2007 Schools’ Prize in History Trinity College, Dublin, in association with Four Courts Press, History Ireland and The Irish Times

The annual Schools’ Prize in History is run by Trinity College, Dublin, in association with Four Courts Press, History Ireland and The Irish Times.  This all-Ireland project/essay competition is open […]

Michael Davitt Centenary Conference

Around 130 people attended this conference, including about twenty of the Davitt family. The conference was addressed by eighteen speakers, from England, Scotland, the United States and Ireland, North and […]

‘Bare bones of a fanlight’: Georgian Dublin

This conference, convened by Gillian O’Brien and Finola O’Kane Crimmins from UCD, brought together 37 international speakers from a broad interdisciplinary background—history, literature, art and architecture—to explore the subject of […]

The other women of 1916

In October 1914, two months after the outbreak of the Great War, the civilian voluntary effort to support Irish troops at home and at the front was coordinated for the […]

Poring over the entrails: History Ireland readers’ survey

It’s stating the obvious, but no less true for that, to say that History Ireland wouldn’t exist without its readers. Over the years, many of you have taken the time […]