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

DateTopicSpeakerNotes
29 January 2014Lost Republic: The Abbey Theatre's 1916 RebelsDr Fearghal McGarry (Queen’s University Belfast) 
12 February 2014Irish Public Histories Alternative venue: Room G.16, William Robertson Wing
26 February 2014The Journey WestProfessor Patrick Joyce (University of Edinburgh)Alternative venue: Room G.12, William Robertson Wing
5 March 2014Making Croppies Lie Down: Triumphalist Self-Forgetting in UlsterDr Guy Beiner (Ben Gurion University) 
26 March 2014“Another Generation of Jail-Birds”: Nineteenth-Century Irish Female ConvictsDr Elaine Farrell (Queen’s University Belfast)Jointly hosted with the Gender History Network

Semester 1, Autumn 2013

DateTopicSpeakerCo-hosts
2 October 2013Famine Memory and Monumentality: 1847-1997Dr Emily Mark-Fitzgerald (University College Dublin) 
16 October 2013Prison Medical Officers, Convict Bodies, Gender and Weight Fluctuation in Ireland, 1877-1900Dr Ciara Breathnach (University of Limerick)Jointly hosted with the Edinburgh History of Medicine Seminar
30 October 2013James Connolly and the Internationalisation of the Edinburgh Labour MovementChloe Ross (University of Aberdeen)Jointly hosted with the Scottish History Seminar
20 November 2013Militant 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) 

Professor Enda Delaney

Professor of Modern History

  • School of History, Classics and Archaeology
  • University of Edinburgh

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Dr Niall Whelehan

  • Marie Curie Fellow; History
  • School of History, Classics and Archaeology
  • University of Edinburgh

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