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Election to the Royal Irish AcademyMany congratulations to Professor Poul Holm on his election to the Royal Irish Academy on 24 May. Poul joined the Academy`s Polite Literature and Antiquities membership in recognition of his pioneering work in Environmental Humanities. For further details of the Academy`s Admittance Day, see the RIA`s news page. Well done Poul!
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The Scheuerle-Zatlin International Travel AwardMany congratulations to PhD student in History, Patrick Duffy. His conference paper, The barrier or outpost and the gap of the north Protestant Ulster, Catholic Ireland and the idea of threshold in County Monaghan, 1828-43, has won this year`s Scheuerle-Zatlin International Travel Award for the best paper from outside North America at the conference of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association conference at Louisville, Kentucky this March.
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Roger CasementPat Carty reviewed Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement in The Sunday Independent.
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Book NewsCongratulations to Dr Andrew Vidali on his recent success in being awarded a RIA Charlemont research grant and the publication of his book Giustizia e violenza delle élites in una repubblica aristocratica with Unicopli.
Congratulations to Dr Andrew Vidali on his recent success in being awarded a RIA Charlemont research grant and the publication of his book Giustizia e violenza delle élites in una repubblica aristocratica with Unicopli.
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Spring Lecture SeriesSince 2013 the School of Histories and Humanities have collaborated with Dublin Cemeteries Trust (formerly Glasnevin Trust) to curate a Spring Lecture Series exploring different aspects of Irish history. This year Dr Georgina Laragy has gathered four speakers to explore aspects of the Great Irish Famine. Together we will examine historical fiction, art and 3D imagery as well as crime and violence. While the events are free booking is advised as space is limited. Click for more info
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The WagerPat Carty reviews David Grann`s The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder in The Business Post. Click to read.
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Poverty, Children and the Poor Law in Industrial Belfast, 1880-1918Congratulations to Georgina Laragy on the publication, with Olwen Purdue, of Poverty, Children and the Poor Law in Industrial Belfast, 1880-1918 through Liverpool University Press.
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How Ireland served as a laboratory for the British empireJane Ohlmeyer in The Irish Times. Click to read.
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Our MoonPat Carty reviews Rebecca Boyle`s Our Moon: A Human History in The Sunday Independent. Click to read.
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New History Staff - Professor Lindsey Earner-ByrneClick for more info
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IRC Advanced Laureate AwardsCongratulations to the History Department`s Dr Anne Dolan and Professor Micheál Ó Siochrú who have won prestigious IRC Advanced Laureate awards
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Book NewsCongratulations to Robert Armstrong who has published Royalism and the Three Stuart Kingdoms: Ideas in Action in the Wars of the 1640s
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Visiting Fellow - Van GosseClick for more info
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Pilgrim SoulPat Carty reviews Daniel Mulhall`s Pilgrim Soul: W.B. Yeats and the Ireland of His Time. Click to read.
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Making Empire and the After Lives of Empire in IrelandA panel discussion chaired by Nicholas Canny (University of Galway) featuring Jane Ohlmeyer (TCD), Micheál Ó Siochrú (TCD), Ciaran O Neill (TCD) and Finola O`Kane (University College Dublin), as part of the Trinity Centre for Early Modern History Seminar Series. Tuesday, 21 November 2023, 4 – 5:30pm. Click for details.
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The James Lydon Lectures in Medieval History and Culture, 2023Did Ireland have an early Middle Ages? - Professor Robin Chapman Stacey, University of Washington. Click for full details.
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Chapman Of Arabia?Pat Carty reviews Ranulph Fiennes` new biography of T.E. Lawrence. Click to read.