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Papers of Desmond and Mabel FitzGerald
Three documents from the Desmond and Mabel FitzGerald Papers (UCD Archives) released as part of our From the Archives Centenary Special. Includes a letter from GB Shaw.
Podcasts from the Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference 2014
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.
1014: Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf
In the first of a two-part video series for History Hub to mark 1000 years since the Battle of Clontarf, Dr Elva Johnston (UCD) discusses Brian Boru, the battle in 1014, and how the story of the battle was shaped by Brian Boru’s descendants. Image: Battle of Clontarf, oil on canvas painting by Hugh Frazer …
Battle of Clontarf Video Series
This special two-part History Hub series was commissioned to mark 1000 years since the Battle of Clontarf. The videos, 1014: Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf and Commemorating Clontarf: 1014 through the Ages, were wholly funded by the UCD School of History and Archives.
The final years of the workhouse and its dissolution
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.
