SETANTA INITIATIVE

For an All-Island Dialogue

 

 

SPRING SCHOOL

Ireland Institute, 27 Pearse St, Dublin, Saturday, 17 April 2010

 

UNITING IRELAND?

 

Morning

 

10.00-11.00

AN ALL-IRELAND ECONOMY?

John FitzGerald

Research Professor, Economic Analysis Division, Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI)

11.00-11.15

Discussion

 

11.15-12.15

CIVIL LIBERTIES IN IRELAND

Michael Farrell

Solicitor & Member of Human Rights Commission (HRC)

12.15-12.30

Discussion

 

[LUNCH: 12.30-14.00]

 

Afternoon

 

14.00-15.00

UNIONIST PERSPECTIVES

Robert Ballagh

Artist

15.00-15.15

    Discussion                                   

 

15.15-16.15

CONSTITUTIONAL IMPLICATIONS?

A Round-Table Session

Chair: Jennifer Todd, UCD

Professor, School of Politics & International Relations,

University College Dublin (UCD)

 

John O’Dowd,

Lecturer in Law (UCD)

 

Daltún Ó Ceallaigh

Writer on History & Politics

16.15-16.30

Discussion

 

16.30-18.00

GENERAL DISCUSSION

 

SETANTA INITIATIVE

Secretary-Treasurer: Daltún Ó Ceallaigh

Tel - 086 821 3796; E-mail - conasc@eircom.net;

Address: P.O. Box 11678, Rathmines, Dublin 6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sponsors

Robert Ballagh

(Artist)

Brian Friel

(Playwright)

Peter Canavan

(Sportsman)

Ruán Donnell

(Historian)

Tim Pat Coogan

(Writer)

Anne Speed

(Ir Trade Unionist)

Margaretta d’Arcy

(Writer)

Mel Christle

(Barrister)

Gerry Adams

(Pres, Sinn Féin)

John Arden

(Writer)

Fionnuala Flanagan

(Actress)

Anthony Coughlan

(Lecturer)

Jarlath Burns,

(Sportsman)

Pádraig Ó Snodaigh

(Historian)

Nóirín Greene

(Ir Trade Unionist)

Daltún Ó Ceallaigh

(Writer)

Séamas Ó Tuathail

(Barrister)

Joe Jamison

(US Trade Unionist)

Mary Cullen

(Historian)

Seán O’Mahony

(Historian)

Finian McGrath TD

(Ex Principal Teacher)

Máirtín Ó Muilleoir

(Publisher)