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Programme

Friday 20th October

Music Room, Christ Church Cathedral, Christchurch Place, Dublin 8

2.30 - 2.50pm Registration

2.50pm Formal opening of conference by Archbishop Michael Jackson and Archbishop Diarmuid Martin

3.00 - 4.00pm Session One: KEYNOTE 1 - Martin Luther and the Reformation

Dr Scott Dixon School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy & Politics, Queen’s University Belfast

Chair: Professor Linda Hogan Trinity College, Dublin

4.00 - 4.30pm Coffee / Tea

4.30 - 6.00pm Session Two: KEYNOTE 2 - Tudor Brexit: How European were the British and Irish Reformations?

Speakers: Professor Peter Marshall Department of History, University of Warwick

Professor Alec Ryrie Department of Theology & Religion, Durham University

Chair: Professor John Morrill Faculty of History, Selwyn College, University of Cambridge

Followed by reception and launch of Mark Empey, Alan Ford and Miriam Moffitt (eds), The Church of Ireland and its past: history, interpretation and identity (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2017)

Saturday 21st October

Dublin City University – DCU St Patrick’s Campus, Drumcondra, Dublin 9

9.30 - 10.00am Registration

10.00 - 11.40am Session Three: Beyond Luther – Reform movements in Europe, Scotland & Ireland

Calvinists and Lutherans: contesting the European Reformation Professor Graeme Murdock Department of History, Trinity College, Dublin

Scotland, Ireland and the vision of a ‘British’ Reformation Professor Jane Dawson School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh

The Irish Reformation: success and failure Professor Alan Ford Theology & Religious Studies, University of Nottingham

Chair: Professor Daire Keogh Dublin City University

11.40 - 12 Coffee / Tea

12.00 - 1.15pm Session Four: Catholic Reformation in Europe & Ireland

Latecomers to Reform? Catholic Activism in the wake of the French Wars of Religion

Dr Alison Forrestal History, School of Humanities, National University of Ireland, Galway

Catholic Reform in Ireland in a European context

Professor Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin School of History, University College Dublin

Chair: Professor Gesa Thiessen Trinity College, Dublin

1.15 - 2.15pm Lunch

2.15 - 3.30pm Session Five: Writing the Reformations: Europe and Ireland

Speakers: Professor Mícheál Mac Craith St Isidore’s, Rome

Professor John McCafferty School of History, University College Dublin

Chair: Professor David Hayton Queen’s University Belfast

3.30 - 3.50pm Coffee / Tea

3.50 - 4.30pm Session Six: Plenary Roundtable: Commemorating Reformations: what should we remember?

Chair: Professor Marian Lyons Maynooth University

4.30pm Formal close of conference

Poster PresentationsEarly career historians (postgraduates and research fellows) will make poster presentations based on their research at the DCU St Patrick’s Campus, Dublin City University, Drumcondra, on Saturday 21 October 2017.

Reformation 500 ExhibitionIn conjunction with the conference, an exhibition of pre-Reformation, Reformation and post-Reformation items will be on display in the Christ Church Cathedral Treasury.

For enquiries contactmarian.lyons@nuim.ie or secretary.coihs@gmail.com

RegistrationAdmission is free. All are welcome. Advanced booking via https://reformation_500.eventbrite.ie

The conference organisers wish to acknowledge the support of the following sponsors:• Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin• Dublin City University • Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute, University College Dublin• The Buckley Foundation clg • The General Synod Priorities Fund • The Diocese of Clogher • The House of Bishops • The Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference• The United Dioceses of Cork, Cloyne and Ross • The United Dioceses of Cashel, Ferns and Ossory • The United Dioceses of Dublin and Glendalough • The Church of Ireland Commission for Christian Unity and Dialogue • The United Dioceses of Tuam, Killala and Achonry • The United Dioceses of Limerick and Killaloe • The United Dioceses of Derry and Raphoe • The United Dioceses of Meath and Kildare

Ollscoil Chathair Bhaile Átha CliathDublin City University