FORUM LECTURE SERIES 2014-15
3 OCTOBER 2014
Dr. Patrick Maume (Royal Irish Academy)
Michael McCarthy – an Edwardian ex-Catholic social commentator
7 NOVEMBER 2014
Dr. Stephen Kelly (Liverpool Hope University)
The totality of relationships – the Haughy/Thatcher relationship reconsidered
5 DECEMBER 2014
Dr. Paul Ryan (NUIM)
Exploring intimate family life through the lens of a problem page in an Irish newspaper, 1963-80
6 FEBRUARY 2015
Dr. Niall O’Ciosain (NUIG)
A comparative look at publishing and reading in Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, and Breton, 1700-1900
6 MARCH 2015
Mr. Sean Bagnall MA (NUIM)
The moral economy – how the poor survived in 1830s Ireland
27 MARCH 2015
Prof. Brendan McConvery (Pontifical University, Maynooth)
Hell-fire, company-keeping, poitin – Redemptorist parish missions in Ireland revisited
8 MAY 2015
Mr. Rob Goodbody MA (NUIM)
Schools in Dublin in the late 18th and 19th century
5 JUNE 2015
Ms. Catherine Fleming MA (NUIM)
Transportation of women from Kildare to Van Dieman’s land in 1849