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'The Irish dimension to British history: from the Act of Union to Brexit'

25 February 2019

Watch Sir David Cannedine addresses the key issues in Irish history within the context of British history from the early 1800s and the Act of Union, through to the current Brexit situation.

This Academy Discourse by Sir David Cannadine, President, British Academy and Dodge Professor of History, Princeton University, wast the tenth in the series sponsored by Mason Hayes & Curran. Tuesday, January 15, 2019


 

About the Speaker

Professor Sir David Cannadine FBA, FRSL, FSA, FRHistS is an historian of modern British history from 1800 to 2000.  He succeeded Lord Stern as President of the British Academy in July 2017.  He is Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University, a Visiting Professor of History at Oxford University, and the editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He has previously taught at the University of Cambridge and Columbia University, New York. He was Director and Professor of History at the Institute of Historical Research from 1998-2003.

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