History

Cormac O'Grada, professor of economics at University College Dublin, will be giving a public lecture entitled 'The Death of the Ice Age'. The talk will deal with the 'Little Ice Age', a dramatic period of global cooling from the Middle Ages until the 19th century, whose winters saw European crops destroyed by encroaching glaciers and the River Thames, New York Harbour and the Baltic Sea locked in ice.  

His Excellency Mr. Marcin Nawrot, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of the Republic of Poland, has kindly accepted an invitation from the School of History and will visit University College Cork on Tuesday, 24th January 2012, arriving around 12 noon. This is the Ambassador’s first visit to UCC. He will be accompanied by his wife, Mrs Urszula Nawrot.  

Crosstalk - the flagship discussion programme of RT - Russia's English-language TV channel - marked the 20th anniversary of the breakup of the Soviet Union, in December 1991, with a debate between Professor Geoffrey Roberts of the School of History, UCC, Professor Stephen Cohen of New York University and Professor Richard Krickus of Mary Washington University.  
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To mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the former Soviet Union, Professor Geoffrey Roberts reflects on what led to the collapse of the institution instigated by the Bolsheviks in 1922.

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