The School of Canadian Irish Studies at Concordia University is holding a public lecture this evening, October 23, at 7:00 p.m. with historian and author Alvin Jackson. The title of Mr. Jackson’s lecture is The Two Unions: Ireland, Scotland and the Survival of the United Kingdom.
This is the 7th Annual Irish Protestant Benevolent Society Lecture. It will be held in the McEntee Reading Room, Hall Building, 10th Floor, Room H1001.01, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve West, Montreal.
Mr. Jackson is an historian of modern Ireland and of the British-Irish relationship, and is at present Sir Richard Lodge Professor of History and Dean of Research at the University of Edinburgh. He was educated at Corpus Christi and Nuffield Colleges, Oxford, and has taught at University College Dublin and at Queen’s University Belfast. He is the author or editor of seven books, including the prize-winning The Ulster Party (1989) and the Two Unions (2012), which has been short-listed for two national prizes in the United Kingdom. His latest work is the Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History. His research has been recognised by numerous awards, and most recently through a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship.
