The Annual James Connolly Memorial Seminar is co-hosted by the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) and the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) on behalf of the Irish Association for Industrial Relations.
Past Seminars
| Year | Speaker | Topic |
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1998 |
Prof. Patrick Gunnigle |
Social Partnership |
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1999 |
Mr. Des Geraghty, former President, SIPTU |
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2000 |
Dr. Ivana Bacik, Trinity College Dublin |
New Ways of Enforcing Equality |
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2001 |
Dr. John Fitzgerald, ESRI |
The Celtic Tiger: Problems and Possibilities |
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2002 |
Mr. David Begg, General Secretary, ICTU |
Does Social Partnership Have a Future? |
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2003 |
Mr. Rory O'Donnell, NESC |
Social Partnership: Does it Erode or Deepen Democracy? |
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2004 |
Mr. Jack O'Connor, President, SIPTU |
Social partnership: Where To Next? |
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2005 |
Mr. John Monks, ETUC |
Competitiveness: The European Way |
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2006 |
Mr. Bernard O'Hara |
Michael Davitt: Labour's Forgotten Leader? |
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2007 |
Prof. Phil Taylor, University of Strathcylde |
India Calling to Faraway Towns: Globalisation and Employee Relations in Indian Call Centres |
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2008 |
Prof. Jill Rubery, Manchester Business School |
Industrial Relations, Labour Market Segmentation and the (Under)Valuation of Womens Work |
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2009 |
Mr. Joseph Wallace, University of Limerick |
Irish Trade Unions and the EU: Historical Lessons and Current Perspectives |
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2010 |
Prof. Edmund Heery, Cardiff Business School |
Assessing Voice: the Debate over Worker Representation |
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2011 |
Dr. Michelle O'Sullivan, University of Limerick |
Vulnerable Workers in the Boom: Voicing Problems and Non-unionism in a Large US MNC |
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2012 |
Prof. James Wickham, Trinity College Dublin |
Migration, Industrial Relations and the European Social Model |
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2013 |
Prof. Tony Royle, University of Bradford |
Trade Unions, International Labour Standards and the Crisis of Democratic Capitalism |
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2014 |
Dr. Thomas Turner, University of Limerick |
Does Ownership of the Means of Production still Matter in the 21st Century? |
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2015 |
Prof. Terry McDonagh |
Turning the Corner? Setting Irish Labour Relations in the Context of Crisis and the Prospect of Recovery |
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2016 |
Dr. Micheline Sheehy Skeffington & Dr. Margaret Ward |
Radical Lives: The Sheehy Skeffingtons, Constance Markievicz and James Connolly |
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2017 |
Prof. Tony Dundon, University of Manchester |
The Maniplutaive Faces of Failure: the (potential) demise of HRM? |
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2018 |
Dr. Eugene Hickland |
The Union Premium and the Future of Irish Trade Unions |
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2019 |
Dr. Daniel Finn |
Corbyn, Labour, and the Brexit Crisis |