Publicity and Political Action in the Age of Revolutions & Imagining Ireland’s self-governed economic future, 1893-1923

A lecture by Joel Herman (TCD) and Anna Devlin (TCD) as part of the Modern and Contemporary Irish History Seminar Series.

About the speakers:
Joel Herman recently completed his PhD at Trinity. His dissertation entitled, ‘Revolutionary Currents: Newspapers, Publicity, and the Imperial Public Sphere’, charted the revolutionary currents that flowed between Ireland, America, and Britain in the Age of Revolutions. He has previously published on the subjects of politics, patriotism, and the news in eighteenth-century Ireland, Britain, and early America and is particularly interested in the transnational dimensions of revolutionary conflicts in the late eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Joel is currently working with the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland to recover the lost debates of the Irish Parliament, 1776-1801. Anna Devlin submitted her PhD thesis on ‘Imagining Ireland’s self-governed economic future 1893-1923’ in June this year. Her research was supervised by Dr Anne Dolan, with co-supervisor Professor Frank Barry, and funded by the Irish Research Council.

The Modern and Contemporary Irish History Seminar Series will take place at 2.30p.m. on Wednesday in the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute. It provides a forum for discussion and dissemination of new ideas, perspectives, and research on Irish history, Irish Studies and cognate disciplines. All are welcome. We particularly welcome members of the postgraduate community.

Convenors: Dr Carole Holohan, Dr Ciaran O'Neill, Dr Georgina Laragy, Prof Lindsey Earner-Byrne.

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