James Kelly wins this year’s Irish-American Research Travel Fellowship

By unanimous vote of its prize jury, the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies’ Irish-American Research Travel Fellowship for 2000 has been awarded to Dr James Kelly, Head of the History Department at St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, Dublin City University. The prize will enable Dr Kelly to visit Philadelphia and New York this year to pursue … Read more

The Cathal Óg Mac Maghnusa History and Culture Bursary

The bursary—in memory of Cathal Óg Mac Maghnusa (l439-98), cleric,political leader and, above all, compiler of the Annals of Ulster—isintended to promote further study and research into the cultural andintellectual heritage and the history, both ecclesiastical and secular,of the territory covered by the diocese of Clogher—an area thatrepresents, in large measure, the medieval territory of … Read more

RTÉ’s Seven Ages

Seven Ages was one of the most ambitious television history projects ever undertaken in Ireland—ambitious not just in terms of its length, but also in its subject matter. The series offered itself as an authoritative interpretation of the history of the modern Irish state since 1920 to the present. Each decade was dealt with by … Read more