From Consensus to Confrontation: The Conservative nature of change in Ireland, 1967-2002

A lecture by Hon Prof Brian Girvin (University of Glasgow) as part of the Modern and Contemporary Irish History Seminar Series.

Honorary Professor, School of Political and Social Sciences, University of Glasgow (2024-29) and Professor of Comparative Politics Emeritus, University of Glasgow, Brian Girvin is a member of the Editorial Board of Irish Political Studies and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is the author of many monographs on Irish politics and society including Between two worlds: Politics and economy in independent Ireland (1989); The Right in the Twentieth Century: Conservatism and Democracy (1994); From Union to Union: Nationalism, Democracy and Religion in Ireland—Act of Union to EU (2002); The Emergency: Neutral Ireland 1939-45 (2007). He is currently
completing manuscript on the impact of liberalism on Ireland: ‘The Strange Birth of Liberal Ireland: Progressive politics, conservatism and change since 1940’ (2027), and recent publications include: ‘Owen Sheehy Skeffington and the Birth of Liberal Ireland’, History Ireland, 32: 2 (March/April 2024); ‘Fragile but Resilient? Democratic Consolidation in The Irish Free State’ Irish Political Studies 39: 2 (2024);
‘Putin, national self-determination and political independence in the twenty-first century’, Nations and Nationalism, 29: 1 (2023); ‘From Civic Pluralism to Ethnoreligious Majoritarianism: Majority Nationalism in India’ Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 26: 1 (2020); ‘An Irish Solution to an Irish Problem: Catholicism, Contraception and Change, 1922-1979’ Contemporary European History 27: 1 (2018); and ‘Ireland Transformed? Modernisation, Secularisation and Conservatism since 1973’, in Thomas Bartlett (ed.), The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume IV 1800- to the Present, (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

The Modern and Contemporary Irish History Seminar Series will take place at 2p.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, Dr Ciaran O'Neill and Dr Brian Hanley. 

This event is run in accordance with Trinity’s Dignity and Respect policy, and its commitment to nurturing a respectful and inclusive research culture.
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