An Cosantóir the official magazine of the Irish Defence Forces and Reserve Defence Forces.
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58 NOTICEBOARD NOTICEBOARD THE MILITARY ARCHIVES AND THE MILITARY HISTORY SOCIETY OF IRELAND WAR OF INDEPENDENCE CONFERENCE The Military Archives and the Military History Society of Ireland are proud to present a two-day seminar on the military aspects of the War of Independence, (1919-1921). This will be a Microsoft Teams live event, streamed on Friday 9th and Saturday 10th of July 2021. There is no need to register to view - access is via links which are available on militaryarchives.ie and which go live at 9am each morning. The seminar is being organised jointly by Commandant Daniel Ayiotis (OIC Military Archives), Prof Eunan O'Halpin and Dr Pat McCarthy, and will feature presentations and panel discussions with both historians and archivists. The organisers would especially like to express their thanks to Commandant Mark Conway and his team in 2 Brigade CIS Company for looking after all of the technical arrangements. Friday 9th of July Saturday 10th of July 09.00: 09.00: 09.30 - 09.45: 09.30-10.00: 09.45 - 10.30: 10.00-10.30: 11.30-12.00: 13.10-13.40: 12.00-12.30: 13.40-14.10: 13.30-14.00: 14.10-14.40: 15.20-16.50: 15.30-16.10: 16.10-16.50: 16.50-17.00: 14.00-14.30: 14.40-15.10: 14.30-15.00: 11.00-11.30: 11.00-13.00: 10.30-10.40: 10.30-10.40: 12.30-12.40: 12.30-12.40: 15.10-15.20: 10.40-11.00: 10.40-11.00: 12.40-13.30: 12.40-13.30: 15.20-15.30: Conference link goes live https://tinyurl.com/j7ku8ntw Conference link goes live https://tinyurl.com/3d5f4vsu Opening Address - Vice Admiral Mark Mellett DSM, Chief-of-Staff, Óglaigh na hÉireann Bringing the War to the Enemy: IRA Operations in England Dr Darragh Gannon Key-Note Address: An All-Ireland War Prof Eunan O'Halpin The Belfast Troubles 1920-22 Dr Alan F Parkinson Operational Art or Lack of Control? IRA GHQ and the Dynamics of Guerrilla Command and the War of Independence Dr Thomas Tormey Break Fianna Éireann - Organisation, Training and Membership 1919-1921, from Sources Held in Military Archives Lisa Dolan The Guerrilla War on the Water 1920 -1921 Dr John Borgonovo Women and Bloody Sunday - Participants, Witnesses and Victims Liz Gillis Ex-Servicemen in the IRA Dr Emmanuel Destenay Panel Discussion: Archival Sources for the War of Independence - Dr Caitriona Crowe (Chair), Cécile Chemin (Military Archives – MSPC Project), Natalie Milne (NAI), Brian Donnolly (NAI), Stephen Scarth (PRONI), Dr William Butler (NA UK), Dr Niamh Brennan (Donegal County Archives). Truce, Murder and Myth – the Build-Up to the Truce Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc The Making of the Truce Prof Tim Hoyt Concluding Remarks Brigadier General Tony Cudmore, President of the Military History Society of Ireland Defying the IRA Dr Brian Hughes 'I had a mouthful of steel': Cumann na mBan, Militancy and Violence 1919- 1921 Dr Mary McAuliffe The British Army in Ireland, 1919-1921 - Dr Timothy Bowman In Constant Flux: Evaluating the Development and Structure of the Irish Volunteers/IRA Dr Eve Morrison Panel Discussion: 'Every County was Different', the War in the Localities Prof Marian Lyons, Brian Feeney, Seamus Cullen, Lar Joye, Patrick McGarty Questions Questions Questions Questions Questions Break Break Break for Lunch Break for Lunch Break