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1st September 2011

Dr Ciaran O’Neill will join the Department as an Usher Lecturer. Dr O’Neill, a graduate of Galway and Liverpool, who has studied most recently in Oxford, is a specialist in the history of nineteenth-century Ireland, with interests in the connections of the Irish elite with both Britain and Empire.

1st June 2011

The Minister for Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht Affairs, Jimmy Deenihan, launched two new postgraduate Masters programmes, in Public History and Cultural Heritage and ‘Digital Humanities and Culture’ at Trinity College Dublin on May 31st last that will add a new dynamic to the development of Ireland’s Cultural Heritage.The programmes have been developed under the umbrella of Trinity’s Creative Arts, Technologies and Culture initiative and are an outcome of the new partnership between the university and some of Ireland’s leading cultural institutions located in close proximity at the centre of Dublin. The National Library of Ireland, the National Museum of Ireland, the National Archives of Ireland, Dublin City Gallery Hugh Lane, Dublin City Public Library and Archive Services and the Chester Beatty Library among others will collaborate with Trinity in the development of these new programmes.

27th May 2011

Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, Erasmus Smith’s Professor of History, was installed today as a member of the Royal Irish Academy.

Latest Events

November 1st 2011

Lucy Riall, Professor of History at Birkbeck College - University of London, will deliver a lecture on the topic Italy: Myths and Memories of Unification in the Emmet Theatre, Arts Building, at 7:30pm

October 21st/22nd 2011

Borderlands as Physical Reality: Producing Place in the 18th and 19th Centuries (external)
Proposals for 8,000-word pre-circulated papers are invited, with comparative and/or interdisciplinary approaches being especially welcome for The conference, which will be held at King’s College London on Friday, October 21, and Saturday, October 22, 2011

February 2nd 2012

Richard J Evans, Regius Professor of History at Cambridge University, will deliver the annual Holocaust Lecture for 2012, in the Burke Theatre, Arts Building