"The Cognitive Revolution in Modern Ireland" (Members/free, £5/visitors)

Join Professor Enda Delaney in person for a talk for the general public.

Post-Famine Ireland experienced rapid economic, social, political and cultural change, but what about cognitive change? Cognition is the process of acquiring knowledge, information and understanding, and is fundamentally about sense-making. Ireland’s cognitive revolution had no start or end point, and was so quiet that most historians did not notice it. Using examples like the Irish language shift, changes in popular consumption, the decline of oral culture and the loss of vernacular modes of thought, Enda Delaney asks if the ‘cognitive revolution’ should be added to the revolutions that shaped modern Ireland?