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RSAI TALK: Grandeur and decline: Henrietta Street and the making of Dublin’s Tenements 1800–1900 by Dr Timothy Murtagh About this event
We are delighted to invite you to our next talk, which will take place on Monday 10 May at 7.30pm via ZOOM. Titled Grandeur and decline: Henrietta Street and the making of Dublin’s Tenements 1800–1900, it will be delivered by Dr Tim Murtagh.
Dr Tim Murtagh is an expert on the history of Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, whose interests include urban, social and transnational histories. Tim’s doctoral work concerned the workers of Dublin and Belfast in the late eighteenth century, particularly the political activities of working-class radicals. A book based on his doctoral work will appear in 2022 with Liverpool University Press, entitled Apprenticeship to Revolution: Irish Artisans and Radical Politics, 1770-1820. After being awarded his PhD by Trinity College in 2015, Tim was then appointed
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A considerable number of the Boyle women’s letters have survived and these can be found in twenty-one repositories situated across Ireland, England, Scotland, and the United States of America. Spanning three generations and incorporating twenty-six different female correspondents, the letters date from 1605 to 1691 and offer a tantalizing glimpse into the Boyle women’s daily lives and their preoccupations set against the backdrop of monumental change in Britain and Ireland. The letters reveal how the women perceived their roles and relationships within both their own families and their households, across their landed estates, in their local communities, and among other members of the privileged elite. The letters also reflect the women’s lived experiences of girlhood, marriage, motherhood, and widowhood. The letters show how these female correspondents made use of their pens and the epistolary medium to navigate personal crises and to keep the familial bonds
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