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British Association for Irish Studies

A reminder that our 2026 PGR Bursary and Essay Prizes are currently open for submission - you can read reports from our 2025 Bursary awardees now on our website:

irishstudies.co.uk

Race, Violence, and Form: Reframing Nineteenth-Century Ireland Irish literary studies has long subordinated the nineteenth century to the experimental triumphs of Irish modernism, variously dismissing its achievements as too indebted to British forms to be truly ...

My next article, which explores maternal mortality and the National Tale, is now up on Google books.google.com/books/about/...

Being Early Medieval: Encounters with Early Irish Society YouTube video by University of Chester

‘Being Early Medieval: Encounters with Early Irish Society through Archaeology, History and Experimental Archaeology’ University of Chester, 2021-2022 research seminar. youtu.be/jFBXAivgd5s?...

REMINDER our PGR prizes are open for entries until TUESDAY 17 MARCH

An creideamh, an Ghaeilge agus na cnámha aduaine An scéal neamhghnách faoin tslí ar tharla sleachta Gaeilge a bheith scríofa ar chnámha beithígh

An creideamh, an Ghaeilge agus na cnámha aduaine

www.irishtimes.com/gaeilge/tuar...

This sounds really interesting congratulations to all involved. And there is 30% off!

We are delighted to announce the publication of a new article and an interview in our non-themed issue, RISE 8.1!

''Understanding Bernarda': Veronica Coburn's unpublished version of La Casa de Bernarda Alba', by María del Mar González Chacón

Find the issue at risejournal.eu/index.php/ri...

Join us tomorrow, Tues 3rd Mar, 17:15 in the Parlour, Magdalene College for the final meeting of Lent Term. Prof Ciara Breathnach (UCC) will be giving her paper titled 'All That was Lost: Digitised Newspapers as Surrogate Irish Archives’. All welcome!

@magdalenecollege.bsky.social @ucc.ie

Power, Politics and Territory in the ‘New Northern Ireland’ | Home Girdwood Barracks and the Story of the Peace Process

Liz DeYoung’s 'Power, Politics and Territory in the New Northern Ireland’ has just been released in paperback by Liverpool UP. Winner of the 2023 ACIS Murphy Prize, we hosted the NI launch in Jan 2024. Many congrats Liz!

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Just a little over a week left to get those entries in.

If you’re in or around NYC Friday 6 March, you should RSVP for the Irish Studies Seminar and hear me waffle about care, injurability, and the Gothic. Then we’ll go for pints. Or Manhattans. universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminar/iris...

Language and the Anxiety of Belonging in London-Irish Literature Next we have Niamh MacGloin (University of York), whose bursary facilitated archival research and Irish language classes to deepen her research: I first travelled to Dublin to access Dónall Mac Amh…

Language and the Anxiety of Belonging in London-Irish Literature - Niamh MacGloin @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social

irishstudies.co.uk/2026/02/17/l...

Consumption and Self-Starvation in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Irish Fiction. Next up is 2025 BAIS Bursary Prize winner, Paddy Brennan (University of Liverpool). Paddy utilised his bursary to attend and present at conferences and carry out archival research: The BAIS Bursary…

Consumption and Self-Starvation in 20th and 21st Century Irish Fiction - Paddy Brennan @paddy-brennan.bsky.social @irishinstitute.bsky.social

irishstudies.co.uk/2026/02/17/c...

Looking back to look forward: examining the forgotten and misrepresented women’s voices of the ‘Troubles’ in Belfast-made theatre 1969-1998. The second report from our 2025 Bursary Prize winners comes from Ciara O’Neill (Edge Hill University). Ciara used the BAIS bursary to support the development of her practice-based PhD: The bursary …

Looking Back to Look Forward: Examining the Forgotten and Misrepresented Women's Voices of the 'Troubles' in Belfast-made Theatre 1969-1998 - Ciara O'Neill

irishstudies.co.uk/2026/02/17/l...

‘The Bond of Holy Paint’: Exploring the Role of Art in Commemorating Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising Welcome back to our BAIS PGR bursary prize winners blog post series. Each year we ask our bursary prize winners to write up a short post on how they spent their bursary funds. This year we begin wi…

'The Bond of Holy Paint': Exploring the Role of Art in Commemorating Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising - Alice Reffin @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social

irishstudies.co.uk/2026/02/17/t...

British Association for Irish Studies

A reminder that our 2026 PGR Bursary and Essay Prizes are currently open for submission - you can read reports from our 2025 Bursary awardees now on our website:

irishstudies.co.uk

Sharing Lands screening of 'Sinners' Join us for a special 'Sharing Lands' screening of 'Sinners', focusing on connections between African-American, Choctaw & Irish history.

Join us for a special 'Sharing Lands' screening of 'Sinners', focusing on connections between African-American, Choctaw & Irish history.

🗓️Friday 27th February
🕕18.00-21.00
📍Goldsmiths, University of London, Richard Hoggart Building Cinema

Book your free tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/sharing-la...

Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories

Pleased to see that Finnegans Wake - Human and Nonhuman Histories is now available in paperback

edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-finnega...

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@edinburghup.bsky.social
@standrewsenglish.bsky.social
@bairishstudies.bsky.social

Fellow Irish Studies postgrads!! Do this!!!

Join us on zoom

👇

zoom.us/j/94151010639

Join us tomorrow at 5:15pm in the Parlour, Magdalene College, for Dr Amy Prendergast's paper, 'Narratives of Violence: Considering Irish Women’s Diaries and Memoirs as Testimony, 1760-1810'.

All welcome!

@amyprendergast.bsky.social @magdalenecollege.bsky.social

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The Eighth International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales, Rathcroghan Visitor Centre 23-25 June 2026.

Rathcroghan Visitor Centre is delighted to announce that it will be hosting the eighth edition of the International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales.

The Irish Language in Liverpool / An Ghaeilge cois Seteia This event brings together world-leading experts from Ireland, Canada and the US to discuss Liverpool’s contribution to the Irish language.

👉The Irish Language in Liverpool / An Ghaeilge cois Setei👈
Experts from Ireland, Canada + US will discuss Liverpool’s contribution to the Irish language
English with 'cúpla focail'
📅6:30pm, 4 March
🧭Rathbone Theatre @liverpooluni.bsky.social
FREE registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1981144632...

Only five days left to get those abstract in. Abstracts are due Friday 6th February. Thanks to all those that have already submitted we look forward to reading them.

Please do sumbit particulary if you are a PhD student or ECR. It is a great space to share your research

Unionism in Northern Ireland - Jon Burrows MLA Jon Burrows, leader of the UUP, will give a talk on "Unionism in Northern Ireland - Envisioning Governance, Leadership and Inclusion"

Jon Burrows was formally elected as UUP leader over the weekend, and he will be joining us next week to discuss the political challenges + opportunities facing Northern Ireland.
📅 6pm, 12 February
🧭GFlex, CTL @liverpooluni.bsky.social
FREE registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1981423814...

Happy Birthday, Joyce! Here’s a new Finnegans Wake website I've developed with Research Computing at St Andrews: research.st-andrews.ac.uk/elucidationo...

@starcnet.bsky.social @standrewsenglish.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @bairishstudies.bsky.social #JamesJoyce #IrishStudies

I am very happy this article is out [OA to come]. It builds on work by scholars like @matthewjkelly.bsky.social, Paul Townend, Michael de Nie, @alanlester.bsky.social (and others) to suggest that Irish nationalism had something important to say about the British Empire in the 1830s and 1840s. 🗃️

Prizes and Funding BAIS Book Prize The 2026 BAIS Book Prize is now open. We invite submissions of single-author monographs published in 2025. All areas of Irish Studies across a range of disciplines are welcome.…

A reminder that our Postgraduate Essay and Bursary prizes are now open for applications! Deadline for submissions 17 March 2026

See the BAIS website for details on how to enter and eligibility:

irishstudies.co.uk/prizes-and-f...