Catholic Religious Sisters as accidental ethnographers: What a religious archive can tell us about rural Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s

A lecture by Dr Brian Casey (TCD) as part of the Modern and Contemporary Irish History Seminar Series.

Dr Brian Casey is Historian and Archives Manager for Dublin Cemeteries Trust, based at Glasnevin Cemetery. He has published extensively on the dynamics of agrarian radicalism, the land question and Catholicism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and is the author of Class and community in provincial Ireland, 1851-1914. Previously a Research Fellow in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University, he has published 'The Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood and provision of healthcare in provincial Ireland, 1942-1970' with the Historical Journal and is completing a monograph on the Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood and global Catholicism.

The Modern and Contemporary Irish History Seminar Series will take place at 2.30p.m. on Wednesday in the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute. It provides a forum for discussion and dissemination of new ideas, perspectives, and research on Irish history, Irish Studies and cognate disciplines. All are welcome. We particularly welcome members of the postgraduate community. Convenors: Dr Carole Holohan, Dr Georgina Laragy, Prof Lindsey Earner-Byrne. 

Please indicate if you have any access requirements, such as ISL/English interpreting, so that we can facilitate you in attending this event. Contact: carole.holohan@tcd.ie