Maynooth University and the Irish Georgian Society are partnering to deliver a live online symposium, ‘Speculative Minds: Commerce, Experiment, Innovation & the Arts in Georgian Ireland‘ on Thursday 27th May 2021. The symposium has been convened by Dr Toby Barnard, Emeritus Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford University and Dr Alison FitzGerald, Associate Professor, Maynooth University.
Further information, including the symposium programme, is available from the Irish Georgian Society website.
A 20% discount for Amanda Goodrich’s new book, Henry Redhead Yorke, Colonial Radical Politics and Identity in the Atlantic World, 1772-1813 (Routledge, 2019) is now available.
This is the first biography of Henry Redhead Yorke, a West Indian of African/British descent. Born into a slave society in Barbuda but educated in Georgian England, he developed a complex identity to which politics was key. Yorke was radicalised in revolutionary Paris, became a citizen of the world and the most revolutionary radical in Britain between 1793–5. Imprisoned for his politics, Yorke recanted to loyalism but never lost his political zeal. This book raises important issues about political exclusion, the impact of ‘outsider’ politics in England, political apostasy and the complexities of politicisation and identity construction in the Atlantic World
A blog post about the book is now available at The Victorian Commons.
Follow this link to obtain the discount code and further information about this title.
Digital Repository of Ireland invite early career researchers to apply for a new annual Research Award. This Award grants a prize to an original short article or blog post summarising research informed in whole or in part by objects/collections deposited in DRI. Submissions will be assessed by a panel made up of DRI staff and an external judge, and the winner granted the bursary award of €500.
This Award is open to early career researchers in the areas of arts, humanities, social sciences and digital humanities, including (but not limited to)
For further information, please visit https://www.dri.ie/dri-research-award.
