April 2016

Deadline 16 October! Call for Papers: Pack Up Your Troubles
27th to 29th April 2016

2016-03-27 # Deadline 16 October! Call for Papers: Pack Up Your Troubles

Gateways to the First World War, an AHRC-funded centre for public engagement with the centenary of 1914-1918, is pleased to announce a conference Pack Up Your Troubles: Performance Cultures in the First World War to be held at the University of Kent in CanterburyWednesday 27th – Friday 29th April 2016.

From the popular to elite, amateur to professional, a wide range of performative genres had a significant impact on the fighting spirit of servicemen and civilians in all combatant countries. Yet this vital area of the conflict has yet to be subject to in-depth academic attention. This conference will explore a variety of performance cultures in all theatres of war, on the home and fighting fronts, 1914-1918, seeking to extend the breadth and depth of our knowledge of this important area of First World War studies.

A combination of keynotes, panel sessions, workshops and performances will feature work on a broad range of wartime subjects including music, music hall, theatre, cinema and dance.

  • What role did music, cinema and theatre play in the lives of servicemen and women, and civilians, in Britain and other combatant nations?
  • How did wartime restrictions (ideological, economic and material) alter the nature of performance between 1914 and 1918?
  • In what ways did theatres, cinemas, music halls respond to the war effort?
  • What were the therapeutic uses of music and theatre?
  • How were the tensions between entertainment and high art played out during the war, and what were the post-war consequences for the entertainment industries?

Proposals to a maximum of 300 words for papers of 20 minutes duration are invited for submission to gateways@kent.ac.uk by Friday 16th October 2015

For more information please contact gateways@kent.ac.uk

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Commemoration: 101st Anniversary of ANZAC DAY
25th April 2016
 The Somme Centenary 2014-2016

2016-04-25 # VILLERS-BRETONNEUXA poignant ANZAC Day Dawn Service is held every year at 5.30am, on 25 April, at the Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux. This ceremony pays particular homage to the Australians who served during the First World War and especially remembers those who fought on the French battlefields and in the Somme.

During the whole week, many commemorative events will be held in Villers-Bretonneux and in other towns and villages throughout the Somme in remembrance of the Anzacs.

www.anzac-france.com

See more at: http://www.somme-battlefields.com/centenary-somme-centenary-14-18/major-events#sthash.4LptBUBC.dpuf

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POZIERES
24th April 2016
 The Somme Centenary 2014-2016

Narrated Walking Rally – Pozières town hall

Digger-Cote 160 Association

http://www.digger-pozieres.org/

See more at: http://www.somme-battlefields.com/centenary-somme-centenary-14-18/major-events#sthash.4LptBUBC.dpuf

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ANZAC Day New Zealand Service
23rd April 2016
 The Somme Centenary 2014-2016

2016-04-23 # LonguevalThe Battle of the Somme was New Zealand's first major engagement on the Western Front. It took a huge toll on the 15,000 members of the New Zealand Division who were involved. Roughly one in seven of the division who fought on the Somme was killed, and about four in every ten were wounded. More than 2000 New-Zealanders lie buried on what was once the battlefield of the Somme.

In commemoration of ANZAC Day a service of remembrance will be held at the Caterpillar Valley Cemetery and Memorial on 23 April at 3pm.

No inscription or registration is needed to attend the ceremony.

ww100.govt.nz - See more at: http://www.somme-battlefields.com/centenary-somme-centenary-14-18/major-events#sthash.4LptBUBC.dpuf

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Albert
24th April 2016
 The Somme Centenary 2014-2016

Concert organised by the Souvenir Français  at the Théâtre du Jeu de Paume, Albert

www.ville-albert.fr

See more at: http://www.somme-battlefields.com/centenary-somme-centenary-14-18/major-events#sthash.4LptBUBC.dpuf‌

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1916 Through Music and Song, Newtownhamilton High School
22nd April 2016 at 8.00pm

2016/05/22 # 1916 Through Music and Song, Newtownhamilton high School Poster

1916 Through Music and Song, Newtownhamilton High School

Friday 22nd April 2016 at 8.00pm.

 

For more information please go to:

 www.newtownhamiltonhigh.co.uk

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The GAA and the Great War
14 April 2016 (AGM) from 6.30pm to 8.45pm
LivingLegacies 1914-18 Logo (Aug14) The Western Front - Logo v2 Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

Subject : The GAA and the Great War

Speaker : Dr Dónal McAnallen

Venue : The Branch meets from 6.30pm to 8.45pm at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), 2 Titanic Boulevard, BELFAST, BT3 9HQ

Donation: We ask for £4 to help support our activities as we have no other source of income

Please click the poster for more information

2016-02-11 # Antrim and Down WFA 2016 branch programme

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First World War Family History Workshops at the Ulster Museum
12 April 2016 from 2.00pm to 4.30pm at Ulster Museum - FREE
LivingLegacies 1914-18 Logo (Aug14) National Museums Northern Ireland NerveCentre 1 (2016-04-05) ‌ Creative Centenaries‌ ‌ 

First World War Family History Workshops at the Ulster Museum – Tuesday 12 April & Tuesday 10 May 2016, 2pm-4.30pm:

Led by Dr Marie Coleman, Queen’s University, Belfast, in partnership with the Nerve Centre, this practical workshop will introduce the various sources available for researching those that enlisted during the First World War, allowing you to build a better picture of the role played by your ancestors.

2016-04-12 # Family History poster

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Remembering 1916
Lecture: Professor Fran Brearton, “Easter 1912, 1914, 1916: Poetry and Sacrifice”
6 April 2016 from 1.00pm to 2.00pm at Ulster Museum - FREE
LivingLegacies 1914-18 Logo (Aug14)  National Museums Northern Ireland 1914ORG - First World War Centenary‌   Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF)- Black  

Free Lunchtime Lecture: Professor Fran Brearton, “Easter 1912, 1914, 1916: Poetry and Sacrifice”

Wednesday 6 April

Time 1pm – 2pm

Lecture Theatre, Ulster Museum

Free (Booking essential)

This talk will look at poetic responses to political tensions in Ireland, from the Home Rule crisis through the outbreak of the Great War to the Easter Rising, comparing poems by (amongst others) W. B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, and Patrick Pearse, with work by some of Ireland’s serving soldier-poets – C. S. Lewis, Monk Gibbon, Francis Ledwidge, and Tom Kettle.

Fran Brearton is Professor of Modern Poetry at Queen’s University, Belfast, and assistant director of the Seamus Heaney Centre. Her research interests are primarily in British and Irish Poetry of the 20th and 21st centuries. Her first book was a study of the effects of the First World War on 20th-century Irish poetry; most recently, she co-edited (with Alan Gillis) The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry.

Book tickets online at:www.nmni.com/1916.  

2016 - Various Event - Remembering 1916 NMNI‌‌‌

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WOMEN AND THE DECADE OF COMMEMORATIONS: AN ALL ISLAND PERSPECTIVE

2016-01-19 # All Island Commemoration Netowrk - Ireland

Sophie Long will be attending on behalf of Living Legacies 1914-18.

Public Workshops and Roundtables at Maynooth University 

6th April 

Three notable aspects of the ‘Decade of Commemorations’ thus far have been the lack of an all-island commemorative strategy; the underrepresentation or outright exclusion of women scholars/ artists/ writers/ activists / stakeholders from major events (the RIA’s ‘Global Perspectives on the Rising’ series and the Abbey Theatre’s ‘Waking the Rising’ programme are two high profile examples); and its domination by historical discourse and by historians. These public talks and roundtable events, taking place at Maynooth University on Tuesday 19th January and Wednesday 6th April, aim to diversify approaches to the ‘decade of commemoration’. They focus intentionally on ‘women and the decade of commemorations’ as a corrective to the current national conversation, seeking to showcase the scholarly and creative work of women working in an Irish cultural context, as well as to initiate discussion about women of the period of a century ago. Finally, they aim to consider the ways in which the ‘decade of commemoration’ has in fact limited discussion and debate about commemorations perceived to lie outside of its remit (such as the 20thanniversary of the closing of the last Magdalene laundry).

Scholars, writers, art practitioners, activists and community workers are invited to attend to participate in roundtable discussions, with the longer term goal of establishing an inclusive, all-island commemoration network.

 

For more information click here for more info

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