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Thursday, 26 October at 6.00 pm
Title: ‘“a symbol of West Britonism in Ireland”: the O’Conor Don and the culture and politics of liberal Catholicism and Catholic unionism, 1860-1906’
Speaker: Dr Aidan Enright (Leeds Beckett University) https://irishhistorians.ie/members/aenright/
Aidan Enright is an historian of nineteenth-century Ireland and Britain with particular interests in liberal and conservative Catholicism, Catholic unionism and imperialism, and Irish, English and British Catholic identities. His recent award-winning monograph Charles Owen O’Conor, ‘the O’Conor Don’: landlordism, liberal Catholicism and unionism in nineteenth-century Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2022) explores the life of one of Ireland’s most prominent Catholic landlords and liberal politicians who served as MP for County Roscommon between 1860 and 1880.
All are welcome!