Michael Hall and Island Pamphlets: Composing a people's history of the Troubles

A lecture by Dr Fearghus Roulston (University of Strathclyde) as part of the Modern and Contemporary Irish History Seminar Series.

Fearghus Roulston is the Chancellor’s Fellow in the History of Activism at the University of Strathclyde and co-director of the Scottish Oral History Centre. His first book, Belfast Punk and the Troubles: An Oral History, came out with Manchester University Press in 2022; his second book, on the role of historical discourse in post-conflict Ireland, is coming out with Cambridge University Press in 2025. He sits on the editorial board of the Oral History Journal. Broadly, he's interested in the ways in which interpretative oral history and memory studies can illuminate people’s affective and discursive relations to politics, place and culture, in public or community history, in cultural history and in collaborative writing practices.

The Modern and Contemporary Irish History Seminar Series will take place at 2.30p.m. on Wednesday in the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute. It provides a forum for discussion and dissemination of new ideas, perspectives, and research on Irish history, Irish Studies and cognate disciplines. All are welcome. We particularly welcome members of the postgraduate community. Convenors: Dr Carole Holohan, Dr Georgina Laragy, Prof Lindsey Earner-Byrne. 

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