Time: 5:00-6:00pm
Speaker: Tim Murtagh (Research fellow, Virtual Record Treasury)
Title: Empire of information: the lost records of Dublin Castle, 1770-1830
Dr Tim Murtagh completed his PhD at Trinity College Dublin in 2015 and was subsequently an historical consultant to the 14 Henrietta Street Museum in Dublin city. He is the author of Irish Artisans and radical politics, 1776-1820 (Liverpool, 2022). Since 2020 he has been a Research fellow with the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland, an all-island project to digitally reconstruct the records of the Public Record Office of Ireland that was destroyed in 1922.
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Time: 6:00-7:15pm
Speaker: Mark Doyle (Middle Tennessee State University)
Title: The “Hindoo Doctor” of Derry: race, authenticity, and black lives in nineteenth-century Ireland
Mark Doyle is Professor of History at Middle Tennessee State University. His areas of expertise are Modern Britain and Ireland, the British Empire, Mass violence, Urban History, and popular music and society.
His publications include The Kinks: songs of the semi-detached (London, 2020); Editor, The British Empire: a historical encyclopedia (Burbank, 2018); Communal violence in the British Empire: Disturbing the Pax (London, 2016) for which he was Co-winner of Stansky Book Prize, North American Conference on British Studies (2017); Fighting like the devil for the sake of God: Protestants, Catholics, and the origins of violence in Victorian Belfast (Manchester, 2009). He is currently compiling a database on African-descended migrants and visitors to Ireland from the medieval era to the early twentieth century.