The Modern and Contemporary Irish History Seminar Series

Seminars will take place at 2.30p.m. each Wednesday in the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute.

2024
25/9	Resilient Women: Surviving in their own time Susan Byrne, Lorraine McEvoy, Conor Murphy, Deirdre Foley. The Network for the Study of Resilient Women was founded in 2023 by a group of Early Career historians at Trinity College Dublin. This event is part of the Trinity Arts and Humanities Research Festival and takes place at the earlier time of 2pm
2/10	PhD Research Panel Joel Herman (TCD): ‘Publicity and Political Action in the Age of Revolutions’. Anna Devlin (TCD): 'Imagining Ireland’s self-governed economic future, 1893-1923'.
9/10	Sites of Conflict Louise Purbrick (Royal College of Art), ‘H Blocks: the brutalism of prison architecture and its historical affect’.
16/10	Black Histories Phil Mullen (TCD) and Bill Hart (UU), ‘Blackness and the Irish historical imagination’.
30/10	Visual Culture and Social Crises Emily Mark-Fitzgerald (UCD): ‘Surveillance and shadows: land agitation and photography in late 19th c. Ireland’.
6/11	Cultures Of Harm Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck, University of London), ‘Cultures of Harm: Ethics and Engagement in Researching Violence’.
13/11	Institutions of Confinement Mairéad Enright (University of Birmingham), ‘Haunting Reform: Older Women, English Good Shepherd Institutions and the State After 1947’.

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