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Applications are now being accepted for the Universities Ireland 2017 History Bursary. Universities Ireland is offering four bursaries to students undertaking post-graduate study on a topic relating to the 1912-1923 period in Ireland, the decade of the First World War and the division of the island into the states of Ireland (Irish Free State) and Northern Ireland. Applications in 2017 will be particularly welcome from students undertaking work on the impact of the events in 1917 on this island.

The closing date for applications to this bursary will be Thursday 4^th May.

 Please visit the following link for further information:  http://universitiesireland.ie/history-bursary/

The third annual Edward Phelan Lecture will be delivered by Professor Mary Daly (President, Royal Irish Academy) on ‘Women at Work: the role of the Irish Labour Organisation’. The lecture will be held in the College Hall, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2 at 6:30pm.

RSVP: The Registrar, National University of Ireland, 49 Merrion Square, Dublin 2
Tel. 01 439 2424 Email: registrar@nui.ie

Guests are requested to be seated by 6.15 p.m.

Full details can be found on the National University of Ireland website here.

The IRC New Foundations Scheme funded project ‘Gender, citizenship and subjectivity in revolutionary Ireland and Europe’ has issued a call for papers for a one-day symposium to be held on 26 May 2017. Submit abstracts by 15 February 2017 to gendersubjectivity@gmail.com.

Full details can be found here.

The next UCD Distinguished Lecture is titled ‘Historical and Policy Perspectives on Gender’. It is by Professor Laura Lee Downs (European university Institute, Florence) and is titled ‘”La piu serena italianizzazione?” Social Action and Nationalist Politics on the Giulian Linguistic Frontier, 1919-1978’.

It will take place at the Humanities Institute of Ireland, UCD on 8 February at 5.30pm.

The Women’s History Association of Ireland has teamed up with Irish Historical Studies to sponsor a prize of €250 for best article in Irish women’s or gender history. Submission of 9000 word articles (including footnotes) to WHAIIHSpublicationprize@gmail.com by Sunday 30 April 2017.

Full details of the prize can be found here.

CFP: Southern Irish Loyalism in Context, 21-22 July 2017 Maynooth University

Organisers invite interested parties to submit a 300 word abstract and short biography (no more than 100 words) to Dr Brian Hughes at southernirishloyalists@gmail.com by 30 April 2017.

Please find the full CFP here.

Stateboards.ie is currently advertising vacancies on the board of the Irish Manuscripts Commission. They are looking for archivists, genealogists and historians. If anyone is interested in applying, the full details of the vacancy can be found here.

http://www.stateboards.ie/stateboards/campaignAdvert/48364.htm

Spring Discourse Notice revised

The Irish Legal History Society Spring Discourse will be held on Friday 17 February 2017 at 5:30pm in Regent House, Trinity College Dublin. It will be delivered by the Attorney-General for Northern Ireland, John F. Larkin, QC, on the subject of ‘The Irish Convention, 1917-18: centenary reflections’. All are welcome to attend.