Dr Liam Chambers
Email: Liam.Chambers@mic.ul.ie
Dr Brian Hughes
Email: Brian.Hughes@mic.ul.ie
The Limerick History Research Seminar Series is organised annually by the Department of History at Mary Immaculate College and the School of History and Geography at the University of Limerick.
Spring Semester Programme 2026
Tuesday 10 February 2026 at 5.30pm
Dr David Brown (Trinity College Dublin) - 'Beyond the black box: critical AI pipelines for historical research.'
Organised in conjunction with the Limerick Centre for Early Modern Studies.
Where: Room G08, Foundation Building, MIC
Tuesday 3 March 2026 at 5.30pm
Professor Roisín Higgins (Maynooth University) - '"You didn’t see it, but you could hear the echoes and the sounds", sensory perceptions of conflict in West Belfast.'
Where: Room G08, Foundation Building, MIC
Tuesday 24 March 2026 at 5.30pm
Dr John Gallagher (University of Leeds) - '1583: one year in the languages of London.'
Organised in conjunction with the Limerick Centre for Early Modern Studies.
Where: Online (MS Teams).
Tuesday 21 April 2026 at 5.30pm
Dr Shannon Devlin (University of Galway) - '"A kind of cousinship", breach of promise and cousin marriage in nineteenth-century Ireland.'
Where: Room G08, Foundation Building, MIC
