1. Officers of the Society for 2022 were: President: Catherine Cox; Treasurer: Ella Kavanagh; Secretary: Rebecca Stuart; Web and social media officer: Áine Doran; Membership officer: Robin Adams; Editors: Juliana Adelman, Graham Brownlow; Associate Editor: Eoin McLaughlin; Book reviews: Jonathan Wright; Committee Members: Daniel Cassidy, James Kelly, Niall Ó Ciosáin, Ciarán McCabe, Rowena Pecchenino, Sarah Roddy. Representative on the Irish Committee for Historical Sciences: Catherine Cox. Chris Colvin stepped down from the Committee during the year.
2. Journal Volume 49 of the journal is expected to be available in December 2022. The issue will contain seven original articles, book reviews, a bibliography and the secretary's report. Moreover, the pipeline for next year's issue is promising. Papers continue to be made available online once the peer review process has been successfully completed and in advance of publication in the physical journal. Submissions to the journal continue to be managed through Scholar One (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iesh).
3. Annual Conference, Maynooth University The annual conference was held on 28 and 29 October at Maynooth University and was organised by Jonathan Wright and Sarah Roddy. The conference was in person for the first time since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Connell Lecture was presented by Professor Annie Tindley (Newcastle University). The title of the lecture was ‘“An Irish estate is like a sponge.” The economic (mis)management of landed estates in the nineteenth century: motivations, consumption and consequences’.
The following papers were presented:
FRIDAY: Mel Cousins (TCD), Politics and the poor law in pre-famine Ireland; Michael Loughman (DCU), ‘The Slaughter of the Innocents’ – The calf skin bounty and reducing the national herd in 1930s Ireland; Martin Quinn (QUB), Electricity to Rural No.1. The beginning of Ireland's Quiet Revolution; Áine Doran (UU), Financial Development and Fertility: A Test of the Old-Age Support Hypothesis in Pre-Famine Ireland; Eoin McLaughlin (UCC) and Niall Whelehan (Strathclyde University), Excess Mortality and the Geography of Distress in the Irish Land War; Kyle Richmond and Chris Colvin (QUB) and Eoin McLaughlin (UCC): Pandemics, Demography, and Selection: Ireland, 1885–1920; Sean Kenny (UCC and Lund University), Darragh McLaughlin (Central Bank of Ireland) and Eoin McLaughlin (UCC), Revisiting the Mundel-Flemming Trilemma in Ireland 1955–1956; Julie Crowley (South East Technological University), Caregiving in Conflict: The Role of Irish Doctors during the Great War; Deirdre Foley (UCC): The (in)visibility of paid labour: Women's working lives in Ireland, c. 1965–1990; Megan Mcauley (Maynooth), ‘An integral part of life on the impoverished western seaboard’? Childhood and migratory labour in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century County Donegal.
SATURDAY: Jack Crangle (Maynooth), Ethnic difference in Ireland's social history: race, culture and nationhood in the twentieth century; Gabriel Opare (TCD), Tracing the lost presence of African colonial students at Ireland's oldest university, Trinity College Dublin: a preliminary exploration of interest; Ian D’Alton (TCD), Cork city's ‘cities’ – defining Irish Protestant culture in the eighteenth century; Sylvie Kleinman (TCD), ‘Who ever heard of a poor Huguenot?’ Marsh's library holdings of the ‘Société charitable des français réfugiés’ and French Huguenot Funds: an overview of their content and relevance to the history of charity in Dublin, and its Huguenot heritage, ca 1716 to 1917; Anna Devlin (TCD), The Belfast Boycott – A Southern perspective (1920–23); Brian Griffin (Maynooth), ‘Making a Killing? Newspaper Advertising and the Militarisation of Irish Consumer Culture during the Great War’; Fiona Slevin (UCD), Thriving in Post-Famine Ireland: shopping and shopkeeping in a small rural town (1850–75); Charles Read (University of Cambridge), Rethinking ‘gentlemanly capitalism’: the 1847 financial crisis and the British Empire; Luca Bertolani Azeredo (Scuola Superiore Meridionale), The Handbook of the Young Terrorist. Na Fianna Éireann and Irish Paramilitarism; Daniel Gallen (NUIG), School's Out: Student involvement in Irish gay rights activism, 1970s–90s; Colin Gannon (London School of Economics and Political Science), ‘A small, oppressed country struggling against the odds’: The INSG and Irish solidarity with the Nicaraguan Revolution, 1983–89; Kevin O'Sullivan (NUIG), Green Futures: Imagining Climate Change in Ireland in the 1970s; Marian Lyons (Maynooth), Women's agency in reaction to marginalisation in early modern Irish society’; Raymond Gillespie (Maynooth), The poor in early modern Ireland: a (curious) view from the margins; Eamon Darcy (Maynooth), The many headed monster and the subaltern in early modern Ireland; Pat Palmer (Maynooth), Imeall: writing from the edge in early modern Ireland.
