Foundation of the Irish State Conference (2-3 Dec 2022) - Day 1 Part 1 | UCD Decade of Centenaries

On Friday 2 and Saturday 3 December 2022, UCD hosted a national conference marking one hundred years since the foundation of the Irish State. The conference was part of the Decade of Centenaries Programme 2012-2023 and was funded by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media and by UCD

Day 1 Opening remarks: Dr Conor Mulvagh, UCD School of History (00:00)

- Introduction: UCD Acting President Professor Mark Rogers (00:47)
- Keynote Address: The Taoiseach Micheál Martin T.D. (09:23)
- Reflecting on UCD’s Decade of Centenaries: UCD Vice-President for Research, Innovation and Impact Professor Orla Feely; Chair of the UCD Decade of Centenaries Committee (40:36)
- Dr Conor Mulvagh, UCD School of History (01:00:57)

Panel 1: Sovereignty, Citizens and the State (01:02:09)
- Paper 1: Dr Thomas Mohr (UCD Sutherland School of Law), ‘The 1922 Constitution and the Foundation of the Irish State’ (01:04:38)
- Paper 2: Professor Linda Connolly (School of Sociology, Maynooth University), ‘“Any man who takes revenge on a sister is not much”: assessing the impact of the Irish civil war on
women’ (01:22:35)
- Paper 3: Professor Eugenio Biagini (University of Cambridge, History), ‘National sovereignty and minority experiences in independent Ireland’ (01:43:13)

Q&A Chaired by Professor Robert Gerwarth (02:02:55)

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