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2015-2016 SPEAKERS

Roy Foster (Hertford College, University of Oxford) in conversation with Eugenio Biagini (Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge)

‘New directions in Irish History’

11 May 2016

Simon Gallagher (Christs's College, University of Cambridge)

‘The education of children under the Irish Poor’

27 April 2016

Ian McBride (King's College, London)

‘The historian as a healer: dealing with the past in Northern Ireland’

17 February 2016

Trisha Kessler (University College Dublin)

‘Economic nationalism and Jewish refugee industries: identity and encounter in twentieth-century provincial Ireland'

3 February 2016

Susan O'Brien (University of Cambridge)

‘Irish women in British convents 1850-1950’

20 January 2016

Stella Isaac (Churchill College, University of Cambridge)

‘"Taking India by the hand" Protestant boarding schools and the British Empire, 1922-1939’

25 November 2015

Katriona Goldstone (The Irish Times, RTE)

‘Heroic days of dream and struggle - Leslie Daiken and Irish left-wing writers in the 1930s’

11 November 2015

Bronwen Walter (Anglia Ruskin University)

‘Transatlantic worlds: women in the west of Ireland c.1880-1920’

28 October 2015

Peter Gray(Queen's University Belfast)

‘The Great Famine in transatlantic historiographies c.1847-1914’

14 October 2015

Colin McCarthy (University College Dublin)

‘Two very different Irish public finance crises 1988 and 2008’

29 September 2015             Brian Lenihan Memorial Lecture

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