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Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies
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Promoting Irish History in Ulster since 1936.
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Thanks so much to Dr Seán Ó Hoireabhárd for such a fascinating (and beautifully illustrated!) paper to USIHS last night. It was an excellent way to begin this year's seminar series. The recording will be up on the website soon! @hoireabhard.bsky.social
Seán stood at the lectern while Simon introduces him Seán stands at the lectern. The slide on the wall says Gaelic Politics and the Gaelic Polity and it has a Medieval illustration of a man hitting another man in the head with an axe
October 17, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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This semester's seminar series will begin in a few weeks!

All are very welcome to join us in person (27 University Square, QUB) or online. For more information, stay tuned to the USIHS Bluesky or head to our website usihs36.com
Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies Seminars, Autumn 2025 Seminars usually take place in hybrid format on Thursdays at 6pm. In person seminars are hosted in the Institute of Irish Studies, 27 University Square, Queen’s University Belfast. Please sign up to the Eventbrite for a link to the Teams meeting – these will be circulated to the USIHS mailing list and on the USIHS Bluesky. Thursday 16 October: Seán Ó Hoireabhárd (Maynooth University), When Ulster became Ulster and Meath became Meath: The divorce of the Northern and Southern Uí Néill in the Central Middle Ages Thursday 13 November: Bridget Keown (University of Pittsburgh), title TBD Please note this seminar will be online only and will take place at 7pm (GMT). Thursday 4 December: Henry Jefferies (UU), Irish women and the Reformation All are welcome to join us! If you would like to join the USIHS mailing list, please get in touch – details can be found on the USIHS website (www.usihs36.com)
September 29, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Thank you to @tortietabby.bsky.social for an excellent J.C. Beckett Lecture last night - what a brilliant way to round off the 2024/25 year of talks! We'll be back in the autumn with more.
A woman (with a great dress and earrings) standing behind a PRONI lectern. The title slide behind her reads The Anti-Abortion Movement in Ireland
May 23, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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The 35th Irish Conference of Historians @muahi.bsky.social will take place on 12-13 September and the call for papers is currently open! Proposals on the theme of 'Inner Lives and Outer Realities' should be submitted by 31 March 2025.
Inner Lives and Outer Realities How does the individual experience history? How are lives lived against the backdrop of conflict and revolutions, of social transformation and religious change? Such questions raise a central issue of historical interpretation – that concerning the relationship between the exercise of individual agency and the circumscribing influence of social, political and cultural context. This relationship – or perhaps, more accurately, this tension – was famously captured by Karl Marx: ‘men make their own history,’ he observed, ‘but they do not make it as they please’. Taking a lead from Emma Rothschild’s 2011 study, The inner life of empires, a book which uses a single family to explore the revolutionary transformations – political, intellectual and imperial – of the eighteenth century, the 2025 Irish Conference of Historians will seek to interrogate this relationship. Keynote addresses will be delivered by Professor Lindsey Earner-Byrne (Trinity College Dublin) and Professor M’Hamed Oualdi (European University Institute), and paper and panel proposals are invited on the theme, broadly defined, of ‘Inner Lives and Outer Realities’. These may include, but are not limited to, proposals addressing the individual’s experience of war and conflict; social transformation; urbanisation; religious change (including, especially, the Reformation and Counter-Reformation); cultural and linguistic change; revolution; and colonisation and de-colonisation. Proposals should be sent to ich2025@mu.ie by 31 March 2025. A limited number of bursaries covering the conference registration fee and campus accommodation will be available to doctoral researchers and precariously employed academics. Applicants wishing to be considered for a bursary should indicate this clearly when submitting their proposals.
March 3, 2025 at 11:47 AM