IRELAND, ENGLAND AND THE CROWN
James H. Murphy (De Paul U., Chicago) Fashioning the famine queen
G.K. Peatling (U. of Guelph) Victorian imperial theorist? Goldwin Smith and Ireland
James McConnel (U. of Durham) Irish Parliamentary Party in Victorian and Edwardian London
LITERATURE, LEISURE AND IDENTITY
Cora Kaplan (U. of Southampton) White, black and green: racialising Irishness in Victorian England
Patrick Maume (QUB) Music hall Unionism: Robert Martin and the politics of the stage-Irishman
Tom Hayes (U. of Limerick) 'God Save the Green, God Save the Queen, and the usual loyal toasts': sporting and dining for Ireland and/or the queen
IRELAND IN THE VICTORIAN WORLD ORDER
Jennifer Ridden (Australian National U., Canberra) Britishness as an imperial and diasporic identity: Irish elite perspectives, c.1820-1870s
Pandeleimon Hionidis (London School of Economics) Fenian rebels and Cretan insurgents, 1866-1869: unlawful subjectsor 'lovers of freedom'?
Carla King (St Patrick's College, Dublin) Michael Davitt, Irish nationalism and the British empire in the late nineteenth century
THE FAMINE: REPRESENTATIONS AND REACTIONS
Melissa Fegan (Chester College) 'Something so utterly unprecedented in the annals of human life': William Carleton and the Famine
Yvonne Siddle (Chester College) Anthony Trollope's representation of the Great Famine
Peter Gray (U. of Southampton) The making of mid-Victorian Ireland? Political economy & the memory of the Great Famine
Virginia Crossman (Keele U.) 'With the experience of 1846 & 1847 before them': the politics of emergency relief 1879-84
