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Maynooth, Ireland and the Far East
A half-day symposium (starting 9.30am) to mark the opening of the centenary year of the Maynooth Mission to China, known as the Columban Fathers.
When: Friday, 20 October 2017
‘Pirates, postdocs and publications – a PhD story’
Lecture to the History Research Seminar by Dr Robert McCabe (Research Associate, School of Law and Politics; Associate Editor, Piracy-Studies.Org, Cardiff University)
When: Thursday, 12 October 2017
Maynooth Studies in Local History - launch of new volumes
Launch of six new volumes in the Maynooth Studies in Local History series
When: Friday, 22 September 2017
15th Annual Historic Houses Conference - The Country House Revived?
The Country House Revived? The 15th Annual Historic Houses Conference focuses on the survival and revival of historic houses in Ireland, the UK, and Europe in the course of the last fifty years aimed at a wide audience of owners, scholars, students, heritage professionals, policy makers, and the many people with a general interest in the built heritage.
When: Monday, 19 June 2017
‘Encounters with the past: the deportation of the Jews of Rhodes in Diasporic memory’
Anthony McElligott (University of Limerick) lecture to the History Research Seminar
When: Thursday, 06 April 2017
‘‘When feelings precede thoughts’: The blurring of biography and autobiography and the murder of Grigorios Lambrakis in Cold War Greece’
Evi Gkotzaridis (American College of Greece – Deree)
When: Thursday, 30 March 2017
‘The Country House archive: much more than a pile of paper’
Christopher Ridgway (Castle Howard, Yorkshire)
When: Thursday, 23 March 2017
‘They roared with laughter: the all too human encounters of African exploration’
Angela Thompsell (SUNY Brockport, USA)
When: Thursday, 09 March 2017
'The Unquiet Dead: Ghosts and Perceptions of the Afterlife in Late Medieval Ireland'?
Colmán Ó Clabaigh (Glenstal Abbey)
When: Thursday, 02 March 2017
‘From Westphalia to the Pyrenees (1648–59): Spanish government by minister-favourite and the relentless pursuit of war’
Lecture to the History Research Seminar by Alistair Malcolm (University of Limerick)
When: Thursday, 23 February 2017