TLRH | Fellow in Focus with Dr Roisín Higgins (Teesside University)

Recorded April 25, 2023. A lunchtime 'in conversation' event
featuring Visiting Research Fellow Dr Roisín Higgins (Teesside
University) in conversation with Dr Mark Hennessy (School of
Natural Sciences, TCD), organised by the Long Room Hub. Roisín
Higgins is an Associate Professor at Teesside University with a
research focus on historical memory. Her book on the fiftieth
anniversary of the Easter Rising, Transforming 1916: Meaning,
Memory and the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Easter Rising (Cork,
2012), won the ACIS James Donnelly Sr Prize for History and Social
Science. Roisín was involved in many aspects of the Centenary of
the Easter Rising, including acting as historical consultant on the
‘Commemoration’ zone of the permanent exhibition GPO: Witness
History. Her wide-ranging public-facing work also includes the
popular RTÉ programme National Treasures. Roisín’s current work
explores sensory experiences of living through the recent conflict
in Northern Ireland. In 2021-2, she received a Leverhulme Research
Fellowship for her project ‘Sensing the Troubles: A Critical
Re-Imaging of Life in Northern Ireland’. She is currently the
recipient of an AHRC Networking Grant for ‘Towards a Socio-Somatic
History of the Troubles’, which brings together scholars, arts
practitioners and community organisers to explore the impact of
society on the body. While at the Hub, Roisin will be collaborating
with scholars whose work reframes stories of post-war Ireland,
under the ‘Making Ireland’ theme. Through her project, ‘Fragments
of Conflict: A Sensory History of the Troubles, she will explore
new methodologies for writing histories of Ireland. Mark Hennessy
is Assistant Professor in Geography and Convenor of Trinity’s
Making Ireland research theme. He holds a B.A.(Hons.) and Ph.D.
from the Department of Geography, University College Dublin. In
1984/'85 he was a Research Fellow in the Flinders University of
South Australia. He was a Research Assistant in the Departments of
Geography and the Medieval History in 1985-1987 and Lecturer in
Geography in UCD from 1987-1991. Hennessy then became a Lecturer in
Geography in Trinity, before taking up his appointment as Assistant
Professor in Geography. Learn more at:
https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/