Famine and the nineteenth-century IrelandThe Society for the study of nineteenth century Ireland was founded in 1922 to promote inter-disciplinary work in the study of nineteenth-century Irish culture. Following up the success of the initial conference in 1992, the society’s activities resumed in July 1994 with a conference on the Famine at Maynooth. With 1995 … Read more
This exhibition features some of the rare and beautiful national treasures held in Marsh’s Library (beside St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin), from the religious controversy of seventeenth century writers and the works of Catholic scholars in exile to more modern writers who actually read in Marsh’s. The exhibition opens with two fourteenth-century Irish illuminated manuscripts: the … Read more
The growing popularity of the Parnell Summer School at Avondale derives from the interesting balance its programmes have struck between sessions on Charles Stewart Parnell and his times with those focusing on current events and newer historiographical approaches. One of the best attended sessions this year provided new insights and analyses on the role of … Read more