Modern Irish History
The Modern Irish History Seminar is a research seminar of the History Faculty of the University of Cambridge. It provides a forum to explore new perspectives in Irish history since 1800. The Seminar is methodologically eclectic and open to cognate disciplines (including geography, sociology, demographics and economics). It does not aim to produce ‘a school’, except in the sense that it is a collective and pluralist endeavor, which encourages diversity and original thinking.
The seminar is generously supported by the Trevelyan Fund of the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, with a contribution from the Embassy of Ireland in London.
Convenors: Eugenio Biagini, Niamh Gallagher, Richard Bourke, Charles Read, Sean Campbell, Bronwen Walter, Trisha Kessler, Robert O’Sullivan.
Events
Comedies, tragedies and evaluations of one another: Understanding class in 20th century Ireland
Crisis Management: the World of Irish Tories during the 1830s and 1840s
"In the heart of China proper... who would suppose that Ireland counted for something here?" Irish imperium in China and Korea, 1863-1910.
‘Finding a voice in Britain’: the Irish diaspora and the British left during the Northern Ireland conflict
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Banner image: Muriel Brandt, 'The breadline' (c.1950). A reflection on the 1916 Easter Rising, the painting gives pictorial expression to a social critique of the revolution which parallels that expressed by Sean O’Casey in The Plough and the Stars (1926) While the soldiers in the background are the only allusion to the fighting by the GPO, the painting's main themes are the poor – women and children in particular – as both the victims and the survivors of political violence.
