The next meeting of the Society will be held in the Chapter Room, Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, on Saturday 19 November 2011
[ Parking is available in the high-rise commercial car park – Christ Church public car park – behind Jury’s Hotel, which is opposite the cathedral. It is accessed from St Werburgh’s Street]
PROGRAMME
10.30 Coffee and registration
11.00 Professor Stephen Taylor, ‘State prayers in the Church of Ireland before and after the Union’
12.00 Open discussion on the commemoration of 1912-22
12.45 Executive Committee Meeting
1.00 Lunch-break (as announced)
2.00 Dr Clara Cullen, ‘A very reluctant partner: the Royal Dublin Society and popular scientific education in mid-Victorian Ireland’
3.00 Dr Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh, ‘The Church of Ireland and Medical Lives in early twentieth-century Ireland’
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Stephen Taylor is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Reading. He is
Academic Editor of the Royal Historical Society, with responsibility for the Bibliography of
British and Irish History (BBIH) and General Editor of the Church of England Record Society.
His research interests are in the political and religious history of England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and he is completing a study of 'The Whigs and the Church 1714–60’.
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Clara Cullen lectures on nineteenth and twentieth century Irish history in UCD. Her doctoral research was on the history and teaching of science in nineteenth century Dublin and her present area of research is the Royal College of Science for Ireland. Her main interest areas are Irish women scientists, the history of libraries and of science education in nineteenth century Ireland.
She has several published and forthcoming articles on these topics.
 Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh is the author of Kathleen Lynn, Irishwoman, Patriot, Doctor (Dublin,
2006, reprinted, 2011); Edward Hay, Historian of 1798: Catholic Politics in an era of Wolfe Tone and Daniel O’Connell (Nonsuch, 2010); Quiet Revolutionaries: Irish Women in Education,
Medicine and Sport, 1861-1964 (Nonsuch, 2011); and, with Ciaran Ó hÓgartaigh, Business
Archival Sources for the Local Historian (Dublin, 2010). She will be working in Harvard
University in 2012 when her fifth book, ‘Gender and Medicine in Ireland, 1700-1950’, will be published in New York.
Registration:
There will be an opportunity for members to renew their annual subscriptions, if they have not done so already. The annual subscription was fixed last November at £35 or €40. Nonmembers are most welcome. They are asked to subscribe £7 or €10 to assist with the expenses of the conference.
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.
Queries may be addressed to Adrian Empey, Hon. Sec. Telephone +353-1-4055056 or email: adrianempey@gmail.com