Department of History Research seminar

Semester 2, 2014-15

Venue (with some exceptions, see below): Rocque Lab., Ground Floor, Rhetoric House

Seminar date / Time/Venue / Speakers
12 February / 6.15 pm
7.15 pm
Rocque Lab / Student presentation
Tony McCarthy, ‘The decline of landlordism in Ireland: an economic perspective’
Dr Antonio Calvo Maturana (Maynooth University Department of Spanish)
‘Impostors: shadows in Enlightened Spain’
19 February / 6.15 pm
7.15 pm
Rocque Lab / Student presentation
Ciaran Lowe, ‘Irish Naval Development in the latter 20th century, 1970-1990’
Professor Senia Pašeta (St Hugh’s College, Oxford)
‘The Irish question and women’s suffrage’
26 February / 6.15 pm
7.15 pm
Rocque Lab / Student presentation
Andrew Moloney, ‘“Not an operation with which the Royal Air Force should be associated”: the R.A.F, Special Operations Executive, and the Resistance, 1940-45’
(The Terra Foundation for American Art Annual Lecture)
Professor Wendy Bellion (University of Delaware)
‘Rituals of iconoclasm in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world’
12 March / 6.30pm
JH 4 / (The Paul Walsh Annual Lecture)
Dr Nollaig Ó Muraíle (NUI Galway)
‘Fr Paul Walsh (1885-1941): tireless researcher; versatile, innovative scholar’
26 March / 6.15 pm
7.15 pm
Rocque Lab / Student presentation
Damien Duffy, ‘Dynastic upheaval, and the Ormond women through the Wars of the Roses: the women of Ormond in the fifteenth century’
Professor Charles Esdaile (University of Liverpool)
‘Wargaming Waterloo’
2 April / 6.15 pm
7.15 pm
Rocque Lab / Student presentation
Mark Buckley, ‘Policing the empire: R.A.F. air control policy in the inter-war years, 1919-39’
Professor Richard Sharpe (Wadham College, Oxford)
‘Dublin auction rooms and Irish language manuscripts’
16 April / 6.15 pm
7.15 pm
Rocque Lab / Student presentation
Jacqueline Crowley, ‘Famine and the transfer of property ownership in Ireland’
Professor Stephen Ireland (SUNY at Brockport)
‘Esther deBerdt Reed: women, coverture, and politics in Revolutionary America’
23 April / 6.15 pm
Iontas Seminar Room / (Venue: Iontas Seminar Room, Iontas Building, N. Campus)
(Faculty of Arts, Celtic Studies & Philosophy: Lecture for Research Cluster on Change, exchange, and transformations)
Professor Francisco Bethencourt (King’s College, London)
‘Racisms: the main issues’
30 April / 6.15 pm
7.15 pm
Rocque Lab / Student presentation
Graham Kay, ‘Oil and policy: the British Admiralty, technology, and politics in the early twentieth century’
Student presentation
Fergal Donoghue, ‘Urban space, private bills, and local government: a case study of the Kilkenny markets act, 1861’