Department Seminar 13 November Iontas Building, First Floor, Room 1.37 - Dr Maurice Casey (QUB) ‘A Recipe for Resistance? Vegetarianism and Ethics in the anti-Nazi underground, 1920s-1930s’, followed by the launch of Dr Declan Monaghan’s book, The Irish National Stud: 1900-2025

Yesterday, I had the privilege of attending the Inaugural Professorial Lecture of Professor Roisín Higgins at @MaynoothUni — it was a moving and memorable occasion. Professor Higgins spoke with great insight and sensitivity about her project, Sensing the Troubles, which

Thinking about postgraduate study? Join us at our Postgraduate Open Day 📅 Tuesday, 4 November 2025 🕒 3–6pm | 📍 Maynooth University 👉 Meet lecturers, chat with students, explore your options. Be sure to check out the Department of History stand!

We’re really looking forward to welcoming everyone who has booked for our sold-out event, ‘Country House Collections: Care, Digitisation and Best Practice’, taking place at Maynooth University this Friday, November 7. It’s set to be a great day all round!

Last week courageous campaigner Mary McGee died, a woman who successfully fought a case against the restrictions on the importation and use of contraceptives in Ireland. Listen here to our colleague @RedmondJennifer speak on McGee

The Department offers our warmest congratulations to our John Hume and IRC Scholarship recipients, who were recognised at the recent @MaynoothUni Graduate Research Academy Prize-Giving Ceremony: Joe Delaney Joanna Dempsey Sutton Dimitrios Roupas Aoiffe Hughes Micheál Ó Corcora

Congratulations to Dr Giovanni Parente who graduated with a PhD in History from Maynooth University last week. We wish Dr Parente the very best of luck as he begins the next stage of his academic journey, as a Research Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at UCD.

Congrats to all at the 'Beyond the Anglosphere: maritime strategy & policy outside the English speaking world' conference run in partnership between the Centre for Military History and Strategic Studies MU and the Brazilian Naval War College (Escola De Guerra Naval), 30-31 Oct

Congratulations to all of our graduates this week including PhD’s- Dr Giovanni Parente, Dr Thomas Appleby and Dr Ronald Connolly, and our Master of Arts (History) graduates. A wonderful occasion for all and the Department of History.

Our next Research Seminar 6 November at 18:00-19:00 Iontas Building, First Floor, Room 1.33. Dr Sarah Roddy (Maynooth) and Dr Niamh Nic Ghabhann Coleman (University of Limerick) in conversation on Sarah’s new book Money and Irish Catholicism: An Intimate History, 1850-1921.

Dep of History Research Seminar. We welcome Dr Sven Milekić, Central European University, on Thursday, 23 October who will give his talk on "Aggression, Civil or Proxy War? Perplexed Veteran Perspectives of Armed Conflict in Ex-Yugoslavia". 5-6pm in Rocque Lab, Rhetoric House

We are delighted to share details of the Inaugural Professorial Lecture by Professor Roisín Higgins, 'Sensations of Conflict: Writing a sensory history of the Troubles', Tues 6 Nov, Renehan Hall, Maynooth. Booking via Eventbrite

The Department would like to congratulate Lauren Farrell, Antoinette Gavin and Ciaran Sinclair on their excellent poster presentations at the Maynooth University Undergraduate Research Symposium this week. For more see https://t.co/N62gusp1No ]

The Irish History Students’ Association, with the support of the Department of History at Maynooth University, is delighted to announce the 77th Annual IHSA Conference, taking place on Saturday, 28 February 2026. Full details: https://t.co/dGMbcfPegA

Congratulations to our colleague Prof Raul Cârstocea whose co-edited volume (with Éva Kovács and Gábor Egry), Ethnicizing Europe: Hate and Violence After Versailles, was recently published by Purdue University Press. The ebook is available via open access: https://t.co/kO5a9GWie4

We are looking forward to welcome Dr Susannah Deedigan, Notre Dame University to our Dept Research Seminar on Thursday 9 Oct 5-6pm in Rocque Lab, Rhetoric House. Dr Deedigan will speak on: '"Hardly serious”: the detention of republican women in wartime Ireland, 1939-45'

🚨SOLD OUT🚨 Our archives seminar on 7 Nov, organised with the Heritage Council, is now fully SOLD OUT. We have another very exciting event planned for November. Details coming soon.

Warmest congratulations to Jeanette Lindfield, the recipient of the History Department's 2025 Maiben Gilmartin Travelling Scholarship. Jeanette was awarded the scholarship for a third year BA essay (History of Art) and will use the funding to support her MLitt research.

Drumroll, please! 🥁 The newest additions to the Maynooth Studies in Local History Series are here. With such a limited character allowance, it's hard to explain just how fascinating each book is ... so check out the Maynooth collection on our website: https://t.co/tYPFMJZpSr

2/2 HOD, Prof Ian Speller. Award winners were Fergal Ó H-Éidhneacháin; Paula Lynch; Emily Little, and Joseph Delaney