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Friday October 4, 2013 at 9:00 AM BST
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Saturday October 5, 2013 at 5:00 PM BST
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Where

Kells Theatre 
Kenlis Place
Kells 00000
Ireland  

 
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Contact

Lucy O'Reilly / Emilie Gustafsson 
Kells & District Tourism Forum 
0877064421 / 0852705675 
info@visitingkells.ie 
 

THE IRISHNESS OF THE HON. ARTHUR WESLEY, 1ST DUKE OF WELLINGTON A TWO-DAY CONFERENCE 

This conference is organised jointly by the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Trinity College Dublin (Director: Dr Sarah Alyn Stacey, FTCD 2004), and The Chaucer Hub (Director: Dr Gerald Morgan, FTCD 1993).

It is hosted by the Kells & District Tourism Forum in association with Kells Town Council & various businesses in Kells, Co. Meath.

(The Duke of Wellington was born as The Hon. Arthur Wesley. The family name was later upgraded to Wellesley.)

PROGRAMME

Friday, October 4th, 2013

 

9:30 a.m.  -  Welcome by Kells & District Tourism Forum and
cathaoirleach for Kells Town Council, Cllr. Oliver Sweeney

 

9:40 a.m.  -  Welcome by Cllr. John V Farrelly, president of Kells Chamber,
cathaoirleach of Meath County Council and Chairperson of Meath Tourism

 

10:15 a.m.  -  Dr Gerald Morgan (FTCD (1993), Director of the Chaucer
Hub): The Hon. Arthur Wesley: The Irish Background

 

11:00 a.m. -  Refreshments provided by the Martry Restaurant

 

11:30 a.m.  -  Mr Damian Shiels (Director of Rubicon Heritage Services):
 Safe Haven? The Archaeology of Bere Island's Defence, 1796-1815

12:15 p.m.  -  Keynote Speaker 1: Professor Charles Esdaile  (University
of Liverpool): Wellington: The Peer, the Pen and the Sword

1:30 p.m.  -  Lunch at the Headfort Arms Hotel

 

2:30 p.m.  -  A walk around Kells with Lucy O’Reilly

 

5:00 p.m.  -  A visit to Trim with the Trim Tourism Group and Noel French
(historian).

 

7:00 p.m.  -  Dinner at Trim Castle Hotel

 

Saturday, October 5th, 2013

 

9:30 a.m.  -  Welcome by Myles Dungan

 

10:15 a.m.  -  Dr Gavin Hughes (Centre for Medieval and Renaissance
Studies, TCD): 'Wellington's Irish Warriors': Irishmen in the Ranks from
the Peninsular to Waterloo

 

11:00 a.m.  -  Mr. David Truesdale (Independent Military Historian): The
Battle for La Haye Sainte

 

11:45 a.m.  -  Refreshments provided by the Martry Restaurant

 

12:15 p.m.  -  Keynote Speaker 2: Professor Brendan Simms (Centre of
International Studies, Cambridge University): La Haye Sainte and the
European context in which Wellington was operating

 

1:15 p.m.  -  Lunch at your leisure

 

2:30 p.m.  -  Keynote Speaker 3: Professor Michael Broers (Lady
Margaret Hall, Oxford University): 'This island race’: Napoleon as a
Corsican-an essay in complexity.'

 

At Headfort House:
4:00 p.m.  -  A welcome from headmaster Dermot Dix to Headfort House &
School.  Round Table chaired by Dr Alyn Stacey (FTCD (2004),
Director of the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, TCD) to
discuss future research and events on Wellington.

 

5:00 p.m.  -  Closure of conference (Kells & District Tourism Forum; Centre for
Medieval and Renaissance Studies, TCD; Chaucer Hub)