Research Seminar Series 24/25

    The Department's research seminar series (Thursday evenings during teaching term) attracts distinguished speakers from Ireland and abroad, and provides research students with an opportunity to present their work.

    Please see below the seminar schedule for Semester 2, 24/25 - all are welcome!

    VENUE: History Department Boardroom, First Floor, Rhetoric House

    TIME: 5pm (unless otherwise stated below)

     

    Day/Date
         		 Time
         		 Speaker
         		 Seminar Title
     
    Thursday 13 February 
         		 6:00-7:15pm
         		 Miles Taylor
    Centre for British Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin
         		 Umbrellas and popular protest in Europe c.1828-1916
     
    Thursday 20 February
    double session    		 5:00-6:00pm
         		 Colmán Ó Clabaigh OSB
    Glenstal Abbey
         		 Let me count the ways I love you: sex and marriage in late medieval Ireland
     
      6:00-7:15pm

     

    		 Sandrine Tromeur
    PhD in History candidate, Maynooth University

     

    		 Irish migrants and their integration into eighteenth-century France: the MacCarthy family in La Rochelle, 1715-89
     
    Thursday 27 February
    double session
         		 5:00-6:00pm

     

    		 Tim Murtagh
    Research fellow, Virtual Record Treasury
         		 Empire of information: the lost records of Dublin Castle, 1770-1830
     
      6:00-7:15pm
         		 Mark Doyle
    Middle Tennessee State University
         		 The “Hindoo Doctor” of Derry: race, authenticity, and black lives in nineteenth century Ireland
     
    Thursday 6 March
    double session 

     

    		 5:00-6:00pm

     

    		 Eamon Healy
    PhD in History candidate, Maynooth University

     

    		 Power and persuasion: contrasting administrative solutions in two Irish Poor Law Unions during the Great Famine
     
      6:00-7:15pm 

     

    		 Anna McKay
    School of Histories, Languages and Cultures, University of Liverpool
         		 ‘In the time of their desperate need’: Irish convicts in Bermuda during the Great Famine

     
    Thursday 13 March  5:00-6:00pm Markus Müller
    Department of Bavarian History, Ludwig Maxmilian University of Munich    		 How to translate land diets, land estates and landschaft? The necessary complexity and unnecessary difficulty of German constitutional history in late Middle Age
     
    Thursday 3 April
    double session     		 5:00-6:00pm Margaret Newell
    Mary Ball Washington Scholar in History, UCD    		 Before the underground railroad: Native Americans and African escaping slavery in Colonial America--and the people who helped them
     
      6:00-7:15pm Hannes Grandits
    Humboldt University of Berlin     		 How empires end, or not end: the Eastern crisis and the end of the Ottoman rule in Bosnia, 1875-78
     
    Thursday 10 April  5:00-6:00pm Andrew Holmes
    School of History, Archaeology, Philosophy and Politics, Queen’s University Belfast    		 The politics of culture? The Northern Revival, Presbyterian unionists, and the second series of the Ulster Journal of Archaeology, 1894-1911 
    Thursday 17 April 5:00-6:00pm Diane Urquhart
    School of History, Archaeology, Philosophy and Politics, Queen’s University Belfast    		 Lady Cecil Craig and the reclamation of history
    Thursday 1 May 5:00-6:00pm Anthony Farrell
    History Department, Maynooth University    		  Injury, illness and healthcare for Great War veterans in early Independent Ireland