Wednesday, 26 January 2022, 4 – 5pm

A panel discussion to include Professor Gary Murphy (Dublin City University), Dr Deirdre Foley (University of Oxford), Dr Liam Weeks (University College Cork) as part of the Trinity Centre for Contemporary Irish History Research Seminar Series in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub.

The Centre for Contemporary Irish History promotes research in recent Irish history. This Seminar Series is intended to act as a forum where those engaged in research in Contemporary Irish History can discuss their work with like-minded people. All webinars take place at 4pm. Presenters speak for a maximum of 45 minutes, followed by a Q&A.

Friday, 28 January 2022, 5 – 6:30pm

An online webinar to celebrate the launch of the new online exhibition 'Seeing Ireland' which will explore one of the most important events in Irish art history: Exposition D’Art Irlandais, held at Galerie Barbazanges in Paris in Jan-February 1922. Guest speakers include H.E. Vincent Guérend, French Ambassador to Ireland,

Mick O’Dea, PPRHA, Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh, ARHA, Billy Shortall, Angela Griffith, Ciaran O’Neill. The event will also feature a short virtual tour of the 3D recreation of the original exhibition space developed by NoHo Design. This event is organised in partnership with Trinity Long Room Hub. Support is being provided by the Irish Government through the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Decade of Centenaries programme.

About the exhibition

1922 was a seminal year for Ireland and Irish identity: the modern Irish state was founded; James Joyce's Ulysses was published in Paris; and the Irish Race Congress, an international conference and accompanying Irish art exhibition that was a reckoning of Irish identity politics, was held in the French capital.

As part of the decade of centenaries commemorations an ambitious series of interlinked events and exhibitions will take place in the Midwest US, Ireland, and European capitals in 2022 to reflect on the events of 100 years ago, to examine the journey Ireland and Irish identity have travelled over the past century of statehood, and to look ahead to Ireland’s next century.

In January, an online exhibition at the Trinity Long Room Hub organised by Prof Ciaran O’Neill and Dr Billy Shortall (School of Histories and Humanities) will interrogate one of the most important events in Irish art history: Exposition D’Art Irlandais, opened at Galerie Barbazanges in Paris in January 1922. The Exposition, associated with the World Congress, featured established and emerging talent in what would become known as the ‘Irish School of Art’. Artists as diverse as Sarah Purser, Jack Yeats, Sean Keating, John Lavery, Lily Yeats, and Constance Markievicz displayed nationalist work in an overt attempt to legitimate a postcolonial presence in the global field for Irish art and crafts. This new exhibition—an immersive experience and 3D recreation of the original exhibition space-- will recreate, remember, and question this foundational moment in Irish art history.

Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

A keynote lecture delivered by Edna Longley as part of the 'Derek Mahon: Conference to celebrate poet’s life and work'.

The life and work of poet Derek Mahon will be celebrated (Friday 19th & Saturday 20th November) in Trinity College Dublin. A conference, which is being held in advance of what would have been the poet’s 80th birthday, has been organised by Trinity’s School of English in association with Poetry Ireland and will be hosted in Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute.

To mark the occasion an online exhibition entitled Derek Mahon: Piecing Together the Poet has been organised jointly by the Library of Trinity College Dublin and the Stewart Rose Library of Emory University (home to the principal Mahon archive). The exhibition features readings by Mahon himself and Stephen Rea along with specially commissioned interviews with friends and fellow poets. The exhibition also features atmospheric photographs by John Minihan.

Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

A keynote lecture delivered by Lucy Collins as part of the 'Derek Mahon: Conference to celebrate poet’s life and work'.

The life and work of poet Derek Mahon will be celebrated (Friday 19th & Saturday 20th November) in Trinity College Dublin. A conference, which is being held in advance of what would have been the poet’s 80th birthday, has been organised by Trinity’s School of English in association with Poetry Ireland and will be hosted in Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute.

To mark the occasion an online exhibition entitled Derek Mahon: Piecing Together the Poet has been organised jointly by the Library of Trinity College Dublin and the Stewart Rose Library of Emory University (home to the principal Mahon archive). The exhibition features readings by Mahon himself and Stephen Rea along with specially commissioned interviews with friends and fellow poets. The exhibition also features atmospheric photographs by John Minihan.

Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

A keynote lecture delivered by Hugh Haughton as part of the 'Derek Mahon: Conference to celebrate poet’s life and work'.

The life and work of poet Derek Mahon will be celebrated (Friday 19th & Saturday 20th November) in Trinity College Dublin. A conference, which is being held in advance of what would have been the poet’s 80th birthday, has been organised by Trinity’s School of English in association with Poetry Ireland and will be hosted in Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute.

To mark the occasion an online exhibition entitled Derek Mahon: Piecing Together the Poet has been organised jointly by the Library of Trinity College Dublin and the Stewart Rose Library of Emory University (home to the principal Mahon archive). The exhibition features readings by Mahon himself and Stephen Rea along with specially commissioned interviews with friends and fellow poets. The exhibition also features atmospheric photographs by John Minihan.

Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

11th January 2022

Padraic Colum (8th August 1881—11th January 1972): A 50th Anniversary Celebration of his Life and Work

An online keynote lecture by Professor Margaret Kelleher (UCD) “Plutarch Lied”: Padraic Colum’s Challenge to Historical Biography” as part of a day-long symposium organised by Dr Pádraic Whyte, School of English, TCD and Dr Keith O’Sullivan School of English, DCU in partnership with the Trinity Long Room Hub and the DCU Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. BOOK here

About Professor Margart Kelleher

Margaret Kelleher is Professor and Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at University College Dublin. Her book The Maamtrasna Murders: Language, Life and Death in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (UCD Press, 2018) and awarded the Michael J. Durkan Prize for Books on Language and Culture by the American Conference of Irish Studies in 2019 and shortlisted for the RIA Michel Déon Prize. Other publications include The Feminization of Famine (Duke UP and Cork UP, 1997), The Cambridge History of Irish Literature, 2 vols, edited with Philip O’Leary (2006) and a special issue of the journal Éire-Ireland on the topic of “Ireland and the Contemporary”, edited with Nicholas Wolf (2017). She is Chair of the Irish Film Institute and UCD academic lead for the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI).

Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded January 13, 2022.

In this episode Lisa Doyle talks to Helen Meany and Dr Bridget Martin about their exciting projects which ensure that Classics is becoming available to everyone: Access Classics (the UCD outreach programme) and ClassicsNow (the cultural festival taking place online and across Dublin). The discussion ranges from the opportunities offered by studying the ancient world to the importance of outreach work and diversifying the discipline. They reflect on the Irish literary and artistic tradition of engaging with and reimagining ancient texts, and how modern retellings ensure that these age-old stories remain timely, compelling and allow us to explore what it means to be human.

To find out more, visit: bit.ly/hublicsphere

Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded November 26, 2021.

Listen back to session three Chair: Prof Ruth Karras, Dept. History, Trinity College Dublin with guest speakers Dr Annaleigh Margey, Dundalk Institute of Technology, presentation titled ‘The Cecils and the mapping of early modern Ireland' and Prof Hiram Morgan, School of History, University College Cork, presentation titled ‘In war and peace: Sir Robert Cecil’s /Salisbury’s Irish policy, 1594 – 1612’

About the conference

Not that long ago, the idea of relating the Cecils, both Lord Burghley and his son Lord Salisbury, to the history of Ireland in the sixteenth and early seventeenth century would have been regarded as marginal and insignificant. And several major studies of these great figures were produced over the course of the twentieth

century without any address to Ireland at all.

Such a radically reduced peripheral vision was in part ideological – the often uncritical assumption that the history of England could be entirely treated independently of its neighbours, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. But it was also considerably reinforced in the nineteenth century by archival decisions within the (then) Public Record Office to separate the massive State Paper collections into sections of Domestic, Foreign, Scotland, and Ireland in a manner that suggested that all of the problems arising in these areas could be separated into distinct and hierarchical compartments.

In recent decades, however, historians, English, Scottish and Irish have broken free from such artificial divisions, and revealed the many varied and complex ways in which the thinking of the Elizabethans was richly informed by a sense of the interconnectedness of all the regions within this western archipelago.

Central to this re-interpretation has been a reassessment of the policies developed and strategies deployed of the by the leading figures in Elizabethan government, notably the Cecils. Recent studies by Stephen Alford, Ciaran Brady, Jane Dawson, David Heffernan and others have revealed the way in which decisions concerning

Irish policy were influenced, altered and deferred by other foreign policy considerations, and how foreign policy attitudes were conversely influenced by assessments of the state of Ireland in a manner that has never previously been appreciated.

The purpose of this conference is to build on such substantial recent research, by extending both the breadth and the depth of this interrogation of Anglo-Irish relations in the early modern period. The contributors are all experts who have published widely in this field and are actively engaged in further original research.

This conference is a partnership between the Trinity Long Room Hub and the Lord Burghley 500 Foundation.

www.lordburghley500.org/

Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

26th Nov 2021

Listen back to Session 2 – Chair: Prof Susan Flavin, Dept. History, Trinity College Dublin with guest speakers,

Dr Jim Murray, Director of Development, Quality and Qualifications Ireland, presentation titled ‘William Cecil and the early Elizabethan Reformation in Ireland’ and Dr Brian Jackson, Technological University of South-East Ireland, presentation titled ‘Sir William Cecil and the CounterReformation in Ireland’.

About the conference

Not that long ago, the idea of relating the Cecils, both Lord Burghley and his son Lord Salisbury, to the history of Ireland in the sixteenth and early seventeenth century would have been regarded as marginal and insignificant. And several major studies of these great figures were produced over the course of the twentieth

century without any address to Ireland at all.

Such a radically reduced peripheral vision was in part ideological – the often uncritical assumption that the history of England could be entirely treated independently of its neighbours, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. But it was also considerably reinforced in the nineteenth century by archival decisions within the (then) Public Record Office to separate the massive State Paper collections into sections of Domestic, Foreign, Scotland, and Ireland in a manner that suggested that all of the problems arising in these areas could be separated into distinct and hierarchical compartments.

In recent decades, however, historians, English, Scottish and Irish have broken free from such artificial divisions, and revealed the many varied and complex ways in which the thinking of the Elizabethans was richly informed by a sense of the interconnectedness of all the regions within this western archipelago.

Central to this re-interpretation has been a reassessment of the policies developed and strategies deployed of the by the leading figures in Elizabethan government, notably the Cecils. Recent studies by Stephen Alford, Ciaran Brady, Jane Dawson, David Heffernan and others have revealed the way in which decisions concerning

Irish policy were influenced, altered and deferred by other foreign policy considerations, and how foreign policy attitudes were conversely influenced by assessments of the state of Ireland in a manner that has never previously been appreciated.

The purpose of this conference is to build on such substantial recent research, by extending both the breadth and the depth of this interrogation of Anglo-Irish relations in the early modern period. The contributors are all experts who have published widely in this field and are actively engaged in further original research.

This conference is a partnership between the Trinity Long Room Hub and the Lord Burghley 500 Foundation.

www.lordburghley500.org/

Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

26th Nov 2021

Listen back to the welcome by Professor Eve Patten, Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub followed by talks from Dr Alan Kelly PhD TCD titled ‘The secretaries before the Cecils: the foundations of an Irish policy 1495 – 1558’ and Dr David Heffernan, School of History, University College Cork gave a presentation titled ‘Sir William Cecil and the shaping of English policy in Ireland, 1558 – 1598’.

About the conference

Not that long ago, the idea of relating the Cecils, both Lord Burghley and his son Lord Salisbury, to the history of Ireland in the sixteenth and early seventeenth century would have been regarded as marginal and insignificant. And several major studies of these great figures were produced over the course of the twentieth

century without any address to Ireland at all.

Such a radically reduced peripheral vision was in part ideological – the often uncritical assumption that the history of England could be entirely treated independently of its neighbours, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. But it was also considerably reinforced in the nineteenth century by archival decisions within the (then) Public Record Office to separate the massive State Paper collections into sections of Domestic, Foreign, Scotland, and Ireland in a manner that suggested that all of the problems arising in these areas could be separated into distinct and hierarchical compartments.

In recent decades, however, historians, English, Scottish and Irish have broken free from such artificial divisions, and revealed the many varied and complex ways in which the thinking of the Elizabethans was richly informed by a sense of the interconnectedness of all the regions within this western archipelago.

Central to this re-interpretation has been a reassessment of the policies developed and strategies deployed of the by the leading figures in Elizabethan government, notably the Cecils. Recent studies by Stephen Alford, Ciaran Brady, Jane Dawson, David Heffernan and others have revealed the way in which decisions concerning

Irish policy were influenced, altered and deferred by other foreign policy considerations, and how foreign policy attitudes were conversely influenced by assessments of the state of Ireland in a manner that has never previously been appreciated.

The purpose of this conference is to build on such substantial recent research, by extending both the breadth and the depth of this interrogation of Anglo-Irish relations in the early modern period. The contributors are all experts who have published widely in this field and are actively engaged in further original research.

This conference is a partnership between the Trinity Long Room Hub and the Lord Burghley 500 Foundation.

http://www.lordburghley500.org/

Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/