From Ballynascreena to Front Square: The Colonial Public Histories of the Trinity Estates and their Tenants

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

Trinity College Dublin was for over three hundred years one of Ireland's landowners owning 190,000 acres or 1.25 % of the island, including significant estates first granted as part of the Ulster and Munster plantations . These estates were home at their peak to over 71,000 people. They were the Trinity tenants. In this paper Patrick Walsh draws on the TCD institutional archive, estate papers, and his own family history to explore their history and contemporary legacies in Trinity's daily rituals and the Irish landscape.

Dr Patrick Walsh is Associate Professor of Eighteenth-Century History at TCD. Together with Dr Ciaran O'Neill he co-directs the Trinity Colonial Legacies Project. Patrick is currently writing a book on the state in eighteenth-century Ireland as well as a co-authored book with Mobeen Hussain and Ciaran O'Neill entitled Cultivating Virtue? Trinity's Colonial Legacies.

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: laragyg@tcd.ie