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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. -
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. -
How Ireland served as a laboratory for the British empireJane Ohlmeyer in The Irish Times. Click to read. -
Our MoonPat Carty reviews Rebecca Boyle`s Our Moon: A Human History in The Sunday Independent. Click to read. -
New History Staff - Professor Lindsey Earner-ByrneClick for more info -
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 -
Book NewsCongratulations to Robert Armstrong who has published Royalism and the Three Stuart Kingdoms: Ideas in Action in the Wars of the 1640s -
Visiting Fellow - Van GosseClick for more info -
Pilgrim SoulPat Carty reviews Daniel Mulhall`s Pilgrim Soul: W.B. Yeats and the Ireland of His Time. Click to read. -
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. -
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. -
Chapman Of Arabia?Pat Carty reviews Ranulph Fiennes` new biography of T.E. Lawrence. Click to read. -
New History Staff - Keith HarringtonClick for more info -
New History Staff - Dr Andrew VidaliClick for more info -
New History Staff - Dr Philippa ByrneClick for more info -
The dead body in Ireland: an interdisciplinary conference21 - 22 September, 2023, Trinity College Dublin and Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin Cemeteries Trust. Click for full details. -
Seven centuries of Irish archives painstakingly recreated after being destroyed in civil warObserver article about the Beyond 2022: Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland project -
Putin’s War in Ukraine and Europe’s Carbon Democracies: Paying the Price of Half-Hearted Climate PoliticsDr. Katja Bruisch has co-authored commentary on the war in Ukraine from an energy history perspective. -
History is abused to underwrite politics of Putin’s RussiaAutocratic regime mobilises distorted Soviet past to threaten lives of millions. An article for the Irish Times by Dr. Katja Bruisch. -
100 Years Since FDR Contracted PolioAn article by Department of History alumnus Niamh Ní Hoireabhaird -
Warmest congratulations to Dr Molly Pucci, whose book, Security Empire: The Secret Police in Communist Eastern Europe has won the Kulczycki Book Prize in Polish Studies from the Assocation for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. -
The civil rights lessons to learn from Ramsey Clark’s legacyTrinity PhD student Woody Hanson reflects in the Tampa Bay Times on the legacy of Ramsey Clark, the recently deceased liberal activist and former U.S. Attorney-General who is the subject of Woody`s research. -
`Jewish Fenians` and anti-Semites: the Jewish role in the Irish fight for freedomDuring July 1921 Count George Noble Plunkett, Dáil minister for foreign affairs, wrote a long letter to Éamon de Valera. In it Plunkett warned the Sinn Féin leader that republicans should be ... -
The Barracks BoysWho was in charge of policing in Ireland in 1921? A podcast from the BBC featuring Dr Brian Hanley. -
Limerick 6/7 March 1921 Curfew Murders PodcastDr Brian Hanley features in this podcast from History Ireland -
Was `society` really to blame for what happened in mother and baby homes?How do you talk about society in the context of widespread systemic abuse of the people and children who experienced Ireland’s mother and baby institutions? What was society`s role? An article by Lindsey Earner-Byrne and Carole Holohan. -
Machnamh 100Professor Anne Dolan featured in the discussion with President Michael D. Higgins on RTÉ. -
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Bloody Sunday 1920Professor Anne Dolan featured in this documentary, available to view on the RTÉ Player -
History Ireland PodcastDr Brian Hanley featured in History, Memory and Bloody Sunday 1920 -
Trump has spread the virus of white nationalismTrump’s refusal to disavow violent white nationalists during and after the first presidential debate with Joe Biden on Tuesday is only the latest reminder of how Trump has emboldened white supremacists, writes Professor Daniel Geary -
Thu 24 Sept PRONI and Beyond 2022Recovered from the Flames: A digital event hosted by the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland in conjunction with Beyond 2022. Two sessions between 2.00pm to 5.00pm and a History Ireland Hedge School 7.00pm - 8:15pm. Attendance is free and all are welcome. Registration gives access to all sessions. -
Classified BritainProf Eunan O`Halpin and Dr Georgina Laragy from the School of Histories and Humanities appeared on Classified Britain on BBC Radio 4 to discuss the classified ads that appeared on the front of various Dublin and Irish newspapers on the eve of the First Home Rule Bill in 1886. The conversation, like the ads themselves, ranged widely from private lunacy care, investment in Floridian orange groves, to infant mortality. -
Dr Isabella JacksonDr Jackson, Assistant Professor in Chinese History, discusses her research on the TCD Alumni website -
New Book: Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662–2016Dr Patrick Walsh has together with Dr Douglas Kanter (Florida Atlantic University) just published a new book on the history of Irish taxation with Palgrave MacMillan. It is the first book to examine the politics of taxation in Ireland from the seventeenth through to the twenty-first centuries and combines political, economic and social history. -
Widows and the 1641 DepositionsThe Irish Association of Professional Historians (IAPH) Annual Public Lecture will be given by Prof Jane Ohlmeyer. Weds 17 April at 7 pm, National Library of Ireland -
From Belfast to the Black PanthersProf Daniel Geary`s panel talk will look at how the Irish identified with and against African Americans as part of the Behind the Headlines discussion lecture Does #Race Matter? March 28 at 18:30 -
Annual Lecture in U.S. HistoryGlenn Frankel will deliver the 2019 Annual Lecture in U.S. History at 12 March at 19:00 in the MacNeill Lecture Theatre, Hamilton Building, on the topic Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex and the Making of a Dark Masterpiece in 1960s America. -
The Corabeth Powers Dabaghi and William L. Powers, Jr prize in American historyCaomihe Brennan and Marcus Brady are co-recipients of the prize, awarded annually for the best performance in an American history module in the Senior Freshman year. Brennan is pictured with Dr Daniel Geary, Mark Pigott Associate Professor of U.S. History. -
Pictured at the awards on the 16th of October. L-R: Dr Carole Holohan, Olivia Frehill, Jack Sheehan, Ka lo Yau, and Dr Daniel Geary -
National Science Foundation funding for the project Volcanism, Hydrology and Social Conflict: Lessons from Hellenistic and Roman-Era Egypt and MesopotamiaTCEH is delighted to announce that a Yale University-based project that Dr Francis Ludlow (Dept of History) is a Co-Principal Investigator on has received this award. This project examines the link between explosive volcanic eruptions and the annual Nile river summer flooding in antiquity. -
Trinity and Columbia University Dual BA Programme in the arts and humanitiesThe new Dual BA Programme is unique in that students will graduate from the two leading universities with two degrees over the course of four years. The inaugural cohort will pursue a rigorous undergraduate education in the areas of the arts and humanities, spanning the two continents.
