Conferences
HTAI organises an annual in-service conference for history teachers, which is part-funded by the Teacher Education Section of the Department of Education and Skills.
Each conference examines historical themes of interest to classroom teachers. They are organised by local branches on a rotating basis.
National Conference 2016 :the Dublin branch will host this year's conference.
Past National Conferences
| Year | Branch | Title | Keynote address |
| 2015 | North Munster | Towards 1916 | Tomi Reichental, 'I was a boy in Belsen' |
| 2014 | Waterford | History Teaching: Challenges, Opportunities & Strategies | Dr Ronan Fanning, Emeritus Professor of History, ' 1914 - John Redmond's year of decision' |
| 2013 | Galway | History, Memory and Public Commemoration | Professor Diarmuid Ferriter, UCD, 'The Irish Revolution 1913-192:: History, Memory and Commemoration |
| 2012 | Cork | Commemoration and History | Professor David Fitzpatrick, TCD Commemoration and Irish History:who should commemerate what and why? |
| 2011 | Kerry | History Matters :the Future of Our Past | Dr Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh, Emeritus Professor of History, NUIG: Why History Matters |
| 2010 | Dublin | "The Wind of Change" Teaching History today: new topics, different perspectives, all levels | Dr Hugh Gough, UCD Contextualising the case study: Race Relations in France in the 1980s |
| 2009 | Sligo | 2009 A Year of Anniversaries | Dr Michael Laffan, UCD The Impact of the first Dáil, 1919 |
| 2008 | Waterford | Bridging the divide with Northern Ireland:the challenge for History teachers | Mr Steven King Revisiting Past Events: the Challenge of Northern Ireland |
| 2007 | Midlands | History for a Changing Ireland | Dr Diarmaid Ferriter, St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra: A Life of Turbulent Self-Assertion: A reassessment of the career and legacy of Eamon de Valera |
| 2006 | Limerick | Taking History into the Future | Dr. Martin Mansergh, Senator and Historian Reflections on the 1916 Rising |
| 2005 | Cork | History at Second Level:good practice and effective teaching | Professor Donnacha Ó Corráin, UCC |
| 2004 | Dublin | New Directions in History at Second Level | Dr. Robert Kirkpatrick, DES Dr. Padraic Harvey, SEC The Way Forward for History Teachers: some insights |
| 2003 | Galway | The Challenges of History Teaching | Professor Nicholas Canny, UCG: The Challenges of history teaching |
| 2002 | Waterford | Celebrating History | Professor Roy Foster, University of Oxford: Intimate Enmities: Antagonisms in Irish History |
| 2001 | Cork | Using History | Mr Mitchell McLoughlin, Sinn Féin Professor Joe Lee, UCC: Reinterpretating History |
| 2000 | Dublin | Documenting the past, preparing for the future | Dr Pauric Travers, St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra |
| 1999 | Kerry | People and Places | Dr Mary Daly, UCD: Interpretations of History: Ireland in the Twentieth Century |
| 1998 | North Connaught | 1798: the Local and the National | Professor Tom Bartlett, UCD: Tone and 1798 |
| 1997 | Cork | The Scattering: The Global Irish Diaspora | Professor Declan Kiberd UCD: Culture and Exile: The Global Irish |
| 1996 | Navan | History: Past, Present and Future | Professor Joe Lee UCC: Why We Need History |
| 1995 | Galway | Expanding Horizons in the History Curriculum | Prof. Gearóid ÓTuathaigh, UCG: Cultural Nationalism in Modern Ireland |
| 1994 | Waterford | History in schools: challenges and opportunities | Dr John O'Brien UCC: Substance and Topicality |
