Dr Lynn Kilgallon gives Lunchtime Talk on Medieval Dublin Castle

Dr Lynn Kilgallon, VRTI Research Fellow in Medieval History and Humanities Lead for Knowledge Graph for Irish History, gave a talk yesterday titled “People, Power, and Parchment: The Life and Times of Medieval Dublin Castle” as part of the VRTI’s new Lunchtime Talks at the Castle series.

To watch Dr Kilgallon’s lecture, please click HERE.

The event was well-attended and covered the castle’s history as a center of governance, power and control, revealing the lives of those who shaped and were shaped by it. Through the documents they created, Dr Kilgallon conveyed the castle’s role in medieval Dublin and its connections to the English crown, offering a glimpse into the workings of authority, bureaucracy, and daily life in medieval Ireland.

The Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland is set to offer a series of free public talks looking at Dublin Castle and Irish history from lesser known, and sometimes unexpected, angles. Join historians from the research team to explore stories from the Castle found among the records in the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland. The series is comprised of two more talks on the following dates:

Tuesday 29 April: Dr Tim Murtagh – Spies, Smugglers, and Rebels: The Chief Secretary’s Office and the Challenges of Governance, 1770–1820
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Tuesday 6 May: Dr Brian Gurrin – Counting from the Castle – Dublin Castle and early censuses of Ireland
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The events are free and all are welcome. Booking is essential.

All talks will be recorded and made available online after the event.  Watch this space for links to these recordings.

The Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland research programme is supported by the Irish Government through funding from the Department of Arts, Culture, Communications, Media and Sport under Project Ireland 2040. www.virtualtreasury.ie