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The Modern Irish History Seminar is a research seminar of the History Faculty of the University of Cambridge. It provides a forum to explore new perspectives in Irish history since 1800. The Seminar is methodologically eclectic and open to cognate disciplines (including geography, sociology, demographics and economics). It does not aim to produce ‘a school’, except in the sense that it is a collective and pluralist endeavor, which encourages diversity and original thinking.
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It is supported by the Trevelyan Fund of the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, with a contribution from the Embassy of Ireland in London and private benefactors.
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Our events are open to all members of the community.
The Great Irish Famine
On Thursday 4 April 2019, Dr Niamh Gallagher, lecturer in British and Irish History at the University of Cambridge, joined fellow historians, Cormac Ó’Gráda (UCD) and Enda Delaney (Edinburgh), to discuss the Great Irish Famine on Radio 4 show, ‘In Our Time’, hosted by Melvyn Bragg.
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The show is available as a podcast, which can be downloaded from the ‘In Our Time’ app or website, or listened to online. Click here for more information.
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4th Brian Lenihan Memorial Lecture
Susan Hayes Culleton
Managing Director, Hayes Culleton Group Ireland
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A Different Perspective on the Gender Pay Gap in the Digital Age
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19 September 2019
5:30 pm Mong Hall,
Sydney Sussex College
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No entrance fee or pre-registration required.
Event information also available at the link below.
Latest Blog Posts
Publications by our Speakers
Kenny, M.H., ‘Back to the Populist Future?; Nostalgia in Contemporary Ideological Discourse’, Journal of Political Ideologies, 2017
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Kenny, Michael. The Politics of English Nationhood, Oxford University Press, 2014
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Parr, Connal, Paddy Devlin, the Labour Movement and the Catholic Community, The Contested Identities of Ulster Catholics, Springer, 2018, 111-125
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Parr, Connal, 'Ending the siege? David Ervine and the struggle for progressive Loyalism' 3 Apr 2018, Irish Political Studies
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Roddy, S., Strange, J-M., & Taithe, B. (2018). The Charity Market and Humanitarianism in Britain, 1870-1912. Bloomsbury Publishing
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Roddy, S. (2017). Missionary empires and the worlds they made. In E. Biagini, & M. E. Daly (Eds.), The Cambridge social history of Ireland (pp. 534-550). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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Senia Paseta, Irish Nationalist Women, 1900-1918, Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2013
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Pašeta, S. (2017). FEMINIST POLITICAL THOUGHT AND ACTIVISM IN REVOLUTIONARY IRELAND, c. 1880–1918. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 27, 193-209.
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Ranelagh, John O'Beirne, A Short History of Ireland, 3rd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012
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Ranelagh, Ireland: An Illustrated History, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981.
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Cox, C. (2018). Institutional Space and the Geography of Confinement in Ireland, 1750–2000. In T. Bartlett (Ed.), The Cambridge History of Ireland (The Cambridge History of Ireland, pp. 673-707). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Catherine Cox, Hilary Marland; Broken Minds and Beaten Bodies: Cultures of Harm and the Management of Mental Illness in Mid- to Late Nineteenth-century English and Irish Prisons, Social History of Medicine, Volume 31, Issue 4, 1 November 2018, Pages 688–710
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