Guy Beiner, Fall 2019 - Spring 2020 Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies
Channel: Boston College Libraries
Date: 2020-03-16

Guy Beiner, Professor of History at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva, Israel, Fall 2019 - Spring 2020 Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies

Relocating Nationalism between the Regional and Transnational: Unexpected Lessons from the Lives and Works of Amateur Historians

This lecture explores how current discussions on the place of Ireland and Northern Ireland in Europe and the wider world may benefit from a reappraisal of two largely-neglected Irish intellectuals: Richard Robert Madden (1798-1886) a Dublin-based Catholic physician, novelist, journalist, colonial administrator, abolitionist and historian, and Francis Joseph Bigger (1863-1926), a Belfast-based Protestant solicitor, naturalist, social reformer, cultural revivalist and antiquarian.

February 18, 2020
John J. Burns Library, Boston College