Modern Irish History Seminar

Professor Diarmaid Ferriter (University College Dublin)

"The Path of National Salvation?": The Triumph of Sinn Féin in Ireland in 1918

Christopher Morash (University of Cambridge) with Professor Andrew Preston (University of Cambridge) as discussant

"I had hoped to-night to speak of the future destiny of these countries": The Young-Ireland generation, nationalism, and the state in Australia and North America

Professor Ciaran Brady (Trinity College Dublin)

‘John Patrick Prendergast and the Anglo-Irish writing of Irish History’

Professor Richard Bourke (Queen Mary University of London)

‘The Political Thought of the Irish Revolution’

Bertie Ahern, former Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland

‘On the 20th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement’

Dan Larsen (University of Cambridge)

‘British signals intelligence and the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland’

Kaitlin Ball (University of Cambridge)

‘Shadow politics: Paramilitary control in contemporary Northern Irish life’

Hugh Hanley (University of Cambridge) with Professor Stefan Collini (University if Cambridge) as a discussant;

‘The worst country in the world for intellectuals': Intellectuals in post-revolutionary Ireland

Dr. Simon Prince (Canterbury Christ Church University)

‘Th majority always rules’: Democracy and the start of the Troubles.

Professor Lance Pettitt (Birkbeck)

"Must I reverse the cinematograph?": Yeats, auto/biography and the medium of film

Dr. Owen McGee    

‘Arthur Griffith: an architect of Irish independence?’

H.H. Judge Sean Enright

‘Revisiting the 1916 Easter Rising trials’

Professor Mary Daly (UCD)

‘Reflecting on the social history of modern Ireland’