2018-19
Trinity Centre for Contemporary Irish History Research Seminar Series
The Centre for Contemporary Irish History promotes research in recent Irish history. This Seminar Series is intended to act as a forum where those engaged in research in Contemporary Irish History can discuss their work with likeminded people. All lectures take place at 4pm in the Trinity Long Room Hub. Presenters speak for a maximum of 45 minutes, followed by a general discussion.
| 2018- 2019 Early Contemporary Irish History | ||
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| 23.01.2019 | From Athlone to the secret heart of Whitehall: the career of Brigadier W.M.T. Magan (1908-2010) in context | Read More |
| 30.01.2019 | ‘Fermanagh: a Protestant county notwithstanding the population’ Fermanagh Unionists and the spectre of partition, 1916-23. | Read More |
| 06.02.2019 | Dr Arlene Crampsie, School of Geography, University College Dublin | Read More |
| 13.02.2019 | Ireland in the Geopolitics of Transatlantic Aviation: 1919-1922 | Read More |
| 20.02.2019 | The Class of Newly Established States: 1920s Ireland in Context | Read More |
| 27.02.2019 | The Special Criminal Court in law and practice. | Read More |
| 13.03.2019 | Teaching the Nation’s Past: Irish History in Secondary Schools, 1924-1969 | Read More |
| 20.03.2019 | Shadow of a taxman: how, and by whom, was the republican government financed during the Irish War of Independence (1919-21) |
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| 27.03.2019 | Physical education in Ireland, 1922-1972 |
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| 03.04.2019 | Dr Chloe O’Reilly, Trinity College Dublin |
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| 10.04.2019 | The Public Dance Halls Act, 1935: a re-examination |
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| 2018- 2019 Early Contemporary Irish History | ||
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| 12.09.2018 | Boarders, paying guests and the ‘bogus lodger’ | Read More |
| 19.09.2018 | Presented by Dr Sorcha O’Brien, Kingston School of Art. | Read More |
| 26.09.2018 | What happens to people who do history - is there a future in the past? | Read More |
| 03.10.2018 | Denis Devlin, a diplomat-poet: literary modernism and Ireland at the League of Nations | Read More |
| 10.10.2018 | Presented by Dr Sonya Perkins, Trinity College Dublin. | Read More |
| 31.10.2018 | Military Service Pensions Panel Discussion | Read More |
| 07.11.2018 | Put him in to get him out: electioneering and propaganda in Ireland in 1918 | Read More |
| 14.11.2018 | Presented by Chloe O’Reilly, Trinity College Dublin | Read More |
| 21.11.2018 | Presented by Elspeth Payne, Trinity College Dublin. |
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| 28.11.2018 | Women’s interactions with the Irish Civil War |
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| 2018 Early Contemporary Irish History Hilary Term | ||
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| 12.01.2018 | Female Activism and Family Planning in 1970s Ireland? | Read More |
| 24.01.2018 | The Famous, the Infamous and the Forgotten: A History of the Dictionary of Irish Biography | Read More |
| 31.01.2018 | Witness Seminar – Perspectives on Social Change in 1960s Ireland | Read More |
| 07.02.2018 | Band Aid/Live Aid and the World that Bob Geldof Made | Read More |
| 14.02.2018 | Politics, Community and Nationhood Amongst the Irish in Argentina, 1900-1983 | Read More |
| 21.02.2018 | Bad Bridget in New York: Irish Women and Crime, 1838-1918 | Read More |
| 07.03.2018 | An all-Ireland Analysis of Women and Social Policy after Partition, 1921-39 | Read More |
| 14.03.2018 | ‘Armagh Stories: Voices from the Gaol’ – Participatory Filmmaking on the Legacy of the Troubles |
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| 21.03.2018 | Better Farming, Better Business, Better Living: the Co-operative Movement, Ireland, and the British Empire, 1890-1940 |
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| 28.03.2018 | Professor Enda Delaney, University of Edinburgh |
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| 04.04.2018 | The Good Friday Agreement explored |
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| 2017-18 Early Contemporary Irish History | ||
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| 04.10.2017 | Whither twentieth century Irish history? | Read More |
| 11.10.2017 | Who was ‘out’ in 1916? Assessing military service in the Easter Rising | Read More |
| 18.10.2017 | Britain's Bloody Mistake: Representations of Abortion in 1960s Irish women's magazines | Read More |
| 25.10.2017 | Interrogation, intelligence and security in Northern Ireland, 1971-8 | Read More |
| 01.11.2017 | The Balfour declaration and Ireland: centenary reflections | Read More |
| 08.11.2017 | Defending Trinity College: New Zealanders in the 1916 Rising | Read More |
| 15.11.2017 | Towards a new social history of Ireland, 1922-1939? | Read More |
| 22.11.2017 | ‘The fearful Object’: The heritage of culpability and blame |
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| 29.11.2017 | Civil or Proxy War: How should we understand military operations in Ireland 1922-23? |
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| 06.12.2017 | The government wants a terrible lot of light.' Slum clearance in Irish towns, 1932- 1945 |
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| 13.12.2017 | Provincial Recruitment in the First World War: The Glynns of Kilrush, County Clare |
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