Lunch Series: Christmas Celtic Conversations with Constantin Torve
This regular lunch series will feature insights and an engaging presentation from a special guest speaker.
For this Christmas Edition of Connections, enjoy a two course lunch with a festive twist - our Turkey rolled breast main course and Christmas pudding dessert!
This month we welcome to the lunch, Constantin Torve, a visiting PHD History student from Queen’s University Belfast.
Constantin Torve (MA, Uppsala) is a PhD student in history at Queen’s University Belfast. His ESRC-funded research project investigates the adaptation of agrarian secret societies in nineteenth-century Ireland to changing socio-economic environments, particularly their expansion and transfer from local agrarian into wage-labour and diasporic contexts.
The Irish element in the protests that swept across the Victorian goldfields in the 1850s has long been noted, but often underestimated or poorly understood. This talk will present evidence that both the elusive and likely oathbound 'Tipperary Boys' at the Stockade as well as the Red Ribbon protest at Bendigo were adaptations of protest repertoires from the Irish countryside, and that without them, the protest would likely have been far less effective. It will also make a new case for the significance of Eureka, and the Irish element in it, in shaping Australian society and democracy.
*Ticket price includes presentation and insights from our guest speaker and a catered two course set lunch.