Mary Magray, PhD

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Dr. Mary Magray has an MA in European history and a PhD in British and Irish history, with a focus on women and religion. Now retired, she taught a wide variety of European history courses to students of all ages for more than thirty years, including the history of early Irish and British Christianity at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the author of The Transforming Power of the Nuns: Women, Religion, and Cultural Change in Ireland, 1750-1900, and worked as an instructor in the Division of Continuing Studies at UW–Madison.

Courses offered:

Cities of the World: Edinburgh

Cities of the World: Dublin

“Rule by Strongmen”: Europe Between the Wars and the Troubling Legacy of Fascism

The “Anglo-Saxons”: History, Legacy and Myth

A Virtual Tour of Ireland

The Making and Unmaking of the United Kingdom

History on the Landscape: Ancient and Medieval Ireland

Contest and Controversy: Early Christianity in Rome, Ireland, and the British Isles

The Witch Panic of the 16th and 17th Centuries in the Western World

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Ireland through the Ages: A Virtual Tour

Zoom Online

In this course we will be going on a whirlwind virtual tour of Ireland, one of Europe’s smallest countries and—in terms of the sheer number of historical sites and archeological remnants still present on the cultural landscape for the armchair visitor to see—one of its most fascinating. Nowhere in all of western Europe do these…

The Witch Panic of the 16th and 17th Centuries

Frank B. Koller Memorial Library 5761 US-51, Manitowish Waters, WI, United States

This class will take place October 5, 12, 19, and 26 at the Frank B. Koller Memorial Library in Manitowish Waters.

$40.00 – $45.00

Cities of the World: Edinburgh

Frank B. Koller Memorial Library 5761 US-51, Manitowish Waters, WI, United States

Part of our Cities of the World: A Grand Tour series, this class takes place January 9, 2024.

$15.00

Cities of the World: Dublin

Frank B. Koller Memorial Library 5761 US-51, Manitowish Waters, WI, United States

Part of our Cities of the World: A Grand Tour series, this class will take place May 14.

$15.00