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
Tuesday 29th October: Launch of GradLink Mentoring Programme
Junior Sophister students of the Departments of History, Classics and History of Art are invited to attend the launch of the School of History and Humanities GradLink Mentoring Programme on Tuesday 29th October at 6.45pm in the Trinity Long Room Hub.
The Department of History cordially invites all History alumni to a wine reception in advance of the lecture "All but the Kind of Ireland': The Great Earl of Kildare' delivered by Professor Steven Ellis (NUI Galway) as part of the Inaugural Medieval Ireland Symposium.
The Geraldines and Medieval Ireland—The Making of a Myth
The Inaugural Medieval Ireland Symposium
Marking the 500th anniversary of the death of the ‘great’ earl of Kildare
Friday 13 to Saturday 14 September 2013
29 Aug 2013
Take a look at the latest edition of our Alumni Newsletter 2013 to keep up to date with the most recent events in the Department.
To view our previous Alumni Newsletter 2012 please click here.
John Morrill, Professor of British and Irish History at Cambridge, was presented with a copy of the newly published Ireland: 1641 Contexts and Reactions by its editors Professor Jane Ohlmeyer and Dr Micheál Ó Siochrú at the Printing House, Trinity College Dublin where Professor Morrill reflected on his engagement with Irish History over the past thirty years to mark his forthcoming retirement.
22 Mary 2013
Congratulations to Dr. Joseph Clarke and Professor John Horne who have received an EU-funded HERA award for their role in the research project, 'Making war, mapping Europe: cultural encounters and the soldier traveller c. 1792-1945'.
Congratulations also go to Dr. Robert Armstrong who has won a Provost's Teaching Award for 2013.
May 16th 2013
TCD Website Brings 17th-Century Maps Together for First Time in 300 Years
A new Trinity College website brings a unique 17th-century map collection together for the first time in 300 years as a public online resource.
Led by Dr Micheál Ó Siochrú, Associate Professor in Modern History, TCD historians have now tracked down over 2,000 contemporaneous copies of the original survey maps in dozens of libraries and archives throughout Ireland, Britain and France, and brought them together as a free online resource.