Please find this semester’s USIHS seminar series dates and subjects. We hope to see you at as many as possible!

12 October: Immo Warntjes (TCD), ‘Heinrich Zimmer and the beginning of Patrician scholarship in the late 19th century ‘.

9 November: Tim Murtagh (Independent), ‘Apprenticeship to Revolution: workers and tradesmen in the 1798 Rebellion’.

14 December: Bronagh Ann McShane (Limerick), ‘Praying hearts, praying minds: enclosed orders and online religion’.

All seminars will take place in person (Institute for Irish Studies, 27 University Square, QUB) and online (links to follow), starting at 6pm

‘Negotiating Grief in the Archives: Gender, Loss and the Irish Free State’

will be delivered by Prof Lindsey Earner-Byrne (UCC)

Thursday 18 May 2023, at 6pm (PRONI).

Please register using the link below:

by Prof. Paul Bew

Thu, 19 May 2022, 19:00 BST at Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Belfast

The Ulster Society of Irish Historical Studies (USIHS) and the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) are delighted to invite you to the 2022 annual J.C. Beckett lecture which takes place onsite at PRONI.

The scale of John Dillon/Charles Stewart Parnell tension has been downplayed for far too long. Even before the divorce crisis there were numerous explosions. The complex social and family background is relevant. After Parnell’s death in 1891 , the career of Dillon is analysed in the context of the efforts made by other nationalists to offer a strategy of Parnellism without Parnell.

Paul Bew is Emeritus Professor at the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast and a life peer in the House of Lords.

Image: “Force no Remedy” (Charles Stewart Parnell; John Dillon and an unknown policeman) by Harry Furniss chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 7 December 1881

NPG D44043 © National Portrait Gallery, London

THIS IS A FREE EVENT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, BUT REGISTRATION IS ESSENTIAL AT: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jc-beckett-memorial-lecture-ancestral-voices-dillon-and-parnell-tickets-324938639217?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

by Dr Jonathan Wright (Maynooth University)

A free public lecture by USIHS: Thursday 28 April at 7pm. Online via Zoom.

Register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-story-of-slavery-from-eighteenth-century-ulster-tickets-308709647867?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

A USIHS Public Lecture, in association with PRONI.

by Prof. Finola O’Kane-Crimmins (UCD)

Thursday 3 March at 7.00pm

Free and Open to the Public (Online via Zoom). Register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/defining-the-european-eighteenth-century-colonial-space-tickets-255099267777

A USIHS Public Lecture

By Dr Elizabeth Dawson (St Patrick’s College, Carlow)

Thursday 17 February at 7pm

Hosted by PRONI (Online via Zoom)

Free and open to the public. Register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-cult-of-patrick-and-his-later-medieval-latin-lives-tickets-244374389377

USIHS Public Lecture

by Dr Peter Leary (Oxford Brookes University)

Thursday, 9 December, 7pm

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland via Zoom

Free and open to the public. Register at:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-murder-of-martha-lunney-and-the-little-histories-of-partition-tickets-201647241327?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

A USIHS Public Lecture by Prof Peter Gray (QUB)

Thursday 11 November at 7.00pm. Free and online via Zoom.

Register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/william-sharman-and-the-politics-of-volunteering-in-ulster-1781-1803-tickets-185686572537

In collaboration with the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

A USIHS Public Lecture by Dr Thomas Waters (Imperial College London)

Thursday 21 October at 7.00pm. Online via Zoom.

Register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-uses-and-abuses-of-magic-in-modern-british-and-irish-history-tickets-169459308353