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Centre for Contemporary Irish History Seminars

This seminar is open to all with relevant historical interests inside and outside TCD. Proposals for papers can be directed to any of the four convenors: Dr Michael Kennedy (RIA, difp@iol.ie), Dr Deirdre McMahon (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, mcmahon_deirdre@yahoo.co.uk), Professor Eunan O’Halpin (TCD, eunan.ohalpin@tcd.ie), and Dr Anne Dolan (TCD, adolan@tcd.ie). Presenters speak for a maximum of 45 minutes, and a general discussion follows.

2012 Seminars

26th Spetember ‘Human bloodsuckers’, ‘rats and snakes’: the killing of civilian spies and informers in the War of Independence
Professor Eunan O’Halpin, Trinity College Dublin (*Room 3124*)
3rd October Fr Shaw reconsidered
Dr Patrick Maume, Dictionary of Irish Biography, Royal Irish Academy
10th October ‘A unique association’: the Medical Laboratory Scientists’ Association and the development of Irish medical laboratory science, 1961-2011
Francis Devine, SIPTU
17th October The Bureau of Military History and Irish historians
Dr Eve Morrison, Trinity College Dublin
24th October A political chameleon: advanced Irish nationalism in Great Britain, 1917-21
Dr Darragh Gannon, NUI Maynooth
31st October Whenever a woman was wanted: Garda policewomen in 1950s Dublin
John Johnston-Kehoe, Trinity College Dublin
7th November Some thoughts on the Irish Republic, the Crown and the Commonwealth
Professor Philip Murphy, University of London
14th November Grasping the clerical nettle? The SDLP, the Catholic Church and integrated education, 1970-5
Dr Sarah Campbell, University of Newcastle (*Room TBC)
21st November Irish military culture in the age of peacekeeping
Niamh Campbell, Trinity College Dublin
28th November Irish policy towards Franco’s Spain: a reappraisal
Dr Barry Whelan, NUI Maynooth
5th December ‘A chronic irritant’: British-Irish intrigues to remove Conor Cruise O’Brien from Katanga: September-December 1961
Dr Michael Kennedy, Executive Editor, Documents on Irish Foreign Policy, Royal Irish Academy
12th December The Senate and the Civil War
Dr Mary Stafford, Trinity College Dublin

Seminars take place at 4p.m. each Wednesday in the IIIS Seminar Room C6002, Level 6, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin


Last updated 8 October 2012 by History (Email).