2012 Parnell Summer School
Sovereignty and Society
12-17 August 2012

Today Irish people lament a loss of the state’s hard-won sovereignty in the face of the bailout by the troika of the European Union, the International Monetary Fund, and the European Central Bank. One hundred years ago the majority of Irish people looked forward to an increase in Irish sovereignty as a result of the 1912 Home Rule Bill. Yet militant minorities opposed the bill. For Ulster Unionists home rule threatened their cherished place in the United Kingdom while for advanced nationalists the bill failed to offer Ireland full sovereignty. Some Irish women even questioned the value of national sovereignty as they fought for the personal sovereignty of the vote. The 2012 Parnell Summer School will explore the theme of Sovereignty and Society as it relates to the Ireland of today and the Ireland of home rule leaders Charles Stewart Parnell and his successor John Redmond.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Professor Paul Bew, Queen’s University Belfast, on Charles Stewart Parnell.
• Professor Mary E. Daly, University College Dublin, on the 1912 Home Rule Bill.
• Professor Bryan Fanning, University College Dublin, on immigration, integration and citizenship in Ireland today.
• Dr Timothy Bowman, University of Kent, and Dr Diane Urquhart, University of Liverpool, on Ulster Unionist responses to the threat of Home Rule.
• Dr Rosemary Cullen Owens, University College Dublin, on the Irish women’s suffrage movement.
• Dr Colin Reid, Oxford University, and Dr Ciarán Wallace, Trinity College Dublin, on John Redmond and his politics.
• Fine Gael TD Paschal Donohoe on Economic Sovereignty.
• Political commentator Tony Kinsella on Ireland and the EU.
• Curator Logan Sisley on the Hugh Lane exhibition ‘Revolutionary States: Home Rule and Modern Ireland’.
• Marian Quinn, CEO of the Tallaght-based Childhood Development Initiative on young citizens and the State.
  

Further Information/Booking please contact:
Deirdre Larkin,
5 Church View Park, Killiney.
Ph: 01 2852113. E mail: dlarkin@parnellsociety.com
(Please note that pre-booking is advisable)