BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:14@methodisthistoryireland.org DTSTART:20161021T193000Z DTEND:20161021T210000Z DTSTAMP:20150630T085301Z URL:https://methodisthistoryireland.org/events/mhsi-annual-lecture-2016/ SUMMARY:MHSI Annual Lecture 2016 - Dr Fergus O'Ferrall DESCRIPTION:Subject: 'Methodists in Ireland: Political Identities and Chang ing Contexts'\nLecturer: Dr Fergus O'Ferrall\n\nDr Fergus O’Ferrall is a native of Abbeyderg\, Kenagh\, Co.Longford. He attended Wesley College\, Dublin and Trinity College\, Dublin\, where he obtained a Moderatorship in Modern History and Political Science\, a Masters Degree in Health Service s Management and a doctorate in Irish History.\n\nAmongst his publications are Catholic Emancipation Daniel O’Connell and the Birth of Irish Democ racy 1820-1830 (Gill &\; Macmillan\, 1985) and a short biography Daniel O’Connell (Gill &\; Macmillan\, 1981 and 1998). He edited with the C ounty Archivist Martin Morris Longford History and Society (Geography Publ ications\, Dublin\, 2010). Together with Martin Morris and Sarah Gearty he edited Longford in the Royal Irish Academy’s Irish Historic Towns Atlas series. He has also written a comparative study of the three towns\, Athl one\, Mullingar and Longford\, which is published in Maps and Texts Explor ing the Irish Historic Towns Atlas\, edited by H.B. Clarke and Sarah Geart y (Royal Irish Academy\, Dublin\, 2013). He is a regular contributor to Te athbha\, the Journal of the Longford Historical Society of which he is a L ife Member. He is a member of the Committee of the Methodist Historical So ciety of Ireland. He has contributed articles on aspects of Irish history and health policy to a number journals including Studies An Irish Quarterl y and to the online Dublin Review of Books.\n\nDr O’Ferrall has held the following positions: Adelaide Professor in Health Policy\, Trinity Colleg e\, Dublin\; Director of the Adelaide Hospital Society\; Director of the N ational Bible Society of Ireland\; Chief Executive of Macra na Feirme\, Pr esident of the National Youth Council of Ireland\; Chairman of The Wheel\, the co-ordinating body of the Irish voluntary sector. He is currently a G overnor of The Irish Times newspaper. Recently he has been asked to co-cha ir a new initiative by the Carnegie Trust and The Wheel to stimulate a nat ional People’s Conversation directed towards producing a New Vision of C itizenship in Ireland to be launched in 2016. He was designated Lay Leader of Conference\, 2016-18\, by the Methodist Church in Ireland in 2015.\n\n  \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://methodisthistoryireland.org/wp-content/u ploads/2015/06/fergus_o_ferrall2.jpg CATEGORIES:Public Lecture LOCATION:Edgehill College\, 9 Lennoxvale\, Belfast\, BT9 5BY\, United Kingd om GEO:54.5777783;-5.937183799999957 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=9 Lennoxvale\, Belfast\, BT 9 5BY\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Edgehill College:geo:54. 5777783,-5.937183799999957 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR