1923: Hitler’s Breakthrough Year’ - Holocaust Education Ireland November Pogrom Lecture

To mark the date of the November Pogrom, Dr. Mark Jones gave a lecture - ‘1923: Hitler’s Breakthrough Year’ - in association with Holocaust Education Ireland, Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin. The lecture took place on Tuesday 7 November in Trinity College Dublin.

1923 was Hitler’s breakthrough year. From the end of 1922 up to the infamous Beerhall Putsch in Munich during the night of 8-9 November, the Nazi Party grew from around 8,000 to over 50,000 members. In this lecture, historian Mark Jones examined the history of the year 1923 through the prism of antisemitic violence. 

In this talk you will learn about individual and collective acts of physical violence against Jews, the state-led deportation of Jews from Bavaria, and the role played by antisemitism in Hitler’s attempts to destroy German democracy a decade before he was appointed Chancellor of Germany in January 1933.

Mark Jones is Assistant Professor at University College Dublin. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Tübingen and the University of Cambridge. He holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence and has held visiting fellowships at the Free University of Berlin and Bielefeld University. The author of 1923: The Forgotten Crisis in the Year of Hitler’s Coup, he is among the leading English-language historians of modern Germany and a recognized authority on the history of the Weimar Republic.

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Mark Jones - 1923: Hitler’s Breakthrough Year (HEI November Pogrom Lecture)

In this episode, a recording of a paper - ‘"Éire Saor agus Gaelach?": The Military Service Pensions Collection and the Irish language’ - by Dr Síobhra Aiken from Queen's University Belfast.

The paper was part of UCD School of History's Mícheál Ó Cléirigh seminar series, in collaboration with the UCD Decade of Centenaries project 'Everyday Life In The Irish Revolution' which is run by UCD's Dr Fionnuala Walsh.

Dr Aiken's talk, which was recorded on November 10 2023, was entitled: ‘"Éire Saor agus Gaelach?": The Military Service Pensions Collection and the Irish language’.

Siobhra Aiken - The Military Service Pensions Collection and the Irish language

'Our shared built military heritage: the online mapping, inventorying and recording of the army barracks of Ireland, 1690-1921' by Dr Ivar McGrath (UCD) and Dr Suzanne Forbes (Open University). 

The talk took place on January 26 2024 as part of the UCD College of Arts and Humanities Research Strand on Digital Cultures.

Theme Leaders: Marc Caball, UCD School of History
Lynda Mulvin, School of Art History and Cultural Policy

Digital Cultures is one of the research themes for the UCD College of Arts and Humanities Research Strategy for 2020-2024. The strategy brings together and supports the combined research excellence from across the College’s Schools, Institutes, Centres and subject disciplines.

As part of the Digital Cultures theme of the strategy, Dr Charles Ivar McGrath (UCD) and Dr Suzanne Forbes (Open University) recently gave an online presentation entitled: ‘Our shared built military heritage: the online mapping, inventorying and recording of the army barracks of Ireland, 1690-1921’. The presentation took place in January 2024 and focused on their work on the Army Barracks of Ireland project. The project is funded by the North South Research Programme and co-lead by University College Dublin and The Open University.

The project team are currently preparing a comprehensive online map of all army barracks operational on the island of Ireland between 1690 and 1921, due for launch in early 2024.
You can learn more about the project on https://barracksireland.wordpress.com/ 

Thanks to support from the UCD College of Arts and Humanities Research Strand in Digital Cultures, we are able to feature their talk in this episode of the podcast.

A video of the talk, complete with slides, is also available to watch on the History Hub website.

The talk was introduced by Digital Cultures theme leaders: Dr Marc Caball from UCD School of History, and Professor Lynda Mulvin from UCD School of Art History.

The online mapping, inventorying and recording of the army barracks of Ireland, 1690-1921

A UCD Gender History Seminar
 
Organised by Dr Fionnuala Walsh (UCD History) and Dr Mary McAuliffe (UCD Gender Studies)

The ‘Women and the Irish Constitution: a roundtable discussion’ took place on Tuesday 13 February 2024 in the Humanities Institute, UCD Dublin. The panel included contributions from Dr Mary McAuliffe (UCD, chair) Prof. Caitriona Beaumont (London South Bank University), Associate Professor Jennifer Redmond (Maynooth University), Orla O'Connor (National Women's Council), Prof. Lindsey Earner Byrne (Trinity College Dublin) and the Sutherland School of Law Poet in Residence, Julie Morrissy. 

The referendum on 8 March 2024, proposing to delete Article 41.2 of the Irish constitution which refers to women's 'life within the home' and her domestic role 'without which the common good cannot be achieved', prompted this us to reflect on reactions to the article in 1937 and the relationship between women, home and work in 20th century Ireland. 

This roundtable brings together leading historians, a poet and the chair of the National Women's Council to discuss the past and present of these issues. Listen in to what was a fascinating conversation!

We would like to thank the funders of this event: the UCD College of Arts and Humanities EDI Committee, UCD History and the UCD Decade of Centenaries Seed Funding Scheme.

Women and the Irish Constitution: a roundtable discussion

David Art is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University (Medford, MA). David Art's field is comparative politics, with a regional focus on Europe. Professor Art's research interests include extremist political parties and movements, the politics of history and memory, and comparative historical analysis in the social sciences. 

He is the author of Inside the Radical Right: The Development of Anti-Immigrant Parties in Western Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and The Politics of the Nazi Past in Germany and Austria (Cambridge University Press, 2006). His articles have appeared in Comparative Politics, German Politics and Society, Party Politics, and West European Politics. 

Professor Art is Co-Convenor of the European Consortium for Political Research's (ECPR) Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy. During the 2008-2009 academic year he was a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute.

About the series

History Hub presents a series of interviews between our editor Dr Irial Glynn and a number of leading experts on the history of xenophobia. The key question the series grapples with is: what causes xenophobia? Why are certain people hostile towards or afraid of immigrants or of people who come from different cultural backgrounds? Does it stem from anger related to a real or perceived decline in living standards? Does it reflect discomfort with the pace of social change or increasing societal diversity? Or is it connected to the arrival of charismatic and innovative politicians and well-organised far right parties?

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David Art - The development of anti-immigrant parties in Western Europe

In this episode a recording of the Holocaust Education Ireland's Holocaust Memorial Lecture for 2024.

The 2024 lecture was given by Prof. Doris L. Bergen from University of Toronto. Her lecture, “The Holocaust as World History” was given 7 February 2024 in Trinity College Dublin. Prof Bergen was introduced by Dr Patrick Houlihan from Trinity College Dublin.

Doris Bergen - The Holocaust as World History

In this episode, a recording of 'St Brigit and the beginnings of Irish history' a panel discussion organised by Dr Fionnuala Walsh from UCD for International Women's Day 2024. 

The panel was: Associate Prof. Elva Johnston (UCD); Assistant Professor Megan Welton (UCD); Dr Niamh Wycherley (Maynooth); and Dr Elizabeth Dawson (Carlow College).

St Brigit and the beginnings of Irish history

AFTERLIVES: 'My life wasn't much after': women's voices in the Military Archives.

*Supported by UKRI External Participatory and Collaborative Research Fund, London South Bank University and University College Dublin Decade of Centenaries Seed Funding.*

In episode 2 of AFTERLIVES, Associate Professor Fionnuala Walsh (UCD School of History) is joined by Dr Leeann Lane (DCU) and Professor Lindsey Earner-Byrne (TCD) to discuss the ordinary lived experience of Irish women in the aftermath of war and revolution and also their work uncovering poverty, welfare and the search for recognition of women's contributions and losses. 

Afterlives
The aim of the Afterlives project is to uncover the life stories and contributions of rebellious women in the wake of revolution and civil war in Ireland, Finland and Germany 1918-1980s.

AFTERLIVES: 'My life wasn't much after': women's voices in the Military Archives

When we think of Irish Emigrants in the USA, images of New York or Boston spring to mind. However on a recent trip to the US I visited friends in Nebraska where I found a very different Irish American history.

Located in the midwest - the landcape and climate in Nebraska are pretty extreme - its very different from the large cities on the Eastern Coast.

In this podcast I look at how Irish emigrants survived on the Great Plains in the 1870s and 1880s. Their accounts are fascinating - from sleeping in tents in brutal winters to an Irish American man who sold something called 'the Great Remedy' that could cure anything!

Support the podcast at www.patreon.com/irishpodcast

Nebraska - Irish Emigrants Surviving on the Frontier

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