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Dr. Patrick Anthony 18Dec
Dr. Patrick Anthony Awarded Maurice J. Bric Medal for Excellence

UCD School of History's postdoctoral researcher Dr. Patrick Anthony has been awarded the Maurice J. Bric Medal for Excellence for his work on the relationship between climate science and colonial violence.
Peace Building in Post Conflict Areas 07Dec
UCD History and Politics graduate recounts her experience in Kosovo as part of the 'Peace Building in Post-Conflict Areas' initiative.

BA History and Politics graduate Tallulah Byrne writes of her recent experience in Kosovo as one of a number of UCD students who travelled to Pristina to participate in 'Peace Building in Post-Conflict Areas'.
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Professor Tadhg ÓhAnnracháin awarded NUI Irish Historical Research Prize 2023

Full Professor Tadhg ÓhAnnracháin has been awarded the NUI Irish Historical Research Prize 2023, for his monograph Confessionalism and Mobility in Early Modern Ireland (OUP, 2021).
A group of tea pickers posing for the photograph in a field of tea plants 24Oct
Dr. Jennifer Keating awarded ERC funding of €1.5m for major study

Dr Jennifer Keating, Associate Professor in the UCD School of History, has been awarded ERC funding of €1.5 million for a major study entitled 'Land Limits: Towards a connected history of population, environmental change, capital and conflict in Russian Eurasia, 1860s-1920s'.
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Royal Historical Society awards UCD historian prestigious Gladstone Award

Dr Jennifer Keating, UCD School of History, was named the Royal Historical Society's (RHS) 2023 winner for her work 'On Arid Ground: Political Ecologies of Empire in Russian Central Asia'.
Alice Mauger ERC Project Website 20Jun
Alice Mauger ERC Project Website

Alice Mauger is the principal investigator on an ERC Starting Grant project entitled DIASPORA: Deciphering Irish Alcohol and Substance use: Post-war Representations and Accounts.
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Sandra Scanlon & Mark Jones in Conversation at UCD Festival

Sandra Scanlon and Mark Jones discuss 100 Years of learning from the Year of the Hitler Putsch.
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Dr Rimner gives Columbia University workshop paper

Assoc. Prof. Steffen Rimner gave a paper on East Asian History at Columbia University
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Lisa Shortall Receives Heritage Council Funding for Workshop on Trauma-Informed Archival Practice. 

Lisa Shortall has secured funding under the Heritage Council’s Stewardship Fund for a pilot project to support archivists managing archives with sensitive or distressing content.
Japanese Foreign Ministry Visiting Fellowship for Dr Declan Downey 20Mar
Japanese Foreign Ministry Visiting Fellowship for Dr Declan Downey

Dr Declan M. Downey has been awarded the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Visiting Fellowship with engagements at Keio University, the University of Tokyo, and the University of Kyoto.
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Major European Grant for Irial Glynn's Project on Boat Refugees

Dr Irial Glynn, Assistant Professor at UCD School of History, will receive major ERC funding for his study entitled ‘Solidarity, Sovereignty and Sanctuary on the Seas: A Global History of Boat Refugees since 1945’.

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