The Clayton Hotel, Galway – 18th & 19th October

Theme: Crossing Boundaries and Frontiers

Friday evening

18:30 – Registration & Refreshments

19:30 – HTAI President’s welcome – Marie-Claire Tuite

19.35 – Teaching Ireland’s Dark History: the Development and Legacy of the Mother and Baby Institutions

Dr. Sarah-Anne Buckley, NUIG

Followed by Wine Reception, sponsored by EDCO

Saturday

8:30 – Registration (registration will close at 8:50).

9:00 – The Early Years of the GAA – Professor Paul Rouse, UCD.

10.00 – Keynote speech – Collecting Ireland: Interrogating Unconscious Bias from ‘Apes and Angels’ to the Language of Restitution and Repatriation – Dr Éimear O’Connor, Director of Collections and Access, National Museum Of Ireland.

10:45-11:15 – Tea & Coffee – Visit to stands to meet with publishing companies, tour providers etc.

11:15 – Teaching a Junior Cycle Unit on the Ulster Plantations – Christian O’Connor, St. Mary’s Secondary School, Mallow.

11:55 – Choice of Workshops

12:40 – AGM              

1:00 – Lunch

1:45 – The 1913 Strike and Lockout: Engaging with the multiple perspectives of the key issues and personalities – Paul Twomey, History Team Leader, Oide.

2:30 – Teaching & Learning Strategies for Assessment at Junior Cycle, Jacqueline Kiernan, Junior Cycle Chief Advising Examiner, Mercy College, Sligo.

3:10 – Exploring the 1885 and 1886 elections in Britain and Ireland – Granú Dwyer, Leaving Cert Advising Examiner, St. Mary’s, Nenagh.

8pm Conference Dinner – €35 per person.

To book a hotel room at the conference rate (€155 single room & €170 double room), please contact the Clayton Hotel directly on (091) 721900.

Any conference queries please email: historyteachers@gmail.com