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The National Library of Ireland, in association with the Irish Committee of Historical Sciences (ICHS), is offering a one-year Research Studentship for
advanced graduate students (at least second year) or post-doctoral students of Irish history.

Please note that the closing date for receipt of applications is 3:00 pm on Friday 18 June 2021.

For further information about the role and how to apply can be found here:

https://www.nli.ie/en/udlist/current-opportunities.aspx?article=cb821357-2594-4544-a285-51edffed1b0e

The Irish Committee of Historical Societies, in association with NUI Galway, is hosting the 33^rd Irish Conference on 20-21 May 2021, this year’s theme is Borders and Boundaries. 45 speakers will cover a range of topics, including ‘Re-discovering St. Willibrord, the Irish Border, Medieval Borders, Boundaries in Irish Society, Partition Perspectives, Beyond the Pale, Boundaries in the Irish Free State, Women Writing History, North American Borders, eighteenth (and nineteenth century borders, Transnational Borders, All History in Local and Troubles.Our keynote speakers are Professor Raingard Esser of the University of Groningen and Professor Jim Livesey of NUI Galway. Over the course of history, the functions and roles of borders and boundaries have changed continuously. They can only be understood within their context. Borders have been actively contested and negotiated, appearing and disappearing. They are not static, but are complex spatial and social phenomena which are highly dynamic.

Attendance will be free although attendees are asked to register through Eventbrite at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/33rd-irish-conference-of-historians-tickets-150747274155 .

The conference programme is available here:

A book of abstracts are available here:

Prof. Sandra Mara Dantas, Univeridade Federal do Triangulo Mineire, is looking for information from Irish local historical societies and historians. Prof. Dantas is carrying out a comparative study of the practice and purpose of local history in Ireland and Brazilian.

In order to carry out this research Prof. Dantas is looking for responses from historians and societies working in this field.

Further details including the type of information she is looking for and contact details is available here:

The next meeting of the Society will be held online via Zoom, Saturday 7 November 2020

PROGRAMME

11am Prof. Dáibhí Ó Cróinín: ‘Saint Patrick, life and afterlife: an overview of 150 years of Patrician Studies’

12pm Mr Noel Lindsay: ‘The rejection of non-denominational education and the introduction of segregated education in Northern Ireland, 1921-30’ [Research paper]

12.45pm Lunch Break

2pm Dr Clodagh Tait: ‘The ghosts in granny’s attic: women and the material culture of the decline of the Church of Ireland’

3pm Dr Aoife Bhreatnach: ‘Burying the poor: the Church of Ireland and the
friendless dead, 1830-1930’

Speakers:
• Prof. Dáibhí Ó Cróinín is Emeritus Professor of History at NUI Galway and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. He is an established authority on Hibernio-Latin texts, particularly eminent for his significant mid-1980s discovery of a manuscript in Padua of the ‘lost’ Irish 84-year Easter
table. Among his many books, he is author of Early Medieval Ireland, 400-1200 (London, 2016).

• Mr Noel Lindsay is a PhD student at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. His research focuses on the Protestant and Catholic Churches’ animosities towards the department of education’s attempt to introduce a non-denominational system of education in the 1920s.

• Dr Clodagh Tait is lecturer in history at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. She has published widely on early modern social and cultural history. She is author of Death, Burial and Commemoration in Ireland, 1550-1650 (Basingstoke, 2002) and co-edited Age of Atrocity: violence and political conflict in early modern Ireland (Dublin, 2010) and Religion and Politics in Urban Ireland (Dublin, 2016).

• Dr Aoife Bhreatnach is a social and cultural historian. She writes about soldiers on Irish streets (on irishgarrisontowns.com) and hosts a podcast about Irish censorship (accessible via the link here: https://play.acast.com/s/censored). She is author of Becoming Conspicuous: Irish travellers, society and the State, 1922-70 (Dublin, 2006).

Registration
The conference will be on held via Zoom Video Conferencing. If you wish to attend, you can register online here. Members can sign up for free. Non-members are most welcome. They are asked to subscribe €10 to assist with expenses.

Membership
If you wish to become a member the annual subscription is fixed at €40 or £40. This includes admission to our bi-annual conferences (at Armagh Robinson Library and Christ Church Cathedral), book discounts, and exclusive access to the Society’s thirty-five podcasts.

Queries may be addressed to the honorary secretaries, Professor Alan Ford or Dr Miriam Moffitt, by email (secretary.coihs@gmail.com). Alternatively, you can visit the society’s website for further details about the conference (and more!): http://churchofirelandhist.org/

The Church of Ireland Historical Society meets twice a year. It exists to promote scholarly interest in the history of the Church, and to facilitate publication.

The National Library of Ireland (NLI), in association with the Irish Committee of Historical Sciences (ICHS), are offering a one-year Research Studentship for advanced graduates (at least second year) or post-doctoral students of Irish History. The Studentship holder will work in the Manuscripts Department (Special Collections) of the NLI.

Full details and the application form can be found at the NLI website https://www.nli.ie/en/udlist/current-opportunities.aspx?article=2433d49e-6a2f-4df0-b363-d79b0f81a0d3

Please note that the closing date for receipt of completed applications is Friday 07 August 2020 at 3pm.  Applications must be made using the official application form.

23 January 2020

Dr Ana Antic (University of Exeter)

‘Transcultural psychiatry and the birth of a “global psyche” after WWII :

a global history from below?’

20 February 2020

Panel: ‘New Histories of the Medical Profession’

Dr Mary Hatfield (University College Dublin) 

‘Passionate physicians and childish children: diagnosing emotion in Irish paediatrics, 1780-1850’

Dr Kieran Fitzpatrick (National University of Ireland, Galway)

‘Beyond villainy? Some reflections on the medical profession and its place in modern history’

23 April 2020

Dr Laura Kelly (University of Strathclyde)

‘Sex, marriage and contraception in Ireland, 1950-80: an oral history of sexual knowledge and family planning practices

All seminars take place at

5pm, Room K114, School of History,

Newman Building, UCD

Abstract: This talk will explore the early history of the concept of universal, global psyche, which emerged in the aftermath of WWII and during decolonisation, when Western psychiatry strove to leave behind its colonial legacies, and lay the foundation for a more inclusive conversation between Western and non-Western mental health communities. In this period, leading ‘psy’ professionals across the globe set about identifying and defining the universal psychological mechanisms supposedly shared among all cultures (and ‘civilisations’). I will explore this far-reaching psychiatric, social and cultural search for a new definition of ‘common humanity’, which developed in an increasingly inter-connected and culturally diverse global context, and examine the historical forces that drove it. The talk will tackle the following questions How did psychiatrists and anthropologists from all over the world re-define the relationship between culture, race and individual psyche following the end of the Second World War and colonialism, what was the role of experts from the Global South and Eastern Europe in this transformative process, and did this new global and transcultural psychiatry succeed in departing from the erstwhile colonial
frameworks?

Dr. Ana Antic is a historian of modern Europe, specialising in the cultural and social history of psychiatry and other ‘psy’ disciplines. She is the author of the monograph Therapeutic Fascism: Experiencing the violence of the Nazi New Order (OUP, 2017), and the PI of the new ERC-funded project on the history of transcultural psychiatry after WWII. She is currently a senior lecturer at the University of Exeter.

Full details below:

This major labour history conference, part of the Government of Ireland’s Decade of Centenaries programme, features sixty scholars who will scrutinise the interplay between labour, gender, and class during the revolutionary period. At the core of the conference, five expert panels will discuss contentious questions: the role of trade unionists in the revolutionary events; the impact of the struggle on the lives of women; the existential challenges presented by sectarian polarisation in the North-East; and the competing ideologies in the labour milieu. Equally important are eleven spotlight panels, featuring original research from established and emerging scholars and shedding particular light on the regional experience. The programme also includes an innovative play-writing workshop, theatrical presentations, and a History Ireland hedge-school.

Full details can be found here

This conference is focused on life in Ireland in 1919, and coincides with the opening of the exhibition Irish Wars at the National Museum of Ireland, Decorative Arts & History, Collins Barracks in December 2019. In particular, it aims to explore the effects that the impact of war – occurring at home and abroad – had on the Irish population; both for those who fought, and those soon engulfed by conflict as Irish soldiers returned from the battlefields in Belgium and France, and the Irish War of Independence slowly began.

Conference organised by: Education & Outreach Department and Brenda Malone, Curator of the Irish Wars exhibition, National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts & History, Collins Barracks, Benburb Street, Dublin 7.

Current Programme (subject to change)

9.30am: Registration

10am. Panel 1. Ireland after the War: Homecoming

Eve Morrison: Chair

Peter Barton. The Quiet Men: the Great War’s Silent Witnesses.

Ronan McGreevy. A coward if I return? How did Irish Veterans of the First World War fare afterwards?

Fionnuala Walsh. ‘The scars of war lay on their souls’: women’s experiences of demobilization in the aftermath of the Great War.

11.15am: Coffee

11.45am. Panel 2. Business, Employment and Loyalties

David Dickson. Chair

Wendy Williams. Seeing double: taxation and division at W&R Jacob & Co post-independence.

Jessica Handy. War, Insurrection and Guinness: Employment and loyalty in turbulent times.

Lar Joye. ‘A Divided Company’ – Dublin Port and the impact of the First World War, 1914-18, and the Irish Wars 1919-22.

1pm: Lunch

2pm: Panel 3 + 4. The Legacy of Trauma.

Catriona Crowe. Chair

Brendan Kelly. Trauma, shell-shock and the Richmond War Hospital, Dublin (1916-1919)

Fiona Loughnane. Bodily Trauma and the Archive: Photographs of the Loughnane Brothers.

Judith McCarthy & Dan Breen. From Behind the Walls of the Asylum: Stories of First World War survivors found in Local Authority Museum collections

3.15pm: Coffee

3.30pm:

Caitriona Clear. Chair

Linda Connolly. Sexual Violence and the Irish War of Independence: Evidence, Ethics and Trauma Histories.

Louise Ryan. Drunken Tans revisited: assessing how understandings of sexual violence during the Revolutionary years has changed in the last 20 years’

4.30pm: Performance

Louise Lowe & Owen Boss. Signposting the Past (featuring a short performance from ‘Beyond these Rooms’ by ANU Productions and CoisCéim Dance Theatre.)

For further details and booking (price €10-€15) please see: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/conference-after-the-war-peace-conflict-and-trauma-tickets-72937396717