Irish Famine Summer School & Conference, 14-19 June

The full programme for the 2016 Irish Famine Summer School & Conference, which will be held 14th-19th June at Strokestown Park, County Roscommon, has been published.

This year's theme will be 'From Famine to Freedom', and the programme includes international and local historians exploring the movements of political, cultural and social change that paved the way for 1916 and the struggle for