6-Week Online Lecture Series: Irish History from Plantation to Partition
Armagh Robinson Library, in collaboration with Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council, has organised a six-week lecture series that will explore Irish history from the Plantation of Ulster to Partition. The free lectures will be delivered by Zoom on Wednesday evenings 7.30pm-8.30pm from 13 October –17 November.
Speakers and topics will be as follows:
- Wednesday 13 October: Dr Brendan Scott (Historian-in-Residence, Cavan County Council),
'The establishment of Ulster's Plantation Towns'.
See it at Armagh Robinson Library on YouTube - Wednesday 20 October: Dr Robert Armstrong (Trinity College Dublin),
'From the 1641 Rising to the Restoration'.
See it at Armagh Robinson Library on YouTube - Wednesday 27 October: Professor David Hayton (Queen's University Belfast),
'The Williamite-Jacobite War'.
See it at Armagh Robinson Library on YouTube - Wednesday 3 November: Dr Andrew Holmes (Queen's University Belfast),
'Revolutionary Ulster, 1776-1801'.
See it at Armagh Robinson Library on YouTube - Wednesday 10 November: Professor Peter Gray (Queen's University Belfast),
'The Great Famine and 19th-century politics pre-1870'.
See it at Armagh Robinson Library on YouTube - Wednesday 17 November: Dr Éamon Phoenix,
'Home Rule and the Road to Partition'.
See it at Armagh Robinson Library on YouTube