Professor Brendan Smith (History) will be delivering his inaugural lecture on Tuesday 17 March. The lecture will begin at 6pm in the Pugsley Lecture Theatre, Queen's Building (Engineering), University Walk and is followed by a drinks reception, all are welcome.
Professor Smith's lecture is entitled ‘A passing glace of wonder and pity: reflections on the history of medieval Ireland’. Ireland was England’s first colony. The spread of English power and English people throughout the neighbouring island after 1170 inspired a burst of literary activity as contemporaries sought to justify or discredit this colonial venture. This lecture explores what these writings reveal, and conceal, about Ireland’s medieval past.