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
The Irish History Students’ Association’s annual conference will take place in the University of Limerick 4-6 February 2000. The Association will be celebrating the golden jubilee of its foundation in 1950. For those fifty years the IHSA has brought together students of history from every part of the country to discuss historical matters. The Limerick … Read more
A new ‘Gateway for Irish Studies in the Humanities’ has been set up athttp://www.ucd.ie/irh. Its purpose is to provide a single access pointfor new and innovative sites on the Internet which engage with themedium of hypertext and the spatial freedom of the Internet to furtherour understanding of the various fields of Irish studies in thehumanities. … Read more
The sonorous sound of the unique set of bells from St George’s Church, Hardwicke Place, silent since the church closed in 1990, will be heard again ringing in the next millennium at a new location in Dublin, in Taney parish church, Dundrum. The set of bells are an important and integral part of Dublin’s rich … Read more
The beautiful and panoramic Oulart Hill in County Wexford was the site of a stunning victory for the United Irishmen in 1798. In recent years its history and natural unspoiled beauty have been sensitively presented to the public by the locally formed Oulart Hill Co-Op. It has since become the site for a fascinating new … Read more