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Ireland and the American Revolution Keynote Address | Prof Eliga Gould

Recorded October 9th, 2025. The Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland and the Trinity Long Room Hub were delighted to welcome Prof. Eliga Gould to give a keynote address, entitled 'Lord Carlisle’s Union: Making Peace in America, Ireland, and Britain, 1778-1783’, at Ireland and the American Revolution: 250th Anniversary Perspectives. The conference was generously supported by the Trinity History Department, the Grace Lawless Lee Fund, the Trinity Trust, and the Faculty Events Fund. About Eliga Gould: Eliga Gould is Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire and the Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at the University of Oxford this academic year. He is an authority on the American Revolution, and his work has emphasized the entangled nature of American history, and connections between the colonies, and eventually the United States, with the Americas more generally, and also with Africa, Europe, and the wider world. His current book project, 'Crucible of Peace' (which will be published by Oxford University Press), examines a founding document that has escaped the attention of historians: the Treaty of Paris, which ended the American Revolutionary War in 1783. This follows on his ground-breaking book, 'Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire' (Harvard UP, 2012), in which he explored the quest of the early United States to be accepted as a ‘treaty worthy’ nation by Europe’s colonial powers – a quest that shaped American thinking on a host of issues including federalism, Native American treaty rights, and the abolition of slavery. He has also published on a number of other topics, including his award-winning first book 'The Persistence of Empire', and he has he has held long-term fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Fulbright-Hays Program, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Charles Warren Center at Harvard. Learn more at www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub