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+> László Borhi (Indiana University, Bloomington/MTA), The United States and the Cold War in East Central Europe
+The American Studies Guest Speaker Series of the
+School of English and American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University
+cordially invites you to a
+PUBLIC LECTURE
+by LÁSZLÓ BORHI \\
+Associate Professor, Peter A. Kadas Chair \\
+Department of Central Eurasian Studies, \\
+Institute for European Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington \\
+Scientific Advisor, Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
+The United States and the Cold War in East Central Europe
+Date and time: Thursday, October 3, 2019, 17.00 p.m.
+Venue: ELTE BTK, School of English and American Studies,
+Rákóczi út 5., Room 356
+All welcome!
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-[[https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=fg597gti1kca87ro7g8kn085go@group.calendar.google.com&mode=agenda&dates=20191003%2F20191003&ctz=Europe%2FBudapest|Seamus Heaney memorial lecture]] (at MTA, Szécsenyi tér 9, 2nd floor)
+> Seamus Heaney memorial lecture
+The Széchenyi Academy of Letters and Arts and the Department of English Studies, Eötvös Loránd University cordially invites you to this year’s
+SEAMUS HEANEY \\
+MEMORIAL LECTURE
+DECLAN DOWNEY \\
+Professor \\
+University College Dublin \\
+Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of History
+From Galway to Győr: the Irish presence
+in the Hungarian Crownlands, c.1630 – c.1919. \\
+Opening speech
+by
+H.E. Ronan Gargan \\
+Ambassador of Ireland to Hungary
+Date and time: Thursday 3rd October 2019, 6 p.m.
+Venue: 2nd floor Lecture Hall, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1051 Budapest,
+Széchenyi tér 9.)
+Professor Declan Downey
+The event has been supported by the Embassy of Ireland, Hungary
+This is an English language programme
+A belépés ingyenes, de regisztrációhoz kötött
+szima@titkarsag.mta.hu
++36 1 331 4117 www.szechenyiakademia.hu
+From Galway to Győr: the Irish presence
+in the Hungarian Crownlands, c.1630 – c.1919. \\
+Declan M. Downey \\
+Abstract \\
+‘Their embassies, he said, were everywhere
+but operated independently
+and no ambassador would ever be relieved.’
+These lines from Seamus Heaney’s poem, From the Republic of Conscience,
+encapsulate so much of the experience and mentality of thousands of Irish émigrés. In
+particular, they had a profound sense of their identity and of the obligation on them,
+indeed the necessity for them to represent the best of their national spirit and culture
+abroad. Characteristically, they strove for greater opportunities and achievements for
+themselves, and proved themselves as good and reliable citizens in their host
+societies. While this was observed of the Irish diaspora in the USA, in Australia and
+in Britain since the mid-nineteenth century, such qualities equally characterized
+earlier generations of Irish émigrés to Continental Europe, and especially so in the
+Habsburg realms of Spain, Austria, Hungary, Bohemia and Flanders from 1529
+onwards. This illustrated presentation will explore the centuries-old links between
+Ireland and Hungary as represented by the experiences of Irish émigrés in the DonauMonarchie from the mid-seventeenth to the early-twentieth centuries. The factors that facilitated their success in integration and assimilation with their host society while
+maintaining a sense of their own ancestral identity will be analysed, and hopefully
+lessons for our own times may be learned.
+Brief Biographical Detail
+Declan M. Downey, was awarded the Ph.D. degree in Legal & Diplomatic History
+from the University of Cambridge in 1994. For the past twenty-four years he has been
+lecturing as Assistant Professor in Modern European and Japanese Diplomatic
+History at University College Dublin. He is co-director of the BCL Law with History
+degree programme. His research interests include the history of diplomacy and
+international law; Japanese-European relations and Irish émigrés in Habsburg Europe
+(1600-1800). His extensive publications and leading roles in major international
+research projects have been recognized with national and international honours,
+distinctions and awards including Austria’s Verdienstkreuz (2003), and Spain’s Order
+of Isabel la Católica (2008), and Japan’s Ambassadorial Commendation (2010). On 4
+December 2009, he became the first Irish citizen to be elected to membership of the
+Spanish Royal Academy of History. Also, he has served as a Trustee of the Chester
+Beatty Library from 2012 to 2017.