Welcome to TCD History
Welcome to the web-pages of the Department of History. The Department offers extramural, undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in History. Committed to the pursuit of excellence in both research and teaching, students of all backgrounds and levels are welcome into a challenging but friendly environment in which experienced and committed teachers and supervisors will enrich your experience of studying the past.
For further enquires, you can visit us on the third level of the Arts Building (nearest access: Nassau Street Gate). The Departmental Office is located in the conjoined Rooms 3118 & 3143. The Office is usually open from Mondays to Fridays, from 10.30am to 12.30pm and again from 2.30pm to 4.30pm.
You may also contact us by email or telephone. Enquires should be directed to hilliarp@tcd.ie or +353 1 896 1791. You can also reach us by fax at +353 1 896 3995. Alternatively, both academic and support staff may be contacted directly by post, fax, email, or in person: see the staff section for further details.
News & Events
May 9th 2012
Dr Laura O'Brien, an IRCHSS CARA postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History, has just been awarded the Society for the Study of French History annual prize for the best article in French History in 2011. Her prize-winning article: 'Cette nouvelle transformation du gamin de Paris: The figures of the Mobile Guard and vivandières in popular culture in 1848' is available on-line from the journal French History, vol. 25, September 2011 (external)
April 25th 2012
A new programme of oral history training has begun to help local communities in border areas tell the stories of their past and sometimes troubled histories.
The oral history training is being offered as part of the Peace Process: Layers of Meaning Project (external); an ambitious collaboration between Queen Mary, University of London, Trinity College Dublin, and Dundalk Institute of Technology. The programme is supported with €1.1 million from the EU’s PEACE III programme. Full press release (PDF, 78kb).
April 11th 2012
Friends of Medieval Dublin, 14th Medieval Dublin Symposium (PDF, 220kb), Saturday 19th May, Robert Emmet Theatre, Arts Building, TCD
April 5th 2012
Ireland and the Falklands War, The Centre for Contemporary Irish History Witness Seminar 2012
Rediscovering Medieval Ireland (PDF, 2.3mb) a public lecture by Professor Robin Frame (University of Durham) to mark the launch of CIRCLE: A Calendar of Irish Chancery Letters, c.1244-1509
Thursday, 10 May at 6pm, Thomas Davis Lecture Theatre (2043, Arts Building), TCD