Pictured recently at the Irish Film Centre, Dublin, at the launch of the first two of a new Field Day series, Critical Conditions, are Kevin Whelan (The tree of liberty), Seamus Deane (general editor), Sara Wilbourne (Cork University Press) and Luke Gibbons (Transformations in Irish culture).
A conference to mark the start of the 6,000th anniversary year since the biblical creation will be held on 25, 26 and 27 October 1996 at Queen’s University’s new campus in Armagh. The 6,000th anniversary year of the creation will commence on 22 October 1996, according to Ussher, a seventeenth century Archbishop of Armagh. Working … Read more
If the Trinity College Schools’ Competition may be taken as any kind of barometer, the future of history seems distinctly bright! First held in 1992 for the college’s quatercentenary year, the competition is organised by the Departments of Medieval and Modern History and the Department of … Read more
If you have recently completed a history thesis, book or article relating to such themes as the historic landscape, past settlement patterns, place-names, the heritage industry, architectural history, town planning, demography or cultural change/continuity, then it might merit a mention in the British Archaeological Bibliography (BAB). The BAB is an archaeological abstracting service administered by … Read more
Sponsored by the Folger Institute for British Political Thought, Washington DC, this, the second of three seminars on political thought in Ireland, will run from 8 May to 13 June 1997. It will ask how Gaelic/Catholic, Scots/Presbyterian, English/Anglican clergymen, intellects and scholars contributed to the development of a distinctive Irish political culture and identity during … Read more