Irish History Seminars 2013

Seminars take place on Wednesdays at 5pm in Room G.13, William Robertson Wing, Medical School, Teviot Place.

Semester 2, Spring 2013
Date	Topic	Speaker	Notes
29 January 2014	Lost Republic: The Abbey Theatre's 1916 Rebels	Dr Fearghal McGarry (Queen’s University Belfast)
12 February 2014	Irish Public Histories		Alternative venue: Room G.16, William Robertson Wing
26 February 2014	The Journey West	Professor Patrick Joyce (University of Edinburgh)	Alternative venue: Room G.12, William Robertson Wing
5 March 2014	Making Croppies Lie Down: Triumphalist Self-Forgetting in Ulster	Dr Guy Beiner (Ben Gurion University)
26 March 2014	“Another Generation of Jail-Birds”: Nineteenth-Century Irish Female Convicts	Dr Elaine Farrell (Queen’s University Belfast)	Jointly hosted with the Gender History Network

Semester 1, Autumn 2013
Date	Topic	Speaker	Co-hosts
2 October 2013	Famine Memory and Monumentality: 1847-1997	Dr Emily Mark-Fitzgerald (University College Dublin)
16 October 2013	Prison Medical Officers, Convict Bodies, Gender and Weight Fluctuation in Ireland, 1877-1900	Dr Ciara Breathnach (University of Limerick)	Jointly hosted with the Edinburgh History of Medicine Seminar
30 October 2013	James Connolly and the Internationalisation of the Edinburgh Labour Movement	Chloe Ross (University of Aberdeen)	Jointly hosted with the Scottish History Seminar
20 November 2013	Militant Nationalism in the Irish Diaspora: A Comparative Study of Chicago and Melbourne, 1865-1885.	Sophie Cooper (University of Edinburgh)
	Philanthropy, ‘Moral Reform’ and ‘Associational Culture’: Social Relations in Dublin and Edinburgh 1815-1845.	Joseph Curran (University of Edinburgh)

Organisers

Professor of Modern History

Marie Curie Fellow; History

Kindly supported by the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh.

This article was published on 2024-08-01