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SUMMARY:Conference Lecture 2025
DESCRIPTION:Stephen Heffernan\nIn person and online Zoom lecture\n\n(follow
 ing MHSI AGM at  7.00pm)\n\nFor Methodists the name of the Wood family of
  Lismore\, County Waterford is known chiefly because of two daughters\, wh
 o served with the Methodist Missionary Society. Annie\, a teacher\, served
  in China from 1885–1904\, and Dr Fanny Wood in India from 1900–20 and
  from 1928–46.\n\nTheir family serves to bring into sharp focus the deba
 te that has been prompted in recent years regarding the decline of the non
 -Catholic population between 1911 and 1926 in what became the Irish Free S
 tate\, with David Fitzpatrick’s work on the Methodists having come in fo
 r particular attention. This lecture considers the experiences of a family
  that illustrates the difficulty of taking a strictly denominational look 
 at such matters. The Wood family moved easily between Methodism\, Presbyte
 rianism and the Church of Ireland. The lecture will follow the family from
  their arrival in the Lismore district in the aftermath of a boycotting ca
 mpaign in Kerry during the Land War up to the sale of the last farm held b
 y the Woods in the area in the 1930s and to place them in the wider contex
 t of boycotts\, cattle runs and killings of ‘emergency men’ that happe
 ned during the revolutionary years.\n\nStephen Heffernan is a graduate of 
 University College Dublin (B.A. German and History) and the University of 
 Galway (M.G.O.). A native of Newcastle on the Tipperary-Waterford border\,
  he teaches at Coláiste Chilliain in Clondalkin.
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CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
LOCATION:Edgehill House\, 9 Lennoxvale\, Belfast\, Antrim\, BT9 5BY\, Unite
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