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Dr Andrew McDiarmid is a historian working on the financial and cultural impact of the tontine in Britain and Ireland. He also has an interest in Early Modern Britain, Ireland and the colonies, in particular the history of money and the Financial Revolutions.

Irial Glynn is a migration historian and his research focuses principally on the period after 1945. His current research principally revolves around three projects. First, he is the principal investigator of an European Research Council Consolidator project about the global history of boat refugees since the 1940s. This is a five-year project that investigates how notions of solidarity, sovereignty and sanctuary influenced the experience and reception of boat refugees across time and space. Second, he is finalising a book project looking at how migration has affected Irish society since 1945. Third, he researches how nativism has developed globally since the late 19th century and has recorded a podcast series for History Hub entitled 'A history of xenophobia'.

Prof Robert Gerwarth is a historian, writer and academic, specializing in modern European history, particularly the history of memory, violence, radicalism, and political extremism. Since 2010, he has been Professor of Modern History at University College Dublin and Director of the Centre for War Studies. He is the author of several critically acclaimed and award-winning books, including 'The Vanquished. Why the First World War Failed to End' (2016), 'Hitler's Hangman - The Life of Heydrich' (2011), and 'The Bismarck Myth. Weimar Germany and the Legacy of the Iron Chancellor' (2005). His most recent monograph is 'November 1918. The German Revolution' (2020).

Dr Frances Nolan is an SFI-IRC Pathway Fellow based at UCD School of History, where she is Principal Investigator on 'Law versus Practice', a landmark interdisciplinary project exploring women's property ownership in early modern Ireland. a four-year project on women’s property ownership in early modern Ireland. The author of books on political, social and gender history, she has worked for several years as a historical consultant and researcher.

This episode features a Military Wlfare History Network keynote lecture by Professor Jessica Meyer (Leeds) entitled 'Returning to Health - the legacy of British disabled ex-servicemen of the First World War'.

This episode features a Military Wlfare History Network keynote lecture by Professor Jennifer Mittelstadt (Rutgers).

John Coakley's (UCD) keynote at Partitions and Borders - a comparative and interdisciplinary conference jointly organised by UCD and JNU from 2018.

From the extensive History Hub podcast archive. 'The Origins and Importance of the Gaelic Athletic Association', episode 6 of 'Sport and Ireland: A History', with Prof. Paul Rouse. First recorded for Newstalk and published on History Hub in 2022.

This podcast was recorded at workshop 1 of LGBT Activism in Ireland, 1973-2023 - Looking Back, Going Forward. The project comprised of two workshops which were organised by Mary McAuliffe (Director, UCD Gender Studies), in partnership with the National LGBT Federation (NXF), and funded by Research Ireland New Foundations award. This podcast on the early years of LGBT Activism in Ireland featured poet Mary Dorcey (ISLM), psychologist and activist Ger Moane, Tonie Walsh (Irish Queer Archive), activists Ailbhe Smyth and Patricia Prendiville (ILGA-Europe), and Mary McAuliffe (UCD Gender Studies).

This podcast was recorded at workshop 1 of LGBT Activism in Ireland, 1973-2023 - Looking Back, Going Forward. The project comprised of two workshops which were organised by Mary McAuliffe (Director, UCD Gender Studies), in partnership with the National LGBT Federation (NXF), and funded by Research Ireland New Foundations award. Panel 3 was on 'Documenting the Movement. Queer Histories, Public and Personal Archives, Collective Memory' and featured: Paraic Kerrigan (UCD), Orla Egan (Cork LGBT Archive), Sara Phillips (Irish Trans Archive), Mary McAuliffe (UCD) and, Tonie Walsh (Irish Queer Archive). The panel was chaired by Ruth Baldacchino from UCD.

This podcast was recorded at workshop 1 of LGBT Activism in Ireland, 1973-2023 - Looking Back, Going Forward. The project comprised of two workshops which were organised by Mary McAuliffe (Director, UCD Gender Studies), in partnership with the National LGBT Federation (NXF), and funded by Research Ireland New Foundations award. Panel 2 was on 'Writing our Histories' and featured: Paraic Kerrigan (UCD), Sonja Tiernan (Irish Humanities Alliance) Orla Egan (Cork LGBT Archive) Sara Phillips (Irish Trans Archive). The panel was chaired by Morgan Wait from UCD.

This podcast was recorded at workshop 1 of LGBT Activism in Ireland, 1973-2023 - Looking Back, Going Forward. The project comprised of two workshops which were organised by Mary McAuliffe (Director, UCD Gender Studies), in partnership with the National LGBT Federation (NXF), and funded by Research Ireland New Foundations award. This podcast on the History of LGBT Activism in Ireland featured poet Mary Dorcey (ISLM), Tonie Walsh (Irish Queer Archive), activist Ailbhe Smyth and Mary McAuliffe (UCD Gender Studies).

In the final episode of 'Recording the Revolution', Conor and Harlan return back to the archive and pluck their final tape, which is Harlan's interview with Irish politician and managing director of the Abbey Theatre, Ernest Blythe. Ernest Blythe reflects on his early years in the IRB, the role he played in the Free State's execution of Anti-treaty IRA members and his views on the partition of Ireland. Ernest Blythe was interviewed on 13 March 1972.

In this week’s episode of 'Recording the Revolution', Conor and Harlan are discussing Harlan's fascinating interview with Maire Comerford. One of two women who were interviewed by Harlan, Maire played a highly active role in the Irish revolution and can be described as one of the more radical, committed, and persistent revolutionaries from this period. Maire Comerford was interviewed on 14 March 1972.

In this week's episode of 'Recording the Revolution', Conor and Harlan are taking a look at Harlan's interview with James M Dillon, the former leader of Fine Gael from 1959 to 1965 and son of the Home Rule MP John Dillon. James Dillon sheds light on what life was like during the Irish Revolutionary period and talks about his time spent in the Dail from the 1930s onwards. James Dillon was interviewed by Harlan on 17 March 1973.

In this week’s episode of 'Recording the Revolution', Conor and Harlan pluck their second tape from the archive and discuss Harlan's illuminating interview with the printer of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic, Christopher "Christy" Brady. Christopher Brady reminisces on his time spent in Liberty Hall, his conversations with James Connolly and the secrecy surrounding the printing of the Proclamation. Christopher Brady was interviewed on 26 March 1972.

Holocaust Education Ireland's Annual Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture for 2025 by Prof. Anthony McElligott (Toronto).

The podcast series is funded by the United Kingdom Research Innovation (UKRI) Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as part of the grant awarded for Agency and Advocacy: Locating Women's Grassroots Activism in England and Ireland, 1918 to the present (Project Reference AH/X008606/1, August 2023 -January 2025).

In this episode Conor and Harlan take a look at the extraordinary life of 'the Blacksmith of Ballinalee”', General Seán MacEoin who was a key military leader in both the War of Independence, and on the side of the Free State in the Civil War. Seán MacEoin was interviewed by Harlan on 16 March 1972.

In this introductory episode, series editor Heather Delaney (MA Public History UCD) talks to UCD historian Dr Conor Mulvagh and finds out all about the Harlan Strauss tapes and why they are such an important archive.

The podcast series is funded by the United Kingdom Research Innovation (UKRI) Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as part of the grant awarded for Agency and Advocacy: Locating Women's Grassroots Activism in England and Ireland, 1918 to the present (Project Reference AH/X008606/1, August 2023 -January 2025).

The podcast series is funded by the United Kingdom Research Innovation (UKRI) Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as part of the grant awarded for Agency and Advocacy: Locating Women's Grassroots Activism in England and Ireland, 1918 to the present (Project Reference AH/X008606/1, August 2023 -January 2025).

The podcast series is funded by the United Kingdom Research Innovation (UKRI) Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as part of the grant awarded for Agency and Advocacy: Locating Women's Grassroots Activism in England and Ireland, 1918 to the present (Project Reference AH/X008606/1, August 2023 -January 2025).

The podcast series is funded by the United Kingdom Research Innovation (UKRI) Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as part of the grant awarded for Agency and Advocacy: Locating Women's Grassroots Activism in England and Ireland, 1918 to the present (Project Reference AH/X008606/1, August 2023 -January 2025).

St Brigit and the beginnings of Irish history - a panel discussion at UCD History..

Hiram Morgan (UCC). Going Dutch - Ireland and the Low Countries 1491 to 1691 (Closing Plenary).

Sarah McKibben (Notre Dame). Courtly Seductions - Reading a Bardic Love Poem in the 21st century (Opening Plenary).

Stephanie Wright. Dis/economies of welfare - war, disability and Francoist veterans of the Spanish Civil War (Conference Keynote).

Geoffrey Hayes. From Military Medicine to Health - The Challenge of Soldier's Welfare in the Wartime Canadian Army, 1939-1945.

Joe Mulhall is the Director of research at HOPE not hate, the UK's largest anti-fascism organisation.

UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland podcast series with Frank McGuinness.

Dr Mary McAuliffe (UCD, Gender Studies) is joined by Prof Ingrid Sharp and Dr Corinne Painter to discuss the lived experience of Irish and German suffrage, socialist and activist women in the aftermath of war and revolution.

Matt Golder is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Pennsylvania State University.

Eoin O'Malley (DCU) in conversation about the far right in Ireland.

David Art (Tufts) in conversation about his work on 'Inside the Radical Right - The development of anti-immigrant parties in Western Europe'.

Assoc. Prof. Fionnuala Walsh is joined by Dr Leeann Lane and Prof. Lindsey Earner-Byrne to discuss the ordinary lived experience of Irish women in the aftermath of war and revolution and also their work uncovering poverty, welfare and the search for recognition of women's contributions and losses.

Holocaust Education Ireland's Annual Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture for 2024 by Prof. Doris Bergen (Toronto).

The paper was part of UCD School of History's Micheal O Cleirigh seminar series, in collaboration with the UCD Decade of Centenaries project 'Everyday Life In The Irish Revolution'.

'Women and the Irish Constitution - a roundtable discussion' took place at UCD Humanities Institute on 13 February 2024.

The event was organised and funded under the auspices of the UCD College of Arts and Humanities Research Strand in Digital Cultures.

1923 was Hitler's breakthrough year. From the end of 1922 up to the infamous Beerhall Putsch in Munich during the night of 8-9 November, the Nazi Party grew from around 8,000 to over 50,000 members.

The murder of Walter Rathenau and the survival of Weimar democracy. Mark Jones on the year 1923.

Keynote lecture from The Military Welfare History Network 2023 Conference.

Pat Palmer (Maynooth University) in conversation with Brendan Kane (UCONN).

Keynote lecture from The Military Welfare History Network 2023 Conference.

Prof. Caitriona Beaumont (LSBU) joined UCD historians Dr Mary McAuliffe and Dr Fionnuala Walsh to trace the life stories of lesser known activist women.

Writing LGBTQ histories from the medieval to the modern, with Dr Elva Johnston and Dr Mary McAuliffe.

Holocaust Education Ireland's Annual Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture for 2023 by Dr Felix Klein.

Elizabeth Buettner (Amsterdam) in conversation about her work on Europe After Empire - The response to (post)colonial migration in Europe.

William Brustein (West Virginia) in conversation about his work on Anti-Semitism in Europe before the Holocaust.

Maddalena Marinari (Gustavus Adolphus College) in conversation about her work on American restrictionism and Italian and Jewish immigrants, 1882-1924.

Kathryn Pillay (University of KwaZulu-Natal) in conversation about her work on Indian migrants in South Africa in the 19th Century.

Mae Nagai (Columbia University) in conversation about her book 'The Chinese Question - The Gold Rushes and Global Politics'.

Lecture by Roger Moorhouse, co-organised by: Holocaust Eduction Ireland, The Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Ireland, UCD School of History, and TCD School of Histories and Humanities.

Marilyn Lake (Professorial Fellow in History at the University of Melbourne) in conversation about her book (with Henry Reynolds) 'Drawing the Global Colour Line - White Men's Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality'.

Associate Professor Hidetaka Hirota (Berkeley) in conversation with Dr Irial Glynn (UCD) on Irish migrants in mid-19th century Boston and New York.

Professor Leo Lucassen (Leiden) in conversation with Dr Irial Glynn (UCD) on mob violence towards labour migrants – from medieval England to 1930s Myanmar.

Professor Elisabeth Ivarsflaten (Bergen) in conversation with Dr Irial Glynn (UCD) on gender and the radical right.

Lecture by Dr Anna Hajkova, jointly organised by UCD Centre for War Studies, Holocaust Education Ireland and UCD History Seminar Series in Gender History.

Emeritus Professor Ruth Wodak (Lancaster) in conversation with Dr Irial Glynn (UCD) on the politics of fear.

Professor Lars Rensmann (Passau) in conversation with Dr Irial Glynn (UCD) on the demand and supply-side factors behind nativists' success.

Irial Glynn and Yanli Xie discuss the reasons for making the series 'A history of xenophobia - from the goldmines to the rise of the far right today'.

Sport and the Troubles and How TV brought GAA into homes, episode 11 of 'Sport and Ireland: A History', with Prof. Paul Rouse.

Sport in Ireland after Partition, episode 10 of 'Sport and Ireland: A History', with Prof. Paul Rouse.

Sport, Politics and War, episode 9 of 'Sport and Ireland: A History', with Prof. Paul Rouse.

'Denounced, belittled, trivialised' - Women's presence in sport', episode 8 of 'Sport and Ireland: A History', with Prof. Paul Rouse.

'The Commercialisation of Sport through History', episode 7 of 'Sport and Ireland: A History', with Prof. Paul Rouse.

'Sport as imperialism | Teaching nationalism | Ireland and England's intertwining', episode 5 of 'Sport and Ireland: A History', with Prof. Paul Rouse.

'The Origins and Importance of the Gaelic Athletic Association', episode 6 of 'Sport and Ireland: A History', with Prof. Paul Rouse.

'The history of football games and the myth of William Webb Ellis', episode 4 of 'Sport and Ireland: A History', with Prof. Paul Rouse.

'Cockfighting, bullbaiting and the death of traditional sports', episode 3 of 'Sport and Ireland: A History', with Prof. Paul Rouse.

'Sport before 1800', episode 2 of 'Sport and Ireland: A History', with Prof. Paul Rouse.

'Sport in Ireland: An historical introduction', episode 1 of 'Sport and Ireland: A History', with Prof. Paul Rouse.

David Armitage - Ideas of Civil Wars.

Penny Roberts and David J. Appleby - Civil and Uncivil Wars in the Early Modern Period.

Stathis Kalyvas - The (Changing?) Logic of Civil Wars.

Dr Marnie Hay’s most recent book, Na Fianna Éireann and the Irish Revolution, 1909-23: Scouting for Rebels (Manchester UP), is now available in paperback.

Epidemiologist and public health physician Professor Nadav Davidovitch (Ben-Gurion) visited UCD in 2017 as part of the Erasmus+ programme. In this second of three podcasts, Professor Davidovitch discusses vaccination and body politics.

We begin our Educational Resources podcast with a discussion about The Anglo-Irish Treaty with Professor Diarmaid Ferriter.

Paper by Marian Lyons (Maynooth) at 'The Irish to the Rescue: the Tercentenary of the Polish Princess Clementina's Escape'.

Paper by Eamonn O'Ciardha (UU) at 'The Irish to the Rescue: the Tercentenary of the Polish Princess Clementina's Escape'.

Paper by Jaroslaw Pietrzak (Krakow) at 'The Irish to the Rescue: the Tercentenary of the Polish Princess Clementina's Escape'.

Paper by Richard Maher (Rathmines / TUD) at 'The Irish to the Rescue: the Tercentenary of the Polish Princess Clementina's Escape'.

Paper by Estelle Gittins (TCD) at 'The Irish to the Rescue: the Tercentenary of the Polish Princess Clementina's Escape'.

Paper by Edward Corp (Toulouse) at 'The Irish to the Rescue: the Tercentenary of the Polish Princess Clementina's Escape'.

Paper by Declan Downey (UCD) at 'The Irish to the Rescue: the Tercentenary of the Polish Princess Clementina's Escape'.

Paper by Aneta Markuszewska (Warsaw) at 'The Irish to the Rescue: the Tercentenary of the Polish Princess Clementina's Escape'.

Keynote by Peter Leary (UCD) at Partitions and Borders - a comparative and interdisciplinary conference jointly organised by UCD and JNU.

Sucheta Mahajan's (JNU, New Delhi) keynote at Partitions and Borders - a comparative and interdisciplinary conference jointly organised by UCD and JNU.

John Coakley's (UCD) keynote at Partitions and Borders - a comparative and interdisciplinary conference jointly organised by UCD and JNU.

Debali Mookerjea-Leonard's (James Madison University) keynote at Partitions and Borders - a comparative and interdisciplinary conference jointly organised by UCD and JNU.

Prof. Stathis Kalyvas (Oxford) gives an overview of past research on violence in civil war as part of 'Writing the History of Civil War', a UCD Centre for War Studies seminar.

Prof. Glenda Gilmore (Yale / UCD) talks about writing the history of the American Civil War as part of 'Writing the History of Civil War', a UCD Centre for War Studies seminar.

Dr. Anne Dolan (Trinity College Dublin) talks about writing the history of the Irish Civil War as part of 'Writing the History of Civil War', a UCD Centre for War Studies seminar.

UCD Centre for War Studies seminar gathered some of the leading scholars of civil wars to discuss their unique approaches to the subject.

'Inscribing a Modern World: Constitutions Across Histories and Literatures' by Professor Linda Colley (Princeton).

'Writ Large: Printing, Painting, and Conversion in 16th Century America' by Professor Thomas Cummins (Harvard).

Sole Survivors: The Rarest Books in the World.

'Myth, War and the Comics' by Sean Murray (UCD).