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 Teacher Education. On 15 May, five medalists and six … Read more
If you have recently completed a history thesis, book or articlerelating to such themes as the historic landscape, past settlementpatterns, place-names, the heritage industry, architectural history,town planning, demography or cultural change/continuity, then it mightmerit a mention in the British Archaeological Bibliography (BAB). The BAB is an archaeological abstracting service administered bythe Council for British Archaeology, … 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
The focus of the Bantry Bay Summer School, held at St Goban’s College 1-5 July under the genial auspices of Jenny McCarthy, John A. Murphy and Sean Ó Coileáin was the fate of over fifty ships and 15,000 seasoned French troops which almost landed two centuries ago, one of the great might-have-beens in Irish history. … Read more