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Programme:
6.00pm Opening remarks from The Hon Mr Justice Donal O’Donnell, Supreme Court.
6.10-6.30 Robert D. Marshall (President Irish Legal History Society, 2012-15):
Law & Insurrection in Ireland: the Irish experience of 1916.
In the midst of the Great War, how did the law view the 1916 Rising? Who was responsible for the trials following the surrender and how were the trials of the Kent brothers conducted?
6.30-6.50 Irene Lynch Fannon (Professor, School of Law, University College Cork):
Patrick Lynch K.C. -From Parliamentarian to Republican 1917-1922.
Patrick Lynch K.C. contested the East Clare Bye Election against Eamon DeValera in 1917 as an Irish Parliamentary Party member. In the following years he defended a number of republican activists and represented the McCurtain Family at the inquest following the Black and Tan raid on the McCurtain home and the killing of Tomas McCurtain, Mayor of Cork.
6.50-7.10 Steve Hedley (Professor, School of Law, University College Cork):
The Law Faculty at Queen’s College Cork/University College Cork 1849-1922.
7.10-7.20 Questions, observations and discussion.
7.20-7.30 Closing Remarks
7.30 Drinks Reception.
