Programme

The programme for the symposium is provided below. For information about the individual talks, please visit the Presenters page.

09:30: Registration and informal networking.

10:00: Welcome from President of TU Dublin, Dr Deirdre Lillis.

10:10: Opening Address by Minister of State at the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport, Charlie McConalogue TD

10:30: Keynote Address by Prof. Paul Rouse, UCD. Sport and the Asylum.

11:30: Tea, coffee break with informal networking.

12:00: Panel Discussion with Ed Randolph and Jerome Westbrooks. US Basketballers in Irish Sport since the 1980s.

12:30: Panel Discussion. Sport against Racism. A Sport against Racism exhibition will also be on display in the lobby area during the event.

13:00: Lunch break. Lunch can be purchased in the TU Dublin restaurant in Rathdown House or Lower House.

14:00: Presentation by Julien Clénet. The Phoenix Park and sport in the nineteenth century: contested space?

14:15: Presentation by Anna Maria Mullally, Making Waves: Female Swimmers in Dublin 1870 - 1930.

14:30: Panel Discussion

14:50: Brief Break

15:00: Presentation by Terry Clavin, Dublin’s role in the early history of the Camogie Association.

15:15: Presentation by Siobhán Doyle, GAA in 100 Objects.

15:30: Panel Discussion

15:50: Brief Break

16:00: Presentation by Cormac Moore, The Day "A Nation Once Again" played Brazil.

16:15: Presentation by Conor Curran, Liverpool FC supporters’ clubs in Dublin in the late twentieth century.

16:30: Panel Discussion

16:50: Closing address.

17:00: Finish.

Photo Credit: Programme for the Richmond Asylum Annual Athletic Sports, 1901, National Archives of Ireland, Priv 1223/22/16/