MAHS lecture on Hill of Uisneach at Navan Library

The Hill of Uisneach is the subject of the next MAHS lecture, on Thursday 29 February at Navan Library at 7.30pm. The talk is by Dr Angus Mitchell and its title is ‘Antiquarians on the Hill of Uisneach and the Threshold of Irish History (1906-1916).

Abstract

In May 2023, Dr Mitchell received a bursary from the Royal Irish Academy’s Decade of Centenaries Grant Scheme to research the Hill of Uisneach, and the Struggle for Irish Independence.

His lecture will examine how the temporal and spatial significance of the Hill of Uisneach was defined and asserted through the organising of a series of gatherings by a network of antiquarians, historians and cultural revivalists in the decade before rebellion.

Biography

For two decades Dr Angus Mitchell has researched and published on the life and legacy of Roger Casement and other individuals involved in the cultural politics of the early 20th century, including the historian Alice Stopford Green, the botanist, Augustine Henry, and the evangelical faith missionary and divine, Henry Grattan Guinness.

Dr Mitchell has delivered two MAHS talks on Alice Stopford Green, in October 2017 and December 2019, the latter in conjunction with the unveiling of the MAHS plaque to Stopford Green in Kells.