Ireland and the Spanish Civil War: the Press and Politics

A one-day conference, in Ulster University, Belfast, with 5 speakers and a panel discussion.
About this Event

2026 is the 90th anniversary of the SCW. Since the early 1980s, there has been considerable interest in Irish involvement with the war. Organizations which have been actively engaged in commemoration of the SCW include Belfast City Council, Derry and Strabane District Council, Belfast and Derry trades councils, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, the International Brigades Memorial Trust, Friends of the International Brigades in Ireland (FIBI), and the Irish Labour History Society. BBC NI will be promoting a ‘90th anniversary package’ throughout the year. The media response is a neglected aspect of SCW studies in Ireland.

Sponsored by Ulster University’s School of Communication and Media and School of Arts and Humanities (T.K. Daniel Fund).

Organizers: Will Burton, School of Communication and Media; Emmet O’Connor, History

Agenda
Keynote Speaker: Mark O’Brien - The Irish media and the SCW
Host: Mark O’Brien

Info: Professor of Journalism at Dublin City University

The provincial press and the SCW
Host: Will Burton

Info: Ulster University

🕑: 11:00 AM
Tea / Coffee
Irish women writers and the SCW 
Host: Deirdre Brady

Info: University of Limerick:

Lunch
In Spanish eyes: imagining Ireland in 1930s Spain
Host: Daniela Vidal Begines

Info: Carlow College

🕑: 03:00 PM
Tea / Coffee
The radical press and the SCW
Host: Emmet O’Connor

Info: Ulster University

Panel discussion and Q and A