Dr Alexandra Slaby is an Associate Professor at the University of Caen Normandy where she teaches British, Irish and South African civilization. She is half-South African. She published L’Etat et la culture en Irlande (Caen UP, 2010) prefaced by Michael D. Higgins. She is a former editor of Etudes Irlandaises (2011-2017) and was commissioned to write an Histoire de l'Irlande de 1912 à nos jours (Paris: Tallandier, 2016, 2021). She is now researching Irish Catholic presence in South Africa and writing the...

Dr Ciaran Reilly is an historian of nineteenth & twentieth century Irish history based at Maynooth University. His research interests include the Great Irish Famine; country houses and landed estates, and the Irish diaspora, with a particular focus on South Africa. He is the author of a number of books including Capard: An Irish country house & estate (2019); The Irish Land Agent, 1830-60: the Case of King’s County (2014); Strokestown and the Great Irish Famine (2014) and John Plunket Joly and the Great...

Prof Dermot Keogh is emeritus Professor of History at University College where he also held the chair in European Integration Studies.  He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and has twice held fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson Centre, Washington DC in 1988 and 1991. He was Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Irish Studies, Queen’s, Belfast in 1995/6 and the visiting Burns Scholar at Boston College in 2011/2. He received an honorary doctorate from the Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, in...

This paper explores Catholic Ireland's aid to devastated postwar Europe between 1945 and 1950, an event quasi unknown in Ireland or continental Europe today. And yet, masses of unearthed archives show that Irish humanitarian aid extended from Normandy all the way to the streets of Tirana and Greek islands. The memory of the Great Irish Famine of 1845 (the hundredth anniversary in 1945) and European aid played a role in Ireland's collective response to the postwar catastrophe in Europe. This paper throws light...

Dr Timothy G. McMahon is associate professor of history at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, and the Past President of the American Conference for Irish Studies. Tim received his MA (1994) and PhD (2001) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a social historian with interests in nationalism and national identity, popular culture (especially popular religion), and Empire. He is the author of Grand Opportunity: The Gaelic Revival and Irish Society, 1893-1910 (2008) and editor of Pádraig Ó...

Prof Grace Neville studied at University College Cork (BA joint first class honours in French and Irish), l’Université de Caen (where she was a French Government scholarship holder) and l’Université de Lille (doctorate). She is professor emeritus of French at UCC where she was also Vice-President for Teaching and Learning. Her research focuses inter alia on Franco-Irish relations from the medieval to the modern period. Since retiring from UCC in 2012, she has been a member/chair of numerous boards and...

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Prof Mícheál Mac Craith is a Franciscan priest who lectured in Modern Irish at the National University of Ireland, Galway from 1977 until his retirement in August 2011. From 1997 until his retirement, he held the established chair of Modern Irish. He studied in Galway, Rome and Louvain. He authored and co-authored books on Gaelic poetry. He is interested in the Renaissance, Counter-Reformation literature, Irish communities in exile in the early modern period, Jacobitism, Ossianism and contemporary Gaelic literature,...

Prof Thomas O’Connor is director of the Maynooth University Arts and Humanities Institute. He is a member of the Maynooth University History department and holds a PhD from the Sorbonne. His research interests are in early modern European migration and religion, especially Jansenism, Inquisitions, censorship, ideological controls, social discipline and religious conversion. He is co-director of the Irish in Europe Project and editor of the history sources journal, Archivium Hibernicum. He is a member of the...

Cette communication a été prononcée lors du colloque Régions et régionalismes au Canada organisé à la MRSH de Caen du 9 au 11 juin 2021. Parmi les éléments incontournables dans l’étude du Canada figure l’immensité de son territoire. Le premier ministre canadien William Lyon Mackenzie King avait d’ailleurs remarqué lors d’un discours à la Chambre des Communes en juin 1936 que si certains pays avaient « trop d’histoire...

Le crédit est un élément essentiel pour appréhender les sociétés rurales d’Ancien Régime. Obligations, constitutions de rentes, titres enregistrés à la fin des inventaires-après-décès  donnent à lire les destinées sociales et économiques tant individuelles, que familiales ou collectives. A travers l'exemple du Sancerrois, il s'agit ici d'identifier...

Raffaele Ruggiero a enseigné la littérature italienne à l’université de Bari de 2002 à 2016 ; depuis 2016, il est professeur de littérature et civilisation italiennes de la Renaissance auprès de l'Université Aix-Marseille, où il dirige le Département d’études italiennes. Il a publié des monographies...