The World of Edward Thomas O'Dwyer of Limerick (1886-1917)
Event Information
Description
A confernece hosted by the Department of History, Mary Immaculate College & the Limerick Diocesan Archives. Full information is available here.
Programme
9.00-9.45
Registration and Coffee
9.45
Welcome: Professor Gary O’Brien, Mary Immaculate College & Dr Brendan Leahy, Bishop of Limerick
10.00-11.30
Session 1
Dr Colin Barr (University of Aberdeen), ‘Cullen’s heir?’
Dr Úna Ní Bhroiméil (Mary Immaculate College), ‘”The ablest educationist of the Irish Episcopate”: Bishop E.T. O’Dwyer and Catholic control of primary education.
11.30-12.00
Tea/Coffee
12.00-1.30
Session 2
Dr Sarah Roddy (University of Manchester) , ‘The bishop as financial manager: Limerick under Edward O’Dwyer’
Dr Jacinta Prunty (Maynooth University), ‘Networks and news: the correspondence of Annie O’Dwyer with her brother Bishop Edward Thomas’
1.30-2.30
Lunch
2.30-4.00
Session 3
Dr Brian Murphy O.S.B. (Glenstal Abbey), ‘Bishop O’Dwyer and the 1916 Rising: “I trust in valour not in arms”’
Dr Jérôme aan de Wiel (University College Cork), ‘Bishop O’Dwyer, Mgr O’Riordan, Benedict XV and Irish-Vatican relations during the First World War’
4.00-4.15
Concluding Discussion
Organiser David Bracken (Limerick Diocesan Archives); Liam Chambers (Mary Immaculate College): Úna Ní Bhroiméil (Mary Immaculate College)
Organiser of The World of Edward Thomas O'Dwyer of Limerick (1886-1917)
