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Launch of GradLink Mentoring Programme

On Tuesday 29th October at 6.45pm we are launching the GradLink Mentoring Programme in the Long Room Hub, TCD for Junior Sophister students of the departments of Classics, History and History of Art and Architecture. The idea is that you can meet graduates of each of these departments who are now working in a range of different professions (e.g. Arts and Culture, Business, Communications, Law, Conservation and Heritage, Publishing, Education) and, if you choose, you can be mentored by one of the graduates.

We will be launching GradLink with a wine reception where you can hear from all the graduates and mingle informally to learn about their experience and career pathways in their sectors. Mentoring involves meeting with a mentor 2-3 times over the coming months, to find out more about the work they do and discuss your own career development. It is an excellent opportunity to start thinking about your future and we are very grateful to our alumni for giving their time to participate in this programme.

We realise that not everyone will want to be mentored, but we would encourage all JS students to come along to the launch and find out what graduates of Classics, History and History of Art and Architecture are now doing from a career point of view and their career paths so far. For those of you who are interested in being mentored, we will also explain the sign-up process and will arrange meetings for the following week to allocate mentors. The mentors can help you with issues such as researching particular careers, reviewing your CV/ LinkedIn profile, finding jobs that are not advertised, and practising job interviews and networking.

This should be a very enjoyable experience. We look forward to meeting you at the launch and hope you benefit from the experience of our School’s alumni.

Further information on the programme
1 Oct 2013

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.

15th Medieval Dublin Symposium (PDF, 594kb) takes place on Saturday 25th May 2013 in the Robert Emmet Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College. This day-long series of lectures, on the archaeology, history and literature of Dublin from the Vikings to the Tudors is free of charge; no advance booking is required.

Professor Ciaran O’Neill’s edited volume, Irish Elites in the Nineteenth Century (external), was published by Four Courts Press in March 2013. The volume, which investigates how power, wealth and influence were exercised in the nineteenth century, includes seventeen articles, and an introduction by Professor O’Neill.
21st March 2013

Tabloid Values: on the trail of the world’s first news hound (PDF, 1.1mb)
December 3, 2012 7:00 PM
Thomas Davis Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin
The Department of History invites you to The Centre for Early Modern History Inaugural Annual Lecture, delivered by Professor Andrew Pettegree, University of St Andrews on: ‘Tabloid Values: On the Trail of the World’s First News Hound’ on Monday 3 December 2012. The lecture will take place at 7pm in the Thomas Davis Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin.

The people of Early Modern Europe had a voracious appetite for news, but in an era of slow and uncertain communication, assessing the reliability of rumour, reports and despatches was by no means easy. This lecture explores the contribution to the building of a commercial news market of the world’s first news hound, Abraham Verhoeven, who helped shape our concept of how news should be reported and presented. Speaker Andrew Pettegree is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews, and the Director of the AHRC’s Universal Short Title Catalogue Project.
11th Oct 2012

Tuesday 30th October: Annual Public Lecture in American History “Democracy and Money in America: A Historical Perspective on the Election of 2012” Gary Gerstle will address these questions in his public lecture, “Democracy and Money in America: A Historical Perspective on the Election of 2012,” to be delivered at 7 pm on Tuesday 30 October in the Synge Theater in the Arts Building at Trinity College. All are welcome to attend the lecture. For further details, please contact Jennifer Scholtz in the Department of History at histhum@tcd.ie or at 018961020.
11th Oct 2012

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