Bloody Sunday: 50 Years from a Defining Moment

With Prof. Niall Ó Dochartaigh (Political Science & Sociology, NUI Galway)

Prof. Shane Darcy (Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway)

Prof. Kate Kenny (Professor of Business & Society, NUI Galway)

and Prof. Rob Savage (Boston College)

30 January 1972 – Bloody Sunday – when British soldiers shot dead 13 people at a civil rights demonstration in Derry was a defining moment in the Northern Ireland Conflict. This event marks that historic anniversary with a lecture by Professor Niall Ó Dochartaigh, and contributions by a panel of leading scholars on issues of human rights, organisation and media coverage of the conflict.

SPEAKERS:

Prof. Niall Ó Dochartaigh

Niall Ó Dochartaigh is the author of Civil Right to Armalites: Derry and the Birth of the Irish Troubles (Palgrave 2005), a study of the escalation of violence in Derry in the first four years of the conflict and of Bloody Sunday: Error or Design (Contemporary British History 2010) an academic article that analysis British decision-making surrounding Bloody Sunday. He is Professor of Political Science and Sociology at NUI Galway and Director of the MA in Public Policy. His recently published book, Deniable Contact: Back-channel Negotiation in Northern Ireland (Oxford UP 2021) examines the secret efforts to make peace.

Prof. Shane Darcy

Professor Shane Darcy is the Acting Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights in the School of Law at the National University of Ireland Galway. He is the author of Judges, Law and War; The Judicial Development of International Humanitarian Law (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and To Serve the Enemy: Informers, Collaborators and the Laws of Armed Conflict (Oxford University Press, 2019). He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Business and Human Rights Journal, the Irish Yearbook of International Law and Criminal Law Forum.

Prof. Kate Kenny

Kate Kenny is full Professor of Business and Society at NUI Galway. She has held research fellowships at the Edmond J. Safra Lab at Harvard University and Cambridge's Judge Business School. Her work focuses on organizational power, culture and identity. Along with numerous articles in peer review journals on this topic, her recent books include: Whistleblowing: Toward a new theory (Harvard University Press, 2019) and The Whistleblowing Guide (Wiley Business, 2019, with Wim Vandekerckhove and Marianna Fotaki).

Prof. Rob Savage

Rob Savage directs the Boston College Irish Studies Program and is a professor in the university’s History Department. He has published a number of books and articles that explore contemporary Irish and British history including The BBC’s Irish Troubles: Television, Conflict and Northern Ireland (2015) and A Loss of Innocence? Television and Irish Society 1960‒1972 (2010). Savage has been awarded Visiting Fellowships at Trinity College, Dublin, the University of Edinburgh, Queen’s University, Belfast and the National University of Ireland, Galway. His new book, Northern Ireland, the BBC and Censorship in Thatcher’s Britain will be published by Oxford University Press in April.

EVENT VENUE:

HBB-G019 (Large Lecture Theatre), The Human Biology Building, NUI Galway. View the building in an interactive campus map.

REGISTRATION:

Please register for this on campus event only if you plan to attend in person.

The event is being organised by the School of Political Science and Sociology and the Moore Institute.

For any queries, please contact: mooreinstitute@nuigalway.ie

Photo credit: Colman Doyle