Limerick History Research Seminar, Autumn 2023/24

Limerick History Research Seminar, 2023–2024

Organised by the Departments of History Mary Immaculate College & University of Limerick

Autumn Semester

Tuesday, 26 September 2023 – 5.30 p.m. – Room G08 (Foundation Building)

Dr Róisín Healy (University of Galway), ‘British and Prussian Rule on the Periphery: The Fenian and Polish Conspiracies of the mid-1860s Compared’

Tuesday, 17 October 2023 – 5.30 p.m. – Online (MS Teams)

Professor Sarah Covington (City University of New York), ‘Oliver Cromwell's Mad Proconsul: Daniel Axtell in Kilkenny’

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/prof-sarah-covington-limerick-history-resea… 

Tuesday, 7 November 2023 – 5.30 p.m. – Room G08 (Foundation Building)

Dr Paul O’Brien (Mary Immaculate College), ‘From Cathedral to Castle: R. D. O’Brien, Land Agent (1844–1917)’

Dr Helene Bradley Davies, (Mary Immaculate College), ‘Limerick Blue Coats – Managing an Urban Charity School, 1724-1881’

Tuesday, 21 November 2023 – 5.30 p.m. – Room G08 (Foundation Building) & Online (MS Teams) Professor Roger Stalley (Trinity College Dublin), ‘Heroic monuments of the medieval past: Irish sculptors and the making of the high crosses’

This seminar will take place in-person but will also be available online.

For online attendance, please register in advance here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/prof-roger-stalley-limerick-history-researc…

Organised in conjunction with the MCHRI (Material and Cultural Heritages of Religion in Ireland research network)
Tuesday, 28 November

Tuesday, 28 November 2021 – 5.30 p.m. – Room G08 (Foundation Building)

Dr Huw Bennett (Cardiff University), ‘Uncivil War: The British Army and the Troubles, 1966-1975’

Everyone is very welcome.

For online seminars, registration in advance at the links above is essential.

For further information contact:

Dr Liam Chambers (Liam.Chambers@mic.ul.ie) Dr Brian Hughes (Brian.Hughes@mic.ul.ie)

Dr Richard Mc Mahon (Richard.McMahon@mic.ul.ie) Website: http://www.mic.ul.ie/academicdepts/history