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Arbuthnott Lecture 2022 - Dr Niamh Gallagher

'Ireland and the First World War: Myth, memory, and history'

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Dr Niamh Gallagher

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Dr Niamh Gallagher
Dr Niamh Gallagher

Dr Niamh Gallagher comes from Co. Armagh in Northern Ireland. She read Anthropology and Geography at UCL before completing her postgraduate studies at the Faculty of History at Cambridge. Her first book, 'Ireland and the Great War: A Social and Political History' (Bloomsbury, 2019) is a revisionist history of the Irish in the First World War and is the first work of Irish history to win the Royal Historical Society's 2020 Whitfield Prize since it was established in 1976. 

About the Arbuthnott Lecture

This lecture is an annual event funded by a trust established by the friends and family of Justin Arbuthnott, an Edinburgh University History student who was drowned along with three friends one night in July 1989 when their boat capsized off the coast near County Donegal in Ireland.

The Justin Arbuthnott Trust, held by the University, provides a postgraduate scholarship each year and this lecture, both of which are designed to promote the better understanding of Ireland and various complex relationships which link Ireland and Britain.

Registration

This event will be free. All welcome. Please register at the Eventbrite link.