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Trinity Centre for Contemporary Irish History Seminars

Convenors: Dr Ciaran O'Neill TCD (ciaran.oneill@tcd.ie); Dr Georgina Laragy TCD (laragyg@tcd.ie); and Dr Carole Holohan TCD (holohaca@tcd.ie)

Attendance is open to all with relevant interests inside and outside TCD.

Presenters speak for a maximum of 45 minutes, followed by a general discussion. Seminars will take place at 2.30p.m. each Wednesday in the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute.

January - March 2023
25th January

Questions of 'Ascendancy' and Worthlessness: The Political Culture of the Protestant-working Class of Northern Ireland.
Dr Connal Parr (Northumbria University)
1st February

Into Europe: Navigating Irish foreign policy inside the European Union from membership to Maastricht 
Prof. Michael J. Geary (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) 
8th February

CANCELLED
"We know our own business here": What was the 1904 Limerick Boycott really about?'
Dr Sean Gannon (Independent) and Dr Natalie Wynn (Trinity College Dublin)
15th February

Jolly begging?: the emotions of Irish Catholic fundraising
Dr Sarah Roddy (Maynooth University)
22nd February

PhD Research Panel

Shelby Zimmerman and Joan Kavanagh
1st March

"'We Shall Overcome' and Ireland: The Transatlantic Politics of a Protest Song."
Dr Daniel J Geary and Jack Sheehan (Trinity College Dublin)
Reading Week
15th March

'A Failure of Humanity: Global Relief Networks and the Great Irish Famine'
Dr Aoife O’Leary McNeice (University of Exeter)
22nd March

‘Clothing the poor in post-Famine Ulster’
Dr Eliza McKee (The National Archives UK)
29th March

Postdoctoral Researcher Panel

Colonial knowledge production, family networks, and collecting practices: perspectives from Trinity College Dublin c.1850s-1930s
Dr Mobeen Hussain (Trinity College Dublin)
'Dublin Castle in its Urban Context, 1801-1923'

Dr Joseph Curran (Trinity College Dublin)