25.09.2012
November Date Announced for Church of Ireland Historical Society
The Church of Ireland Historical Society has announced that its next meeting will be held in the Chapter Room of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin on Saturday November 3.
PROGRAMME
10.30 Coffee and registration
11am Dr John Cronin, ‘Strafford’s “right–hand” in exile: Sir George Radcliffe during the Interregnum’
12pm Professor Eugenio Biagini, ‘Southern Protestants and the Ulster Crisis, 1912’
1pm Lunch
2pm Mr Paul Huddie, ‘“Sacred to the memory of…”: Church of Ireland memorials to the Crimean War, 1854–6’ [Research Paper]
3pm Dr Rachel Finnegan, ‘The Travels & “Curious Collections” of Richard Pococke’
Speakers:
· Dr John Cronin obtained his PhD from the European University Institute, Florence in 2007. In addition to teaching at NUI Galway, UCD, the City of Dublin VEC and in the Oscail programme in DCU, he has also worked on the Irish Battlefields Project and has overseen local history projects in county Galway. He is currently preparing a number of articles for publication, including a book about the Irish royalist social elite in exile for Four Courts Press.
· Prof. Eugenio Biagini is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Sydney Sussex College, Cambridge. He is an alumnus of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. His current interests include various aspects of Irish and British history since the early twentieth century, with particular reference to democracy, civil rights and religious minorities. Among his numerous publications is his British democracy and Irish nationalism (CUP, 2007)
· Mr Paul Huddie MA is a graduate of UCD. He is currently studying for this PhD in Queen’s University, Belfast. He is particularly interested in Ireland’s various responses to the Crimean War as an aspect of the growing interest in Ireland’s role in British imperial wars.
· Dr Rachel Finnegan has a BA from Trinity College Dublin & a PhD from NUI Maynooth. She has lectured at Waterford Institute of Technology since 1994. In 2008 she published a new edition of Richard Twiss’s A Tour of Ireland in 1775 with UCD Press. She also edited and published in two volumes Letters from Abroad: The Grand Tour Correspondence of Richard Pococke & Jeremiah Milles in 2011 and 2012.
Registration:
There will be an opportunity for members to renew their annual subscriptions, if they have not done so already. The annual subscription was fixed last November at £35 or €40. Non–members are most welcome. They are asked to subscribe £7 or €10 to assist with the expenses of the conference.
The Church of Ireland Historical Society meets twice a year: in the Public Library, Armagh, in April, and in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, in November. It exists to promote scholarly interest in the history of the Church, and to facilitate publication.
Queries may be addressed to Adrian Empey, Hon. Sec. Telephone +353–1–4055056 or e–mail: empeya@tcd.ie
[Parking is available in the high–rise commercial car park
behind Jury’s Hotel, which is opposite the cathedral. It is accessed from St Werburgh’s Street]