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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.

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.

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. 

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.

Read her post on smaionte

Upcoming Topics

20 November

Professor Jane Ohlmeyer

   Trinity College Dublin

"History and Memory of the Irish Civil Wars of the 1640s: Clarendon's "A short view.'

 

5:00 pm

The Old Library

 Sidney Sussex College

MIH Conference

28-29th MARCH 2019

An Unhealthy Intersection?

Cultural Politics and the Politics of Culture in Ireland,

1789 to the Present

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Professor R.F. Foster

4th Brian Lenihan Memorial Lecture

Susan Hayes Culleton

Managing Director, Hayes Culleton Group Ireland

 A Different Perspective on the Gender Pay Gap in the Digital Age

19 September 2019

5:30 pm Mong Hall,

Sydney Sussex College

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

Kenny, Michael.  The Politics of English Nationhood, Oxford University Press, 2014

Parr, Connal, Paddy Devlin, the Labour Movement and the Catholic Community, The Contested Identities of Ulster Catholics, Springer, 2018, 111-125

Parr, Connal, 'Ending the siege? David Ervine and the struggle for progressive Loyalism'  3 Apr 2018, Irish Political Studies

Roddy, S., Strange, J-M., & Taithe, B. (2018). The Charity Market and Humanitarianism in Britain, 1870-1912. Bloomsbury Publishing

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

Senia Paseta, Irish Nationalist Women, 1900-1918, Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2013

Pašeta, S. (2017). FEMINIST POLITICAL THOUGHT AND ACTIVISM IN REVOLUTIONARY IRELAND, c. 1880–1918. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 27, 193-209.

Ranelagh, John O'Beirne, A Short History of Ireland, 3rd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Ranelagh, Ireland: An Illustrated History, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981.

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.

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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