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Congratulations to UCD School of History T&L Awards 2025 Winners

Dr. Julie Brooks, Dr. Frances Nolan and Dr. David Nicoll have each won T&L Awards for 2025.

Dr. Edward Burke - UCD Impact Case Study Award

Congratulations to Dr. Edward Burke whose research investigating loyalist paramilitarism and cross-border bombings during the Troubles has been awarded a UCD Impact Case Study Prize.

21Aug

Launch of New Collection in DRI – Indexes of British Army Monthly Returns in Ireland

Professor Ivar McGrath and his team have launched a new digital archive detailing British Army unit strengths in Ireland from 1869 - 1903.

19Aug

Preserving the Photographic Archive of the Parish of the Travelling People

This story reports on work funded by the Heritage Council that is being carried out by Dr Elizabeth Mullins in collaboration with the Parish of the Travelling People to preserve a valuable photographic archive linked to the travelling community.

25Jun

The British Army and the Land Forces of the Dominions: Civil War and Insurgency

UCD Centre for War Studies announces a half day conference on the 10th of July 2024 examining British and dominion leaders' thinking about civil wars. Click for details.

29May

Launch of Irish Community for Trauma Informed Archival Practice

Last Friday May 24 saw the first meeting of the Irish Community for Trauma Informed Archival Practice. This practice acknowledges the potential of archival records to traumatize individuals, including the subjects of records and the archivists who are working with them.

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.

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'.

01Dec

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).

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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'.

10Jul

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'.

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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07Jun

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.

11May

Dr Rimner gives Columbia University workshop paper

Assoc. Prof. Steffen Rimner gave a paper on East Asian History at Columbia University

29Mar

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.

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.

01Feb

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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