Past Seminar Series
Seminars 2024-25
- 28.09.23: Dr Laura Pfuntner, Queen’s University, Belfast, ‘Roman Civil Wars: The View from Southern Gaul’
- 12.10.23: Dr Jennifer Wellington, UCD, 'War, propaganda, Memory and Museums’.
- 26.10.23: Katja Bruisch, TCD, 'Extraction and the making of place: How the peat industry transformed a central Russian region’
- 09.11.23: Dr John Paul Newman, Maynooth, ‘Suicide and the Hermeneutics of Political and National Community in the Interwar Czechoslovak Republic’
- 16.11.23: Dr Jesse Harrington, DIAS, ‘Antistite zelo sue gentis: St. Lorcán Ua Tuathail (Laurence O'Toole) and the Sieges of Dublin, 1170–71’.
- 01.02.24: Dr David Nicoll, UCD,‘The difficulties of disarmament during the French Wars of Religion; The Role of Antoine de Crussol, the duc d’Uzès’
- 15.02.24: Dr Róisín Healy, University of Galway,‘The Mystery of the Missing Revolution; Belgium, Poland and Ireland in 1830’
- 29.02.24: Dr Martin O’Donoghue, Max Planck Institute, Frankfurt, “TheIrish Parliamentary Party and its successors: lessons for parties in times of transformative change?”
- 14.03.24: Dr Matthew O’Brien, UCD, ‘The Afro-American Patrolmen’s League and community Protection in Chicago’
- 11.04.24: Dr Jennifer Redmond, Maynooth & Dr Deirdre Foley, TCD, ‘Marriage bans and motherhood in twentieth-century Ireland’
Seminars 2022-23
- 22.09.22: David Fleming (UL), ‘The myth and reality of the mass rock; Catholic religious
practice in 18th century Ireland’ - 29.09.22: Sparky Booker (DCU), ‘Marital names and women’s social networks in late medieval Ireland’
- 06.10.22: Katrina Goldstone (writer), ‘“The brave revolutionary I was myself when I was young…” –Leslie Daiken (1912-64), radical Irish writers and Transnational Circles of Solidarity in the 1930’.
- 13.10.22: Thérèse O’Connell (UCC), ‘Bishop Daniel Cohalan; Ambushes, arson and excommunication in Cork, 1920’.
- 20.10.22: Jennifer Keating (UCD), ‘On arid ground? Global commodities and the more-than-human roots of empire in Russian Central Asia, 1880s-1916’
- 27.10.22: Bettina Blum (Paderborn), ‘From military rule to defence diplomacy; Relations between British forces and local communities in Germany, 1945-2019’.
- 03.11.22: Kevin O’Sullivan (Galway), ‘The NGO moment; The globalisation of compassion from Biafra to Live Aid’
- 10.11.22: Shannon Devlin (Ulster), ‘“A brother’s duty”; Exploring post-famine Irish family life through sibling relationships’
- 17.11.22: Gary Murphy (DCU), ‘Judging Haughey; Ethics and dilemmas in writing political
biography’ - 24.11.22: Tatiana Vagramenko (UCC), ‘Life of agents; The KGB and the religious underground in Soviet Ukraine'
- 01.12.22: James Kapaló (UCC), ‘History, ethnography and the material turn in the study of religions; From archives to communities’
- 08.12.22: Bettina Blum (Paderborn), ‘From military rule to defence diplomacy; Relations between British forces and local communities in Germany, 1945-2019’
- 19.01.23: Angus Mitchell (UL), ‘Identifying green shoots of the military-humanitarian complex in the early years of Mine Action in Afghanistan (1988-1997)’
- 26.01.23: Jay Roszman (UCC), ‘An O’Connellite Empire? Irish nationalism, British imperial trouble, and the limits of anti-imperialism in the age of reform’
- 02.02.23: Ceri Houlbrook (Hertfordshire), ‘Concealed shoes, concealed meanings; Ritual in the post-medieval home?’
- 09.02.23: Michael Keegan (King’s College, London), ‘Lost naval hero; Admiral Sir Roger (later Baron) Keyes’
- 16.02.23: Olesia Zhytkova (DCU), ‘The Soviet state repression’s impact on the psychological state of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Ortodox Church members in Ukraine (1920-1930s)’
- 23.02.23: Annaleigh Margery (Dundalk IT), ‘Visualising landscape; Surveys and maps of early modern Munster’
- 02.03.23: Laurent Colantonio (Montréal), ‘Taking a different to the life of a “great man”; Daniel O’Connell and the Irish political laboratory’
- 16.03.23: Alan McCarthy (UCC), ‘From a “couple of hundred tramps on campus” to a UNESCO Learning City; An overview of Adult Education and Lifelong Learning at UCC, 1911-2023’
- 23.03.23: Bronagh McShane (UL), ‘Comprehending Contemplation; The Poor Clare Order in Ireland’
- 30.03.23: Déirdre Foley (UCC), ‘The (in)visibility of paid labour; Women’s working lives in Ireland, c. 1965-1990’
- 06.04.23: Alistair Malcolm (UL), ‘English cavaliers and the seventeenth-century Iberian world; Tastes, travel and the foreign purchases of Restoration courtiers
Seminars 2021-22
- 30.09.21: Prof Martin Thomas (Exeter) ‘Decolonisation and globalisation’
- 07.10.21: Dr Huw Bennett (Cardiff), ‘Looking to the future; Re-setting British military strategy for Northern Ireland in 1972’
- 14.10.21: Dr Richard Kirwan (UL) ‘Grace and favour; The reception of religious converts at the University of Tübingen, 1553-1634’
- 21.10.21: Dr Eugene Costello (UCC, School of the Human Environment), ‘Feeding capitalism and facing its consequences? “Peripheral” rural communities of Northern Europe, 1350-1850’
- 28.10.21: Dr Pauline Heinrichs (University of London), ‘Strategic narratives, agency and ontological security; West Germany and the Schleyer kidnapping of 1977’
- 04.11.21: Dr Julia Schneider (UCC, Asian Studies), ‘The Qianlong literary inquisition project (1772-1788); Imperial censorship of a racist discourse?’
- 11.11.21: Dr Colmán Ó Clabaigh (Glenstal Abbey). ‘The hand maid and the holy helpers; The cults of St Zita of Lucca and the auxiliary saints in late medieval Ireland’
- 18.11.21: Dr Alberto Cauli (UCC, post-doc), ‘“Ignoto Militi”. The centenary of the unknown Italian soldier (1921-2021), Celebration, commemoration and symbolism’.
- 25.11.21: Prof Bernadette Whelan (UL) ‘“A real revolution”; Ireland and the Oxford Group/Moral Re-Armament movement, 1933-2001’
- 02.12.2: Gabriel Doherty (UCC),‘The “other” debate; Westminster and the Anglo-Irish Treaty, 14-16 December 1921’
- 27.01.22: Prof Robert Gerwarth (UCD), ‘Civil war and the making of Europe’s twentieth century’
- 03.02.22: Prof Judith Devlin (UCD), ‘Subverting Stalinism? Jokes about Stalin and their Significance?’
- 04.02.22: Dr Lusine Margaryan (CC), Prof Yervand Margaryan (Yervan) & Prof Victoria Arakelova (Yerevan), symposium ‘Transeastern Christianity and other religion systems in the early Middle Ages’
- 10.02.22: Elizabeth Tanner (UCC, PhD student), ‘Regional crisis and geopolitical imperatives: The Nixon administration in South Asia, 1971’
- 17.02.22: Dr Leanne Calvert (Hertfordshire), ‘“Are you so fond of your wife’s sister?” Negotiating incest in the Presbyterian Atlantic World, 1717-1830’
- 24.02.22: Dr Paul MacCotter (UCC) ‘The origins of the Irish parish’
- 03.03.22: Dr Michael Kennedy (RIA), ‘The Coast Watchers; Military intelligence gathering on neutral Ireland’s Second World War frontline’
- 10.03.22: Prof Geoff Roberts (UCC) ‘Stalin’s Library; A dictator and his books’
- 24.03.22: Dr Edward Burke (Nottingham), ‘The British army and the Belleek-Pettigo offensive in 1922’
- 31.03.22: Dr Detmar Klein (UCC) ‘Difficile est satiram non scribere; The role of « le ridicule » in the relationship between German-annexed Alsace and Imperial Germany prior to the outbreak of the First World War’
Seminars 2020-21
- 22 October 2020, Dr Jérôme aan de Wiel (History, UCC): “Ireland’s forgotten or unknown humanitarian aid to The Soviet-Occupied Zone of Germany and Berlin, 1945-49″
- 29 October 2020, Dr Maggie Scull (History, Syracuse University London): “The Catholic Church and the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’; the case of republican funerals“
- 19 November 2020, Dr Dónal Hassett (French, UCC): “The example of ‘Valiant Little Ireland’; the Irish revolution in Algerian nationalist thought“
- 26 November 2020, Dr Bozena Cierlik (History, UCC): “Poles in UCC after WW2; ‘I think we should do all in our power to help as the British nor the Americans are likely to do anything for these people‘”
- 3 December 2020, Dr Igor Caşu (History, Chişinău): “Starvation as natural disaster? The role of environment in the Soviet post-war famine in European and global context“
- 10 December 2020, Br Colmán Ó Clabaigh (OSB, Glenstal Abbey): “Monks, medicine and magic in medieval Ireland“
- 17 December 2020, Bláithín Hurley (Art, UCC): “‘An indulgence to the natives?’ William Bedell’s translation of the Bible into Irish“
- 28 January 2021, Dr Hannah Young (History, Southampton): “The Absentee Duchess; Female slave-ownership in the aristocratic world“
- 4 February 2021, Dr Úna Ní Bhroiméil (History, Mary Immaculate College): “A controversial Churchill bust recalls a forgotten relationship; John Quinn and Jacob Epstein, 1910-1924“
- 18 Febuary 2021, Dr Michelle Bentley (History, University of London): “Deliberate Lies, Big Lies, and Taboo Lies; Alleging biological warfare during the Korean War, 1950-1953“
- 25 February 2021, Dr Alexander O’Hara (Religion, TCD): “The Sunniva legend and the Cistercian authorship of the earliest Norwegian hagiography“
- 4 March 2021, Prof Christophe Gillissen (Caen, France): “Franco-Irish relations and the question of Algeria at the United nations“
- 11 March 2021, Dr Elisabeth Forster (History, Southampton): “Threatened by peace; The PRC’s peacefulness rhetoric and the ‘China’ representation question in the United Nations (1949-71)“
- 18 March 2021, Dr Alexandra Slaby (Caen, France): “‘An awful lot so quietly’; Owen McCann, son of Ireland, South Africa’s first Prince of the Church“
- 25 March 2021, Dr Richard Butler (Mary Immaculate College): “The railway to Beara that was never built; American shipping routes and the economic development of West Cork, 1825-45“
- 1 April 2021, Dr Caroline Williamson Sinalo (French, UCC): “‘I answer them, fearing that they can learn it from someone else’; discussions of genocide history in Rwandan families“
- 15 April 2021, Dr Liam Chambers (History, Mary Immaculate College): “Competing communities; Irish colleges, clergy and students in Paris, 1660-1685“
- 22 April 2021, Prof Lindsey Earner-Byrne (History, UCC): “Reading gender as power and process in modern Irish history“
Seminars 2019-20
- 10 October 2019, Dr Katherine Bond, IRC Postdoctoral Fellow, School of History UCC, “Visualising Humanity in Renaissance Europe”.
- 7 November 2019, Professor Anne Curry, University of Southampton, “The Battle of Agincourt, 1415-2019”.
- 14 November 2019, Julitta Clancy, Fawsitt family research group, “New light on the Irish Revolution: from the papers of Diarmaid Fawsitt (1884-1967)”.
- 21 November 2019, Dr Brian Jackson, Head of Postgraduate Studies, IT Carlow, “Postcards from Buenos Aires: An Irishman in Argentina, 1907-10”.
- 6 February 2020, Professor Carl Bouchard, University of Montreal, Quebec, “The Great Conversation; Citizens and peace-making after the Great War“.
- 5 March 2020, Professor Alan McPherson, Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy, Temple University, “Ghosts of Sheridan Circle: How a Washington Assassination Brought Pinochet’s Terror State to Justice".
Seminars 2018-19
- Dr Maeve O’Riordan, School of History, UCC – Women of the Country House in Ireland: 1860-1914
- Professor Michael Cullinane, University of Roehampton – The Old Lion is Dead: Theodore Roosevelt at the Treaty of Versailles
- Dr Charles Read, University of Cambridge – Towards a new narrative of the Irish Famine of 1845-53
- Dr Stefano Recchia, University of Cambridge – How France secured UN approval for its controversial Rwanda intervention in 1994
- Dr Clodagh Tait, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick – Wonders of this age: the ‘Old’ Countess of Desmond, ‘Old’ Tom Parr, and the quest for the secrets of longevity
- Dr David Fitzgerald, School of History, UCC – Citizens, Soldiers and Warriors: Saving Private Ryan, The United States Army and its 1990s recruiting crisis
- Dr Elizabeth Kirwan, National Library of Ireland – Documenting LGBT Lives 1951-2018: The Irish Queer Archive (IQA)
- Dr Mark Empey, Humanities Institute, University College Dublin – Reinterpreting Ireland’s past? History, identity and Sir James Ware (1594-1666)
- Dr Debra Strickland, University of Glasgow – Bosch’s bug: monstrosity, devilry, and anti-Judaism on the St John on Patmos panel by Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516)
- Joyti Atwal, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi – Indian and Irish women in the anti imperialist movements: methodologies and strategies
- Eugenie Hanley, School of History, UCC – The Development of maternity and child welfare services in Ireland, 1922-1945
- Dr Elizabeth Kyte, Women’s Studies, UCC – Mapping Irish feminists’ connections to international radicalism
Seminars 2017-18
- Professor Chris Williams, College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, UCC – Cartoonist for the millions: “JMS” (1863-1921)
- Professor Susan Doran, Professor of Early Modern British History, University of Oxford – A tale of two monarchs: Elizabeth I, James I and the English Reformation
- Dr Catherine Lawless, Director, Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies, School of Histories and Humanities, Trinity College Dublin – Representation of holy bodies: space, power and gender in medieval Florence
- Colmán Ó Clabaigh OSB – Passports to Paradise: Indulgences and Letters of Confraternity in Late Medieval Ireland
- Dr Dagmar Ó Riain, Independent Scholar – A Scholar and an Officer in the Habsburg Empire: Tadhg O’Mulrian (†Belgrade 1737)
- Mark Hutchinson, Göttingen – The failure of Reformation in Ireland
- John Browne, School of Public Health, UCC and Andrew McCarthy, School of History, UCC – Historical perspectives on healthcare reconfiguration in Ireland
- Dr John Thompson, University of Cambridge – Woodrow Wilson and US entry in WWI
- Dr Annaleigh Margey, Dundalk IT – Property and Charity: the early modern property portfolio of the Clothworkers’ Company, c.1500-1680
- Beatrix Faerber & Laura Cronin, School of History, UCC – Medical texts from the late Middle Ages and Renaissance
- Terence O’Reilly (Emeritus, Spanish UCC) – Luther and Loyola: The Origins of the Spiritual Exercises in Spain
Seminars 2016-17
- Dr Owen McGee (Digital Humanities, UCC), ‘Arthur Griffith: the forgotten man of the Irish Revolution?’
- Professor Robert Savage, Boston College, ‘Terrible things were done’: Seán Lemass and the violence of the Irish Revolution’
- Professor Daniel Carey (Moore Institute, NUIG), ‘Arts and Sciences of Travel, 1500-1800’
- Davide Boerio, (Università degli studi di Teramo & University College Cork), ‘News from Naples, 1647: Texts, Networks and Examples in an Early Modern Revolution’
- Dr Matthias Egeler (LMU Munich & UCC) ‘Iceland and Ireland in the early Middle Ages: cultural exchange as seen through the evidence of literature’
- Dr James Ryan (Cardiff University), ‘The Politics of National History: Russia and the Centenary of Revolutions’
- Dr Michelle Ó Riordan (Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies), ‘Divisive unities in seventeenth-century Ireland’
- Professor James Amelang (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), ‘The Reformed Spaniards: Complications of Conversion in 1620s London’
- Dr Edel Bhreathnach (Discovery Programme), ‘Re-assessing prehistoric and early medieval ‘royal’ landscapes in Ireland: opening a new discussion on an old topic’
- Professor Geoff Roberts (UCC), ‘Stalin’s Peacemakers: The Struggle for Peace and the Transformation of Global Politics after World War II’
Seminars 2015-16
- Dr Owen McGee (Digital Humanities, UCC), ‘Arthur Griffith: the forgotten man of the Irish Revolution?’
- Professor Robert Savage, Boston College, ‘Terrible things were done’: Seán Lemass and the violence of the Irish Revolution’
- Professor Daniel Carey (Moore Institute, NUIG), ‘Arts and Sciences of Travel, 1500-1800’
- Davide Boerio, (Università degli studi di Teramo & University College Cork), ‘News from Naples, 1647: Texts, Networks and Examples in an Early Modern Revolution’
- Dr Matthias Egeler (LMU Munich & UCC) ‘Iceland and Ireland in the early Middle Ages: cultural exchange as seen through the evidence of literature’
- Dr James Ryan (Cardiff University), ‘The Politics of National History: Russia and the Centenary of Revolutions’
- Dr Michelle Ó Riordan (Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies), ‘Divisive unities in seventeenth-century Ireland’
- Professor James Amelang (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), ‘The Reformed Spaniards: Complications of Conversion in 1620s London’
- Dr Edel Bhreathnach (Discovery Programme), ‘Re-assessing prehistoric and early medieval ‘royal’ landscapes in Ireland: opening a new discussion on an old topic’
- Professor Geoff Roberts (UCC), ‘Stalin’s Peacemakers: The Struggle for Peace and the Transformation of Global Politics after World War II’