This one-day conference, organised by the Irish in Europe 1600-1800Project at NUI Maynooth on Saturday 11 December 1999, is intended as ashowcase for ongoing research by new and established historians anaspects of the Irish emigration to Europe in the early modern period.The lectures, which focus largely on France and Spain, will present thefruits of recent … Read more
Great Britain and Ireland have long been the homes of multicultural societies, in the early modern period no less than in the present day. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries many came from the European continent to settle here—some to escape war and religious persecution, others to find better lives. These immigrants struggled to adapt … Read more
The University of Limerick History Society intends to publish itssecond journal of history in 2000. The journal—History Studies—iscommitted to publish the best undergraduate and postgraduate work inthe field of history. The editors invite third-level students who havean interest in history to contribute (5,000 words, deadline 30 November1999). A Detailed ‘style sheet’ and further information from: … Read more
In the Kenneth Nicholls’ article, ‘Worlds Apart?: the Ellis Two-NationTheory on Late Medieval Ireland’, in the last issue an extraneous ‘and’(not the author’s) garbled the meaning of the last complete sentence atthe bottom of page 24 (third column). It should have read: When in 1519 and 1520 Lord Barry sells an exemption from the exactionswhich … Read more
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