The Institute of Irish Studies has launched its Spring 2017 Seminar Series. Lectures take place on Mondays at 4:30 pm in the Seminar Room, Institute of Irish Studies, 8 Fitzwilliam Street, Belfast.
The next lecture is on Monday, 13 February 2017 and is given by Aglaia De Angeli (History) on ‘A republic for China and Ireland: a new beginning, 1911-22’.
The full programme can be found here.
Stateboards.ie is currently advertising vacancies on the board of the Irish Manuscripts Commission. They are looking for archivists, genealogists and historians. If anyone is interested in applying, the full details of the vacancy can be found here.
http://www.stateboards.ie/stateboards/campaignAdvert/48364.htm
Spring Discourse Notice revised
The Irish Legal History Society Spring Discourse will be held on Friday 17 February 2017 at 5:30pm in Regent House, Trinity College Dublin. It will be delivered by the Attorney-General for Northern Ireland, John F. Larkin, QC, on the subject of ‘The Irish Convention, 1917-18: centenary reflections’. All are welcome to attend.
The Irish Historical Society in association with the Women’s History Association of Ireland is hosting a special event to mark the publication last year of the Royal Historical Society’s report Gender Equality and Historians in UK Higher Education.
Professor Jo Fox (Durham) will give a paper entitled ‘Gender equality and historians in UK higher education’
A response will be given by Professor Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin) and the meeting will be chaired by Dr John Bowman (historian and broadcaster).
The event will take place on Tuesday, 25 October 2016 at 7pm in the Meeting Room, Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2.
Admission is free but advance booking is recommended since places are limited.
The Classical Association in Northern Ireland has published its programme of events for 2016-17. Click here for details. The programme kicks off with a CANI Film Night, showing Monty Python’s Life of Brian in the MAC, 10 Exchange Street West, Belfast. £5 entrance, brief introduction, bar services. Thursday, 13 October 2016 at 6:30pm.
The next seminar in the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland Seminar Series takes place on Thursday, 6 October 2016.
Dr. Rosemary Wall (University of Hull)
‘The British Red Cross in 1916: Conscription, the Easter Rising and the Battle of the Somme’
5pm, K114, School of History, UCD
All welcome.
The Ulster Historical Foundation is launching a new book: Eileen Black, Window to an Age: a chronicle of art in Belfast, 1760-1888. The launch will take place on Thursday, 6 October 2016 at 6:15 pm in the Heritage Room, Belfast Central Library, Belfast BT1 6EA.
The University of Edinburgh’s School of History, Classics and Archaeology have published their Modern Irish History seminar programme for 2016-17. Lectures take place on Tuesdays at 6pm in Room G.13, William Robertson Building, Teviot Place (unless stated otherwise).
Click here for more details and the full programme.