School Theme and Contributors, by year.
2019 School: Rediscovering Democracy and the Common Good: The Contribution of Human Rights.
Micheline Sheehy Skeffington – Opening Remarks
Carol Coulter: Chair
Michael O’Flaherty, Director EU Fundamental Rights Agency
Susan McKay, Author, Journalist and Broadcaster
Discussion
Donal O’Kelly, Playwright, Actor and Human Rights Activist & Máire Ní hAinle, Musician : The Poet & the Piper:
2018 School: Rights, Representation and Reality
Carol Coulter: Chair
Lynn Ruane: Limited Liberty
Michael Farrell: 1968-2018, Memories & lessons from the North
Micheline Sheehy Skeffington: Illustrated talk on Hanna’s and Francis’ campaigns
Claire McGing: After the Vote: Gendered citizenship and representation in the Republic of Ireland
Margaret Ward: A Symbol of freedom” – Hanna Sheehy Skeffington’s assessment of the position of women in post-suffrage Ireland
Mary Dorcey: The Ordinary Woman
2017 School: Borders and Belonging, Migrants and Membership – Putting the Human Back into Human Rights
Chairs: Carol Coulter & Anastasia Crickley
Conor Gearty: Is the human rights era coming to an end – whither refugees & migrants?
Siobhan Mulally: Beyond the limits of law – ‘we are migrants’
Edel McGinley: New realities of migration and collective approaches to growing migrant rights
Mirjana Rendulic: Broken Promise Land
Micheline Sheehy Skeffington: Hanna and Me
Sorley McCaughey: Climate change – a driver of instability and violence
Lucky Khambule: Moving forward – alternatives to direct provision and protecting the right to housing and work for asylum seekers and refugees
Bernadette McAliskey: Universal rights begin in small places close to home
Champa Costa: Why regularisation matters – the economic and moral rationale
Donal O’Kelly: 67 Words
2016 School: The Irish Citizen in 2016 – Revival, Revolution and Rights
Chairs: Carol Coulter & Betty Purcell
Micheline Sheehy Skeffington: Asserting rights – what the Sheehy Skeffingtons stood for in 1916
Colin Harvey: Human rights in a new republic
Declan Kiberd: Reviving Ireland – the Sheehy Skeffingtons and others
Lar Joyce: The bullet in the brick – an account of Francis Sheehy Skeffington’s last days, 100 years ago
Aiden Lloyd: You only cherish those you protect
David Joyce: Traveller housing – rights and ethnicity
Fiona O’Reilly: How right goes wrong – challenging health inequity
Pablo Vicente: Activism in action – the Basque pursuit of Justice
Deaglán Ó Mocháin: Síocháiní, TG4/ Dearcán Media documentary on Frank Sheehy Skeffington
Donal O’Kelly, Máire Ní Áinle and Toss Quinn: Brothers – 7th May 1916 by Jessamine O’Connor
2015 School: Re-Imagining the Republic – The Role of Human Rights
Chairs: Carol Coulter & Susan McKay
Sinead Gibney: Imagining a society where there is respect for the dignity and worth of each person – the vision of the Irish Human Rights & Equality Commission
Martin Collins: Travellers’ rights and the resistance
Sylvia Mbasinge: Experiences of direct provision – missing human rights
Margaret Ward: Hanna Sheehy Skeffington – a non-conformist woman
Micheline Sheehy Skeffington
Anastasia Crickley: International scrutiny – promoting rights, justice and sustainable development
David Hickey: Cuba and Celac – free at last
Donal O’Kelly with percussionist Brian Fleming: Direct Provision
2014 School: Promoting Human Rights & Social Justice
Carol Coulter: Chair
Michael Farrell: Brief update on human rights infrastructure
Gareth Peirce: No world for whistleblowers
Seanie Lambe: Communities, regeneration and rights
Clare Daly: The legacy of austerity
Leeann Lane: The Irish suffrage campaign on the eve of World War 1 : Tensions and debates
Richard Sheehy: Thoughts on Francis Sheehy Skeffington
Donal O’Kelly: Readings from ‘A Prodigal Daughter’ a play written by Francis Sheehy Skeffington
2013 School: 1913-2013: ‘Back to the Future?’
Chair: Carol Coulter
Aoife Nolan: Human rights in Ireland after the global economic crisis
Austin O’Carroll: How health inequalities undermine human rights and democratic participation
Panel Discussion: Michael Farrell, Rachel Mullen, Mariaam Bhatti, Dessie Donnelly, Joe Donohoe, John Douglas
Rosemary Cullen Owens: A turbulent decade – Women in social and national movements in Ireland,1908-1918
John Douglas: Organising for change – what now for the unions?
Donal O’Kelly: Hairy Jaysus
2012 School: Putting Human Rights at the Heart of the Good Society
Chairs: Carol Coulter & Anastasia Crickley
Donncha O’Connell: Human rights – what Ireland says, and what it does: the case for an alternative compliance model
Ivana Bacik: Embedding a culture of human rights in policy and administration
John Bissett: Employing a human rights framework to achieve social inclusion objectives
Mary Cullen: Republican citizenship in Ireland: yesterday and today
Aideen Gilmore: Promoting human rights in Northern Ireland – building ownership & collaboration in coalition
Michael Taft: Advancing human rights in the face of economic adversity