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2023

• Professor Tadhg ÓhAnnracháin awarded NUI Irish Historical Research Prize 2023 (01/12/2023)
• Happy Birthday to our Archivists! 50 Years of Archival Education in UCD (24/10/2023)
• Dr Jennifer Keating awarded €1.5m for major ERC study (24/10/23)

• Royal Historical Society awards Dr Jennifer Keating prestigious Gladstone Award (10/07/23)

• Alice Mauger ERC Project Website - DIASPORA (20/06/23)
• Sandra Scanlon & Mark Jones in Conversation at UCD Festival, 10th June (07/06/23)
• Steffen Rimner presents a paper at international Columbia University workshop (11/05/23)
• Steffen Rimner in American Philosophical Society meeting at Harvard University (28/04/23)
• Steffen Rimner awarded Columbia University grant (19/04/23)
• Lisa Shortall Receives Heritage Council Funding (29/03/23)
• Japanese Foreign Ministry Visiting Fellowship for Dr Declan Downey (20/03/23)
• Major European Grant for Irial Glynn's Project on Boat Refugees (01/02/23)

2022

• Robert Gerwarth  2022 wins IRC Researcher of the Year Award (07/12/22)
• Roy Flechner receives an IRC Research Ally Award (07/12/22)
• Steffen Rimner invited to participate in British Academy seminar on violence (25/11/22)
• Steffen Rimner invited to deliver a public lecture. (23/11/22)
• Aviv Corrigan awarded NUI Mansion House Prize in Irish History 2022 (17/11/22)
• Elva Johnston's interview with The Irish Examiner on what biodiversity of early Ireland tells us now (01/11/22)
• Elva Johnston addresses the Citizen's Assembly on Biodiversity of early Irish settlers (01/11/22)
• Erasmus + ICM award to Marc Caball, UCD School of History (18/10/22)
• Jennifer Wellington explores the history of war trophies at University College London (20/09/22)
• Drew Thomas awarded prestigious SFI-IRC Grant (20/09/22)
• Steffen Rimner invited lecture at Columbia University (16/09/22)
• Ireland and the Crusades edited by Dr Edward Coleman (15/09/22) 
• Dr Benjamin Hazard awarded W. N. Osborough Composition Prize in Legal History 2022 (15/07/22)
• Emily Webster: Brainstorm, RTÉ: Why moving Dublin Port would be bad for the city (06/05/2022)
• A New Study of Eoin MacNeill, Edited by Conor Mulvagh & Emer Purcell 
• Robert Gerwarth awarded prestigious ERC Grant (3/5/22)
• Tadhg O'Hannrachain has been elected to the Royal Irish Academy (4/01/22)
• Read Claas Kirchheles piece in Wired on Threats of Bioterrorism in Ukraine (11/03/22)
• Ivar McGrath's North-South Research Programme project success (08/03/2022)
• Irish Times: History is abused to underwrite politics of Putin's Russia (07/03/2022).
• Claas Kirchhelle has editorial published in The BMJ (24/02/22)
• The Annual Holocaust Memorial Lecture, 10th March (10/02/22)
• College of Arts and Humanities Research Strand in Digital Cultures Online talk (08/02/22)
• Gerald Boland, the IRA and Nazi spies, 1939-1945 with Professor Stephen Kelly (04/02/22)
• Alumni Event: Diarmaid Ferriter 'Faith, Reason and Betrayal: The Irish Civil War' (02/02/2022)
• Jennifer Redmond to give next seminar as part of the UCD Gender History seminar series (25/01/2022)
• Prof Patrick Griffin (Notre Dame) to give lecture 'The Irish, Boxing, & the Making of New York' (24/01/22)
• Fionnuala Walsh wins NUI Publication Prize in Irish History (12/01/22)
• Prestigious European Research Award for Dr Alice Mauger (11/01/22)
• Conor Spain wins Mansion House prize for History (12/01/22)

2021

• The School congratulates James McGuire on his honorary doctorate from Trinity (14/12/21)
• Elva Johnston receives IRC Research Ally Award(09/12/21)
• Declan Downey receives distinction from government of Japan (29/11/21)
• Hussein Omar speaking at Dublin Art Book Festival (25/11/21)
• Conor Mulvagh on BBC Radio 4/BBC Radio Ulster production "Breakup" (24/11/21)
• Robert Gerwarth receives award from Leverhulme Trust (17/11/21)
• Conor Meleady awarded two-year IRC post-doc award (29/10/21)
• William Mulligan awarded funding from Irish Research Council (26/10/21)
• Daniel Malanski awarded funding from Irish Research Council (26/10/21)
• Anna Dorofeeva appointed lectureship with Institute for Digital Humanities at University of Göttingen (30/09/21)
• Alumni Event German Election in Historical Perspective on 20th September (09/09/21)
• Welcome back to campus: Information for students(06/09/21)
• Return to campus in the new academic year starting in September (18/08/21)
• Dr Lindy Brady awarded fellowship at CAS, University of Tübingen (29/07/21)
• Call for Papers - War Makes Monsters Conference 2/3 June 2022 (21/7/21)
• Dr Elizabeth Mullins awarded funding from Dept. Of Foreign Affairs (14/7/21)
• Dr Hussein Omar writes about Edward Said in The Baffler Magazine (07/07/21)
• Roy Flechner's book wins International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England's Prize (24/6/21)
• Dr Elizabeth Mullins wins funding from Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (03/06/21)
• Claas Kirchhelle Launches New Book (19/05/21)
• Fionnuala Walsh's book shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society Whitfield Prize (17/05/21)
• Dr Edward Coleman hosts a conference on the History of the Senses (14/05/21)
• The annual IARCEES Conference themed on 'Environment, Territory, Mobility' (13/05/21)
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• Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin selected as co-editor of Proceedings of the Royal Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature (06/05/21)
• Fulbright Scholarship for Paul Rouse to Compare History of Phoenix Park and Central Park (05/05/21)
• Dr Claas Kirchhelle awarded Norwegian Research Council grant for a history of antibiotic research (05/05/21)
• Steffen Rimner invited speaker at Harvard College HPAIR Annual Conference 2021 (28/04/21)
• Hussein Omar's piece from the London Review 'Pharaohs on Parade' (07/04/21)
• Join UCD History for Alumni Panel Discussion, April (22/03/21)
• Jennifer Keating's blog on IHR 'Environment and History' series (11/03/21)
• Catherine Cox wins UCD 2020 Impact Competition (08/03/21)
• Mary Hatfield Launches New Book (02/03/2021)
• Roy Flechner's Study of St Patrick awarded Hagiography Society Book Prize (23/02/21)
• Women's History Association of Ireland Conference 2020/2021 (23/02/21)
• Durham University appoints John McCafferty as Honorary Professor (17/02/21)
• HETI with UCD History, presents this years Holocaust Memorial lecture (12/02/21)
• Join UCD School of History for Alumni Panel Discussion Event (10/02/21)
• The Global History Seminar Series schedule announced (29/01/21)
• Did the Arab Spring bring about change? Dr Hussein Omar discusses on Newstalk (28/01/21)
• UCD History graduate Donie O'Sullivan reports from Capitol Hill for CNN (07/01/21)
• UCD History graduate Adiba Jaigirdar publishes new book (11/01/21)

2020

• Christy Ring: Man and Ball, RTÉ (18/12/20)
• Prof Gerwarth, Dr Mullins & Dr Mulvagh win Teaching Excellence Award (08/12/20)
• Prof Diarmaid Ferriter on Claire Byrne Live, RTÉ (08/12/20)
• Dr Declan Downey Awarded with Commendation of the Foreign Minister of Japan (01/12/20)
• Patrick Duffy awarded NUI Mansion House Prize in Irish History (26/11/20)
• Civil Wars in History Conference Call for Papers (19/11/20)
• Join UCD School of History for Alumni Panel Discussion Event (18/11/20)
• Dr Hussein Omar joins Global Irish Network Discussion at Trinity (18/11/20)
• Dr Roy Flechner awarded Visiting Fellowship at All Souls College Oxford (30/10/20)
• Announcing the 2nd Annual Spanish History Lecture (29/10/20)
• Prof John McCafferty publishes new book (22/10/2020)
• The Ó Cléirigh seminar schedule 2020 released (20/10/20)
• Joanne Johnston wins Global Undergraduate Awards Progamme Commendation (15/10/20)
• Kerry: History & Society, edited by Prof. Maurice Bric (15/10/20)
• Tribute to Dr Margaret MacCurtain (6/10/20)
• THE HISTORY TOOLKIT for current students goes live (24/09/20)
• Dr Elizabeth Mullins receives Dept of Arts, Heritage & Gaeltacht award (14/9/20)
• Dr Steffen Rimner discusses new book (27/8/20)
• Dr Matilda Greig organises webinar Wonder Women and Rebel Girls (20/8/20)
• Dr Fionnuala Walsh discusses her book Irish Women & the Great War (18/8/20)
• Dr Claas Kirchhelle advises on Covid-19 studies documentary (13/8/20)
• Assoc Prof Catherine Cox receives Wellcome Trust award for her new project (4/8/20)
• Dr Fionnuala Walsh publishes new book (27/7/20)
• Statement on the delivery of teaching in the School of History from Autumn 2020-21 (27/7/20)
• Seamus Heaney letter found in UCD Library Special Collections (1/7/20)
• Diarmaid Ferriter disscusses Emigration with Eamon Dunphy (27/5/20)
• Dr Declan Downey will lecture at virtual summer school (27/5/20)
• Conor Mulvagh on The Long & the Short of It, BBC Radio Ulster (27/5/20)
• Humboldt Foundation names Prof Robert Gerwarth as Reimar Lüst Prize winner (22/5/20)
• Paul Rouse discusses history of cricket on NewsTalk (14/04/20)
• Dr Conor Mulvagh on RTÉ's Drive Time (26/03/20)
• Dr Conor Mulvagh on the history of rollerskating with Pat Kenny (25/03/20)
• Paul Rouse on new history of Sport podcast series on Newstalk's Off the Ball (25/03/20)
• Prof Paul Rouse on Ryan Tubridy Show (18/03/20)
• Claas Kirchhelle launches new book Pyrrhic Progress - POSTPONED (03/03/20)
• UCD School of History at the UCD Grad Open Evening (27/02/20)
• Documentary film Etched in Bone by Martin Thomas premieres in the US in March (25/02/20)
• Prof Paul Rouse on RTÉ 2fm's Game On (posted 21/02/20)
• Diarmaid Ferriter on Eamon Dunphy's podcast series The Stand (posted 11/02/20)
• MA student Jim Dunleavy co-curates new Marsh's Library exhibition (posted 11/02/20)
• Dr Steffen Rimner addresses the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (posted 10/02/20)
• Dr Eziqueil Mercau launches new book (posted 24/01/20)
• Dr Stephan Fendar publishes new book with Routledge (posted 09/01/20)
• CWS Seminar: Postwar Memory, Postcolonial Conflict, and the Construction of 'Genocide' (posted 09/01/20)
• Conor Mulvagh speaks to RTE's Morning Ireland on Government's decision to postpone RIC commemoration (08/01/20)

2019

• MA in Public History Class of 2019 Graduation (posted 6/12/19)
• Dr Hussein Omar on BBC's In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg (posted 5/12/19)
• Mary O'Connor wins NUI Mansion House Fund Scholarship 2019 (27/11/19)
• Dr Ciaran McCabe awarded Special Commendation Prize at NUI Awards 2019 (posted 27/11/19)
• Dr Declan Downey to deliver lecture on behalf of the Royal Academy of History in Madrid (posted 25/11/19) 
• Workshop 1919 Global Context Marsh's Library (posted 19/11/19)
• Book launch for Dónal Hassett of UCC hosted by UCD History (posted 19/11/19)
• Mary Hatfield launches Growing up in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: A Cultural History of Middle-Class Childhood and Gender (posted14/11/19)
• Symposium of Golden Age Studies (posted 08/11/19)
• Dee Forbes speaks to UCD Alumni (posted 23/05/19)
• Roy Flechner launches "Saint Patrick Retold" (posted 07/03/19)
• The Examination in the Project Arts Centre (posted 05/03/19)
• New exhibition Living Inside: Six Voices from the History of Irish Prison Reform (posted 14/02/19)

2018

• An Post Irish Book Awards (posted 26/10/18)
• Prof. Martin Thomas appointed Keith Cameron Chair in Australian History (posted 10/07/18)
• Prof. Glenda Gilmore appointed Mary Ball Washinton Chair in American History (posted 10/07/18)
• The Trial goes on display in Kilmainham Gaol (posted 18/04/18)