Our final Irish Studies seminar this semester will be on Monday 27 April at 4.30, when Enda Delaney will talk on 'The Cognitive Revolution in Modern Ireland, 1850-1920'. All welcome in-person or online. www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
Join the editors and contributors of issue 9.1 of the Review of Irish Studies in Europe for the online launch of The Animal in Ireland - Real and Imagined, Part 2, on Monday 11 May at 7pm CET!
Register at us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
More information at www.efacis.eu/content/efac...
If you missed the IS seminar with Melissa Baird & Michael Kennedy of DIFP, on ‘"Agents from the South running around Northern Ireland": Backchannel talks between loyalists and the Department of Foreign Affairs in the aftermath of Sunningdale’s collapse', recording at www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKsk...
Out now in Paperback!
"Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories"
Edited by Paul Fagan & Richard Barlow
Available from Edinburgh University Press
(📸 by my mum!)
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-finnega...
This afternoon Melissa Baird and Michael Kennedy will be talking about the fallout from the failed Sunningdale peace deal in NI in 1974-5
And here's WB Yeats and Samuel Beckett in the # 1926Census
I think this means it's out, so it only remains to say yeooooo
#DIBLives In December 1919 the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act was passed, allowing women admission to the legal & other professions. 46 days later Dorothea Heron became the 1st woman apprenticed as a solicitor & #OTD 1923 she became the 1st woman solicitor in Ireland. www.dib.ie/biography/he...
Review of Irish Studies in Europe 9.1 is now available at risejournal.eu !
The Animal in Ireland - Real and Imagined, Part 2
edited by Maureen O'Connor, Ina Bergmann, Maria Eisenmann and Kirsten Sandrock
Have a look at the Table of Contents at www.efacis.eu/sites/defaul...
Next Friday at 12, PhD candidate Michael O'Connor will speak about his work on Irish slaveholders in Jamaica in an event hosted by the Centre for 18th-Century Studies at QUB
On Wednesday 22 April at 1pm we'll be hosting a lunchtime presentation by our visiting Boston College Irish Studies Postgrad Exchange scholar for this year, Cassidy Allen. Please come along to meet Cassidy over lunch. @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social
If you missed Sinéad Moynihan's talk this week on ‘Watching the mail for [. . .] the “Amerikay letther”’: Benedict Kiely and The New Yorker', a recording is now available at youtu.be/86nR6f7KF6U
It’s been a while but I’m revisiting my blog to share some work we have been doing with NIPNP. More case studies to follow in coming weeks but here’s a bit of ‘why we do what we do’…
franceskane.wordpress.com/2026/04/14/w...
A full recording of Saturday's Symposium on 'Peasant Movements and Land Agitation in Ireland' is now available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJaf...
@marcmulholland.bsky.social @peelersandsheep.bsky.social @petergray47.bsky.social @sophcocooper.bsky.social
And at long last!
This paper is finally live. It's been a labour of love, with thanks to so many @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @micireland.bsky.social @ulstermuseum.org @nmireland.bsky.social and so many more!
And it's open access!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In our next seminar on 20 April, Melissa Baird & Michael Kennedy (DIFP) will speak on:
‘“Agents from the South running around Northern Ireland”: Backchannel talks between
loyalists and the DFA in the aftermath of Sunningdale’s collapse’ All welcome! www.ticketsource.com/institute-of...
On Monday 13 April we'll be joined by Dr Sinead Moynihan (Exeter), who will speak on 'Watching the mail for [...] the Amerikay letther: Benedict Kiely and the New Yorker'. All welcome. www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
Nine academics standing behind a table
Thanks to all the speakers at today’s symposium on Peasant Movements and Land Agitation in Ireland
#BCIrishStudies PhD candidate Rowan Bianchi will be participating in QUB's Peasant Movements and Land Agitation in Modern Ireland symposium tomorrow!
Author Emma Donoghue: ‘I grew up very normal, yet had this secret side that I thought everyone would consider foul’
It is from my new book, A Hosting: Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2025, which will be published by Lilliput Press on Thursday, April 16th
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Lecturers (Below the Bar) in Irish Mythology & Folklore
University College Cork - School of Irish Learning #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD980/l...
The Flora & Fauna of Seamus Heaney: #Fauna
📅 Sat, 18 April at 2pm: https://ow.ly/lBZr50YALVq
#SeamusHeaney: Listen Now Again welcomes Paolo Viscardi, Keeper of Natural History at the NMI. Explore the animals in Heaney’s poetry through readings + insights into Ireland’s wildlife.
