IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY PROGRAMME 2020

Unless otherwise specified, all meetings will be held at 7 pm in Boston College (Dublin),

43 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2

21 January:

Symposium The War of Independence: other voices

Dr Colum Kenny, Dublin City University
Dr Sinéad McCoole, Expert Advisory Group on the Decade of Centenaries
Dr Brian Hughes, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick

This symposium will be held from 6.30 pm to 8.00 pm in the
Neill Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College.

11 February Defenders of the faith: Catholic women in early eighteenth-century Ireland
Dr Frances Nolan, Maynooth University

10 March Men, Emotion and the Law

Dr Katie Barclay, University of Adelaide

21 April Reconstructing knowledge in the aftermath of the First World War
Dr Tomás Irish, Swansea University

12 May Performance, Prophecy, and Masculinity in medieval Europe: King David and the Psalms
Prof. Ruth Mazo Karras, Trinity College Dublin

13 October Divided fraternities? The AOH, northern nationalism and the partition of Ireland
Dr Martin O’Donoghue, Northumbria University

10 November Food, Culture and Identity in Ireland c. 1550-1650
Dr Susan Flavin, Trinity College Dublin

08 December Irish Historical Society Presidential Address
The diaspora and transnational identity: the strange case of Colonel Arthur Lynch”
Prof. Pauric Travers, Dublin City University