Speaker: Rebecca Watterson, MA, BA (Hons), AFHEA, Ulster University, ‘Hiding in Plain Sight – Psychosurgery in 1960s Britain’ and Shelby Zimmerman, Trinity College Dublin, ‘’The Dublin Workhouses’ Involvement in the Anatomy Trade, 1872-1920.’
Place: Online
Date and time: 1 February 2023, 15.00-16.00 hrs (GMT)
For details and to register, follow this link: https://hstmnetworkireland.org/2023/01/12/hstm-seminar-series-1-february-2023/
All Welcome
Full details below, to register please follow this link: https://form.jotform.com/223423318584355
19th January
19th Century Ireland, Context and Causes of the Great Irish Famine.
Dr. Áine Doran, Ulster University.
The Province of Ulster and The Great Famine.
Dr. Gerard MacAtasney.
26th January
The Workhouse: Creation of the workhouse system during the famine with case study, Lurgan Workhouse, Co. Armagh.
Dr. Gerard MacAtasney
The Master of Portumna Workhouse: Corruption and Exploitation.
Mr. David Broderick.
2nd February
How The Great Famine Affected Irish Women.
Asmae Ourkiya
Reforming Food in Post-Famine Ireland & Subsequent Nutritional Decline.
Dr. Ian Miller, Ulster University
The Earl Grey Scheme: Irish Famine Orphans in Australia.
Jonathon Fairall, Australian journalist and author.
9th February
Famine Roads: Archaeological Insights into the Public Works Schemes from the Great Famine in Ireland.
Dr. Colm Donnelly, Queen’s University Belfast.
Subject Lacking Words?:The Gray Zone of the Great Famine.
Prof. Breandán Mac Suibhne, University of Galwa
16th February
Famine Migration to British North America (Canada).
Prof. Mark McGowan, University of Toronto.
Voices from the American Civil War: The stories of Ireland famine-era emigrants and the conflict that changed their lives.
Dr. Damian Shiels, Research Fellow at Northumbria University.
23rd February
The Impact of Irish Refugees in shaping Liverpool.
Emma Smith & John Maguire, Irish Liverpool Festival.
Was The Great Irish Famine an Ecological Disaster: Lessons for Policy Makers today?
Dr. Alan Fernihough, Queens University Belfast.
Further details can be found at: https://www.armaghbanbridgecraigavon.gov.uk/famine/
Irish History Online (Royal Irish Academy) have created a new form to allow authors to submit details of publications directly to its editorial staff for inclusion in the database. This will be of great help to the work of the IHO volunteers and allow authors to ensure inclusion.
The form can be located here: https://www.ria.ie/irish-history-online/help
Place: Online
Date and time: 2 November 2022, 15.00-16.00 hrs (GMT)
For more details and to register please follow this link: https://hstmnetworkireland.org/2022/10/25/hstm-seminar-series-2nd-november-2022/
Abstract: Sir Hans Sloane was a botanist and physician and famed as a collector of curiosities. He left his collection of over 71,000 items to the state for the set up of the world’s first public museum, The British Museum. The vast collection was later spilt to form the foundation of the British Library and the Natural History Museum London. President of the Royal Society and President of the Royal College of Physicians. And he was from Killyleagh, Co Down. N. Ireland. Yet his name is not one we are familiar with as a scientist.
Speaker Biography: Elizabeth studied Pure and Applied Physics at Queens University Belfast, going on to study Medical Physics. She has had a successful and varied career holding a number of research positions in industry and with Aberdeen, Leeds, Hull and Cambridge Universities. She left Cambridge in 2019 after positions as Director of STEM Team East in Cambridgeshire and Board Director of the Cambridge Science Centre, promoting Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, to set up the Sir Hans Sloane Centre in Killyleagh, Co Down.
In the past few years many universities and other institutions have been forced to address their colonial pasts. Statues and commemorations have been particular focus. But the history of modern science is intertwined with colonisation. We believe that it timely to start a conversation in Ireland about Science and Colonialism. Join us at the 10th Robert Boyle Summer School where we will reflect on how our own experience as colonised affected our scientific development, Ireland participated in the British Empire and how this is reflected in our scientific heritage colonial legacy continues to disadvantage countries and what we need to do about it.
To encourage a return to in-person events, we are waiving the attendance fee this year. The full line up of speakers and booking information is at
The annual Women’s History Association of Ireland conference will be hosted by the Department of History, University of Limerick and the Department of History, Mary Immaculate College on 7-8 April 2022.
The organising committee requests papers and panel proposals on the theme of ‘Irish women’s and gendered networks and communities from the medieval to the modern period’.
Abstracts (between 250-300 words) and a short bio should be send to WHAT2022conference@gmail.com on or before 17 December 2021.
For full details please go to https://womenshistoryassociation.com/
Hosted by the Irish Association of Professional Historians, this virtual seminar will include representatives from Liverpool University Press, Cork University Press and Irish Academic Press will be speaking and attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions.
To register for the event please email info@irishhistorians.ie
Full details are available here