Remember the 1916 Easter Uprising

Remember the 1916 Easter Uprising

The 2016 Beauregard-King Emeriti Lecture

Tuesday, March 15, 2016 at 7 PM
Sears Recital Hall
Jesse Phillips Humanities Center

The Department of History is proud to present the 2016 Beauregard-King Emeriti Lecture. This year's lecture, by Professor Diarmaid Ferriter, will mark the centennial of the 1916 Easter Uprising in Dublin, Ireland. The Easter Rising was a pivotal moment in the history of Europe and the colonial world. The long-standing conflict over British rule in Ireland, contemporary political movements (left and right), the place of Catholicism in the British Isles, issues of poverty and economic justice, and the First World War all helped to lead to the rebellion and fighting across Dublin in April of 1916. The uprising effectively created the Republic of Ireland, and was a moment that captured the attention of people worldwide, including those of Irish descent as well as other peoples living under British imperial rule.

Professor Ferriter's lecture is entitled "The Contested Legacy of the 1916 Rising: Remembering, Forgetting and Reinventing". It will look at the legacy of the Rising as reflected in the various ways it has been commemorated and sometimes not commemorated and how at various stages over the last 100 years its legacy has been fought over, hijacked, disputed and embraced, depending on the contemporary climate and will conclude by looking at where we are now, 100 years on, in relation to its status.

Diarmaid Ferriter 
Diarmaid Ferriter is one of Ireland’s bestknown historians and is Professor of Modern Irish History at University College Dublin. His books include The Transformation of Ireland 1900-2000 (2004), Judging Dev: A Reassessment of the Life and Legacy of Eamon de Valera (2007), Occasions of Sin: Sex and Society in Modern Ireland (2009) and Ambiguous Republic: Ireland in the 1970s (2012). His most recent book is A Nation and not a Rabble: The Irish Revolution 1913-23 (2015) He is a regular broadcaster on television and radio and a weekly columnist with the Irish Times.

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University of Dayton Sears Recital Hall

Remember the 1916 Easter Uprising is taking place at University of Dayton Sears Recital Hall, which is located at 300 College Park in Dayton. University of Dayton Sears Recital Hall - The H. Troy and Eileen Sears Recital Hall is a 183-seat facility located on the first floor of the Jesse Philips Humanities Center at the University of Dayton.