Department of History, Trinity College Dublin
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New: Meath: The Irish Revolution, 1912-23, by Dr. Ciáran Wallace.
As politics, war and revolution intruded on daily routine, some embraced change, risking life and livelihood for a chosen cause; others resisted. Gradually, violence affected the regular round of shopping, sport and socializing. 1/2
As politics, war and revolution intruded on daily routine, some embraced change, risking life and livelihood for a chosen cause; others resisted. Gradually, violence affected the regular round of shopping, sport and socializing. 1/2
October 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
New: Meath: The Irish Revolution, 1912-23, by Dr. Ciáran Wallace.
As politics, war and revolution intruded on daily routine, some embraced change, risking life and livelihood for a chosen cause; others resisted. Gradually, violence affected the regular round of shopping, sport and socializing. 1/2
As politics, war and revolution intruded on daily routine, some embraced change, risking life and livelihood for a chosen cause; others resisted. Gradually, violence affected the regular round of shopping, sport and socializing. 1/2
A packed house in TCD’s Emmet Theatre for the Friends of Medieval Dublin Symposium on Saturday 4 October. Congratulations to colleagues from History, Sparky Booker, Peter Crooks, Seán Duffy, and others on drawing a great crowd to a very successful symposium.
October 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
A packed house in TCD’s Emmet Theatre for the Friends of Medieval Dublin Symposium on Saturday 4 October. Congratulations to colleagues from History, Sparky Booker, Peter Crooks, Seán Duffy, and others on drawing a great crowd to a very successful symposium.
50th anniversary issue of Saothar, the journal of the Irish Labour History Society, featuring articles by TCD staff members Carole Holohan, Lindsey Earner-Byrne, Deirdre Foley and Brian Hanley. The back cover has a photograph of the late Jack McGinley, long time Trinity librarian and union activist.
September 26, 2025 at 11:19 AM
50th anniversary issue of Saothar, the journal of the Irish Labour History Society, featuring articles by TCD staff members Carole Holohan, Lindsey Earner-Byrne, Deirdre Foley and Brian Hanley. The back cover has a photograph of the late Jack McGinley, long time Trinity librarian and union activist.
Congratulations to History’s Professor Patrick Geoghegan on organizing the enormously successful O’Connell 250 Symposium at TCD on 29-30 July.
See alt-text for list of the pictured speakers.
See alt-text for list of the pictured speakers.
August 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Congratulations to History’s Professor Patrick Geoghegan on organizing the enormously successful O’Connell 250 Symposium at TCD on 29-30 July.
See alt-text for list of the pictured speakers.
See alt-text for list of the pictured speakers.
Also receiving her PhD on Wednesday, Audrey Covert, who wrote a thesis on ‘Gender, Power, and the Politics of Access in the Fourteenth Century’, supervised by Professor @rmkarras.bsky.social
April 18, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Also receiving her PhD on Wednesday, Audrey Covert, who wrote a thesis on ‘Gender, Power, and the Politics of Access in the Fourteenth Century’, supervised by Professor @rmkarras.bsky.social
Congratulations to Ka Lo Yau on her PhD graduation! Her thesis title was Negotiating Modern Childhood: A Social History of Children in Republican China (1912-1949). She was funded by her supervisor Isabella Jackson's Irish Research Council Laureate Award CHINACHILD
April 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Congratulations to Ka Lo Yau on her PhD graduation! Her thesis title was Negotiating Modern Childhood: A Social History of Children in Republican China (1912-1949). She was funded by her supervisor Isabella Jackson's Irish Research Council Laureate Award CHINACHILD
On 20 March 2025 the Witnessing War, Making Peace research team (Prof Anne Dolan, Dr Susan Byrne, and Gregory Walls) hosted a research workshop with very enthusiastic History students and their teacher Caoimhe Naughton from Harold's Cross Educate Together Secondary School. 1/2
April 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
On 20 March 2025 the Witnessing War, Making Peace research team (Prof Anne Dolan, Dr Susan Byrne, and Gregory Walls) hosted a research workshop with very enthusiastic History students and their teacher Caoimhe Naughton from Harold's Cross Educate Together Secondary School. 1/2
Dublin Cemeteries Trust and the School of Histories and Humanities invites you to attend our Spring Lecture Series being held Thursdays and Wednesdays in March. See histories-humanities.tcd.ie or attached image for further details. Attendance is free but booking is advised.
February 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Dublin Cemeteries Trust and the School of Histories and Humanities invites you to attend our Spring Lecture Series being held Thursdays and Wednesdays in March. See histories-humanities.tcd.ie or attached image for further details. Attendance is free but booking is advised.
Dr Katja Bruisch and History PhD student Lily Toomey have been involved in interdisciplinary project RePEAT: Reimagining Ireland's Peatlands in Precarious Times using early 19th- century maps to assess land-use change on Ireland's peatlands.
February 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Dr Katja Bruisch and History PhD student Lily Toomey have been involved in interdisciplinary project RePEAT: Reimagining Ireland's Peatlands in Precarious Times using early 19th- century maps to assess land-use change on Ireland's peatlands.
Isabella Jackson and Jane Ohlmeyer had a visit from Santa at the Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Christmas party.
December 12, 2024 at 10:13 PM
Isabella Jackson and Jane Ohlmeyer had a visit from Santa at the Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Christmas party.
Isabella Jackson is giving a keynote at a conference at the Cambridge History Faculty on'Diasporas, Diplomacy and Dreams of Modernity: Cultural Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century East Asia' and her keynote is 'Foreign Office Imperialism: China’s treaty ports and the British Foreign Office'.
December 6, 2024 at 12:53 PM
Isabella Jackson is giving a keynote at a conference at the Cambridge History Faculty on'Diasporas, Diplomacy and Dreams of Modernity: Cultural Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century East Asia' and her keynote is 'Foreign Office Imperialism: China’s treaty ports and the British Foreign Office'.
Our Public History MPhils visited Glasnevin Cemetery; here with Education Officer Ciaran Masterson at the grave of Michael Collins. Dublin Cemeteries Trust offer our students internship positions each year. Past students have created exhibitions on topics as varied as James Joyce and the Boer War
December 5, 2024 at 1:49 PM
Our Public History MPhils visited Glasnevin Cemetery; here with Education Officer Ciaran Masterson at the grave of Michael Collins. Dublin Cemeteries Trust offer our students internship positions each year. Past students have created exhibitions on topics as varied as James Joyce and the Boer War
Assistant Professor Gillian Frank spoke to the Elizabethan Society on the motion 'This House Believes Religion is Incompatible with Feminism'. (In opposition, naturally!)
November 21, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Assistant Professor Gillian Frank spoke to the Elizabethan Society on the motion 'This House Believes Religion is Incompatible with Feminism'. (In opposition, naturally!)
Congratulations to Dr Joan Kavanagh who graduated with a thesis on Irish Convicts Sentenced to Transportation 1840-1852 supervised by Dr Georgina Laragy and Dr Patrick Walsh. She now works with Grangegorman Histories on female convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land from Dublin in the 19th century
November 20, 2024 at 3:42 PM
Congratulations to Dr Joan Kavanagh who graduated with a thesis on Irish Convicts Sentenced to Transportation 1840-1852 supervised by Dr Georgina Laragy and Dr Patrick Walsh. She now works with Grangegorman Histories on female convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land from Dublin in the 19th century
Our partners at Dublin Cemeteries Trust are looking for a Historian and Archives Manager. www.dctrust.ie/careers/Hist...
November 20, 2024 at 12:54 PM
Our partners at Dublin Cemeteries Trust are looking for a Historian and Archives Manager. www.dctrust.ie/careers/Hist...
MPhil students on the Sources for Medieval Studies module visit St. Patrick's Cathedral as part of their study of medieval architecture
November 18, 2024 at 4:50 PM
MPhil students on the Sources for Medieval Studies module visit St. Patrick's Cathedral as part of their study of medieval architecture
Congratulations to Dr Shelby Zimmerman, who received her PhD on Friday, with a thesis on 'The Medicalisation of Death in a Dublin City Workhouse, 1872-1920', supervised by Dr Georgina Laragy and Dr Ciaran O'Neill.
June 17, 2024 at 3:29 PM
Congratulations to Dr Shelby Zimmerman, who received her PhD on Friday, with a thesis on 'The Medicalisation of Death in a Dublin City Workhouse, 1872-1920', supervised by Dr Georgina Laragy and Dr Ciaran O'Neill.
Two of the students who received their PhDs on Friday: Dr Siyi Du (thesis on public history representations of Republican Chinese heroes and villains) and Dr Clare Morrison (thesis on Ulster identity in the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs), both supervised by Dr Isabella Jackson.
June 17, 2024 at 1:50 PM
Two of the students who received their PhDs on Friday: Dr Siyi Du (thesis on public history representations of Republican Chinese heroes and villains) and Dr Clare Morrison (thesis on Ulster identity in the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs), both supervised by Dr Isabella Jackson.
Two! upcoming lectures by Prof Jane Ohlmeyer: 'Making Empire: Ireland and India' on 29 May and 'The Lived Experiences of Women in Early Modern Dublin on 30 May. Open to the public!
May 16, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Two! upcoming lectures by Prof Jane Ohlmeyer: 'Making Empire: Ireland and India' on 29 May and 'The Lived Experiences of Women in Early Modern Dublin on 30 May. Open to the public!
Thursday at 6: Dr Keith Harrington lectures on discuss how Transnistria was formed, how it has survived the past 30 years despite being internationally unrecognised, and how it has been impacted by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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March 25, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Thursday at 6: Dr Keith Harrington lectures on discuss how Transnistria was formed, how it has survived the past 30 years despite being internationally unrecognised, and how it has been impacted by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
www.eventbrite.ie/e/understand....
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Congrats to IRC-funded PhD student Patrick Duffy, whose '‘’The barrier or outpost" and "the gap of the north": Protestant Ulster, Catholic Ireland and the idea of threshold in County Monaghan, 1828-43’ was awarded the Scheuerle-Zatlin International Travel Award by the 19-Century Studies Assoc 🗃️
March 25, 2024 at 11:08 AM
Congrats to IRC-funded PhD student Patrick Duffy, whose '‘’The barrier or outpost" and "the gap of the north": Protestant Ulster, Catholic Ireland and the idea of threshold in County Monaghan, 1828-43’ was awarded the Scheuerle-Zatlin International Travel Award by the 19-Century Studies Assoc 🗃️
Congratulations to Dr Alan Kelly who has just published his book, The Struggle for Mastery in Ireland, 1442-1540, with Boydell and Brewer. 🗃️
March 25, 2024 at 11:02 AM
Congratulations to Dr Alan Kelly who has just published his book, The Struggle for Mastery in Ireland, 1442-1540, with Boydell and Brewer. 🗃️
Brian Hanley has a chapter on 'Maritime Workers and the Irish Revolution' in this forthcoming volume. 🗃️
February 20, 2024 at 3:28 PM
Brian Hanley has a chapter on 'Maritime Workers and the Irish Revolution' in this forthcoming volume. 🗃️
Reminder! Lecture series in collaboration with Dublin Cemeteries Trust. This year four speakers explore aspects of the Great Irish Famine: art and 3D imagery as well as crime and violence. Free, but booking is advised as space is limited. 🗃️
February 20, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Reminder! Lecture series in collaboration with Dublin Cemeteries Trust. This year four speakers explore aspects of the Great Irish Famine: art and 3D imagery as well as crime and violence. Free, but booking is advised as space is limited. 🗃️
Welcome (belatedly) to Lindsey Earner-Byrne, Professor of Contemporary Irish History. Her books include most recently The Irish Abortion Journey, 1920-2018 (with Diane Urquhart), and the documentary Forgotten: The Widows of the Irish Revolution. See www.tcd.ie/history/ for more about Lindsey.
January 2, 2024 at 2:17 PM
Welcome (belatedly) to Lindsey Earner-Byrne, Professor of Contemporary Irish History. Her books include most recently The Irish Abortion Journey, 1920-2018 (with Diane Urquhart), and the documentary Forgotten: The Widows of the Irish Revolution. See www.tcd.ie/history/ for more about Lindsey.