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The special guest during our live event will be Rory Rapple.  

Rory Rapple is Associate Professor of History with research interests that include political thinking in Early Modern Britain and Ireland; Britain, Ireland and the Atlantic World; violence in Early-Modern Europe; military culture in Early Modern Europe; and aspects of political and social culture in Ireland during the twentieth century.

He is currently writing a book on the life and mental world of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, the pioneer of English transatlantic exploration and settlement who played a significant role in Irish history. The book will place particular emphasis on his considerable reputation among contemporaries as the champion of a particularly high view of monarchical power.