“The family of Clanrickard Burkes and the writing of aristocratic history in eighteenth-century Ireland”

The Annual De Burgo Lecture

will be given by distinguished historian

Professor Nicholas Canny

Fáilte roimh chách – All welcome, admission free

Nicholas Canny, FBA, has been a publishing scholar on the history of Ireland, particularly during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and on Atlantic History ever since his first learned article appeared in 1970. He was an Established Professor of History at NUI Galway, 1979-2009; President of the Royal Irish Academy, 2008-2011; and Member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council, 2011-2016. His major book is Making Ireland British, 1580-1650 (Oxford, 2001), and he is currently completing Imagining Ireland’s Pasts: Early Modern Ireland through the Centuries scheduled for publication in late 2020, also by Oxford University Press