• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Marc Mulholland (St Catherine’s) , Ian McBride (Hertford) , David Dwan (Hertford) , Natalie Martz (St Hugh's)
• Timing: Wednesdays in odd weeks at 17:00, Room 20.402 unless otherwise stated
• Organising department: Faculty of History

Wednesday 14 October 2015

• 17:00 - Eastward Enterprises: Colonial Ireland, Colonial India
  Professor Jane Ohlymeyer (Trinity College, Dublin)

Wednesday 4 November 2015

• 17:00 - Burned halls, unwritten laws and welfare benefits: the Ancient Order of Hibernians, 1920-1932
  Cecilia Biaggi (St Catherine's College, Oxford)

Wednesday 18 November 2015

• 17:00 - Shadow Dance: the Gate, theatrical modernism, and the Irish art of state formation, 1926-1936
  Dr Ben Levitas (Goldsmiths, University of London)

Wednesday 2 December 2015

• 17:00 - Myth, History and Patriotism: The Gaelic Athletic Association and Ireland
  Dr Paul Rouse (University College, Dublin)

Wednesday 27 January 2016

• 17:00 - ‘'To "stand and fall with the fortunes of the country"? Trinity College Dublin and the Irish Revolution.'
  Tomas Irish (University of Swansea)

Wednesday 10 February 2016

• 17:00 - 'Apprenticeship to Revolution: Irish artisans and British radicalism 1798-1820'.
  TBA

Wednesday 24 February 2016

• 17:00 - ‘Shadow of a Taxman: How and by whom was the Republican Movement financed during the Irish War of Independence (1919-21)?’.
  Robin Adams (St Peter’s College, Oxford)

Wednesday 9 March 2016

• 17:00 - “For the very foundation of truth, honour and morality”: Irish and New Zealand Boys’ Colleges during the Great War’.
  Charlotte Bennett (Wolfson College, Oxford)

Wednesday 27 April 2016

• 17:00 - Twixt past and future: Irish enlistees to the Indian Medical Service as a case study for "Processes of (Professional) Identification
  Dr Keiran Fitzpatrick (Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine and St John's College, Oxford)

Wednesday 25 May 2016

• 17:00 - Twenty-five years of Irish history
  Professor Roy Foster (Hertford college, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 12 October 2016

• 17:00 - ‘Does Terrorism Work? The Case of the Provisional IRA.’
  Professor Richard English (Queen’s University, Belfast)

Wednesday 26 October 2016

• 17:00 - 1916: The Irish Rebellion (Film screening)
  Professor Bríona Nic Dhiarmada (University of Notre Dame)

Wednesday 2 November 2016

• 17:00 - ‘At the Nexus of Imperial-Dominion Relationships: John Whelan Dulanty.’
  Michaela Crawley (Wolfson College, Oxford)

Wednesday 16 November 2016

• 17:00 - ‘James Joyce and the Irish Language’
  Professor Barry McCrea (Notre Dame)

Wednesday 30 November 2016

• 17:00 - ‘Imagining Revolution in 1790s Ireland: Wolfe Tone’s Political Ideas’
  Dr Ultán Gillen (Teeside)

Wednesday 8 February 2017

• 17:00 - Journeys through “Hidden Ireland” with a camera: documentary photography and the boundaries of society in Ireland, 1970-1992
  Erika Hanna (University of Bristol)

Wednesday 22 February 2017

• 17:00 - Save Ulster from Sodomy!” Homosexuality in Northern Ireland after 1967
  Sean Brady (Birkbeck, University of London)

Wednesday 10 May 2017

• 17:00 - ‘Douglas Hyde, the National Board of Education, and the destruction of Irish manuscripts, 1899-1900’.
  Richard Sharpe (Wadham College, Oxford)

Wednesday 24 May 2017

• 17:00 - ‘“Wild and visionary” – James Fintan Lalor’s ideas on land reform’.
  Jim Bruce (Wadham College, Oxford)

Wednesday 7 June 2017

• 17:00 - ‘Financial crises and nineteenth-century Irish history’
  Charles Read (Hertford College, Oxford)

Wednesday 14 June 2017

• 17:00 - ‘The Catholic Church and the Northern Irish Troubles: an entangled history’.
  Maggie Scull (King’s College, London)

Wednesday 11 October 2017

• 17:00 - A double life: Ernest Blythe's revolutionary education’
  David Fitzpatrick (Trinity College, Dublin)

Wednesday 8 November 2017

• 17:00 - “‘…the story of our time that everyone knows’?: women's suffrage and twentieth-century Irish political and social history”
  Caitríona Clear (NUI, Galway)

Wednesday 15 November 2017

• 17:00 - ‘Models of feminine grace: cosmopolitan Irish girls and the Catholic boarding school 1780-1840’
  Mary Hatfield (Hertford College, Oxford)

Wednesday 22 November 2017

• 17:00 - ‘Accommodating Ireland’s eighteenth-century standing army: some considerations on Empire, barrack-building, money, Jonathan Swift, Henry Brooke &c.’
  Charles Ivar McGrath (University College Dublin)

Wednesday 31 January 2018

• 17:00 - ‘On how the U.K.'s first National Park might have been in Ireland’
  Matthew Kelly (Northumbria University)

Wednesday 21 February 2018

• 17:00 - ‘The Ideological Origins of the Irish Revolution of 1782’
  Steven Pincus (Yale)

Wednesday 9 May 2018

• 17:00 - ‘The overseas deployment of Irish clergy in the early modern period’
  Thomas O’Connor (Maynooth University)

Wednesday 23 May 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Protestant Commemoration and the Irish Soundscape, 1660-1782’
  Maura Valenti (Trinity College, Oxford)

Wednesday 6 June 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Lecturing the revolutionary generation: student life and learning at University College Dublin, 1912-21’
  Conor Mulvagh (University College Dublin)

Wednesday 10 October 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Breaking the Law or Breaking the Silence? The Boston College Project in Context’
  Dr Eve Morrison (St Catherine’s College, Oxford)

Wednesday 31 October 2018

• 17:00 - ‘A Matter of Life and Death: The Dublin Coroner’s Court, 1876-1901’
  Dr Ciara Breathnach (University of Limerick)

Wednesday 14 November 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Ireland, Britain, and the Taxing Union, 1801-1914’
  Professor Julian Hoppit (UCL)

Wednesday 28 November 2018

• 17:00 - ‘“Make Redmond the Irish Botha”: The Dominion Dimensions of the Anglo-Irish Settlement, ca.1906-22’
  Dr Donal Lowry (Regent’s Park College, Oxford)

Wednesday 16 January 2019

• 17:00 - Natural Philosophy, Book Collecting and the Book Trade in Early-Modern Ireland
  Professor Theodore Hoppen (Hull)

Wednesday 23 January 2019

• 17:00 - A roundtable discussion to mark the publication of Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting and the Vernacular History of a Rebellion in Ulster (OUP, 2018),
  Professor Guy Beiner (Ben-Gurion University)

Wednesday 13 February 2019

• 17:00 - Ethnicity, Identity and Community: Lessons for Historical Research from Contemporary Research in the Two Irelands
  Professor Jennifer Todd (UCD)

Wednesday 27 February 2019

• 17:00 - “Women, Children. They don’t care who they kill”: Disaggregating the Provisional IRA Bombing Campaign, 1969-1998
  Rachel Kowalski (Wolfson College, Oxford)

Wednesday 15 May 2019

• 17:00 - Sexual Violence in Modern Irish History
  Professor Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck)

Tuesday 28 May 2019

• 16:15 - ‘“They seem to make us weary of application”: “Jacobite” Women and the Williamite Confiscation in Ireland’
  Joint seminar with the Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
  TBA

Wednesday 12 June 2019

• 17:00 - A roundtable on A Treatise on Northern Ireland (OUP, 3 vols., forthcoming, 2019)
  Professor Brendan O’Leary (University of Pennsylvania)

Wednesday 23 October 2019

• 17:00 - “exceedingly troubled with frights and feares”: the 1641 Irish Rebellion and the Emotional Dimension of Refugee Displacement
  Dr Bethany Marsh (Hertford College, Oxford)

Wednesday 6 November 2019

• 17:00 - A more conciliatory policy? The British Army in Northern Ireland from Direct Rule to Police Primacy, 1972-75
  Dr Huw Bennett (Cardiff University)

Wednesday 20 November 2019

• 17:00 - The Hidden Ireland: Re-visiting a Concept
  Dr Lesa Ní Mhungaile (NUI Galway)

Wednesday 4 December 2019

• 17:00 - Parnell and His Island: Irish Modernism, Sexual Health, and the Parnell Myth
  Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston (Hertford College, Oxford)

Wednesday 29 January 2020

• 17:00 - Parnell and His Island: Irish Modernism, Sexual Health, and the Parnell Myth
  Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston (Hertford College, Oxford)

Wednesday 12 February 2020

• 17:00 - “Fidel Castro in a mini-skirt” or “St Joan of the Barricades”? Versions of Bernadette Devlin and the Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland
  Dr Sarah Campbell (Newcastle)

Wednesday 26 February 2020

• 17:00 - Passion and Cunning: Conor Cruise O’Brien and the Question of Intellectuals
  Hugh Hanley (Robinson College, Cambridge)

Wednesday 11 March 2020

• 17:00 - Material Memory, “Lost” Archives, Oral Histories and Ruin: Alternative Sources for Understanding Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Laura McAtackney (Aarhus University)

Wednesday 21 October 2020

• 16:00 - Unity in the thought of John Hume
  Tommy Dolan (York), Colin Kidd (St Andrews)

Wednesday 28 October 2020

• 16:00 - Women, work and the male breadwinner ideal, c.1924-1979
  Deirdre Foley (Oxford), Maria Luddy (Warwick)

Wednesday 11 November 2020

• 16:00 - A panel discussion on Roy Foster’s On Seamus Heaney (2020)
  Geraldine Higgins (Emory), Rosie Lavan (TCD), Bernard O’Donoghue (Oxford)

Wednesday 18 November 2020

• 11:00 - “Men Lived as if They Dreaded Each Other”: Hugh Dorian (1834–1914) and the Grey Zone of Ireland’s Great Famine
  Joint with Long Nineteenth Century seminar - this will be at 11:00
  Breandán Mac Suibhne (Galway)

Wednesday 2 December 2020

• 16:00 - Killing Strangers: How Political Violence Became Modern (Oxford University Press, 2020)
  Tim Wilson (St Andrew’s), Stathis Kalyvas (Oxford)

Wednesday 27 January 2021

• 16:00 - Irish Immigration, Border Control, and Slavery in the United States
  Professor Kevin Kenny (NYU), Respondent: Professor Adam Smith (Rothermere American Institute, Oxford)

Wednesday 10 February 2021

• 18:00 - Explaining the European Settler Divergence, 1500-1800: the Ulster Model
  Professor James Belich (Balliol College, Oxford), Respondent: Professor David Dickson (Trinity College Dublin)

Wednesday 24 February 2021

• 19:30 - Irish Engagement with Empire in the British Caribbean: Hope Waddell’s Missionary Work in Jamaica, 1829-1845
  Dr Jennifer MacLaren (Macquarie University, Sydney), Respondent: Dr Dexnell Peters (Exeter College, Oxford)

Wednesday 10 March 2021

• 16:00 - Who were the Irish Nuns in English Convents? Irish Women Religious in Europe, 1600-1700
  Dr Bronagh McShane (NUI Galway), Respondent: TBC

Wednesday 5 May 2021

• 16:00 - Irish Unification: The Referendum
  Dr Alan Renwick (chair of the Working Group and Deputy Director of the Constitution Unit), Professor Brendan O’Leary (University of Pennsylvania), Dr Etain Tannam (Trinity College Dublin)

Wednesday 19 May 2021

• 16:00 - Towards an Understanding of Mary MacSwiney: Trauma and the Brixton Hunger Strike of 1920
  Dr Leeann Lane (Dublin City University), Respondent: Professor Senia Paseta (Oxford)

Wednesday 2 June 2021

• 16:00 - The Mother and Baby Homes Commission
  Professor Mary Daly (UCD)

Wednesday 13 October 2021

• 17:30 - Roundtable on doctoral research projects
  Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz, Rachel Kowalski, Séamus Nevin, Josie Richardson

Wednesday 27 October 2021

• 17:30 - The Northern Ireland Peace Process: Between Pragmatism and Perfection
  Dr Eamonn O'Kane (Wolverhampton)

Wednesday 10 November 2021

• 17:30 - The Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland: Past, Present and Future
  Professor Katy Hayward (Queen's University, Belfast)

Wednesday 24 November 2021

• 17:30 - The Long Afterlife of Brian Boru: Reimagining the Hero in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
  Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz
• 17:30 - Cecil Rhodes and the Irish Parliamentary Party
  Séamus Nevin

Wednesday 8 December 2021

• 16:00 - Ireland without Partition: Counterfactual Histories
  PLEASE NOTE: DATE TO BE CONFIRMED
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Alvin Jackson, Dr Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid, Professor Charles Townshend

Wednesday 26 January 2022

• 17:00 - A Very British Conflict? The Ulster Imperial Guards and the British Army in Belfast, 1921-1922
  Dr Edward Burke (University of Nottingham)

Wednesday 9 February 2022

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA

Wednesday 23 February 2022

• 16:00 - Panel discussion: How (not) to write the official history of the Northern Ireland conflict
  Dr Huw Bennett (Cardiff University), Professor Hans Blom (former director of the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation), Professor Jane Caplan (St Antony's College, Oxford)

Wednesday 9 March 2022

• 16:00 - Privileged Injuries: Defining Disability among Veterans of the Irish Revolution (1916-1923)
  Professor Marie Coleman (QUB)

Wednesday 27 April 2022

• 17:00 - Panel discussion: The Irish Civil War: New Perspectives
  Professor Anne Dolan (Trinity College, Dublin), Dr Lia Brazil (Nuffield College, Oxford), Professor Robert Gerwarth (University College Dublin), Dr Bill Kissane (LSE)

Wednesday 4 May 2022

• 17:00 - Gender, Migration & Madness: The Irish in Canadian Colonial Lunatic Asylums, 1841-1867
  Jane McGaughey

Wednesday 18 May 2022

• 16:00 - Ireland without Partition: Counterfactual Histories
  Professor Alvin Jackson, Dr Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid, Professor Charles Townshend

Wednesday 1 June 2022

• 17:00 - Dan Donnelly’s arm
  Professor Patrick Griffin (University of Notre Dame)

Wednesday 15 June 2022

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Niamh Gallagher (St Catherine's College, Cambridge)

Wednesday 12 October 2022

• 17:00 - Northern Ireland, the BBC, and Censorship in Thatcher's Britain
  Professor Rob Savage (Boston College)

Wednesday 26 October 2022

• 17:00 - Shadow of a Taxman: How, and by Whom, was the Republican Government Financed in the Irish War of Independence (1919-21)?
  Dr Robin Adams (Queen's University, Belfast)

Wednesday 9 November 2022

• 17:00 - Monarchism and the Irish Revolution, 1916-1923
  Professor Heather Jones (UCL)

Tuesday 22 November 2022

• 16:00 - Wolfe Tone and the Hibernian Catch-Club: Sociability in Revolutionary Dublin
  Please note this seminar will be held at 16:00 at Lincoln College, held jointly with the Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850
  Professor Martyn Powell (Bristol)

Wednesday 25 January 2023

• 17:00 - Was there a ‘silence’ about the Irish Civil War?
  Dr Síobhra Aiken (QUB)

Wednesday 8 February 2023

• 17:00 - "Irish" officers in history and historiography
  Dr George Evans (British Academy)

Wednesday 22 February 2023

• 17:00 - Deniable Contact: Backchannel Negotiation in Northern Ireland: launch of the paperback edition
  Professor Niall Ó Dochartaigh (Galway)

Wednesday 8 March 2023

• 17:00 - A poor place? Rethinking Irish histories of welfare
  Dr Carole Holohan (TCD)

Wednesday 18 October 2023

• 17:00 - "Rough Irish Layabouts": Irish Men and Sexual Danger in Queer London, 1933-1960
  Michael Lawrence (Queen's University, Belfast)

Wednesday 1 November 2023

• 17:00 - Pioneers of Peace? Civil servants, covert channels and negotiating with the Provisional IRA, 1985 to 1998
  Dr Eleanor Williams (Pembroke College, Oxford)

Wednesday 15 November 2023

• 17:00 - Book launch - 'Uncivil War: The British Army and the Troubles, 1966–1975' (Cambridge University Press)
  Dr Huw Bennett (Cardiff University)

Wednesday 29 November 2023

• 17:00 - Plantation Islands: Comparing the eighteenth-century landscape histories of Haiti, Jamaica and Ireland
  Professor Finola O'Kane (University College, Dublin)

Wednesday 31 January 2024

• 17:00 - Jonathan Swift and his servants: a history of eighteenth-century Ireland from below stairs
  Dr Catriona Kennedy (York)

Wednesday 14 February 2024

• 17:00 - A Caroline conversion: Francis Slingsby (1611-1642), Irish Protestant, Jesuit novice
  Dr Brian Mac Cuarta (Campion Hall, Oxford)

Wednesday 28 February 2024

• 17:00 - Patriarchy, power and piety: the family in twentieth-century Ireland
  Dr Ciara Breathnach (University of Limerick)

Wednesday 13 March 2024

• 17:00 - Comparing the Irish union: “united kingdoms” in Europe and beyond, 1800-1920
  Professor Alvin Jackson (Edinburgh)

Wednesday 8 May 2024

• 17:00 - Getting to Good Friday: Literature and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland
  Professor Marilynn Richtarik (Georgia State University)

Monday 13 May 2024

• 17:00 - The Nineteenth-Century Irish as Pre-Moderns in a Modern World
  Professor Patrick Griffin (University of Notre Dame)

Wednesday 22 May 2024

• 17:00 - DPhil Presentations
  Alice Reffin, Chris Caden

Wednesday 16 October 2024

• 17:00 - Rethinking the Irish Settler Colonial Diaspora
  Dr Ciaran O'Neill (Trinity College Dublin)

Wednesday 30 October 2024

• 17:00 - The “Neithers” in Northern Irish Politics: The Alliance Party and life beyond Unionism and Nationalism
  Postponed until Hilary Term 2025
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Jonathan Tonge (Liverpool)

Wednesday 13 November 2024

• 17:00 - Fixers: Women and Housing Corruption in 1950s Belfast
  Professor Marianne Elliott (Professor emerita, Liverpool)

Wednesday 27 November 2024

• 17:00 - Out of Time: Ireland and Modernity
  Professor Enda Delaney (Edinburgh)

Wednesday 22 January 2025

• 17:00 - The SDLP and the Northern Ireland Peace Process
  Graham Spencer (Emeritus Professor, University of Portsmouth)

Wednesday 5 February 2025

• 17:00 - The Death of an Informer, London 1974
  Professor Rob Savage (Boston College)

Wednesday 5 March 2025

• 17:00 - Law versus Practice: Women and Property Ownership in Early Modern Ireland
  Dr Frances Nolan (UCD)

Wednesday 7 May 2025

• 17:00 - Queen of Codes: The Secret Life of Emily Anderson, the Irishwoman who was Britain's Greatest Female Codebreaker
  Dr Jackie Uí Chionna (University of Galway)

Wednesday 29 October 2025

• 17:00 - 'Women, Politics, and the Irish Public Sphere in the Age of Revolution' (Oxford, 2025)
  Professor Catriona Kennedy (York), Maria Luddy (Warwick), Ian McBride (Oxford)

Tuesday 25 November 2025

• 16:00 - Tadhg Ó Neachtain (1671–c.1752) – Jacobitism, Philosophy and Knowledge of the World
  Please note: this seminar will be held jointly with the Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850, in Lincoln College at 16:00. Please ask at the lodge for directions.
  Professor Fionntán De Brún (Maynooth)