21 January 2016
By Bryan T. Smyth
bryan@TheCork.ie
Professor Diarmuid Ferriter, Professor of Modern Irish History at University College Dublin, will deliver a lecture entitled “1916: New Perspectives; Old Rows” tomorrow evening, Friday, 22nd January, 2016 at 7.30 p.m.
It is the first of a series of events organised by the Church of Ireland Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross in this centenary year.
University College Cork, neighbours of St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, have kindly made the Aula Maxima available to the Diocese for this event. Admission is free, but will be on a first come first served basis.
The evening will be chaired by Dr Linda Connolly, Director of the Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century at UCC. Short responses to Professor Ferriter will be made by UCC historians Dr John Borgonovo and Professor Emeritus John A. Murphy.
