Half Day Seminar/Panel Presentations ‘Understanding the ‘Irish’ Family: New Research and Perspectives’

The Sociological Association of Ireland

 www.sociology.ie

 is pleased to invite you to half day seminar/panel presentation:

UNDERSTANDING THE ‘IRISH’ FAMILY:

NEW RESEARCH AND PERSPECTIVES

Venue: The Irish Writers Centre

19 Parnell Square

Dublin 1

 Friday 9th January, 2015 at 2pm

Programme:

 2pm WELCOME: Locating ‘the Irish Family’?: New Trends and Research Questions

Linda Connolly 

 

2.15pm 

PANEL 1: THE CHANGING NATURE OF ‘THE FAMILY’ IN IRELAND

Marriage, Fertility and Social Class in 20th Century Ireland

Carmel Hannan

The Family in Ireland in the New Millennium

Tony Fahey

Family and the Meaning of Life in Contemporary Ireland

Tom Inglis

 

3.15pm 

PANEL 2: FAMILY, GENDER AND SEXUALITIES

A Premature Farewell to Gender? Young People ‘Doing Boy/Girl’

Pat O’Connor

Non-sectarian Mothering in Belfast: the Emotional Quality of Change

Lisa Smyth

Staying Connected: Irish Lesbian and Gay Narratives of Family

Róisín Ryan-Flood

 

4.15pm

PANEL 3:  INTER GENERATIONAL CHANGE: CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND GRANDPARENTS

Continuity and Change in Young Children’s Relationships with their Grandparents

Ruth Geraghty, Jane Gray and David Ralph

Children, Cousins and Clans: the Role of Extended Family and Kinship in the Lives of Children in Returning Irish Migrant Families

Caitríona Ní Laoire

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 5pm Reception and Launch of The ‘Irish Family, edited by Linda Connolly (London: Routledge, 2015).

Speaker: Dr. Anne Byrne, NUIG

 Places are limited for this event.

To register, please click:   http://www.eventbrite.ie/e/understanding-the-irish-family-new-research-and-perspectives-tickets-14575615057

This event is supported by the Department of Sociology, University College Cork