Irish History Seminars 2013
Seminars take place on Wednesdays at 5pm in Room G.13, William Robertson Wing, Medical School, Teviot Place.
| 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 |
| 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 Enda Delaney
Professor of Modern History
- School of History, Classics and Archaeology
- University of Edinburgh
Contact details
- Email: Enda.Delaney@ed.ac.uk
Dr Niall Whelehan
Marie Curie Fellow; History
- School of History, Classics and Archaeology
- University of Edinburgh
Contact details
- Email: Niall.Whelehan@ed.ac.uk
Kindly supported by the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh.