Limerick History Research Seminar, 2023–2024
Organised by the Departments of History Mary Immaculate College and University of Limerick
Autumn Semester
Tuesday, 26 September 2023 – 5.30 p.m. – Room G08 (Foundation Building)
Dr Róisín Healy (University of Galway), ‘British and Prussian Rule on the Periphery: The Fenian and Polish Conspiracies of the mid-1860s Compared’
Tuesday, 17 October 2023 – 5.30 p.m. – Online (MS Teams)
Professor Sarah Covington (City University of New York), ‘Oliver Cromwell's Mad Proconsul: Daniel Axtell in Kilkenny’
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/prof-sarah-covington-limerick-history-resea…;
Tuesday, 7 November 2023 – 5.30 p.m. – Room G08 (Foundation Building)
Dr Paul O’Brien (Mary Immaculate College), ‘From Cathedral to Castle: R. D. O’Brien, Land Agent (1844–1917)’
Dr Helene Bradley Davies, (Mary Immaculate College), ‘Limerick Blue Coats – Managing an Urban Charity School, 1724-1881’
Tuesday, 21 November 2023 – 5.30 p.m. – Room G08 (Foundation Building) & Online (MS Teams) Professor Roger Stalley (Trinity College Dublin), ‘Heroic monuments of the medieval past: Irish sculptors and the making of the high crosses’
This seminar will take place in-person but will also be available online.
Organised in conjunction with the MCHRI (Material and Cultural Heritages of Religion in Ireland research network)
Tuesday, 28 November
Tuesday, 28 November 2021 – 5.30 p.m. – Room G08 (Foundation Building)
Dr Huw Bennett (Cardiff University), ‘Uncivil War: The British Army and the Troubles, 1966-1975’
Everyone is very welcome.
For online seminars, registration in advance at the links above is essential.
For further information contact:
Dr Liam Chambers (Liam.Chambers@mic.ul.ie) Dr Brian Hughes (Brian.Hughes@mic.ul.ie)
Dr Richard Mc Mahon (Richard.McMahon@mic.ul.ie)
Contact the School of History and Geography