royal Irish Academy 
-Lucy McDiarmid, Marie Frazee-Baldassarre Professor of English 
-Catriona Crowe MRIA, National Archives of Ireland 
-Dr Margaret O'Callaghan, Queen's University Belfast 
-Dr Margaret Mac Curtain, historian

At home in the revolution - Panel discussion and book launch

Professor Partha Chatterjee's lecture as part of UCD's 1916 as a Global Event series of lectures

Humanities: The Easter Rising and the Indian Nationalist Movement

Speaker: Professor Tom Dunne
Library Lunchtime Lecture organised in conjunction with an exhibition curated by the Royal Irish Academy Library 'Views of Dublin: original watercolours by George Petrie, MRIA, 1790-1866'. This exhibition, to mark the 150th anniversary of the death of George Petrie, ran from 19 January – 15 February, 2016. 
Online exhibition: https://www.ria.ie/news/library/views-dublin-online-exhibition

Location: Academy House
Date: 15 February 2016

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From Dublin Westward: Petrie, Clonmacnoise and Aran

Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail, UCD. 
First lecture in a series organised in association with Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge, University College Cork, to accompany the exhibition ‘Scribing for Ireland: the Ó Longáin family and the Royal Irish Academy.'

Location: Academy House
Date: October 2015

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Four generations of literary scholarship: the remarkable contribution of the Ó Longáin family

Library Lunchtime Lecture by Tim O’Neill, artist, scribe and historian. 
Second lecture in a series organised in association with Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge, University College Cork, to accompany the exhibition ‘Scribing for Ireland: the Ó Longáin family and the Royal Irish Academy.'

Location: Academy House
Date: October 2015

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Seosamh Ó Longáin and the manuscript facsimiles of the Royal Irish Academy

Library Lunchtime Lecture by RIA Librarian Siobhán Fitzpatrick.
Third lecture in a series organised in association with Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge, University College Cork, to accompany the exhibition ‘Scribing for Ireland: the Ó Longáin family and the Royal Irish Academy.'

Location: Academy House
Date: October 2015

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The Royal Irish Academy has prepared this content responsibly and carefully, but disclaims all warranties, express or implied, as to the accuracy of the information contained in any of the materials. The views expressed are the authors’ own and not those of the Royal Irish Academy.

Scribing for Ireland: the Ó Longáin family and the Royal Irish Academy

We launch The Mountain Talks with the age old question, who are we, and how did we become who we are?

This episode jumps right into the discussion of Habitus and how we construct our identities to fit into groups and crowds that we see successful or interesting. But sometimes these masks we wear don’t fully cover the history we seek to cover. Next, we discuss Dramaturgy: the theory that we are actors on a stage performing for each other. From there, we talk about the 2004 teen comedy, Mean Girls. Then, we discuss Ferdinand Demara, the infamous Canadian imposter who faked several different professions. Last, we end with a discussion about those who are not so good at faking their identity—posers.

MUSIC

The Mountain Talks Theme – Johnathan Stuart
Transition Theme – Johnathan Stuart
Candy – Jahzzar
Puzzle Pieces – Lee Rosevere
Backed Vibes – Kevin MacLeod

REFERENCES

Goffman, Erving, Charles C. Lemert, and Ann Branaman. 1997. “The Goffman Reader .” Retrieved (http://sfu.summon.serialssolutions.com).

Jenkins, Richard. 1992. “Pierre Bourdieu .” Retrieved (http://sfu.summon.serialssolutions.com).

Melady, John. 2011. Korea: Canada’s Forgotten War. Toronto, ON, CAN: Dundurn Group. Retrieved (http://site.ebrary.com/lib/sfu/docDetail.action?docID=10560429).

Salih, Sara and Judith Butler. 2004. “The Judith Butler Reader .” Retrieved (http://sfu.summon.serialssolutions.com).


The Mountain Talks Theme

#01 The Masks You Wear (Habitus)

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