Annual Lecture of the French Department 2024

The Annual French Departmental Lecture will be delivered by Dr John Gallagher (Associate Professor of Early-Modern History, University of Leeds) on: Learning French with Claude Mauger: the life and legacy of a seventeenth-century celebrity teacher

Dr John Gallagher is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Leeds. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin and the University of Cambridge, he is a historian of language, migration, and education in the early modern period. His first book Learning Languages in Early Modern England was published by Oxford University Press in 2019. He is currently researching migration and multilingualism in early modern London, and is interested in the global history of the multilingual city in the early modern period. In 2023, he won a Philip Leverhulme Prize for History. He is Co-Editor of the Historical Journal (Cambridge University Press), a contributor to the London Review of Books, and a regular presenter on BBC Radio 3.

The Annual French Departmental Lecture was founded in 2023. The inaugural lecture was delivered on 13 April 2023 by the actor Barry McGovern who gave a paper on Samuel Beckett, an alumnus of the Department. The Annual Lecture aims to highlight the distinguished history of the Department (it has the oldest Chair of French in the world, dating back to 1776), its continuing record of excellence in the teaching and research of French and its international engagement with French Studies.

Please indicate if you have any access requirements, such as ISL/English interpreting, so that we can facilitate you in attending this event. Contact: salynsta@tcd.ie