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CAHSS to Host Intellectual Conversations on “1916 Easter Rising”, March 31
David Kilroy, Ph.D.
NSU’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS) will again host its Intellectual Conversations on Thursday, March 31. This is the third in the winter series titled, “Truth and Power.” This event will feature David Kilroy, Ph.D., faculty in the Department of History and Political Science, who will discuss, “Remembering the 1916 Rising: Truth and Power in Historical Commemoration.”
The conversation will be held from noon – 1 p.m. in NSU’s Alvin Sherman Library on the Fort Lauderdale-Davie Campus, 3301 College Ave. (room 4009.) The event is free and open to the public.
As the Republic of Ireland prepares to mark the centennial of the Easter Rising, the event that sparked Ireland’s successful war for independence from Britain, a heated national debate has ensued over the meaning and relevance of this historic event to the modern state. In stark contrast to the fiftieth anniversary commemoration sponsored by the state, which celebrated the event as a heroic nationalist struggle against the mighty British Empire, the official centennial commemoration seeks to downplay the republican-nationalist narrative and instead reposition the Rising as just one of many events in 1916 that altered the course of Irish history. This talk will explore the search for truth in the legacy of the 1916 Rising and examine how competing interpretations of the event often reflect both the aspiration for and the exercise of power in the Irish state.