9 May 2025

Museum of Literature

10:00 Panel 1: Doing the History of Marginalisation in Ireland’s Institutional Past

Chair: Dr Alice Mauger

Conor Murphy:

Recentering Women’s Voices: The Magdalene Oral History Project and Twentieth-Century Irish History

Dr Susan Byrne:

The Ordinary Female Prisoner in the Irish Free State (1922-37)

Dr Carole Holohan:

“Easily recognisable as a form of slavery”: Understanding Work in Institutions of

Confinement

11:15 Coffee Break

11:45 Panel 2: Doing Queer History

Chair: Dr Morgan Wait

Dr Mary McAuliffe:

Death Reveals Her: Using Death Notices, Graves, Obituaries, Wills etc to Research Queer Irish Femininities

Michael Lawrence: 

Mixed Metaphors: Studying the History of Irish Male Homosexuality, 1880s-1950s

12:45 Lunch Break

1:45 Panel 3: Histories of Disability, Gender, and Social Class

Chair: Dr Steven Taylor

Dr Oisín Wall:

‘The Last of the Hard Men’: Writing the Intersection of Class, Gender, Drug-Use, Imprisonment, and Mental Health

Dr Deirdre Foley:

Women’s Work in Jacob’s Biscuit Factory, Dublin, 1913-1979 

Dr Cormac Leonard:

Writing Deaf History as a Hearing Outsider

3:00 Coffee Break 

3:30 Panel 4: Histories of Race and Migration

Chair: Dr Deirdre Foley

Hannah Kempel:

Finding a Community: Irish Migrant Activism, the London Irish Women’s Centre, and the Archive

Dr Jack Crangle:

Writing Race, Immigration and Multiculturalism into Irish History