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Louvain 2007

Celebration of the 400th anniversary of the foundation of St Anthony’s, the Irish Franciscan College, in Louvain. Louvain 2007 is a celebration of the foundation by the IrishFranciscans of St […]

In conjunction with the 2006 Chicago Humanities Festival, whose themethis year is Peace and War, the Irish Fellowship Club of Chicago, theBritish Consulate General of Chicago and the Irish Consulate […]

Across the water: Ireland and Scotland in the nineteenth century

The annual conference of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland (SSNCI) was held at Magee College, Derry, on 16 and 17 June 2006. Hosted by the Institute of […]

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 […]

April 20

1968 In what became known as the ‘rivers of blood’ speech, Enoch Powell MP strongly criticised mass immigration, especially Commonwealth immigration to the UK, and the then proposed Race Relations Act.
1954 Michael Manning (25), a carter from Groody, Limerick city, was hanged in Mountjoy Jail for the murder of an elderly nurse. He was the last person to be judicially executed in the Republic of Ireland. The last judicial execution in Northern Ireland took place seven years later, in December 1961, when Robert McGladdery (26) from Newry was hanged for the murder of a local woman.
1912 Abraham ‘Bram’ Stoker (65), author, notably of Dracula (1897), died.
1954 Michael Manning (25), a carter from Limerick, was hanged in Mountjoy prison for the murder of an elderly nurse. He was the last man to be judicially executed in the Republic of Ireland.

Louvain 2007

O’Neill Symposium

Across the water: Ireland and Scotland in the nineteenth century

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

Michael Davitt Centenary Conference

Personal Histories

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April 20