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International Summer School in History and Irish Studies
The School of History and Anthropology has announced dates for its forthcoming summer school programmes: 22 July - 9 August 2013.
Full details of the 2012 programme, which provides a good idea of what will be offered in 2013 can be found on this website: Irish Studies International Summer School This very popular interdiscplinary programme examines Irish history, politics, culture, social anthropology, literature and music.
History: Staff/Postgraduate Seminar Series
Each semester, Autumn and Spring, the staff and postgraduate students of the School of History and Anthropology organise a seminar programme. For full details of the current programme, please click here.
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- What was life like in Belfast 100 years ago? Take a look at Dr Olwen Purdue's BBC slideshow and podcast on the Belfast workhouse
- Interested in the Easter Rising? Listen to the esteemed Dr Fearghal McGarry discuss the event
- What do you know about the Troubles and the Good Friday Agreement? Check out a lecture by Dr Stuart Aveyard on the subject
- Looking for an interesting book to read? Check out the review of Quiet revolutionaries: Irish women in education, medicine and sport, 1861-1964 or the review of Cliona Rattigan's 'What else could I do?'
- Our Head of School talks about the Famine. Have a listen
- New entry on WWII in Northern Ireland
- Read about 19th-century emigration
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- Watch our Professor Liam Kennedy on Canadian tv
- Read about Queen Victoria and her visit to Ireland in August 1849
- Learn about the Williamite Wars
- Read about women at Queen's College Belfast in the early 20th century