By Niamh McGee The personal histories and experiences of survivors of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home, where over 800 children were found in mass graves, are currently being gathered by researchers at NUI Galway’s History Department under a new project launched by the university. The project, titled ‘Archiving Personal Histories: The Tuam Mother and Baby Home’ was launched … [Read more...] about NUI Galway History Department launches new project on Tuam Mother and Baby Home
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‘History can illuminate and be illuminated by so many other disciplines’: NUIG’s Dr Padraig Lenihan welcomes talk of history being made core subject
By Aaron Deering Historians and history students welcomed recent comments reported in the Irish Independent by Minister for Education Joe McHugh about being open to the idea of making History part of the core Junior Cert curriculum. As a student of History, Sociology and Politics, I welcome the comments. History, as a subject, assists us in learning from the past and … [Read more...] about ‘History can illuminate and be illuminated by so many other disciplines’: NUIG’s Dr Padraig Lenihan welcomes talk of history being made core subject
Black ’47: A historic review
By Javier Ruiz Gomez Lance Daly has done it, and he has done it right. Not many Irish would be able to tell a story about the Famine without jumping to the conclusion that the English were to blame. As a history major, I would like to cover a few aspects of the movie that are historically accurate but might appear in conflict with what is being taught in … [Read more...] about Black ’47: A historic review