Beidh ár gcruinniú roimh an chomhdháil bhliantúil ar siúl i gColáiste na Trionóide Dé Sathairn 14:00 11ú Feabhra 2012, seomra A6009. Annual Conference planning meeting to take place in TCD on the afternoon of Saturday 11/02/12 at 14:00 in room A6009 (Level 6, Arts Building). The Cumann Staire of NUIG will meet up inside the College Green gate at 13:40 if you don't know the TCD campus well. If any of you gets lost or are running late you can contact Deirdre on 087 997 2692. Every history student group is expected to send one or more representatives to the meeting. The annual affiliation fee of 50 euro per group should be paid after the meeting.

The Call For Papers for the annual conference will be officially opened on the 15th January 2012. A 200 word abstract should be submitted from that date, along with a short bio (c. 100 words) for inclusion in the conference programme. Is féidir iad sin a bheith as Gaeilge, Béarla nó dhátheangach. Download posters here and here - please place copies on all relevant notice boards in your institution.

The dates for the annual conference have been set for Friday 2nd of March - Sunday 4th of March 2012 and is being hosted by the Cumann Staire of Ollscoil na hÉireann Gaillimh in the student friendly City of the Tribes. Further information can be accessed via our Conference page and our Facebook Group page.

We are delighted to welcome the rebirth of a member group on the Magee campus of the Uinversity of Ulster. For too long the historic city of Doire has been a blank spot on the map; something that would have been difficult to believe back in the early decades of the CCS-IHSA. Best fo luck to Tomás Ó Brógáin and his team as they build a new Cumann Staire - History Society in the North-West.

Dr Adrian Grant is currently in the process of establishing a new online Irish history magazine called Scoláire Staire (History Scholar). The projected release date is October 2011 and they are currently looking for authors among the postgrad and recently graduated PhD community in Irish universities. If you have any ideas for short articles, reviews or anything else you think might fit in the magazine you can contact them at scolairestaire@gmail.com Click on this following links for more information:
WordPress blog
Facebook page

Well done UCC on a very smoothly run and enjoyable conference! It was evident a lot of hard work had been put into organising the weekend from both an academic and social viewpoint and the team lead by Sarah-Anne Buckley and Alan Noonan deserved all the praise directed their way. We can all look forward to a great 2012 conference as it will be hosted on the banks of the Gaillimh river by the leading history student society in the country the Cumann Staire of NUIG - Ollscoil na hÉireann Gaillimh. Go n-éirí le Christina Folsom mar phríomh-eagraí na comhdhála 2012.

The Comhaltas na gCumann Staıre - Irish History Students Association would like to welcome the Irish Labour History Association as a prize sponsor for the 2011 conference. This new prize for an outstanding paper in the relevant subject area brings to five the number of such annual prizes for which our brightest history students can compete for at the Comhdháil Bhliantúil. Full details of all the prizes and their generous sponsors are available on the Iris page.

The Cumann Staire - Historical Society of UCC have announced that the keynote speaker at the 2011 Annual Conference will be John A. Murphy, Emeritus Professor of History (Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh). Further conference details are being regularly added to the event's main page - click here.

Congratulations to the following winners of the 2010 Conference Prizes:
Irish Economic and Social History Prize: Gordon Rees (QUB)
Military Heritage Prize: Paul Maguire (St Patrick’s, Drumcondra)
Church of Ireland Historical Society Prize: Suzanne Forbes (UCD)
The Robert Dudley Edwards Prize for best undergraduate paper: Helen Esther Luettgen (UCC)

The Comhaltas na gCumann Staıre would like to thank all those who submitted their papers and would also like to express its sincere gratitude to the academic judges who took time out from their busy schedules to assess the applications. Finally the Association would like to express its deep appreciation to the Military Heritage Trust, the Irish Economic and Social History Society, and the Church of Ireland Historical Society for their generosity and encouragement of student history.

Due to weather issues the annual meeting to discuss the upcoming conference has been moved to Saturday 11th December in TCD. It would be great if most of the member colleges could send someone. For those that can attend, we will meet outside the Nassau Street entrance of the Trinity campus (at the bottom of Dawson Street) at 14:30

The Call For Papers has now been issued for the 2011 Annual Conference of the CCS - IHSA. Abstracts should be a maximum length of 300 words and must be emailed to 2011ihsa@gmail.com, with a brief author profile, by 22Jan2011. Please print off and post on relevant college notice boards this poster (pdf).

Writing Irish Art History is a seminar on the historiography of Irish art taking place on 20 November, in TRIARC, Provost's Stables, Trinity College Dublin. Topics to be covered include: reassessing key texts in Irish art history; the role of institutions in historiography; the significance of the artist’s statement in writing art history. Additional information is available here and on triarc.ie.

People, places and memory: interdisciplinary studies in Early Modern Ireland is a conference is being hosted by the School of Archaeology and Geography, NUIG and is supported by the Irish Post-Medieval Archaeological Group (IPMAG). It is hoped that the one day event will provide a supportive environment in which post-graduates can present their research and make fruitful contacts with others working outside of their own disciplines. Each paper should be 20 minutes long and abstracts, of no more then 300 words, should be submitted to earlymodernirelandconference@gmail.com by Friday 30/04/10. Tá an comhdháil ar siúil Dé hAoine 27/08/10. Additional information is available here.

The editors of History Studies invite the submission of papers for inclusion in volume eleven. This journal is jointly produced by University of Limerick History Society and their Department of History. The journal is refereed by a panel of distinguished historians and is an established periodical in the field of historical scholarship. Papers can be up to 5,000 words in length and details are available on this Call For Papers notice (PDF). Please print off and place it on relevant college notice boards.

The full timetable can now be downloaded as a PDF and lists all the events including speakers, paper titles and venue details. Further associated information can be found on the Comhdháil 2010 Conference page.

Dr Kathy Swift will give a talk on John O Donovan and Eugene O Curry at 19:00 in room 202 of Mary I (CMS) Dé Máirt 16/02/10. Both these men travelled the whole of Ireland in the 1830s collecting local information and stories; this talk promises to be of great interest to anyone specialising in Irish society of the time or the popular area of local history. Beidh piontaí agus comhrá i dTigh Fennessey ina dhiaidh; mar is gnáth!

An tOllamh Diarmaid Ferriter will visit TCD, as part of their SHAG Week events, to speak on the changing attitudes to sex and sexuality in 19th and 20th century Ireland. DU History Society is hosting the talk, entitled 'Occasions of Sin: Sex and Society in Modern Ireland', in room 3074 at 19:00 Dé Máirt 09/02/10 and it is open to all.

An exceptional number of abstracts have been submitted for this year's conference and we would like to thank all who emailed in such an interesting selection of presentation proposals. Every effort has been made to fit in so many papers into the day and a provisional timetable (pdf) is now available to download listing all the speakers; room numbers will be added as soon as they are confirmed.

The Cumann Staire of OÉ Gaillimh (NUIG) is pleased to host Prof. Louis Vos of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven on 03/02/2010. His lecture is entitled 'Nationalism in Belgium: Shifting Identities 1780-2000' and will take place at 19:00 in léachtlann Siobhán Mac Kenna (AM building). Tuilleadh eolais.

The deadline for the receipt of abstracts has been extended until Monday, the 25th of January. Abstracts should be emailed to 2010ihsa@gmail.com Once this deadline has passed all those who have submitted an abstract will receive an email to confirm that their abstract has been received successfully.

A Call For Papers has now been issued for the 2010 Annual Conference of the CCS - IHSA. Abstracts should be a maximum length of 250 words and must be emailed to 2010ihsa@gmail.com, with a short author profile, by 18Jan2010. Please print off and post on relevant college notice boards this bi-lingual poster (pdf).

The Church of Ireland Historical Society is to fund a 250 euro prize for the best paper on the Church of Ireland presented at the annual conference; visit our Iris - Journal page for more details on the awards available. Gabhaimid buíochas leis an easpag Adrian Empey.

Book launch of In Search of the Promised Land by Gary Murphy in the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Dawson St, Baile Átha Cliath Dé Céadaoin 25/11/09 at 18:30. In Search Of The Promised Land is a head-on challenge to the prevailing view that Post-Second World War Ireland was in a state of chaos. Gary Murphy argues that the Irish political and administrative establishment was much more in tune with events in Western Europe than has been allowed for to date. Murphy contends that rather than pursuing a conservative and isolationist agenda, the leaders of the country were actively considering changes such as joining the EEC, opening up the economy to competition and were seeking new ways to deal with the state’s challenges.

Conference planning meeting to take place in TCD on 28/11/10 at 15:00. Meet around 14:50 at the Nassau St. entrance to the campus. Seo léarscáil (pdf) den gcampas; tá an geata ag bun Sráid Dhásain.

Tonaí Ó Roduibh has assumed the role of webmaster for the CCS - IHSA and will design, build and roll-out a new website. This website will repace the temporary website put in place in 2007 and will go live in the autumn of 2009. Tonaí designed and built the website for the Cumann Staire of Ollscoil na hÉireann Gaillimh (NUIG) and will build the new website to the same high standard based on PHP and CSS2. Two key benefits of the creation of a rich and permanent web presence are the easy access to information on the association and its events, and in aiding those engaged in planning the annual conference through allowing them review how the event was organised in previous years. The creation of a suitable presence on the internationally popular social networking site Facebook also mirrors the progress of the Cumann Staire in building a multi-faceted electronic presence that facilitates communication with members, similar organisations and the wider public.