VOICES: Life and Death, War and Peace, c.1550-c.1700: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland VOICES is a five-year European Research Council advanced grant project. It commenced in September 2023 and will be based in the Trinity Long Room Hub…
Empire and imperial frameworks, policies, practices, and cultures have shaped the history of the world for the last two millennia. It is nation-states that are the blip on the historical horizon. This book re-examines empire as a process – and…
Irish Times – Inside Politics Podcast 5th March 2021 President Michael D Higgins sparked a debate recently with his sharp critique of British imperialism. In a piece for the Guardian, he accused some academics and journalists of a “feigned amnesia”…
The Women’s Podcast: Ep 467 Professor Jane Ohlmeyer This Friday, Trinity College Dublin professor Jane Ohlmeyer will deliver the Ford Lectures at the University of Oxford in England. Just ten women have delivered the prestigious lectures since they were founded…
Irish historian, Jane Ohlmeyer, to present Oxford University’s prestigious James Ford Lecture series this year Ireland, Empire, and the Early Modern World starts Friday 22 January 5pm Jane Ohlmeyer, Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin, will this…
In July 2019 Boris Johnson asked why Leo Varadkar isn’t “called Murphy like all the rest of them”. This ethnocentricity has a long history in an Ireland that for centuries was a laboratory for empire, where racist ideologies were formulated…
To better understand the shortcoming associated with current practices of SSHA [Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts] integration, ISSUES e-magazine spoke with Professor Jane Ohlmeyer and Dr Doireann Wallace of the Horizon 2020-funded project SHAPE-ID: Shaping Interdisciplinary Practice in Europe. This 30-month coordination and support action, CSA,…
Reflections on the unfolding crisis in India by Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub, Professor Jane Ohlmeyer In December 2019, I was in Delhi for an international workshop and took the opportunity to visit my academic collaborators based at…
Celebrating the Legacy of the 1641 Depositions On the 22 October, the Trinity Long Room Hub hosted a special research showcase to mark a new impact study on the 1641 Depositions Project 10 years after its launch in Trinity College…
Trinity has launched a new online curriculum on democracy – based on an 18-month project with colleges around the world – at a timely moment. Learn more on the original article.