The Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses & Estates, NUIM in association with Strokestown Park House
6ú Samhain 2011 - 22ú Aibreán 2012
6/11/11 - 22/04/12

1. Evictions in Ireland between the Famine and the Land War
   Dr Gerard Moran (NUIM)
   15:00 Dé Domhnaigh 06/11/11
2. At war every day? The Strokestown estate, 1851-60
   Dr Ciarán Reilly (NUIM)
   15:00 Dé Domhnaigh 27/11/11
3. Clanricarde’s planters and land agitation in East Galway
   Dr Miriam Moffitt (NUIM)
   15:00 Dé Domhnaigh 05/02/12
   
4. The Ranch War in Co. Sligo, 1908: Cattle drives, boycotting and conspiracy
   Dr Patrick Cosgrove (NUIM)
   15:00 Dé Domhnaigh 04/03/12
   
5. Strokestown - the evolution of a planned village
   Dr Susan Hood (RCB Library)
   15:00 Dé Domhnaigh 22/04/12

Áit Location: Ros Comáin / Roscommon
Enquiries to Strokestown Park House only. +353.71.9633013
rphost email: info@strokestownpark.ie

Naomh Fursa
Imbolc - Oíche Fhéile Bríde 2012, 19:00
St Brigit's Eve 31/01/12

Galway City Museum will host an informative and entertaining evening of talk and music on some of the early Irish saints. Professor Pádraig Ó Riain, the eminent hagiologist, will give a lecture on Naomh Fursa, a famous saint whose cult is associated with various sites in Galway, including Kilursa (Cill Fhursa) near Áth Cinn, and the well-known Galway primary school named for him, Scoil Fhursa on St Mary’s Road. To cap the event, Pádraig Ó Riain’s monumental work, A Dictionary of Irish Saints, will be launched by the Ven. Gary Hastings, Rector of Galway and Archdeacon of Tuam.

Áit Location: Músaem Cathrach na Gaillimhe
Táille Fee: -
rphost email: -
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Recent Excavations at Baile Chláir
9ú Eanair 2012, 19:30
09/01/12

This talk will present the preliminary results of an archaeological excavation undertaken at Baile Chláir (Claregalway), Co. Na Gaillimhe, on behalf of the Oifig na nOibreacha Poiblí (OPW) and Comhairle Chontae na Gaillimhe. The works were undertaken in advance of flood relief works on the river Clár (Abhainn an Chláir). Finds included worked bone, glass, ceramic roof and floor tile, pottery, and range of metal and stone artefacts. Brian Mac Domhnaill will outline the excavation process and how ongoing specialist input and scientific dating have contributed to post-excavation analysis and reporting. Brian is Survey Manager for Rubicon Heritage Services Ltd. He graduated from UCC in 1997 and spent many years as a field archaeologist before completing an MSc in Palaeoecology at QUB in 2002. (Lecture duration will be 30mins and will be followed by the AGM of Cumann Seandálaíochta Agus Staire Na Gaillimhe - Galway Archaeological & Historical Society)

Áit Location: Harbour Hotel, Cathair na Gaillimhe
Táille Fee: -
rphost email: info@gahs.info
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The War of Independence in the Midlands
26ú Samhain 2011
26/11/11

The Old Athlone Society to mark the 90th anniversary of its end is holding a conference on the War of Independence in the Midlands. The application form and brochure for the conference, which will be held in Custume Barracks (Áth Luain), can be downloaded here. Places are limited to 100 which is the capacity of the auditorium.

Áit Location: Áth Luain / Athlone
Táille Fee: 35 euro
rphost email: midlandconference@gmail.com
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Association of Young Irish Archaeologists 2011 Conference
4ú Márta 2011
04/03/11

A conference set up to give young or newly graduated archaeologists a forum to present their research and is hosted by archaeology student groups yearly in different Irish universities. This year it is being hosted by UCD.

Áit Location: BÁC / Dublin
Táille Fee:
rphost email: ayiaucd@gmail.com
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Aistir 2010
25ú - 28ú Bealtaine 2010
25-28/05/10

The annual international student history conference of Ollscoil na hÉireann Gaillimh - NUI Galway next takes place in May 2010. This event is always extremely popular and is a credit to the organisational skills of the reknowned Cumann Staire of NUIG. There are opportunities to present papers and/or take part in group seminars with students from different European universities as well as to enjoy the social life of Ireland's party capital! Aistir 2010 is an official International Students of History Association event.

Áit Location: Gaillimh / Galway
Táille Fee:
rphost email: cumannstaire@socs.nuigalway.ie
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Chaucer at Galway
19ú - 20ú Bealtaine 2010
19-20/05/10

A multi-disciplinary conference on Geoffrey Chaucer will be held in the Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh, Ireland on 19th-20th May 2010. Proposals for papers on any aspect of Chaucer’s work, life, milieu, influence, etc. are welcome. Individual sessions will be framed around the themes that emerge from the call for papers.
Key-note papers will be given by

• Professor Alastair Minnis, Yale University (SAM)
• Professor Helen Phillips, Cardiff University (Cymru)
• Professor John Thompson, Queen’s University, Belfast (Éire)

Please send a 200-word proposal by 25/01/2010 to: cliona.carney@nuigalway.ie

Áit Location: Gaillimh / Galway
Táille Fee:
rphost email: cliona.carney@nuigalway.ie
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Biography and Identity: Dilemmas and Opportunities
6ú - 9ú Bealtaine 2010
06-09/05/10

The Graduate Conference in European History (GRACEH) is the fourth in a series of conferences organized by the Central European University (CEU), Budapest and the European University Institute (EUI), Florence. It is a forum for graduate students to share their research with students and scholars. The working language of the conference is English. Applications are invited for the next conference titled “Biography and Identity: Dilemmas and Opportunities”, to be held at the Central European University in Budapest, in May 2010. Send a 300 word abstract and a brief CV in a single Word document by 01/02/2010. Presentations are to be 15 minutes in length and final papers are due by 15/04/2010. There will be no registration fee and lunches and coffee will be provided. Funding for travel and accommodation may be available from GRACEH on an individual basis on request. Information regarding accommodation in Budapest will be sent along with notification of acceptance. Postgrad student members of the Cumann Staire planning on attending the conference should read the guidelines on seeking financial assistance from the CS on our Iarchéimithe web page.

Áit Location: Budapest (An Ungáir / Magyarország)
Táille Fee: -
rphost email: graceh@ceu.hu
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Irish Christianity and the Gaelic World before the coming of the Vikings
9ú - 11ú Aibreáin 2010
09-11/04/10

The Roscrea Spring Conference weekend, the 46th gathering at Mount St Joseph Abbey, has the interesting theme of Irish Christianity and the Gaelic World before the coming of the Vikings.

Áit Location: Ros Cré (Tiobraid Árann / Tipperary)
Táille Fee:
rphost email: georgencunningham@eircom.net

Economic History Society Annual Conference
26ú - 28ú Márta 2010
26-28/03/10

The 2010 Annual Conference will be held at Collingwood College and the Science Site, University of Durham, England. The Economic History Society, of Britain, exists to support reseach and teaching in economic and social history, broadly defined. It does this through publications, including the Economic History Review and a range of textbooks and study packs, through conferences and workshops, through the finance of research fellowships and research grants, and through bursaries and prizes for new research scholars.

Áit Location: Durham (Sasana / England)
Táille Fee:
rphost email: ehsocsec@arts.gla.ac.uk
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Tionól 2009
20ú - 21ú Samhain 2009
20-21/11/09

The School of Celtic Studies hosts its annual colloquium, at which papers of relevance to the field of Celtic studies are read and discussed. This year's Tionól takes place at the School of Celtic Studies, 10 Burlington Road, Baile Átha Cliath 4 and the statutory public lecture is in the Thomas Davis Theatre, Trinity College Dublin. This year's public lecture is entitled 'Women's rights and duties in early Irish law, with special reference to marriage' and will be presented by the leading brehon law expert Fergus Kelly.
Sa mbliain 1940 is ea bunaíodh Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh. Cuireadh in úil in Acht um Institiúid Ard-Leighinn na bliana san an bonn a bheadh faoi dhá scoil na hInstitiúide: Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh agus Scoil na Fisice Teoraicí. (Tamall ina dhiaidh is ea bunaíodh an tríú scoil, Scoil na Fisice Cosmaí.)

Áit Location: Baile Átha Cliath (Éire / Ireland)
Táille Fee:
rphost email: webmaster@celt.dias.ie
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