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Professor John McCafferty’s plenary address at the 2014 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference – A single witness: Ireland and Europe through the eyes of a small man with a big nose.
![Col. Maurice Moore to ‘Lord Mayor’ [Lorcan Sherlock], 25 December 1914](/assets/p102-353-002_960.jpg)
To round out this year’s ‘From the Archives’ series, December’s instalment finds Col. Maurice Moore of the pro-Redmond National Volunteers taking a moment after his Christmas dinner to press on with his plans to arm and equip the National Volunteers.
The Fourth Tudor and Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference took place at the Iontas Building, NUI Maynooth, from Friday, 29 August, to Saturday, 30 August, 2014. Papers on the origins of the Stuart post office, women and society, Jacobite propaganda, Plantation Ulster, and warfare offered unique glimpses into Ireland’s early modern past.
Thomas Piketty delivered the keynote address at the annual conference of TASC (Think-tank for Action on Social Change) at Croke Park, Dublin in June 2014. In association with TASC, History Hub presents an exclusive video recording of Piketty’s presentation, which was based on his acclaimed book.
In November 2012, as part of the UCD Humanities Institute Distinguished Guest Lecture Series, Visiting Professor Guoqi Xu gave this fascinating paper on the topic of ‘Asia and the First World War’.
