Colloquium: The German Role in the 1916 Rising in Ireland

As part of the Ireland 2016 Global and Diaspora Programme, the Embassy of Ireland in Berlin is delighted to welcome leading historians for a panel discussion on 'Der Osteraufstand: 1916 and Irish-German connections during the First World War'.

18:30 Thursday, 28 April 2016 - Mendelssohn-Remise, Jägerstraβe 51, 10117 Berlin. The event will be in English.

The discussion will be followed by a reception in the Embassy of Ireland (Jägerstraβe 51, 10117 Berlin).‌

As this is a seated event, prior confirmation of attendance is essential. We request that you RSVP using the code WEB16 via email before Friday, 22 April.

The Embassy is delighted to welcome leading historians Professor Mary E. Daly (President, Royal Irish Academy), Dr William Mulligan (University College Dublin), Dr Conor Mulvagh (UCD) and Dr Mark Jones (Frei Universität Berlin).

• Professor Mary Elizabeth Daly: “Ireland, Irish-America and Germany, 1916-21”. Professor Daly is President of the Royal Irish Academy and is Emeritus Professor of History at University College Dublin (UCD); she has also held visiting positions at Harvard and Boston College. Over the course of her distinguished career, Professor Daly has researched widely and published prolifically, notably: Dublin, the Deposed Capital: A Social and Economic History, 1860-1914 (1984); Women and Work in Ireland (1997); The Slow Failure: Population Decline and Independent Ireland, 1920-1973 (2006); and, with Theo Hoppen, Gladstone: Ireland and Beyond (2011).
• Dr William Mulligan: “Ireland in Germany’s world revolution”. Dr Mulligan is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at University College Dublin (UCD). After receiving his PhD from the University of Cambridge, he has taught in Dublin and Glasgow and has held visiting fellowships at the Institutes of Advanced Research in Berlin and Princeton. He has written widely on the First World War and his most recent book is The Great War for Peace (Yale UP, 2014).'
• Dr Conor Mulvagh: “Roger Casement's Irish Brigade: An Irish-German encounter during the First World War”. Dr Mulvagh is Lecturer in Irish History at University College Dublin (UCD) with special responsibility for commemorations. He is currently researching the history of UCD during the Irish Revolution. He lectures on memory and commemoration as well as on nineteenth and twentieth century Irish and British history. His most recent book, The Irish Parliamentary Party at Westminster, 1900-18 will be published with Manchester University Press later this year.
• Dr Mark Jones: Moderator. Dr Jones is an Irish Research Council Marie Curie Fellow (Elevate Fellow) at University College Dublin & at Berlin's Freie Universität. His first book Founding Weimar. Violence and the German Revolution of 1918-19 will be published by Cambridge University Press later this year. He is also the convenor of the Globalising the History of Revolutions conference series, a series of international workshops that set out to place the history of revolutions in their broader transnational contexts.