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"DUBLIN AS A GLOBAL CITY 1600-2017"
Infos pratiques
le Vendredi 16 Février 2018, 19:30 - 20:30
9 rue Princesse Marie de Lorraine
98000 Monaco
Tel : +377 93501225
Description
An Illustrated Talk by Professor Kevin Whelan (Michael J. Smurfit Director, Notre Dame Global Gateway, Dublin) at the Princess Grace Irish Library under the aegis of Fondation Princesse Grace

In recent decades, national history has bifurcated, moving both down (micro-history) and up (Atlantic, global history). This illustrated lecture is an exercise in regarding history as a panorama rather than as a close-up in considering the global positioning through space and time of a small but influential city. It approaches the evolution of Dublin through a series of flows – of people, ideas, goods, and culture. It tracks Dublin’s rise as a ‘city of brick’, as it surged from a mere 10,000 in 1600 to 200,000 by 1800 – a response to the northwards migration of the centre of gravity of the European economy from its old Mediterranean heart to the Atlantic façade. It anatomises Dublin under the Union, a ‘city of shadows’, as its trade, population and prospects were all constricted. It considers the influence of two global systems – Imperialism, Catholicism – on Dublin in the nineteenth century. The ‘city of words’ emerged in the early twentieth century, when Joyce, Yeats and Beckett found ways to universalize the city. The 1916 Rising is considered, as is the exhausted city of the post-imperial phase. Finally the lecture looks at the emergence of the ‘silicon city’, and how Dublin functions as a transnational city in the current global economy. By looking at Dublin over a long time frame and in a wider geographical frame, its distinctive evolution can be tracked through comparative perspectives.

Kevin Whelan has been the founding academic director of the Dublin Global Gateway since it opened in 1998. He received his doctorate from the National University of Ireland in 1981. One of Ireland’s best-known and most widely published scholars, Kevin Whelan has authored or edited over twenty books and more than one hundred articles on the country’s history, culture, and literature. In addition, he has lectured in almost twenty countries and at the Sorbonne, Cambridge, Oxford, Torino, Berkeley, Yale, Dartmouth, Louvain, among many others. He has also served as an advisor to the Irish government on historical commemoration. During his tenure as the face of Notre Dame in Ireland, he has taught over 3,000 Notre Dame undergraduates. From 1999 to 2011, he directed the annual Irish Seminar, the leading seminar in the field of Irish Studies.

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Entry 10 EUR per person payable at the door.
Reservations: pglib@monaco.mc or +377 93 50 12 25





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