The conference was officially opened by the President of MU prof. Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh together with both Ambassadors P. Kynštetr and I. Pokojný. Then followed short lectures from Prof. Jiří Hutečka, Assistant Professor at the Historical Institute of the Faculty of Arts, Hradec Králové, Adam Hudek from the Historical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences ("Integrating Slovakia in Czechoslovakia“, 1918-1920 ") and Jana Fischerová, Ph.D. of the Faculty of Foreign Languages, Literature and Cultural Studies of Trinity College Dublin (" 1918 in the Cultural Policies of Communist Czechoslovakia: The Competitive Cults of Masaryk and Gottwald "). The panel was moderated by John Paul Newman, assistant professor at the Maynooth University Historical Institute.

The Czechoslovak panel in Maynooth was attended mainly by historians from Irish universities, but also renowned British historian prof. Alexander Watson, who had the evening prior, a lecture in Trinity College Dublin titled "Without Any Revolution and Riots. The Quiet Collapse of the Habsburg Empire, 1918." The majority of the panel's 30 participants participated in an interesting and comprehensive discussion which, due to the composition of the participants, was more focused on the details of the rise of Czechoslovakia.