Meetings with JYA and incoming Erasmus and non-EU students.
There will be an information and registration session held on Thursday 13th September at 10am onwards for JYA students in room K114.
There will also be an information / welcome session held at 11.30am in K114 for all incoming Erasmus and non-EU students.
Tea and coffee will be available throughout the morning.
IRCHSS Postdoctoral Fellows Join the School of History and Archives
The School is very pleased to congratulate seven historians who have been successful in winning the highly coveted Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowships. The field for these awards is highly competitive and it is a testimony to the status of the School that we have done so well. We welcome our new postdoctoral fellows whose work will further enhance the research of the School. The award winners are Selena Daly, Aaron Donaghy, Carol Holohan, Mark Jones, Laura Kelly, Eoin Kinsella and Niamh Wycherley.
Seed Funding Success
The School of History and Archives is delighted to announce our recipients in the latest Seed Funding round, with both staff and post-doctoral colleagues finding success. The following projects received awards:
- Visualising Surgical Innovation: Early Nineteenth-Century Medical Drawings (Dr Catherine Cox)
- Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference 2012 (Dr Eoin Kinsella)
- NGOs and Humanitarianism since 1945: From Colonialism to Human Rights (Dr Kevin O'Sullivan)
- Garret Fitzgerald Commemoration Conference on History and Policy (Dr Paul Rouse)
- War Studies/ HII Interntional Visitor (Professor Robert Gerwarth)
- Yehuda Shenhav (Dr Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin)
- Disputatio Apologetica (Dr Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin)
IRCHSS Bric Fellowship awarded to UCD School of History and Archives Post-Doctoral Scholar
Susan Grant, who holds an IRCHSS CARA Post-Doctoral Mobility Fellowship in the School of History and Archives (since 2011), has been awarded the IRCHSS Bric Fellowship for her project Soviet Nursing 1914-1939.
The Fellowship is in recognition of the highest ranked IRCHSS postdoctoral application for the 2011- 2014 scheme. A ceremony to mark the award was held on 27 April 2012, at a symposium hosted by IRCHSS and An Foras Feasa in Renehan Hall, Maynooth.
Dr Grant has also received the Alice Fisher Society Fellowship for Historical Research in Nursing from the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania.
Dr Grant completed her PhD on physical culture in the early Soviet state in the School of History and Archives UCD in 2009. She was awarded an IRCHSS post-doctoral scholarship in 2010-2011 for the conversion of her thesis into a book. Her PhD, which will be shortly be published as a monograph, Physical Culture and Sport in Soviet Society: Propaganda, Transformation, and Acculturation in the 1920s and 1930s (New York and London: Routledge) is forthcoming in July 2012.
School of History and Archives Research Symposium
Academic staff and posdoctoral scholars held a research symposium, followed by a reception to celebrate the diverse research interests as well as this year's publication achievements of the participants.
Recently published research from members of the School of History and Archives
History Graduate Conference 2012
The MA graduates of the School held a one day conference on 19th April. Our MA students presented the results of fascinating research, ranging from the early Middle Ages to contemporary history. For an idea of the diversity see the wordmap below!
Student s and staff attend one of the many parallel sessions at the graduate confererence
Student Study Visit to Gladstone’s Library
In early March, Dr. Edward Coleman, Dr. Catherine Cox and Dr. Christopher Prior accompanied Level 2 and 3 Single Subject Major History students to Gladstone's Library, close to the Victorian statesman's home in Hawarden, North Wales. Over along weekend they had the opportunity to study Gladstone’s private book collection at firsthand. Not content with reading 22,000 books over during his lifetime, Gladstone often left extensive marginalia, which give historians an insight into his private opinions. The students concentrated their attention on works that concerned Ireland and the so-called 'white dominions' (Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand). From these they were able to piece together some of the origins of Gladstone’s thoughts on the most pressing issues of the day, such as Home Rule and the place of indigenous peoples such as the Maori in the imperial system. The group also met the Library’s Writer in Residence and explored the surrounding countryside, Gladstone's local parish church, and some local hostelries.
UCD School of History and Archives: Call for tutors
Semester 1 – 2012-2013
Applications are invited for Tutors in the School of History and Archives for teaching (including essay and exam grading) to be undertaken in Semester 1.
Graduate students registered to programmes in the School (preference may be given to students on the PhD programme) interested in an opportunity to become Tutors in the following areas:
Rome to Renaissance
Europe 1500-2000
Introduction to Irish Studies (18th-20th-century Social, cultural and political history)
Modern American history (War of independence to the twentieth century)
Early Modern Irish History
Early Modern European History
Modern Irish History
should complete the Application Form and return it not later than Friday, 27 April, 2012 to Kate.Breslin@ucd.ie or submit a hard copy to Room K107, UCD School of History and Archives, Newman Building, Belfield.
A home away from home: three UCD historians are currently members at the world-renowned Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton
Robert Gerwarth, William Mullgan, and our new Marie Curie Fellow in the School of History and Archives, James Matthews, are researching on the international history of the First World War in Princeton this semester. Through their affiliation with America's most prestigious research institution and by engaging with the wider academic community through conference presentations and invited lectures, they are forging important links with American academia while bringing their individual and collective research projects to a successful conclusion.
The Institute for Advanced Study, founded in 1930, holds a unique place in the academic world with past faculty members including Robert Oppenheimer, Albert Einstein, Clifford Geertz and George Kennan. It is one of the world's leading centres for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry.
From left to right: Professor Robert Gerwarth, Dr James Matthews and Dr William Mulligan
Historian of the Crusades visits the School of History and Archives
Jonathan Phillips, Professor of the History of the Crusades at Royal Holloway, University of London, visited the School on 31 January - 1 February. Professor Phillips is a leading authority on the Crusades and has published numerous studies in the field including, most recently, the highly acclaimed, Holy Warriors. A modern history of the Crusades (Bodley Head, 2009). During his visit he presented a paper at the School’s Research Forum on the contribution of the city of Genoa to the First Crusade. He also participated in a question and answer session on the Crusades with students studying the module HIS20460 ‘Islam and Christianity’.
Left to Right: Dr Edward Coleman and Professor Jonathan Phillips
UCD undergraduates at the question and answer session
UCD School of History and Archives Welcomes New Members of Staff
The School welcomes Dr Julie Brooks (Lecturer in Archives) and Dr Roy Flechner (Lecturer in Early Medieval History) to our staff. We also extend a welcome to our new Keith Cameron Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart.UCD School of History & Archives Seminar Series 2012
For further information on the UCD Mícheál Ó Cléirigh seminars click here.
History Research Forum Programme for Semester 2 2012
The School of History & Archives Celebrates Professor Kevin B. Nowlan's 90th Birthday
Professor Emeritus Kevin B. Nowlan with School of History PhD graduate, Mark Kirwan
The School of History and Archives marked Professor Kevin B. Nowlan's 90th birthday with a reception in his honour on December 8th. Professor Nowlan delivered a though-provoking and elegant speech on the importance of our commitment to teaching.
Professor Nowlan is known for his excellent work in modern Irish history. He has also been a stalwart champion of Dublin's architectural Georgian heritage.
Visit from the Australian Ambassador
Left to Right: Australian Ambassador to Ireland, HE Bruce Davis, Ms Kate Galvin, Professor Mark McKenna and Mr Ronan Murphy
On Thursday December 1, the Australian Ambassador, Mr. Bruce Davis, visited UCD James Joyce Library. The Ambassador presented the Library with the embassy's most recent donation of books on Australian history. He also presented two Australian history students in the School of History and Archives, Kate Galvin and Ronan Murphy, with awards for the best essays in Australian history. Librarians, students and staff from the School of History and Archives were in attendance to welcome the Ambassador.
Online Universal Short Title Catalogue Launched
The University of St Andrews, with UCD as partners, completed an ambitious project to create a complete map of printing in Europe before 1601. It was funded by the AHRC and British Academy. The online resource is free, and is now available. It contains 355,000 editions and around 1.5 million surviving copies, located in over 5,000 libraries worldwide. It also serves as a portal for digital editions - 41,000 and counting. To find out more look here.
Welcome to Anthony Hyland
UCD School of History and Archives welcomes our new SEA Anthony Hyland to the administrative staffUCD Australian Studies Centre Presents the 2011 Keith Cameron Lecture
The 2011 Keith Cameron Lecture will take place in K114, Newman Building, at 4pm on Thursday December 8th.