25.10.2016
Church of Ireland Historical Society Autumn Meeting
The next meeting of the Church of Ireland Historical Society will be held in the Music Room, Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin (directly above the Chapter Room) on Saturday 5 November 2016
PROGRAMME
10.30am Coffee and registration 11am Dr Bronagh McShane: ‘Clerical wives in early modern Ireland’
12pm Dr Judith Hill: ‘When it was built the Chapel Royal was celebrated as ‘the richest
modern casket of pointed architecture to be witnessed in the British Empire.’
Why was it so elaborate?’
12.45pm Lunch (in the cathedral crypt)
2pm Dr Heather Jones: ‘Irish commemoration of the First World War’
3.15pm Launch of The Boulter Letters edited by Kenneth Milne and Paddy McNally
Speakers: • Dr Bronagh McShane obtained her PhD from Maynooth University in 2015. She is a research assistant on a European Research Council–funded project ‘RECIRC: the Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550–1700’ at NUI Galway. Her primary interests focus on the history of women, religion and confessionalisation in early modern Ireland.
• Dr Judith Hill is an architectural historian, writer and heritage consultant. She is the author of The Building of Limerick (1991), Irish Public Sculpture: A History (1998) and Lady Gregory: An Irish Life (2005). She is a contributor to Country Life and the Irish Arts Review. She recently completed a PhD at Trinity College Dublin on Irish Gothic revival architecture in the early nineteenth century.
• Dr Heather Jones is associate professor at London School of Economics. She is a specialist in First World War Studies and has published extensively on the evolution of wartime violence and the cultural impact of the conflict in Britain, France and Germany. She is author of Violence against prisoners of war in the First World War: Britain, France and Germany, 1914 (Cambridge, 2011).
Book Launch: Kenneth Milne and Paddy McNally (eds), The Boulter Letters (FCP, 2016). Originally published in 1769–70, the Boulter letters represent one of the most important printed sources for the political and ecclesiastical history of Ireland in the early Hanoverian period. This collection reproduces for the first time the originally published correspondence in its entirety, includes previously unpublished letters written by and to Archbishop Boulter, and contains an extensive introduction to the collection.
Registration:
You can register online at http://churchofirelandhist.org/membership/ If you wish to become a member the annual subscription was fixed last year at €40 (or £35). This includes admission to our bi–annual conferences, exclusive access to the Society’s Non–members are most welcome. They are asked to subscribe €10 (or £7) at the door to assist with conference expenses (lunch not included).
Queries may be either addressed to the honorary secretary, Dr Adrian Empey, by email at: secretary.coihs@gmail.com or visit the society’s website: http://churchofirelandhist.org/
The Church of Ireland Historical Society meets twice a year: in the Public Library, Armagh, in April, and in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, in November. It exists to promote scholarly interest in the history of the Church, and to facilitate publication.