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Dr Kennedy's recent book Ireland, the UN and the Congo takes a fresh look at Ireland's part in the UN’s disastrous mission in the Congo in the early 1960s. In summer 1961 Irish diplomat Conor Cruise O'Brien was appointed UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold's Special representative in the breakaway Congolese province of Katanga. In ONUC, its biggest peacekeeping mission to ...
Whores, Wenches, and the Blake Family in the Early Modern Irish Atlantic World Professor Jenny Shaw will explore the lives of two women: one an indentured Irish servant (the "whore"); one an enslaved woman (the "wench") who labored in the household of Irish merchant John Blake in Barbados 1675. She explores the techniques historians use to write the lives of ...
This talk will look at the place of the Irish woman migrant in contemporary Irish fiction and examine how Irish writers have demonstrated a sustained interest in recovering the story of the Irish woman emigrant, a story that until relatively recently was absent or under-represented in both historical accounts and literary representations of Irish emigration. In spite of the fact ...
