Under the sponsorship of History Ireland and the Keough-Notre DameCentre, the fifth annual Byrne/Perry Summer School convened in Gorey,County Wexford this June. Director Dáire Keogh and the local committeechaired by Revd. Walter Forde, organised a memorable conference thataddressed not only the anticipation and enactment of The Act of Unionbut also its implications in the present … Read more
On the weekend of 9-11 April 1999, the Irish Studies Centre at Bath Spa University College was pleased to host the annual conference of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland, particularly as this was the first time that the Society has held its annual conference outside of Ireland. The conference theme was Ireland … Read more
A stone monument was publicly dedicated to John Neilson in Maplewood Cemetery, Charlottesville, Virginia on 17 April 1999. Born in Ballycarry, County Antrim in the 1770s, he was apprenticed to the architect Hunter in Belfast. In 1798, Neilson was banished for seven years for his part in the rebellion; a brother Samuel was banished for … Read more
Sir Roger Casement was one of a number of patriots, who came from a different tradition. He was of Antrim Presbyterian stock, and gave exemplary service not just to the British Colonial Office but to mankind, in exposing the slavery and inhumanity suffered at the hands of imperialism by native peoples of the Belgium Congo … Read more
The first biennial conference of the Irish Committee of Historical Sciences was held in July 1953 and since it has rotated between Ireland’s universities. The publicity flyer from University College Cork, host for this, the 24th Irish Conference of Historians, stated that it was considered appropriate that, being held in 1999, a suitably millennium-related theme … Read more