Áras an Uachtaráin, 27 May 2021 I hope you find today’s seminar interesting, thought-provoking, perhaps even a further reminder of the value of transacting history.
In choosing themes for today’s
Machnamh seminar, I was conscious that in the historiography of the 19th century, dominated as it was by the campaigns for Emancipation, Repeal, Home Rule, the anti-tithe movement, the underlying theme for all such campaigns carried the resonance of land; be it access to land, to security of tenure, response to changes in production, population pressure – it is always there.
The vocabulary of Irish history in relation to land contains some of the most emotive terms in Irish memory, terms such as ‘enclosure’, ‘occupation’, ‘settlement’ ‘plantation’ ’eviction’, ‘improvements’. Such resonating cries were all present in the discourse of the 19th century.
President Michael D. Higgins will be key-note speaker at a conference to be hosted by Ulster University s Magee Campus in Derry. Politicians, academics&nbs.
Event description
Online lecture by Turlough O Riordan, showcasing Kildare figures who feature in the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of Irish Biography About this event
The Dictionary of Irish Biography, produced by the Royal Irish Academy, is the most comprehensive and authoritative biographical dictionary yet published for Ireland. It comprises almost 11,000 lives which describe and assess the careers of subjects in all fields of endeavour, including politics, law, religion, literature, journalism, architecture, music and the arts, the sciences, medicine, entertainment and sport.
Turlough O’Riordan is digital and online editor of the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of Irish Biography.
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