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PhD Studentship in Modern Irish HistoryApplications are invited for a fully-funded PhD studentship in modern Irish history to commence in September 2024. The four-year studentship will be based in the Department of History, School of Histories and Humanities, Trinity College Dublin, and will enrol in the School`s structured PhD programme. The successful applicants will work on a collaborative research project entitled `Witnessing war, making peace: testimonies of revolution and restraint in inter-war Ireland` led by Dr Anne Dolan. The PhD studentship will consist of EU fees and a stipend of €22,000 p.a. for four years. The deadline for applications is 16 August 2024. Click for more information.
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Book NewsCongratualtions to Patrick Houlihan on the publication of his new book Religious Humanitarianism during the World Wars, 1914-1945: Between Atheism and Messianism with Cambridge University Press. The press has provided free online access until 5 August 2024. Click to read.
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Operation BitingPat Carty reviewed Operation Biting by Max Hastings in The Irish Times.
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Election to the Royal Irish AcademyMany congratulations to Professor Poul Holm on his election to the Royal Irish Academy on 24 May. Poul joined the Academy`s Polite Literature and Antiquities membership in recognition of his pioneering work in Environmental Humanities. For further details of the Academy`s Admittance Day, see the RIA`s news page. Well done Poul!
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The Scheuerle-Zatlin International Travel AwardMany congratulations to PhD student in History, Patrick Duffy. His conference paper, The barrier or outpost and the gap of the north Protestant Ulster, Catholic Ireland and the idea of threshold in County Monaghan, 1828-43, has won this year`s Scheuerle-Zatlin International Travel Award for the best paper from outside North America at the conference of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association conference at Louisville, Kentucky this March.
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Roger CasementPat Carty reviewed Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement in The Sunday Independent.
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Book NewsCongratulations to Dr Andrew Vidali on his recent success in being awarded a RIA Charlemont research grant and the publication of his book Giustizia e violenza delle élites in una repubblica aristocratica with Unicopli.