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Podcast: Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts
Episode: ‘The Cecils and Ireland’ conference - Session 2
Description: 26th Nov 2021
Listen back to Session 2 – Chair: Prof Susan Flavin, Dept. History, Trinity College Dublin with guest speakers,
Dr Jim Murray, Director of Development, Quality and Qualifications Ireland, presentation titled ‘William Cecil and the early Elizabethan Reformation in Ireland’ and Dr Brian Jackson, Technological University of South-East Ireland, presentation titled ‘Sir William Cecil and the CounterReformation in Ireland’.
About the conference
Not that long ago, the idea of relating the Cecils, both Lord Burghley and his son Lord Salisbury, to the history of Ireland in the sixteenth and early seventeenth century would have been regarded as marginal and insignificant. And several ma...