Maritime History Conference
Friday, 28 November
Session I: 1:40 – 3:05 pm, Islands in the stream, Chair: Dr Valerie Cummins (Director, IMERC)
Dr Diarmuid Scully (UCC): Visions of Ireland as a holy or savage island on medieval maps
Dr Simon Mercieca (Univ. Of Malta): Travelling in the Central Mediterranean in Early Modern times: the networking of a north--‐south Axis
Prof. Michela D’Angelo (Univ. Of Messina): European islands and maritime trade: England, Ireland and Sicily in the Napoleonic Wars
Break: 3:05 – 3:15pm
Session 2: 3:15 – 4:45 pm, From the Spanish Armada to pirate fleets: Wrecks and survivors in Early Modern Ireland, Chair, Cmdr Brian Fitzgerald (Irish Naval Service)
Francis Kelly (UCC : Captain Francisco de Cuéllar, Spanish Atlantic expeditions and Ireland, 1578--‐1588
John Treacy (MIC): The San Marcos Project: The search for an Armada shipwreck in Co. Clare
Dr Connie Kelleher (UCC): When pirates ruled the waves: The golden age of piracy in West Cork
Break: 4:45 – 5:00 pm
Plenary: 5:00 – 6:00 pm, Ireland in the Viking Atlantic, Prof. Donnchadh Ó Corráin (UCC)
Wine Reception: 6:00 – 7:00 pm
Saturday, 29 November
Session 3: 10:00 – 11:30 am: Protecting Ireland from enemies foreign and domestic, Chair, Virginia Teehan (UCC)
Damian Shiels (Rubicon Heritage Archaeology): The Royal Navy, Martello Towers, and coastal defence fortifications in County Cork
Jerome Devitt (TCD): "Safe for whom, Safe from whom?”: The Royal Navy and Mid--‐ Victorian Ireland
Daire Brunicardi (NMCI) – The Naval Station in Cork Harbour
Break: 11:30 – 11:45 am
Session 4: 11:45 – 1:15 pm: Merchants, missionaries, and migrants
Dr Susan Flavin (TCD): Commodities and commerce: The dynamics of trade in Sixteenth--‐ Century Munster
Dr Brian Jackson (Carlow IT): Merchants, missionaries and the marine
Prof Claire Connolly (UCC): Scale--‐making in Jonathan Swift’s Holyhead journal
Lunch: 1:15 – 2:30 pm
Session 5: 2:30 – 3:30 pm, The Great War at Sea, Chair, Capt Michael McCarthy (Port of Cork)
Prof Dr. Jürgen Elvert (Aarhus Inst. Of Adv.Studies): Westward bound: The location of German naval ports as mirrors of changing maritime awareness in Imperial Germany
Dr John Borgonovo (UCC): Return of the Mayflower: Cork & the US Navy, 1917--‐1918
Break: 3:30 – 3:45 pm
Plenary: 3:45 – 4:45 pm: Ireland and the Western Approaches, 1914--‐1918, Prof. Eric Grove (Liverpool Hope Univ)
Roundtable Discussion: 4:45 – 5:30 pm: Cork Harbour: Past, present and future?
Location: Main Campus: Electrical Engineering BLDG, L--‐1, UCC
Admission is free and open to the public.
Sponsorship from the Irish Research Council and the Port of Cork.