Public events and plenary lectures

In the image below, Professor Ian McBride (Oxford) and Dr Niamh Gallagher (Cambridge) are in conversation with Fergal Keane at the Irish Embassy, London on 5 December 2020. The Centenary Conversation event has been watched more than 5,800 times on YouTube – click the picture to watch.

Recent public events and plenary lectures

• ‘Reflections on the Northern Ireland Centenary’, Union College, Belfast, 17 September 2021.
• ‘Anglo-Irish Relations and the Peace Process’, the British-Irish Association, Pembroke College, Oxford, 3 September 2021.
• ‘Irish Liberty and the Slave Trade’, Féile an Phobail/The West Belfast Festival, 8 August 2021: watch on YouTube
• ‘Irish Liberty and the Slave Trade: from Swift to Burke’, Plenary Lecture, Annual Conference of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society, University of Limerick, 16-18 June 2021.
• ‘Partition and the Limits of Irish Commemoration’, Queen’s University, Belfast, hosted by Prof. Richard English, 31 March 2021: watch on YouTube
• ‘Centenary Conversation’, a discussion on the Government of Ireland Act (1920), with Fergal Keane, Patricia Clavin, Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid and Niamh Gallagher, Irish Embassy, London, 5 December 2021: watch on YouTube
• ‘Decolonising Irish History: A Panel Discussion’, organised by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, 2 November 2020.
• ‘Classical Influences and Irish Culture: Historical Perspectives’, ERC Project Launch, University of Aarhus, Denmark, 1 October 2019.
• Panellist on ‘The Irish Enlightenment’, London School of Economics, 4 March 2019, LSE (Philosophy Forum and podcast).
• Public Lecture: ‘Swift, Presbyterians and Empire’, Union Theological College, Belfast, 15 January 2019.
• ‘The Brullaughan Affair: Scandal and Reform in the Irish Catholic Church, 1737-1749’, Princess Grace Library Symposium on Eighteenth-Century Ireland, Monaco, 19-21 October 2018.
• ‘Penal Times: Irish Catholics in the Eighteenth Century’, Irish Association of Professional Historians Lecture, 2018.
• ‘Irish Catholics and the Penal Laws’, Plenary Lecture, American Conference of Irish Studies, University College Cork, 18 June 2018.
• ‘Catholic Ireland in the Penal Times’, Thomas Flatley Lecture, Boston College, 26 September 2017.
• ‘The Struggle for Ireland’s Soul: Catholics under the Penal Laws’, Annual Hibernian Lecture, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, 22 September 2017.
• ‘Why the History of the Penal Laws has yet to be Written’, Italy/Ireland Seminar, University of Notre Dame Global Gateway, Rome, 18 June 2017.
• ‘Renouncing England: Swift’s Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufacture’, Plenary Lecture at Swift 350: An Interdisciplinary Conference to Mark the 350^th Anniversary of the Birth of Jonathan Swift, Trinity College Dublin, 9 June 2017.
• ‘Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland’, the inaugural Hugh O’Neill Lecture, the Irish Embassy to Italy, Rome, 21 November 2016.
• ‘The Meaning of the Troubles’, Keough-Naughton Institute, University of Notre Dame, 5 November 2015.
• ‘Truth and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland’, Princeton University Ireland Fund Lecture Series, 18 September 2015.
• ‘Why the History of the Penal Laws still has to be Written’, Irish Legal History Society Spring Discourse, Dublin, 27 February, 2015.
• ‘The Politics of the “New” British History’, plenary lecture, ‘United Kingdom? Four Nations Approaches to Modern British History’ a conference held at King’s College London, 20 February 2015.
• ‘Francis Hutcheson and Ulster-Scots Political Thought’ (keynote address), ‘Political Thought in Ireland: the Contribution of Ulster-Scots’, Queen’s University, Belfast, 22 January 2015.
• ‘The Historian as Healer? Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland’, Glucksman Ireland House, New York University, 16 October 2014.