NEWS & EVENTS

May 9th 2012

Dr Laura O'Brien, an IRCHSS CARA postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History, has just been awarded the Society for the Study of French History annual prize for the best article in French History in 2011. Her prize-winning article: 'Cette nouvelle transformation du gamin de Paris: The figures of the Mobile Guard and vivandières in popular culture in 1848' is available on-line from the journal French History, vol. 25, September 2011 (external)

Mar 14th 2012

Congratulations to Caoimhe Whelan, who has just been awarded by IRCHSS the Daniel O’ Connell Scholarship (awarded annually to the highest ranked scholar in the area of Irish history under the Council's Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme) for her project ‘Translating Cambrensis: the Late Medieval History of Giraldus’s English Conquest of Ireland.’

Feb 27th 2012

SHH Newsletter Apr 2012 (PDF, 1.5mb)

28/10/2011

Dr Peter Cherry, lecturer in the History of Art department, has discovered a previously unknown painting by Spanish artist Diego Velazquez