This conference addresses the short and long term historical impact of disasters in the Irish and wider contexts – famine, fires/conflagrations, shipwrecks and other large-scale transport accidents, epidemics/pandemics, and natural calamities including floods, earthquakes and storms. The conference considers the immediate and long term social and economic impact of such events; contemporary official and legal responses; and the part played by disasters in shaping historical memory.

Dr Maura Cronin, History Dept,
Mary Immaculate College, Limerick.
Phone: 353-61-204356
Fax: 353-61-313632

Email: maura.cronin@mic.ul.ie
Visit the website at http://www.mic.ul.ie/history/default.htm