Birth of a Nation

– Decade of Centenaries commemoration event

Time: 3.30pm–5.30pm

Venue: Castlebar Courthouse

Speakers: Mairead McGuinness, European Commissioner for Financial Stability, Financial Services and the Capital Markets Union; Diarmaid Ferriter, historian; Justine McCarthy, author and journalist.

Hosted by Marie-Louise O’Donnell

This will be an intriguing seminar which will explore the economic, social and political challenges that faced the new state in 1923.

It will cover various aspects of those seminal years including: rebuilding the nation, economic and social life, establishment of new institutions of state, partition, the experiences of women, Ireland and the wider world, a changing society and social class and gender. It will examine how a state beset with deep divisions met these challenges.