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On the 9th of November 2022, Roger Moorhouse presented: ‘The Ładoś Group and the attempted rescue of Polish Jews’, a public lecture to coincide with the anniversary of the November Pogrom. The lecture took place in Trinity College Dublin and was co-organised by Holocaust Education Ireland, The Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Ireland, UCD School of History, and TCD School of Histories and Humanities.
Roger Moorhouse is a historian and author, specialising in Nazi Germany, Central Europe and World War Two in Europe. A visiting professor at the College of Europe in Warsaw, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society in London, he is the author of a number of books, including “The Devils’ Alliance” (2014), “Berlin at War” (2010), and “First to Fight” (2019) – which won the Polish Foreign Ministry History Prize in 2020.
On the 9th of November 2022, Roger Moorhouse presented: ‘The Ładoś Group and the attempted rescue of Polish Jews’, a public lecture to coincide with the anniversary of the November Pogrom. The lecture took place in Trinity College Dublin and was co-organised by Holocaust Education Ireland, The Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Ireland, UCD School of History, and TCD School of Histories and Humanities.
The lecture was recorded and is now available to podcast on Spotify, Apple and Soundcloud.
Holocaust Education Ireland is the independent and non-profit organisation which aims to educate and inform about the Holocaust and its consequences. History Hub has recorded several Holocaust Education Ireland events, including a UCD lecture by Dr Anna Hájková (Warwick) on ‘Between Love and Coercion: Sexuality in the Holocaust’ which is also available to podcast on our channels on Spotify, Apple and Soundcloud.
Holocaust Education Ireland’s Holocaust Memorial Lecture for 2024 was given by Prof. Doris L. Bergen from University of Toronto. A podcast of her lecture – “The Holocaust as World History” – is now available on History Hub.
In this episode, a recording of a paper – ‘”Éire Saor agus Gaelach?”: The Military Service Pensions Collection and the Irish language’ – by Dr Síobhra Aiken from Queen’s University Belfast. The paper was part of UCD School of History’s Mícheál Ó Cléirigh seminar series, in collaboration with the UCD Decade of Centenaries project ‘Everyday Life In The Irish Revolution’ which is run by UCD’s Dr Fionnuala Walsh. Dr Aiken’s talk, which was recorded on November 10 2023, was entitled: ‘”Éire Saor agus Gaelach?”: The Military Service Pensions Collection and the Irish language’.
‘Women and the Irish Constitution: a roundtable discussion’ took place on 13 February 2024 in UCD Humanities Institute. The panel included contributions from Dr Mary McAuliffe (UCD, chair) Prof. Caitriona Beaumont (London South Bank University), Associate Professor Jennifer Redmond (Maynooth University), Orla O’Connor (National Women’s Council), Prof. Lindsey Earner Byrne (Trinity College Dublin) and the Sutherland School of Law Poet in Residence, Julie Morrissy.
