The 1916 Rising and Central Europe 2016 Commemoration Symposium Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, in Association with the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame

Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest Department of English Literatures and Cultures Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Programme (Sophianum Building, Mikszáth tér) Morning 09.45-10.00 Official Welcome: Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Ft. Dr. Fodor Győrgy; Irish Ambassador to Hungary, HE Pat Kelly 10.00-10.45 1916: The Irish Rebellion: Roundtable Discussion of Film Prof Christopher Fox, Prof Thomas Bartlett, University of Notre Dame: Dr. Michael McAteer, Assoc. Prof, Pázmány Péter Catholic Univeristy Moderator: Judith Fox, Clinical Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame 10.45-11.15 Coffee Break 11.15-11.45 Ireland’s struggle for Independence in the First Half of the Twentieth Century in terms of Irish-Hungarian Parallels Dr. Lili Zach, National University of Ireland, Galway 12.00-12.30 T.W. Rolleston and Arthur Griffith: Contrasting Responses to the 1916 Rising in terms of Polish and Hungarian Experience Dr. Michael McAteer, Pázmány Péter Catholic University 12.45-13.45 Lunch break

Afternoon 14.00-14.30: Patrick Pearse and the Hungarian Language Movement of the 1820s-1830s Dr. Eglantina Remport, Department of English Studies, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest 14.45-15.00: Coffee Break 15.00-15.30: Children of Oppressed Nations Poles Apart: Polish Responses to the 1916 Rising Dr. Wit Pietrzak, Institute of English Studies, University of Łódź, Poland 15.45-16.00: Break 16.00-16.30: Roundup Discussion