Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public lecture/debate/seminar
Description
Panel discussion:
Memory, history and the Irish.
Dr Guy Beiner, Ben Gurion University of the Negrev, Isreal. Guy is the author of Remembering the Year of the French: Irish Folk memory and social history (2009) as well as numerous articles on memory and history including “Probing the boundaries of Irish memory: from postmemory to prememory and back” Irish Historical Studies 2014.
Dr Roisín Higgins, Teeside University. Roisín is author of Transforming 1916 : meaning, memory and the fiftieth anniversary of the Easter rising, (2012) as well as numerous articles on sports heritage and is co-editor of The Life and After-life of P.H. Pearse: Padraig Mac Piarais: Saol Agus Oidhreacht (2009)
Dr Fearghal McGarry, Queen’s University, Belfast. Fearghal is the author of The Rising: Ireland 1916 (2016, 2nd ed.) and co- editor of Remembering 1916 The Easter Rising, the Somme and the Politics of Memory in Ireland (2016) and Film, HIstory and memory (2015).