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2008
November
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In Search of the Northern Noble Savage: The Travels of Edward Daniel Clarke in Scotland and Scandinavia 1797-99
Linda Burnett (University of Edinburgh) The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.15 p.m. Further information from Dr Michael Brown, on 01224 273685 or email m.brown@abdn.ac.uk Linda Burnett is a Scottish history PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. Her research is on the English traveller Edward Daniel Clarke and his travels in...
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United Islands? Multi-Lingual Radical Poetry and Folk Song in Britain and Ireland, 1770-1820
-The Great Hall, Queen’s University Belfast Organised by John Kirk, Andrew Noble and Michael Brown for the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, with the support of the AHRC Research Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, Queen’s University Belfast Centre for Eighteenth-century Studies and the Linen Hall Library The purpose of the proposed...
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University of Aberdeen Inaugural Lecture Series
The Wild Geese'. Reflections on the History of the Irish soldiers in the Service of France in the Eighteenth-Century Professor Thomas Bartlett (University of Aberdeen) Monday 10 November, 6.00pm, Kings College Conference Centre, University of Aberdeen. Further details from www.abdn.ac.uk/inaugurallectures. Advance booking is recommended - please contact the Events Office...
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Textual Editing Symposium
-AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies and the Walter Scott Research Centre The AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies and the Walter Scott Research Centre at the University of Aberdeen will host a textual editing symposium on 7 – 8 November 2008. The event will begin at 1pm on...
October
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The 'Irish Revolution' as a historical problem
Dr John Regan (University of Dundee) The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.15 p.m. Further information from Dr Michael Brown, on 01224 273685 or email m.brown@abdn.ac.uk Dr Regan is a lecturer in History at the University of Dundee. His current research reflects on the impact of the war in Northern Ireland (1969-1997)...
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Martyrs and heroes in Ireland's diasporas: comparisons from North American cities in the late 19th century
Dr William Jenkins (York University, Toronto) The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.15 p.m. Further information from Dr Rosalyn Trigger, on 01224 274473 or email r.trigger@abdn.ac.uk Dr Jenkins is associate professor of geography and a member of the graduate programmes in geography and history at York University. He is co-author of...
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University of Aberdeen Inaugural Lecture Series
Philosophy, Physics and Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century Scotland and Ireland Professor Cairns Craig (University of Aberdeen) King's College Conference Centre, 6 p.m. Further details from www.abdn.ac.uk/inaugurallectures. Advance booking is recommended - please contact the Events Office at the University of Aberdeen by telephoning 01224 273874 or emailing events@abdn.ac.uk. Advance reservation is free. Professor...
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"That Now Historical Ground": The Representation of Memory and Atrocity in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian.
Dr Shane Alcobia-Murphy (University of Aberdeen) The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.15 p.m. Further information from Professor Cairns Craig, on 01224 273681 or email cairns.craig@abdn.ac.uk Dr Alcobia-Murphy is Senior Lecturer in the School of Language and Literature and has published widely on Irish and Scottish Culture including two monographs: Governing...