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BAIS is the national network for those with an interest in the study of Ireland. Posts by our comms team and council members.

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British Association for Irish Studies (BAIS) @bairishstudies.bsky.social · Sep 29
The 2025 BAIS Essay Prize winner, written by Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social is now available to read on Irish Studies Review!
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“I took the left turn for eternity”: otherworlds, afterlives, and discursive storytelling traditions in Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman and Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Graveyard Clay
This essay explores Flann O’Brien’s posthumously published The Third Policeman (1967) and Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s 1949 Irish language novel Cré na Cille (Graveyard Clay) through their use of literary o...
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irishinstitute.bsky.social
The 2025 Seamus Heaney Lecture will be in just 🔟days, and there's just a handful of spaces left so best register now:
Professor Sir Simon Schama
Leanne Best
🗓️ 6:00 pm, 13 November
🧭 Yoko Ono Lennon Centre @liverpooluni.bsky.social
🎟️ FREE registration REQUIRED: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1765402248...
The 2025 Seamus Heaney Lecture: ‘Politics and the Poet' by Sir Simon Schama
The 2025 Seamus Heaney Lecture by Sir Simon Schama, with readings by Leanne Best
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November 3, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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irishstudiesqub.bsky.social
EFACIS Roundtable Discussion 13: Workshop on Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing - recording
EFACIS Roundtable Discussion 13: Workshop on Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing
YouTube video by EFACIS YouTube
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November 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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We're delighted to announce that, after a very successful first year, RIISS will be hosting a further New Voices ECR Visiting Fellow in 2026. Applications are open until 5th December 2025.
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New Voices ECR Visiting Fellowship
www.abdn.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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OPPORTUNITY: The Childers Professorship of Irish History, University of Cambridge
October 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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We are delighted to share our programme of seminars for Michaelmas Term 2025 🍂

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October 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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irishinstitute.bsky.social
⚠️1 week warning⚠️
Want to pick up Cúpla Focal or learn more about the history of the Irish Language?
Join our Taster/History Session as part of #LIF2025
All welcome - no Irish required!
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🗓️6pm, 22 October 2025
🧭Rendall Building @liverpooluni.bsky.social
🎟️FREE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1753116200...
LIF 2025: Irish language taster session
Free Irish language taster session as part of the Liverpool Irish Festival 2025.
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October 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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OPPORTUNITY: applications are open for the Keough-Naughton Library Research Award in Irish Studies
ndirishstudies.bsky.social Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies @ndirishstudies.bsky.social · Sep 22
Take advantage of the Hesburgh Libraries’ outstanding Irish studies collection — including the finest collection of Irish-language printed texts in North America.

Established scholars, grad students, and postdocs are encouraged to apply!

See more details here: irishstudies.nd.edu/scholars/vis...
September 29, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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ndirishstudies.bsky.social
Take advantage of the Hesburgh Libraries’ outstanding Irish studies collection — including the finest collection of Irish-language printed texts in North America.

Established scholars, grad students, and postdocs are encouraged to apply!

See more details here: irishstudies.nd.edu/scholars/vis...
September 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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edinburghup.bsky.social
📚 Book launch
📍The Irish Secretariat, Belfast
📆 Wednesday October 1st,  5pm

Panelists Paul Gillespie,  Prof Katy Hayward @katyhayward.bsky.social
and Prof Michael Keating host a roundtable discussion on their new book!

Book your spot:
Launch & Discussion: Political Change Across Britain and Ireland
Published by Edinburgh University Press 2025. Panellists: Dr Paul Gillespie, UCD: Prof Katy Hayward, QUB: Prof Michael Keating, Aberdeen
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September 29, 2025 at 9:06 AM
bairishstudies.bsky.social
The 2025 BAIS Essay Prize winner, written by Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social is now available to read on Irish Studies Review!
doi.org/10.1080/0967...
“I took the left turn for eternity”: otherworlds, afterlives, and discursive storytelling traditions in Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman and Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Graveyard Clay
This essay explores Flann O’Brien’s posthumously published The Third Policeman (1967) and Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s 1949 Irish language novel Cré na Cille (Graveyard Clay) through their use of literary o...
doi.org
September 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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druidtheatre.bsky.social
The book is now available to order in a variety of formats.

We recommend ordering direct from Methuen or via Galway's wonderful booksellers, @kennysbookshop.bsky.social or Charlie Byrne's Bookshop.

Find out more about the book on our website: tinyurl.com/mwtvnmx5
New collection of Druid plays | Druid Theatre
Marking Druid's 50th anniversary, this new book collects six of the company's most impactful plays together in one volume for the first time.
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September 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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So great to see this in print! A real pleasure to work on this book with @druidtheatre.bsky.social @methuendrama.bsky.social and of course with the best of co-editors of Patrick Lonergan and Máiréad Ní Chrónín.
druidtheatre.bsky.social Druid Theatre @druidtheatre.bsky.social · Sep 17
It's publication day of our new book!

Druid Theatre 1975-2025
50 Years of New Irish Plays

Marking our 50th anniversary, this new book collects six of Druid's most impactful plays together in one volume for the first time.
A copy of the book stacked on some other copies of the book. Behind are some show posters.
September 19, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Digitization alert! We recently digitized materials by and about Irish patriot and suffragist Maud Gonne. The materials include correspondence, photo, articles, Women's Prisoners' Defence League records, and more. Check them out: https://findingaids.bc.edu/repositories/2/resources/254/digitized
Collage of a newspaper clipping, hand colored image of Maud Gonne, and handwritten letter over a black and white photo of an elderly veiled Maud Gonne
September 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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📣 📣 The CFP for IASIL 2026 is now LIVE! 📣 📣

Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU) Budapest – 6-10 July 2026
Translating Ireland

The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday, November 28, 2025.

#IrishStudies #Translation #IrishLiterature

Full CFP:
www.iasil.org/2025/09/conf...

Pls share
CONFERENCE 2026: Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU) Budapest – 6-10 July 2026 – International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures
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September 15, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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livunipress.bsky.social
Most read in Studia Hibernica this week:
'Theatre in Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century: the troubled 1840s' by Karina Holton
Read it online: bit.ly/SH-Holton
@ciarandunbarrach.bsky.social @bairishstudies.bsky.social @dublincityuni.bsky.social @irishinstitute.bsky.social @fsg-dcu.bsky.social
The Studia Hibernica social media graphic features the white plain cover of the journal to the left atop four bright red rectangles as the journal's motif, with the journal summary written to the right which reads: 'Devoted to the study of the Irish language and its literature, Irish history and archaeology, Irish folklore and place names, and related subjects.' The background is a pale blue acrylic abstract painting of the Irish sky with the LUP logo in white on the top right.
September 8, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Join us on Thursday, 11 Sept. 2025 at 6.30pm for the launch of "James Joyce’s Legacies in Contemporary Irish Women’s Writing" (Routledge), a new monograph by Dr. Annalisa Mastronardi.

The event is free but booking is essential. We hope to see you there!

www.eventbrite.ie/e/book-launc...
Book Launch: James Joyce’s Legacies in Contemporary Irish Women’s Writing
A talk and Q&A on a new book on the Irish women writers who are reshaping literature today, inspired by James Joyce's enduring influence.
www.eventbrite.ie
August 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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mauricejcasey.com
Thanks so much to Fin of the Irish History Podcast for having me on to talk in detail about the Irish world of the Hotel Lux.

You can listen here: shows.acast.com/irishhistory...
The Secret Life of May O’Callaghan: The Kremlin’s Irish Insider | Irish History Podcast
How did an Irish Catholic become a Kremlin insider in the 1920s?
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August 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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livunipress.bsky.social
We are delighted to be co-hosting the Laurence Sterne Conference this year from 5th - 7th November 2025 at @sotauol.bsky.social🌍
Deadline for registration: 1st September
Deadline for proposals: 15th August
Find out more and how to register: bit.ly/SterneConference25
@lsternetrust.bsky.social
The Laurence Sterne Conference 'Terraqueous Globe: Land and Sea in the Age of Sterne' from 5-7 Nov 2025 in the School of the Arts Library. Registration deadline 1/09/25, proposal deadline 15/08/25.
July 30, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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New pub: Continuity and Change in the Irish Culinary History and Culture, 1922-1973

Explore how food reflected and influenced Irish social, cultural, and economic shifts during these pivotal years.

@bairishstudies.bsky.social
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Continuity and Change in the Irish Culinary History and Culture, 1922-1973
"Continuity and Change in the Irish Culinary History and Culture, 1922-1973" published on 28 Apr 2025 by Brill.
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August 12, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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irishhistorians.bsky.social
We are delighted to announce that a full programme and registration for the 35th Irish Conference of Historian is now available. Maynooth University, 12-13 September.

Please share widely.

www.eventbrite.com/e/35th-irish...

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35th Irish Conference of Historians - Inner Lives and Outer Realities
The 35th annual Irish conference of historians hosted by the Irish Committee of Historical Sciences & Maynooth University Dept. of History
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August 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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@ssnci.bsky.social Just a month and a half to go until you can a hold of this baby! Order your copy now for the first ever dedicated book on conflict in 19c Ireland and amongst or involving "the Irish" abroad. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... #conflict #ssnci
May 31, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Thanks again to everyone who supported our academic programme in #IrishStudies this year. You can find recordings of most of our events on our YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@QUBIrishStu...
QUB Irish Studies
Posting talks, public lectures and other events given at the Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University Belfast.
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June 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Delighted to share that the special issue of Irish University Review (IUR 55.1) that I co-edited with Dr Emma Radley — ‘Irish Studies: Beyond the Text’ — has now been published by Edinburgh University Press: www.euppublishing.com/toc/iur/55/1. Our thirteen essays (plus intro) follow!
#IrishStudies
Edinburgh University Press Journals - Table of Contents - iur: Vol 55, No 1
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May 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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mikelyn.bsky.social
Love when the pals win together 🤝
bairishstudies.bsky.social British Association for Irish Studies (BAIS) @bairishstudies.bsky.social · May 15
Niamh MacGloin (@york.ac.uk ), ‘Language and the Anxiety of Belonging in London-Irish Literature’
May 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM