Limerick History Research Seminar, 2025–2026
Organised by the Department of History, Mary Immaculate College
& the School of History and Geography, ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ
Autumn Semester
Tuesday, 23 September 2025 – 12.30 p.m. – Online (MS Teams)
Professor Catriona Pennell (University of Exeter), ‘Warriors of the past and present: Accompong Maroon heritage education as continued resistance in post-colonial Jamaica’
To attend, please register in advance
Tuesday, 14 October 2025 – 5.30 p.m. – T116 (TARA Building, Mary Immaculate College)
Professor John Shovlin (New York University), ‘A city under siege: merchant letters on Limerick in 1690’
Organised in conjunction with the Limerick Centre for Early Modern Studies
Tuesday, 4 November 2025 – 2.00 p.m. – JHN221 (John Henry Newman Building, Mary Immaculate College)
Dr Geraldine Curtin (University of Galway), Dr Brian Griffin (Maynooth University) and Dr Richard Mc Mahon (Mary Immaculate College)
‘Studies in Irish Crime History: a roundtable’
Wednesday, 5 November 2025 – 6.00 p.m. – Hunt Museum, Limerick
Dr. Harald E. Braun (University of Liverpool), ‘War crimes: seventeenth-century perspectives from the Bolton Library.’
Annual Bolton-King Public Lecture, organised by the Limerick Centre for Early Modern Studies
Tuesday, 25 November 2025 – 5.30 p.m. – Room G08 (Foundation Building, Mary Immaculate College)
Mario Luis López Durán (Autónoma University, Madrid), ‘Lost in the archives, found on the battlefield: Irish officers in the Spanish army, 1690-1715’
Organised in conjunction with the Limerick Centre for Early Modern Studies
Everyone is very welcome.
For the online seminar on 23 September, registration in advance at the link above is essential.
For further information contact:
Dr Liam Chambers (Liam.Chambers@mic.ul.ie)
Dr Brian Hughes (Brian.Hughes@mic.ul.ie)
Website:
Contact the School of History and Geography