“America and Ireland: Revolutions Entwined”. This talk will be given
by Cahersiveen-born Muiris Bric, Emeritus Professor of History in UCD
and Director of the Daniel O’Connell Summer School (30-31 August
2024). The talk will discuss how Ireland influenced the American Revolution and the kind of republic into which the United States was shaped after the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the outbreak of the 1798 Rebellion in Ireland
Maurice Bric – University College Dublin Bio
Dr. Gareth Prendergast is an experienced Colonel (OF-5) with a demonstrated history of working in the military. Skilled in Crisis Management; Finance; Logistics; Analysis; Liaison; Professional Military Education; Strategic and Operational Planning. He is a graduate of the US Army Command and General Staff Course and a recently graduated PhD student from University College Cork. He has published a PhD Thesis focused on Military History, the Irish Civil War and Counterinsurgency.
Dr. Prendergast will give a talk on the Irish Civil War explaining how the Free State Army won the War against the Rebel Forces of the Munster Republic by turning tactical victories into overall strategic success.
David A. Wilson is a Professor in the Celtic Studies Programme at the University of Toronto, and most recently the author of Canadian Spy Story: Irish Revolutionaries and the Secret Police.
David will speak about The United Irishmen, Who, like other radicals in the Age of Revolution, sought to liberate their country from the weight of its history. But try as they did to forget the past, the past did not forget them – with disastrous results for Ireland.
David Wilson is the 2023 recipient of the Ireland and Canada Person of the Year award at the Thomas D’arcy McGee Summer school in Carlingford, Co Louth. Thomas D’arcy McGee Summer School – Facebook
David Wilson – University of Toronto Bio
Liam Kennedy – Emeritus professor of history, Queen’s University Belfast.
In 2005 he held a visiting professorship at the University of Toronto. He is currently emeritus professor of economic history at QUB and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. His recent books include Who Was Responsible for the Troubles? The Northern Ireland Conflict (Montreal, 2020) and, with other authors, The Irish Religious Censuses of the 1760s: Catholics and Protestants in 18thC Ireland (Dublin, 2022) and The Death Census of Black ’47: Eyewitness Accounts of the Great Irish Famine (London, 2023).