Launch of Defence Forces Review, Friday 17th November

12 Nov

In conjunction with the School of History and DCU’s School of Law and Government, the Defence Forces will launch the 2017 edition of Defence Forces Review with a one-day conference in UCC on Friday, 17^th November.

Spoken Latin in Cork

23 Aug

Dr Jason Harris from the School of History was recently interviewed on Newstalk Radio about Spoken Latin. New summer school available in Cork, June 2017.

From Ulster to Rome: A Retrospective on Hugh O'Neill

06 Jun

Dr Hiram Morgan and Dr James O'Neill recently organised a conference at the British School in Rome to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of Hugh O'Neill (1550-1616). Vatican Radio interviewed Dr Morgan in relation to the event.

Professor Geoffrey Roberts elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy

22 Mar

Professor Geoffrey Roberts has been elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. 

Irish Times Obituary of Dr Jennifer O'Reilly

12 Mar

The Irish Times have published the obituary of our late colleague Dr Jennifer O'Reilly.

Women Insurgents of 1916 - a play by the UCC Staff Drama Society

21 Feb

UCC Staff Drama Society (UCC Players) are delighted to announce ‘Women Insurgents of 1916: Their Stories’, directed by Finola Doyle O’Neill of the School of History.

Date: April  22^rd and 23^th

Time: 7pm

Venue: Cork Women’s Gaol, Sundays Well.

Fee : €5. Tickets can be purchased at the Student Centre Main Desk in the O’Rahilly Building or at the Western Gateway Building Reception.

The Crime and the Silence

31 Jan

The Crime and the Silence reviewed by Professor Geoffrey Roberts in The Irish Examiner. 

“ Cultures of Commemoration and the Children of the Rising ”

31 Jan

The Rising of poets and playwrights? The arts and the 1916 Easter Rising.

18 Jan

University College Cork, Friday 29th and Saturday 30th January 2016

1916-2016

11 Jan

The School of History is pleased to announce the establishment of a partnership arrangement with the Irish Examiner with regard to its coverage of the centenary of the 1916 Rising, and the subsequent landmark events through to the end of the Civil War. 

1916: Old Perspectives; New Rows

08 Jan

will be held at the

Aula Maxima, University College Cork,

Friday 22^nd January, 7.30 p.m.

“Irish Soldiers in American Civil War: New Sources, New Insights”

08 Jan

Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme 2016

05 Jan

Applications are invited for the Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme 2016 

Shared Histories: Media Connections Between Britain and Ireland

16 Dec

Dublin, 6-7th July 2016

Venue: The National Library of Ireland 

The relationship between Ireland and the rest of the British Isles has a long and complex history. One key dimension has been the connections and interactions between the various media of communication – print and electronic – which have mediated this relationship. This conference seeks to address this important, but relatively neglected, topic at a timely moment in the history of Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales drawing on the work of historians with specialisms that span the period from the late 17^th to the 20^th century.

From Famine to Freedom

16 Dec

The 5th Annual International Famine Conference

Irish National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park

17th-19th June, 2016

‘From Famine to Freedom’

The Brave Journey of the Everyman: Quaker Influences on the Catholic Monk and Peace Activist Thomas Merton


10 Dec

A talk by James G. R. Cronin (School of History, UCC) as part of international events marking the centenary of Thomas Merton (1915-68)

Sunday, 13 December in the Quaker Meeting House in Summerhill South, 12.30pm. 

UCC School of History Outreach event

23 Nov

UCC School of History Outreach event: Dr Detmar Klein speaking to an audience of 200 secondary school students from schools in Cork City, Skibbereen, Waterford and Midleton. 

The Gaybo Revolution: How Gay Byrne Challenged Irish Society By Finola Doyle O' Neill

19 Nov

It is no exaggeration to call Gay Byrne a colossus of the Irish broadcasting scene. Throughout the latter half of the twentieth century, as host of both the Late Late Show and the Gay Byrne Show, he played a seminal role in the shift in Irish society and culture from the Church-dominated fearful state of the early 1960s to the modern multicultural Ireland we live in today.

Letters of 1916

13 Nov

The Library and the School of History are pleased to announce that they will be hosting the Cork launch of the ‘Letters of 1916’ project on Thursday 26 November, details of the schedule for which can be found below. The event is open to all members of the UCC community and the public who may wish to attend the proceedings.

UCC History’s Diarmuid Scully speaks on medieval maps

09 Nov

UCC History’s Diarmuid Scully recently delivered presentations on medieval maps in Cork and London. He spoke about images of Ireland and the Irish on medieval English maps and manuscripts at the Friends of the Crawford Art Gallery’s autumn lunchtime lecture series (6^th November). 

Putin's United Nations

01 Oct

At the annual opening of the UN General Assembly Russia's President Vladimir Putin made it abundantly clear the West's business-as-usual approach to solving the world problems is outdated and counterproductive. This approach manufactures problems like the crisis in Syria. Follow RT's CrossTalking with Dmitry Babich, Edward Lozansky, and Geoffrey Roberts.

Beamish & Crawford brewers left their mark on Cork

29 Oct

Waterford Revolutionary Roadshow

04 Nov

History's Revolutionary Roadshow receives extensive media coverage

A safe place for ships: The Second Annual Irish Maritime History Conference, Schedule

13 Oct

See full schedule of the conference here

Refugee – more knowledge and less fear. Conversations on the current refugee crisis

13 Oct

Refugee – more knowledge and less fear. Conversations on the current refugee crisis.

Thursday 15 October 2015

4-6pm, Boole 2

Open to all

School of History and the Decorative Arts

13 Oct

The School of History is contributing to public awareness of the history of Irish decorative arts in this centenary of commemorations, featured in The Irish Times.  

The Second Annual Irish Maritime History Conference `

08 Oct

 ‘A Safe Place for Ships’:

The Second Annual Irish Maritime History Conference `

University College Cork

Friday, 16 October – Saturday, 17 October

IRC-funded Monastic Ireland Project features in the latest volume of Archaeology Ireland

08 Oct

The IRC-funded Monastic Ireland Project on which Dr Małgorzata Krasnodębska-D’Aughton is one of investigators, features in the latest volume of Archaeology Ireland. 

History Seminar

07 Oct

‘“The Rising of poets and playwrights”? The arts and the 1916 Easter Rising’ Conference in University College Cork, 29-30 January 2016

29 Sep

Proposals for papers of up to 20 minutes duration are invited for the fourth conference in the series ‘Cork studies in the Irish revolution’, on the subject of the role of art and artists in connection with the 1916 Easter Rising, which is to be held in University College Cork in Ireland, on Friday 29 and Saturday 30 January, 2016.

UCC medievalist Diarmuid Scully gives a keynote lecture in Cardiff

23 Sep

UCC medievalist Diarmuid Scully gave a keynote lecture at Medieval Myths and British Identities: Past, Present and Future, an interdisciplinary postgraduate conference held at Cardiff University on 18^th September 2015. 

Surveying Kilcrea

25 Sep

The Monastic Ireland Project and the Discovery Programme carried out a survey of the Franciscan friary and castle of Kilcrea, Co. Cork. 

Pictured: Dr Anne-Julie Lafaye, Dr Małgorzata D’Aughton, both work on the IRC-funded Monastic Ireland Project pictured together with Dr Ger Dowling, Discovery Programme.

Playback of the State funeral of Thomas Kent

22 Sep

The State funeral of Thomas Kent, took place in his home village in Cork on Friday, 18th September 2015. He one of 16 men executed following the 1916 Rising. UCC historians Gabriel Doherty and John Borgonovo contributed historical commentaries to the RTE broadcast, watch full playback online here. 

UCC Historians

17 Sep

Thomas Kent was one of the men executed in 1916 following the Easter Rising, and one of only two executed outside Dublin (the other was Roger Casement). Kent’s  remains  will be taken tomorrow (Friday) from Cork Prison and buried in Castlelyons at a State Funeral after the general public have paid their respects in Collins Barracks this evening.

History is essential to the creative economy and teaches students skills of critical thinking and analysis much sought by employers

16 Sep

On 9 September, the School of History, UCC held a symposium on Applied History that involved the speakers with experience in the areas of heritage, education, career guidance, outreach, business and diplomacy. In a rapidly changing world of employment where traditional career pathways for history graduates are becoming increasingly more difficult, history educators are faced with challenges of providing knowledge while equipping the students with important transferable skills.

Commemorating 1916

16 Sep

Cork County Library Local Studies Department is hosting a talk by Gabriel Doherty of UCC; “1916 and Beyond” on Thursday 1st Oct at 1.30pm at the County Library Headquarters, Carrigrohane Road.

The talk will be the first in a series of activities being organised by Cork County Library to mark the 1916 commemorations. Gabriel Doherty, of UCC’s School of History, is also on the Expert Advisory Group on Commemoration to mark the Decades of Centenaries.

The state funeral of Thomas Kent

15 Sep

The state funeral of Thomas Kent, one of those executed for their actions in 1916, will be taking place in Cork this week see details. 

Welcoming new students: a full house for First Year History at UCC

08 Sep

First Year students packed Boole 3 for their Introduction to History session.

Applied History Symposium: Skills and Professional Opportunities for History Graduates

02 Sep

Applied History Symposium: Skills and Professional Opportunities for History Graduates

9 September 2015, Council Room, North Wing, University College Cork

Treasures of Irish Christianity Volume III: To the Ends of the Earth

01 Sep

The voyage of St Brendan in search of the Promised Land of the Saints, and Friar Simon Fitzsimon’s journey from Ireland to the Holy Land in 1323 represent UCC History staff’s contribution to the recently published Treasures of Irish Christianity Volume III: To the Ends of the Earth (Veritas: Dublin, 2015), edited by Salvador Ryan. 

Features and Reviews

31 Aug

Read a feature on Irish heroes of the Second World War and a review of a biography of Frederick the Great by Prof Geoffrey Roberts

Remembering Victory

17 Aug

Apocalypse, monsters, time, space and the greatest surviving medieval world

07 Aug

Apocalypse, monsters, time, space and the greatest surviving medieval world-map were among the topics of an intensive workshop at the School of History, UCC on Wednesday 4^th August. 

Fallout from first nuclear attack lingers

05 Aug

6 August 2015 is the 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, which killed 70,000. Prof Geoffrey Roberts looks at how and why we ushered in the age of the megaton bomb.

Conversations on the Hereford World-Map: A Work-Shop

04 Aug

Dr Asa Mittman, Art and Art History Department, California State University, Chico and Dr Diarmuid Scully, School of History, UCC

Wednesday 5^th August, 2015

Seminar Room, Tyrconnel Building, School of History, UCC

O'Donovan Rossa centenary commemoration

13 Jul

The centenary commemoration of the death of the Cork Fenian Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa continues this week, with the following events scheduled in west Cork

New publication in medieval history

02 Jul

A recent publication from Four Courts Press titled The art, literature and material culture of the medieval world coedited by Meg Boulton, Jane Hawkes & Melissa Herman includes amongst its contributors two UCC medievalists, Dr Małgorzata Krasnodebska-D’Aughton and Dr Diarmuid Scully.

Summer Conferring

23 Jun

Congratulations to Dr Ruairi O'Sullivan & Dr Michael Dwyer who were conferred this week.

Friars Walk/ Intersections Project

10 Jun

Friars Walk/ Intersections Project

Dates: 19 June/ Friday (9pm), 20 June/ Saturday (3pm, 9pm), 21 June/ Sun (3pm)

Venue: Ennismore Meditation Centre

Tickets: Regular Price €10

Duration: 1 hour

Marking the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War

08 May

Prof Geoffrey Roberts marks the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War on the anniversaries of Victory in Europe (VE) Day on 8 May 1945 and the end of Russia's Great Patriotic War on 9 May 1945.

Frontline Ukraine

07 May

Account of Kiev’s conflict explores Russophobic misconception.

Western boycott of the 70th anniversary Victory Parade in Moscow

06 May

Prof Geoffrey Roberts is critical of the western boycott of the 70th anniversary Victory Parade in Moscow. Read his letter in the Financial Times (06 May 2015)

70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War

05 May

The Soviets were crucial to the Allied victory in WW2, but 70 years on there is a rift again, says Prof Geoffrey Roberts

Funding for International Students

21 Apr

The CACSSS Graduate School is pleased to announce two new incentives for non-EU students to choose UCC for their postgraduate studies (see details). 

Review: Marshal of Victory: The Autobiography of General Georgy Zhukov edited by Geoffrey Roberts

20 Apr

Georgy Zhukov was a great general and one of the USSR’s great military survivors – both of the Great Patriotic War and Josef Stalin’s subsequent mad purges of the Soviet army. 

The battle for Douglas, 1922: St Columba's church

15 Apr

Dr John Borgonovo, of the School of History, University College Cork, will give a talk on the Battle for Douglas-Rochestown, which was a key engagement in the Irish Civil War, in the Parish Assembly Room, St Columba’s church, Douglas, at 8pm on Thursday April 23^rd. 

Comóradh Diarmuid Ó Donnabháin Rosa, 1831–1915

19 Mar

Satharn 11 Aibreán 2015

Ionad an Pharóiste/Parish Centre – 3.00 p.m.

The Diarmuid Whelan Memorial Lecture

18 Mar

The Diarmuid Whelan Memorial Lecture

Thursday, 19 March 2015

6.00 pm

Aula Maxima

University College Cork

Professor J. J. Lee

'Interpreting 1916'

Military History at A Crossroads: the Behavioural Turn

13 Mar

Professor Gregory Hanlon

(University Research Professor, Dalhousie University)

"Military History at A Crossroads:  the Behavioural Turn"

ORB 1. 24 Monday March 16 at 14. 30

Kathleen Harriman

10 Mar

The magazine of the Harriman Institute for Russian Studies at Columbia University has published an article by UCC’s  Professor Geoffrey Roberts about the fascinating wartime correspondence of  Kathleen Harriman. 

Book Review

09 Mar

Neither Unionist Nor Nationalist: The 10th (Irish) Division in the Great War StephenSandford, Irish Academic Press, €24.95 

Professor J. J. Lee 'Interpreting 1916'

04 Mar

Thursday, 19 March 2015

6.00 pm

Aula Maxima

University College Cork

Yalta 70th anniversary

02 Mar

Professor Geoffrey Roberts of UCC's School of History shared the platform with Sergey Naryshkin, the Chairman of the Russian State Duma, at a conference in Moscow last week on the 70th anniversary of the Yalta summit of Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt. Professor Roberts spoke on "The Yalta Myths: Western Views on the Crimean Conference".

Polish scholar's visit to the School of History

02 Mar

Dr Wiktor Szymborski from the Institute of History, Jagiellonian University, Cracow will deliver four seminars dealing with indulgences in medieval Poland. Seminars will take between 9 and 13 March 2015. Dr Szymborki’s visit is supported by the Erasmus+ Staff Mobility Programme and the School of History, UCC.

CrossTalk: 70th anniversary of Yalta Conference

26 Feb

Seventy years ago the ‘Big Three’ – Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin – met at Yalta on the Crimean Peninsula. Their mission was to map out a peace plan after the final destruction of Nazi Germany. Since then the word Yalta has taken on a variety of historical meanings. Prof Geoffrey Roberts stresses that the Yalta Conference took place on Soviet soil to symbolize the crucial role Russia played during the Second World War. In Russia the memory of Yalta is positively remembered, but its memory in the West is clouded by the Ukrainian crisis. 

School of History Prize-giving Ceremony 2015

24 Feb

Picture: Professor David Ryan, Head of School of History, presents the John B. O’Brien Annual Prize in History to Caroline Sheehan, at the School of History Prize-giving Ceremony 2015.

Quintessential cold war lesson remains true today

23 Feb

Letter to the FT by Prof Geoffrey Roberts

Intersections: Culture and Creativity Project

18 Feb

The Intersections: Culture and Creativity Project supported by the CACSSS Creative Practice Support Fund runs a series of workshops that aim to develop an original performance piece based on an Irish medieval travel text. The performance will be staged in conjunction with the Cork Midsummer Festival 2015 and directed by Chrissie Poulter. The project jointly coordinated by Dr Małgorzata Krasnodębska-D’Aughton, UCC School of History and Dr Bernadette Cronin, UCC Drama and Theatre Studies brings together Irish and international creative artists and researchers.

"Je Suis Geoffrey Roberts": A Petition Against Censorship in France Today

16 Feb

“Stalin's Wars” by Prof Geoffrey Roberts is subject to censorship by the Sorbonne. The international scholarly community urges all who say, "Je Suis Charlie Hebdo", "Je Suis Geoffrey Roberts, "Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953." Read the story.

Irish mother and baby homes return to the news

12 Feb

Dr Michael Dwyer's research features in today's Irish Examiner. Michael discovered a 1945 report in the Irish Medical Journal documenting three separate diphtheria outbreaks among infants in one of the country’s mother and baby homes that had 100% mortality rates.

Monastic Ireland A.D. 1100-1700: Landscape & Settlement

10 Feb

Two lectures on monasticism in March and a workshop in April, Trinity College Dublin

70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz

02 Feb

The commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army has been marred by controversy. Prof Geoffrey Roberts reflects on the role the Red Army played in the camp’s liberation.

NUI Awards and Scholarships 2015

29 Jan

War at a Distance in Irish Romanticism? Gerald Griffin's "Card-Drawing"

27 Jan

You are cordially invited to the School of History’s next Research Seminar presentation on Monday 2^nd February.

Professor Claire Connolly will deliver a paper: ‘War at a Distance in Irish Romanticism? Gerald Griffin's "Card-Drawing" (1827)’. The paper will deal with aspects of the national tale in the context of the Napoleonic wars.

The End of Angelica's Book

27 Jan

The End of Angelica's Book

Prof. Brendan Dooley

Thursday 29^th January 3pm-5pm

O’Rahilly Building G42 South

Monastic Ireland research seminar

27 Jan

 Monastic Ireland research seminar. 

Dr Anne-Julie Lafaye, ‘History, landscape and archaeology of the Dominicans in the boroughs and cities of Leinster’.

Wednesday, 28 January 2015, O’Rahilly Building, Room 244, 5pm.  

Dr Anne-Julie Lafaye is a Research Fellow with the IRC funded project ‘Mona

Obama, US Foreign Policy and the Dilemmas of Intervention

15 Jan

This timely study explores the dilemmas of US intervention within the broad context of the history of foreign policy in America and with a specific focus on the Obama administration. Framed by three dominant US narratives centred on the desire to feel good, safe, and strong, Prof David Ryan and Dr David Fitzgerald analyse the tactical use of language and 'lessons' of history and how these have shaped Washington's decisions, discourses, policies and interventions in particular ways.

Intersections: Culture and Creativity Project

07 Jan

The Intersections: Culture and Creativity Project supported by the College of ACSSS Creative Practice Support Fund will run a series of workshops that aim to develop an original performance piece based on an Irish medieval travel text. The project jointly coordinated by Dr Małgorzata Krasnodębska-D’Aughton, UCC School of History and Dr Bernadette Cronin, UCC Drama and Theatre Studies brings together Irish and international creative artists and researchers.

History Seminar 12 January 2015

06 Jan

Professor Christophe Gillissen will deliver a paper: ‘France and the Irish application to the EEC: comments on the 1962 meeting between de Gaulle and Lemass’. The paper will examine the evidence for this important meeting, and consider its implications. The seminar will be held in the Seminar Room, Tyrconnell, at 12noon, on Monday 12^th January. Tyronnell is located on Perrot Avenue, leading to Hayfield Manor. 

Boole Bicentennial

05 Jan

In 2015, University College Cork celebrates the bicentenary of George Boole, 1815-64. 

A Boolean Christmas in Cork, 1850

23 Dec

As Boolean bicentennial celebrations approach the university archives reproduce a letter from George Boole (1815-1864) recounting how he spent Christmas in Cork in 1850

Evolution and the Hygienic City: Darwinian Medicine in fin-de-siècle Belfast Funded by: Strategic DEL Studentship

23 Dec

The project will examine the arguments and activities of an influential group of medical practitioners who advocated public health measures strongly shaped by evolutionary theory in the period 1880-1925. Attention will be given to medical professionals such as William Graham (1859-1917), James Alexander Lindsay (1856-1931) and Johnson Symington (1851-1924) and public health activists like Henry O’Neill (1853-1914). Their promotion of evolutionary medicine will be set within specific spaces of medical inquiry and practice and traced across more diffuse scientific, political and print/periodical debates about public health and evolution. There is scope to revise these parameters and explore other spaces crucial to the pursuit of evolutionary medicine in Britain and Ireland between 1880 and 1940. 

English images of Ireland - exploring a medieval manuscript

15 Dec

Dr Diarmuid Scully explored one of the National Library’s most important medieval manuscripts at a research seminar in Trinity College Dublin.

Remembering the Berlin Blockade, 1948-1949

15 Dec

Prof Geoff Roberts and Dr David Fitzgerald discuss the Berlin Blockade, 1948-1949 on Newstalk FM Talking History.

Prof Geoffrey Roberts on Russia Today

10 Dec

Ukraine is wedged in the middle. The political establishment in Kiev has made it clear it wants membership in some of the West’s most elite clubs, like NATO and the EU - clearly a turn away from Russia. But the question is: does the West really care? CrossTalking with Geoffrey Roberts, Mark Sleboda and Jonathan Steele. 

The Bandon Valley Massacre ( April 1922 Revisited )

08 Dec

MONASTIC IRELAND website launched

08 Dec

The Monastic Ireland project is led by Dr Rachel Moss (PI, TCD), Dr Edel Bhreathnach (Discovery Programme), and Dr Malgorzata Krasnodebska-D’Aughton (UCC). The project investigates the role of the religious orders in the establishment and development of urban and rural settlement across Ireland, placing the Irish studies in a broader European context.

Irish Research Council (IRC) Postgraduate Scholarship Competition 2015

05 Dec

Irish Research Council (IRC) Postgraduate Scholarship Competition 2015 Now Open

Vaccine trials story continues

05 Dec

The Irish Examiner continues to run with the vaccine trials story all this week.

Research carried out by Michael Dwyer, School of History, UCC. 

Medieval Ireland: Territorial, political and economic divisions

05 Dec

Medieval Ireland
Territorial, political and economic divisions 
Paul MacCotter

New in Paperback

Schools Outreach

05 Dec

The School of History engages in an active schools outreach programme.

New vaccine trials revealed

01 Dec

Research undertaken by School of History historian Michael Dwyer has revealed that further previously unknown vaccine trials were undertaken in Irish children’s residential institutions in the 1960s. Dwyer’s research findings feature prominently in the Irish Examiner and call on the government to re-open an inquiry into this particularly dark chapter of Irish history.

‘A safe place for ships’: Cork, Ireland, Europe and the Sea

25 Nov

‘A safe place for ships’: Cork, Ireland, Europe and the Sea

Maritime History Conference

Friday, 28 November–Saturday, 29 November Main UCC Campus:

Electrical Engineering BLDG, L‐1, University College Cork

The Ukrainian crisis

20 Nov

Prof Geoffrey Roberts spoke on the Ukrainian crisis at a meeting of the Law Society of Ireland in Dublin on 13 November. 

Media control during Ireland’s revolutionary decade

18 Nov

Dr Donal O’Drisceoil will deliver a paper: ‘Sledgehammers, blue pencils and the rough first draft: media control during Ireland’s revolutionary decade’. The seminar will be held in the Seminar Room, Tyrconnell, at 12noon, on Monday 24^th November. 

A new edited volume on the life of Canon Sheehan

18 Nov

A new edited volume on the life of the famous Cork priest, author and social activist Canon P.A. Sheehan, whose name is indelibly associated with Doneraile in county Cork, will be launched at 5pm on Thursday 27 November in the Aula Maxima, UCC. 

Newspaper and Periodical History Forum of Ireland, Seventh Annual Conference

12 Nov

Newspaper and Periodical History Forum of Ireland

Seventh Annual Conference

‘Home thoughts from abroad: History, the Press and Diaspora’

Friday 21 & Saturday 22 November 2014

University College Cork, Ireland

‘A safe place for ships’: Cork, Ireland, Europe and the Sea

12 Nov

Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

10 Nov

Stalin, Vol. 1: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

Stephen Kotkin

Allen Lane, £30

Review by Prof Geoffrey Roberts

School of History/Polish cultural festival 2014

04 Nov

Showing of feature film on the life and killing of Blessed Fr Jerzy Popieluszko

Lecture - The Battles of Clontarf and Peipus compared: making national history in Ireland and Russia

23 Oct

Dr Andrey Mashinyan, Director of the Irish Cultural Institute, State University of St Petersburg, Russia, will deliver a lecture at 5.00pm in the Seminar Room 1, Silverdale (located above the College Rd car park), School of History, on Tuesday, 28 October next 

UCC marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of Andreas Vesalius

21 Oct

UCC historians and scientists mark the 500th anniversary of the birth of Andreas Vesalius

East German intelligence and Ireland during the Cold War

17 Oct

East German intelligence and Ireland, 1949–90 Espionage, terrorism and diplomacy by Prof Jérôme aan de Wiel forthcoming from Manchester University Press

History Research Seminar

16 Oct

 ‘Language-Shift in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: A New Interpretation’,  Seminar Room, Tyrconnell, at 12noon, next Monday, 20^th October

BBC documentary on St Columbanus

13 Oct

Dr Damian Bracken, School of History, to take part in a BBC documentary on the life and writings of the Irish saint Columbanus. 

Stalin's Wars translated into French

02 Oct

Read interview with Prof Geoffrey Roberts for the French history magazine Guerres et Histoire

Erasmus in the Classroom: Renaissance Language Reform

25 Sep

Dr Jason Harris will present his research as part of the School of History School of History’s Research Seminar Series on Monday (29^th September).

Western policy and moral posturing poses a danger to Russia

25 Sep

Prof Geoffrey Roberts shares the text of his letter published as lead letter in the FT on 24 September under the headline "Western policy and moral posturing poses a danger to Russia".

Frank O’Connor: Gamekeeper turned poacher

17 Sep

Dr Donal Ó Drisceoil discusses Frank O'Connor and censorship. Ó Drisceoil's history of censorship in 20th-century Ireland will be published next year.

WHAI Prize

08 Sep

MacCurtain/Cullen Prize in Irish women’s History 2014

Warrior in Silk Stockings: The Wartime Correspondence of Kathleen Harriman

10 Sep

Professor Geoff Roberts, School of History, will present a paper, ‘Warrior in Silk Stockings: The Wartime Correspondence of Kathleen Harriman’ 12noon, Monday, 15^th September in the Tyrconnell Seminar Room, Tyrconnell is located on Perrott Avenue.

Ireland and the Great War

07 Sep

Gabriel Doherty, School of History, is organising a special event, exclusively for teachers and pupils of History in Cork city and county, to mark the centenary in August/September of the participation of Ireland in World War One, the passage of the home rule bill into law, and the famous recruiting speech by John Redmond in Woodenbridge, co. Wicklow. It’s going to be held in the Windle anatomy building on Friday 19 September, from 11am to 1pm.

Remembering the Warsaw Uprising in August 1944

15 Aug

The carnage that followed the doomed Warsaw Uprising of 1944 raises the question what was it all for — and who was responsible for its failure, writes Prof Geoffrey Roberts.

Ireland, Wales, and the First World War: History, Myth, and Cultural Memory

15 Aug

Ireland, Wales, and the First World War: History, Myth, and Cultural Memory

An Interdisciplinary Conference hosted by the Wales-Ireland Research Network

September 10-12, 2014, Cardiff University

100th anniversary of the start of World War 1

28 Jul

On the 100th anniversary of the start of World War 1 RTÉ looks at the Great War from Ireland's perspective.

Lenin’s Terror by James Ryan

10 Jul

Lenin’s Terror by James Ryan now available as a paperback

What can Obama do to improve situation in Iraq?

13 Jun

Six doctoral candidates graduate in History

13 Jun

School of History graduates six doctoral candidates in the summer conferring on Thursday 12 June 2014 in Devere Hall, Áras na Mac Léinn / Students’ Centre, University College Cork. 

Perspectives on the Ukrainian Crisis

12 Jun

Perspectives on the Ukrainian Crisis

Roundtable Discussion:

Perspectives on the Ukrainian Crisis

Tomorrow, Friday 13 June, 1.00pm

West Wing 5

All Welcome

Public Lecture: Krishnan Srinivasan

10 Jun

Public Lecture

Krishnan Srinivasan, will lecture on

‘Emerging or Submerging? Europe’s Future Transactions with Emerging Asia’

on

Thursday 12 June, 4.00 pm

in

West Wing 5

Marshal of Victory

09 Jun

H-Diplo Review Essay on Georgy Zhukov. Marshal of Victory: The Autobiography of General Georgy Zhukov. Ed. Geoffrey Roberts. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military. 2013. xxxvii + 453 + 534pp. Illustration, notes, index. ISBN: 978-178159-291-5 (hardcover, £40). 

Secret drug trials in child homes

06 Jun

Scientists secretly vaccinated more than 2,000 children in religious-run homes in suspected illegal drug trials, it emerged today.
Michael Dwyer, postgraduate in the School of History, uncovered child vaccination data in old medical files.

‘Tuam babies’ mass grave allegations

06 Jun

Dr. Sarah Anne Buckley from NUIG (doctorate in History from UCC) is calling for an oral history to be compiled as part of the investigations that have been sparked by the discovery of a mass babies' grave in Galway.

Thousands mark 70 years since D-Day invasion

06 Jun

Meticulous planning and air and naval superiority meant D-Day was unlikely to fail, writes Professor Geoffrey Roberts

Prof Geoffrey Roberts on Newstalk’s “Talking History”

04 Jun

Prof Geoffrey Roberts participated in an expert panel discussion on “Operation Barbarossa” and the significance of the Battle of Kursk, broadcast over the June bank holiday weekend. Listen back on Talking History

UCC historian is consultant in new Ken Loach film

27 May

A new Ken Loach film, set during the 1930s, has premiered in Cannes entitled “Jimmy’s Hall”. Dr. Donal O Drisceoil, School of History, is the film’s historical consultant.  

What Would George Kennan Say About Ukraine?

26 May

Prof Geoffrey Roberts asks: what would George Kennan say about Ukraine? 

'Revolutionary Beauty' book launch

21 May

Revolutionary Beauty: The Radical Photomontages of John Heartfield (University of California Press, 2014).

by Dr. Sabine T. Kriebel, History of Art, School of History, UCC

For details visit University of California Press

Postgraduate Scholarships

09 May

The School of History hopes to offer the following scholarships and grants during the academic year 2014/15. Open link to access full list. 

‘History & Archives Week’ @ Cork City and County Archives

08 Apr

‘History & Archives Week’ @ Cork City and County Archives

4 free lectures for the Lifelong Learning Festival connecting our local archives with historical research

@ Cork Archives, Seamus Murphy Building, Great William O’Brien Street, Blackpool, Cork,

Tuesday 8 April – Friday 11 April 2014 (2:30pm daily)

Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Symposium

12 Mar

Disarmament and Non-Proliferation: 

Historical Perspectives & 

Future Objectives

One-day Symposium at

Royal Irish Academy in Dublin on Friday 28 March.

Places are limited so registration is advised

Register at disarmamentsymposium@gmail.com

The 'Revolutionary decade roadshow' in Kerry

11 Mar

The School of History, University College Cork,

The Trustees of Muckross House, Killarney, Kerry County Museum

and

Kerry County Council

present 

Kerry’s ‘Revolutionary Decade’ Roadshow

 The School House,

Muckross House

Saturday 29 March 2014

10.30am-3pm

Radio Radio- 90 years of radio in Ireland

10 Mar

The BBC in Northern Ireland beamed into Ireland in March 1924. Eddie Brohan, founder of the Broadcasting Hall of Fame, will speak on the origins of radio in Ireland in the perfect surroundings of the radio museum, formerly a female Gaol. Radio Seminar outlining the origins of radio in Ireland and celebrating its 90 year-existence in the surrounds of the radio musuem at the Cork city Gaol. Admission is sponsored by the CACSS research fund.

School of History reaps research funding

10 Mar

The Monastic Ireland project received funding of €369,000 from the Irish Research Council for its three-year ‘Monastic Ireland: Landscape and Settlement’ research project under the Advanced Project Grant scheme (2013-16). 

Roberts on Ukrainian Tensions

27 Feb

Prof Geoff Roberts comments on the Ukrainian situation and speculates on its outcome.

John A. Macdonald, Canada's First Prime Minister: Research Seminar, School of History

27 Feb

Seminar Room, Tyrconnell, at 1pm, next Wednesday 5^th March

Visualising Salvation History

18 Feb

Dr Andrea Worm will present a paper, ‘Visualising Salvation History in a Thirteenth-century Chronicle: England and the World in Peter of Poitiers’s Compendium Historiae’.

Seminar Room, Tyrconnell, at 12 noon, next Monday 24^th February 

Postgraduates reflect on teaching history

13 Feb

Postgraduates in the School of History have contributed to a new NAIRTL publication entitled Threshold Concepts: from personal practice to communities of practice. The "Doing" History project was run in dialogue with the Indiana University History Learning Project team’s research into the teaching of history in higher education.

Mansion House Fund Scholarship and Prize in Irish History

22 Jan

Mansion House Fund Scholarship and Prize in Irish History

Offered for 2014 (€2,000 and €1,300)
 No Application Necessary

'A Safe Place for Ships': the Third Annual Irish Maritime History Conference

24 Nov

A leading underwater archaeologist will discuss one of the world’s most famous ship wrecks at UCC this Saturday. Dr Fred Hocker, Director of Research at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, will lecture on the recovered Swedish warship, which sank on its maiden voyage in 1628 and was put on public display after its recovery fifty years ago. Dr Hocker will be among a number of maritime scholars appearing at the Third Annual Irish Maritime History Conference on Friday and Saturday, 25-26 November.

Call for Papers - Retreat from Globalisation? Brexit, Trump and the New Populism

10 Mar

The Royal Irish Academy International Affairs Standing Committee is seeking papers for a series of panels to be included in its conference this year.

The conference, entitled: Retreat from Globalisation? Brexit, Trump and the New Populism, will be held on Wednesday, 31 May 2017.

Royal Irish Academy Conference - A Retreat from Globalisation?

04 May

The conference will interrogate contemporary developments. The recent rise of populism is interpreted by many as a crisis of both globalisation and democracy. It challenges human rights and the rule of law. Is globalisation unravelling? Has unprecedented global economic change gravely weakened social stability and led to the resurgence of nationalism and identity-based politics? Are we in a new age of disruption and polarisation that threatens the basis of the liberal international order? Growing socio-economic inequality, the implications of ICT (for media, discourse, politics and international affairs), the Fourth Industrial Revolution (automation), geo-economic shifts (to the Asia-Pacific), the ‘Great Recession’, the upsurge in plutocrats, popular fears of terrorism and other variables possess disruptive capabilities.

The Home-Coming of the Daniel MacCarthy Glas Archive & the Mac/McCarthy Cultural & Historical Weekend

04 May

This is a follow-on conference (with associated activities) from the successful Mac Carthy Gathering held in Dunmanway in May 2013. The occasion of the second Mac Carthy conference arises from the discovery of the priceless Daniel Mac Carthy Glas papers and their recent deposition in Cork City and County Archive. These papers will open up a new vista of research on mid-nineteenth century Ireland.

The Book of Kells: Image and Text / Student Exhibition, MA in Medieval History, UCC

25 May

This online exhibition is the first digital output created as part of the MA in Medieval History. The exhibition, presented as a series of blog posts and focusing on the Book of Kells, stems from collaboration between the School of History (Dr Małgorzata Krasnodębska-D'Aughton) and UCC Special Collections (Ms Elaine Harrington). The exhibition builds on the University's rich tradition of medieval scholarship and in particular on the contribution of Dr Jennifer O’Reilly. The exhibition can be viewed on http://blogs.ucc.ie/wordpress/theriverside/.

Winning the Western Approaches conference

27 Jun

Winning the Western Approaches:  Unrestricted Submarine Warfare & the US Navy in Ireland, 1917-18, a conference jointly organised by the School of History and the US Naval War College, will take place in UCC on July 5-7.

New Book by Mervyn O'Driscoll

15 Feb

Dr Mervyn O'Driscoll has published a new study Irish-German relations 1949-1973.

Irish Conference of Historians focused on Sexuality and Reproduction

14 Feb

The 32nd Irish Conference of Historians will take place at University College Cork, Thursday 26-Saturday 28 April, 2018. The theme of the conference will be Sex, sexuality & reproduction: historical perspectives.

 http://www.uccconferencing.ie/product/32nd-irish-conference-of-historians-26-28-april-2018/