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Irish Historical Research Prize 2021 Lecture, 17 May 2023

Dr Máirín MacCarron presented the Irish Historical Research Prize 2021 Lecture, in University College Cork on 17 May 2023. The lecture, ‘The Medieval Invention of Time: the Venerable Bede and Chronology’, was attended by UCC President, Professor John O’Halloran; National University of Ireland Registrar, Dr Patrick O’Leary, and a delegation from the NUI; colleagues from CACSSS and across the University; and other NUI awardees from UCC.

The Irish Historical Research Prize is awarded in alternate years for the best new work of historical research with a significant Irish dimension and of an original character indicating direct research in historical records. Dr MacCarron won for her publication Bede and Time: Computus, Theology and History in the Early Medieval World (Routledge: London and New York, 2020). The book, and lecture, examined the development of time reckoning and chronological systems, in particular the adoption and dissemination of AD-dating, in the early middle ages, and considered the implications of these innovations for our understanding of time and history.

Dr MacCarron is a lecturer in the School of English and Digital Humanities and Principal Investigator of GENCHRON Time for Women? Gender, Chronology and Historiography before AD 900 (IRC Laureate Consolidator grant).

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