Upcoming Events


Spring 2025

Public lecture

13 April, 12pm, Colgan Hall, Carndonagh, Co. Donegal

‘Honoria Galwey and “the People’s Music”: The World of a Nineteenth-Century Inishowen Folk Music Collector’

Free; all welcome. Full details here.

Public lecture

20 February, 8pm

Navan & District Historical Society

‘The Irish in Romanov Russia: Some Meath Connections’

Public lecture

25 April, 8pm, St Patrick’s Gateway Centre, Waterford

‘”The Tsar is Far Away”: Revd Robert Walsh, a Waterford Chaplain in Imperial Russia’

More details here

October 2024

Book launch

3 October, 6pm, Hodges Figgis, Dublin 2

Anarchy and Authority: Irish Encounters with Romanov Russia

All are welcome. Please RSVP here.

History Ireland Hedge School

29 September, 3pm, The Substation, Alexandra Rd, D1

I’ll be part of a panel discussing the question, ‘Is Irish History Sea Blind?’

Booking is essential; see https://dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/event/history-ireland-hedge-school-is-irish-history-sea-blind/

Dublin Festival of History talk

7 October, 6pm, Pearse Street Library, Dublin 2

‘Irish Women in Russia in the Age of the Tsars’

More details at https://dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/event/irish-women-in-russia-in-the-age-of-the-tsars/