In October 2017 David Rieff visited Queen's University Belfast to speak about his book 'In Praise of Forgetting, Historical Memory and its Ironies'. The talk was jointly organised by the Belfast International Arts Festival and 'Commemorating Partition and Civil Wars in Ireland, 2020-23', an AHRC-funded project led by Dr Marie Coleman and Dr Dominic Bryan at Queen's.
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History Hub presents a number of documents relating to reaction in Ireland to the assassination of John F Kennedy on the 22nd of November 1963.
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Justin Dolan Stover is Assistant Professor of transnational European history at Idaho State University. As part of the AHRC-funded project: 'Commemorating Partition and Civil Wars in Ireland, 2020-23', Stover gave a paper in QUB in October 2017. The paper - Toward an Environmental History of the Irish Revolution - is now available to podcast.
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In this special episode to mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution, UCD historian Emeritus Professor Judith Devlin discusses one of the defining events of the 20th century. Devlin discusses the tumultuous events of the revolution, including: the lead up to the February Revolution; Lenin's return to Russia; the October Revolution and its aftermath; the ensuing Civil War; and how Russians commemorate the events of 1917.
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How do you commemorate a civil war? How do we approach the next part of the 'decade of centenaries', on both sides of the Border.
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