History Ireland

26/09/2025

18/09/2025

📣 Meet the Speaker
In advance of the National Monuments Service 8th Annual Archaeology Conference we will be introducing you to the speakers and their topics.
Our next speaker is Dr Alexandra Chan
📍 Talk Title: Becoming American: the archaeology of enslavement and racialisation at the Isaac Royall House, an eighteenth-century Massachusetts slaveholding estate
Dr Alexandra Chan is a historical archaeologist who has taught at Vassar College and worked extensively in cultural resource management. She led the excavations at the Royall House and continues to serve on the museum’s Academic Advisory Council.
📌 Within|Without: The Archaeology of Partitions
🗓 Saturday 18 October 2025
🕘 9:15 AM – 5:30 PM
📍 Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin
🌍 In-person & online attendance available
🎟️ Booking now open:
👉 https://bit.ly/Within-Without
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🙏 With thanks to:

12/09/2025

🗓 12 September 2025
📢 Time to register!
Be part of Within|Without: The Archaeology of Partitions—a day exploring how divisions have shaped our shared past.
Within|Without: The Archaeology of Partitions
🗓 Saturday 18 October 2025
🕘 9:15 AM – 5:30 PM
📍 Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin
🌍 In-person and online options
This is the final reminder—concession and general places are almost gone!
👉 https://bit.ly/Within-Without
With thanks to:
monuments service-archaeology
O’Sullivan TD
Housing
National Monuments Service - Archaeology
Archaeology Ireland
History Ireland

10/09/2025

📣 Meet the Speaker
In advance of the National Monuments Service 8th Annual Archaeology Conference we will be introducing you to the speakers and their topics.
Our next speaker is Dr Melanie Hayes
📍 Talk Title: Behind the façade: materiality, craft and display at the Provost’s House, Trinity College Dublin
Dr Melanie Hayes is an architectural historian and research fellow on the ERC Advanced Grant project STONE-WORK at Trinity College Dublin. Her work highlights the collaborative practices in eighteenth-century architecture and redefines how we understand labour and craft in the period.
📌 Within|Without: The Archaeology of Partitions
🗓 Saturday 18 October 2025
🕘 9:15 AM – 5:30 PM
📍 Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin
🌍 In-person & online attendance available
🎟️ Booking now open:
👉 https://bit.ly/Within-Without
⸻
🙏 With thanks to:

05/09/2025

📣 Time to register!
Be part of Within|Without, the archaeology conference exploring how partitions shape who we are.
Within|Without: The Archaeology of Partitions
🗓 Saturday 18 October 2025
🕘 9:15 AM – 5:30 PM
📍 Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin
🌍 In-person and online options
From walls to words—join a day of dialogue on how we divide and connect across time.
👉 https://bit.ly/Within-Without
With thanks to:
monuments service-archaeology
O’Sullivan TD
Housing
National Monuments Service - Archaeology
Archaeology Ireland
History Ireland

05/09/2025

A New History Ireland Hedge School Podcast is now available!

Making sense of Trump’s America
(Recorded live on Friday 29 August ’25 @ the Electric Picnic)

Join History Ireland editor Tommy Graham in conversation with Dan Mulhall, Irish ambassador in Washington during President Trump’s first administration. What was Trump like? How can his success be explained? Is his legacy now permanently entrenched in the US political system? What are the implications for the wider world—and Ireland?

05/09/2025

New History Ireland Hedge School Podcast is available now!

Where stands Dev 50 years on?
(Recorded live on Saturday 30 August ’25 @ the Electric Picnic)

Admired and reviled in equal measure, Éamon de Valera was Ireland’s longest-serving taoiseach and a two-term president. Join History Ireland editor Tommy Graham for a lively round-table discussion to assess his legacy 50 years after his death, with Deirdre Foley (TCD & Women’s History Association of Ireland), Michael Kennedy (Documents on Irish Foreign Policy), David McCullagh (RTÉ & Dev’s biographer) and Martin Mansergh (former Fianna Fáil politician & government adviser).

03/09/2025

📣 Meet the Speaker

In advance of the National Monuments Service 8th Annual Archaeology Conference we will be introducing you to the speakers and their topics.

Our next speaker is Dr Margaret Murphy
📍 Talk Title: Inside, outside and through town walls: urban–rural relationships in late medieval Ireland

Dr Margaret Murphy is a medieval historian specialising in the social and economic history of Ireland and Britain between 1200 and 1500. She is Vice-President for Academic Affairs and Registrar at Carlow College, St Patrick’s, and co-author of The Dublin Region in the Middle Ages.

📌 Within|Without: The Archaeology of Partitions
🗓 Saturday 18 October 2025
🕘 9:15 AM – 5:30 PM
📍 Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin
🌍 In-person & online attendance available

🎟️ Booking now open:
👉 https://bit.ly/Within-Without

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🙏 With thanks to:

27/08/2025

History Event at Dromana House, Co. Waterford - A special history event will take place at Dromana House on Sunday, 21st September, featuring Robert O’Byrne (The Irish Aesthete) and Willie Fraher of Waterford County Museum.
The event coincides with a weekend of celebrations in Villierstown, marking the 275th anniversary of the founding of the estate village, originally established to support a linen weaving industry.
A great opportunity for history and heritage enthusiasts!
Spaces are limited – early booking is recommended
📞 For information on Villierstown events, contact Mary at 087 1371500

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/reimagining-ireland-including-dromana-in-the-18th-century-tickets-1452728392729?aff=oddtdtcreatorite&fbclid=IwY2xjawMb9FhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETF5VkNuU0FObm1NS2QwdU9SAR7d2UQ_hzTTR2o4zrbideczOAoj7NbHyIKdoJHxi6I1X9hUE_Bj7J8Qw_3-Ig_aem_ioSLdRcn-F9GI4L_iyRxjw

27/08/2025

📚 From the Archives of Archaeology Ireland
What Lies Beneath – Chasing the Trim Town Wall Circuit
📰 Archaeology Ireland, Spring 2016 (Vol. 30:1)
Urban defences speak volumes about control, security, and access. This article follows the traces of Trim’s medieval town walls—revealing how even partial remains of a boundary can shape a town’s identity.
📖 Read the article here:
🔗 https://reader.exacteditions.com/issues/54692/spread/34
📌 Within|Without: The Archaeology of Partitions
🗓 Saturday 18 October 2025
🕘 9:15 AM – 5:30 PM
📍 Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin
🌍 In-person & online attendance available
🎟️ Booking now open:
👉 https://bit.ly/Within-Without
⸻
With thanks to:Archaeology