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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.

The Irish Historical Society in association with the Women’s History Association of Ireland is hosting a special event to mark the publication last year of the Royal Historical Society’s report Gender Equality and Historians in UK Higher Education.

Professor Jo Fox (Durham) will give a paper entitled ‘Gender equality and historians in UK higher education’

A response will be given by Professor Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin) and the meeting will be chaired by Dr John Bowman (historian and broadcaster).

The event will take place on Tuesday, 25 October 2016 at 7pm in the Meeting Room, Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2.

Admission is free but advance booking is recommended since places are limited.

The Classical Association in Northern Ireland has published its programme of events for 2016-17. Click here for details. The programme kicks off with a CANI Film Night, showing Monty Python’s Life of Brian in the MAC, 10 Exchange Street West, Belfast.  £5 entrance, brief introduction, bar services.  Thursday, 13 October 2016 at 6:30pm.