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SUMMARY:&quot\;Ireland grows up: the debate about how to celebrate the cen
 tenary of the 1916 Rising&quot\; - Dr Ruth Dudley Edwards\, historian\, au
 thor and journalist
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CONTACT:Professor John Naughton
DESCRIPTION:_About the Series_\n\nA series of specially-commissioned 50-mi
 nute lectures to celebrate the first 50 years of Wolfson College. In the s
 eries\, eleven distinguished members of the college reflect on development
 s in their fields of expertise in the half-century since Wolfson was found
 ed.\n\n_Abstract_\n\nIn 1966 the Republic of Ireland celebrated the 1916 R
 ising as an unalloyed triumph and critics mainly kept silent.  In 2015 the
 re is an open and honest debate.  Was the Rising a vital catalyst for the 
 achievement of independence?  Or was it a catastrophe that poisoned the is
 land with political violence?\n\n_About the Lecturer_\n\nRuth Dudley Edwar
 ds is an alumna of Wolfson.  She was born and brought up in Dublin\, was a
  student at University College Dublin\, a post-graduate at Cambridge Unive
 rsity and now lives in London. A historian and prize-winning biographer (t
 he James Tait Black Memorial Prize for _Victor Gollancz: a biography_)\, h
 er recent non-fiction books include _True Brits: inside the Foreign Office
 _\, _The Pursuit of Reason: The Economist 1843-1993_\, _The Faithful Tribe
 : an intimate portrait of the loyal institutions_ (shortlisted for the Cha
 nnel 4 political book prize)\, _Newspapermen: Hugh Cudlipp\, Cecil Harmswo
 rth King and the glory days of Fleet Street_ and _Aftermath: the Omagh bom
 bings and the families' pursuit of justice_ (longlisted for the Orwell Pri
 ze\, shortlisted for the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize and winner
  of the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction). Her fir
 st book\, _An Atlas of Irish History_\, is now in its third edition. _Patr
 ick Pearse: the triumph of failure_\, which won the National University of
  Ireland Prize for Historical Research in 1978\, was reissued in 2006 with
  a new foreword.  And in 2011 she received an Honorary Doctorate from Quee
 n's University Belfast.\n\nTo book a place\, please follow "this link":htt
 ps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wolfson-college-50th-anniversary-lecture-ticke
 ts-16138984136
LOCATION:Lee Hall\, Wolfson College
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