Inaugural Cregan Lecture - Professor James Kelly

Professor James Kelly will deliver his

Inaugural Lecture as Cregan Professor

on Tuesday 4th May at 7.30 p.m.

in School of Nursing, Dublin City University

WRITING IRISH HISTORY TODAY

At first glance, the discipline of history in History in Ireland appears to be in robust good health. The number of historians, professional and university-trained amateur is greater than ever it has been, and the volume of historical publication at records levels. In additional the discipline’s infrastructure is strong. Yet historians working in Ireland today face major challenges. The economic downturn poses forbidding challenges, while issues over recruitment, post-graduate funding and supervision, maintaining a healthy publishing sector, archival access threaten the continuing vigour of the discipline. In addition, the present-centred nature of public discourse, and the legacy of the ‘revisionist debate’ raises questions of the role and purpose of History and the historian that this lecture will endeavour to tease out.

 

 

 

 

 

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