History Research Seminar Series: “Antiquaries, Archivists and the Origins of an Historical Profession in Ireland: Perspectives from the Beyond 2022 Project”

Dr Peter Crooks (Trinity College Dublin) 

Antiquaries, Archivists and the Origins of an Historical Profession in Ireland: Perspectives from the Beyond 2022 Project 

Speaker Biography

Dr Peter Crooks is Founding Director of Beyond 2022: Ireland’s Virtual Record Treasury, an all-island and international collaboration to create a virtual reality reconstruction of the Public Record Office of Ireland, and its collections, which were destroyed at the outbreak of the Irish Civil War in 1922. His primary research interest is in Ireland in the period 1171-1541 and, arising from that, in the wider ‘English world’ or ‘Plantagenet empire’ of which Ireland formed an integral part. Before returning to Trinity in 2013,  he was a Past and Present Society Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research and a Lecturer in Late Medieval History at the University of East Anglia. He is currently completing a monograph entitled England’s First Colony: Power, Conflict and Colonialism in the Lordship of Ireland, 1361–1460. He has published widely on Irish and British medieval Irish history and have been commissioned to serve as editor of the forthcoming Cambridge History of Britain, vol. 2: 1100–1500.

Registration

To attend, please register at: https://forms.office.com/r/zNGhJNUVj3.

This event will take place online, via Zoom: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/98504205141.