Date : April 16th, 2016.
Location : Ireland Institute, 27 Pearse Street, Dublin 2.
09:45-10:15 | Registration |
10:15 | Opening of 2016 School |
10:20-10:30 | Carol Coulter Chair, Morning Session |
10:30-10:45 | Micheline Sheehy Skeffington : Asserting Rights – what the Sheehy Skeffingtons stood for in 1916 |
10:45-11:15 | Colin Harvey : Human Rights in a New Republic |
11:15-11:25 | break |
11:30-12:00 | Declan Kiberd : Reviving Ireland – the Sheehy Skeffingtons and others |
12:00-12:30 | Panel discussion |
12:30-12:50 | Lar Joye / Brenda Malone : The bullet in the brick – an account of Francis Sheehy Skeffington’s last days, 100 years ago |
12:50-13:00 | Kieran Allen will launch his book 1916, Ireland’s Revolutionary Tradition |
13:00-13:45 | Lunch |
13:45-13:55 | Betty Purcell, Chair, Afternoon panel session |
14:00-15:00 | Strengthening the constitutional framework for an inclusive society
Aiden Lloyd, David Joyce, Fiona O’Reilly, Plenary discussion |
15:00-15:20 | Pablo Vicente : Activism in action – the Basque pursuit of Justice |
15:20 | Close of 2016 School |
15:30-16:20 | A special screening of Síocháiní, TG4/ Dearcán Media documentary on Frank Sheehy Skeffington introduced by its producer, Deaglán Ó Mocháin. |
16:25-16:40 | Donal O’Kelly, Máire Ní Áinle Performance : Brothers – 7th May 1916 by Jessamine O’Connor |
Updated, 14/04/2016