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In this post a video recording of a conference paper by Professor Mary E. Daly (UCD). The paper – The final years of the workhouse and its dissolution – was given as part of a Birr Historical Society conference on Birr Workhouse which took place in September 2013.
The first of a monthly series of ‘From the Archives’ documents, (Revolutionary Decade Archival Collection) finds a 35 year old Terence MacSwiney writing to his sister Margaret (Peg), a nun then living in America and working as a teacher while writing a doctoral dissertation on the German philosopher and Nobel laureate, Rudolf Eucken.
In 2010 Professor Diarmaid Ferriter (UCD School of History and Archives) gave a presentation on a selection of images from the Press Photographs of Éamon de Valera, a UCD Digital Library Collection.
Dr Stephen Kelly (Liverpool Hope University) looks at the life of Cardinal John Henry Newman.
This series is a collection of academic podcasts on a wide range of historical subjects. It ranges in scope from full recordings of academic research papers to informative contributions from professional historians discussing specific historical figures and events. This series is where you’ll find content not covered in our other series, which are more focussed on specific topics.
