10:00 – Welcome and (virtual) coffee.

10:15 – KEYNOTE ADDRESS:

“Union Networks and the Great Dublin Strike of 1878”

David Finkelstein (Plymouth)

Respondents: Françoise Baillet and Christophe Gillissen

• 11:20 – Session 1: The politics of the press

            Chair: Christophe Gillissen

• Françoise Baillet (LSA) – “Invincible Brothers: The Pen and the Press in The Compositors’ Chronicle (1840-1843)
• Olivier Coquelin (GREI) – “’Press and Social Unrest in Revolutionary Ireland (1919-1923): The Case of the Great Belfast Strike of 1919”.

12:30: Lunch break

• 2:00: Session 2: Connections and Circulations

            Chair: Françoise Baillet

• Michelle McNamara (Strasbourg) – “Breaking News? The Dublin Press’s Dependence on the Postal Service in the early Nineteenth Century”
• Tony Dex Odounga (Dijon) – “The implementation of women’s agenda through a highly proactive press network: the case of The English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864).”
• Pascale Villate (LSA) – Expanding cultural networks: the bookstalls and libraries of W.H. Smith and Son, 1848-1900.

3:20: (virtual) tea/coffee break

• 3:40: Session 3: Addressing otherness

            Chair: Anne-Catherine de Bouvier

• Christophe Gillissen (GREI) – The Great Famine in The Times.
• Bertrand Cardin (GREI) –”‘Irish as Paddy’s Pig’: the persistence of stereotypes”.

5:00. Closing remarks.