Irish Studies at QUB
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Institute of Irish Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. An interdisciplinary research institute for all aspects of Irish culture, history, politics and society. See 'Lists' for more info. Find us at https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/
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On Monday 17 November we'll be joined by Luca Bertolani Azeredo (Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples), who will speak on 'The Enniskillen Horse: illegality, legitimacy and the birth of Irish paramilitarism'. All welcome, in-person or online. Registration is at: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
October 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
On Monday 17 November we'll be joined by Luca Bertolani Azeredo (Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples), who will speak on 'The Enniskillen Horse: illegality, legitimacy and the birth of Irish paramilitarism'. All welcome, in-person or online. Registration is at: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
We'll be celebrating our first 60 years with a drinks reception following our Irish Studies seminar on Monday 8th December - please join us!
November 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
We'll be celebrating our first 60 years with a drinks reception following our Irish Studies seminar on Monday 8th December - please join us!
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Ferdia Lennon wins 2025 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for Glorious Exploits
Ferdia Lennon wins 2025 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for Glorious Exploits
The €10,000 prize, awarded annually since 1976, celebrates an outstanding body of work by an emerging Irish writer under 40
www.irishtimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Ferdia Lennon wins 2025 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for Glorious Exploits
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Hot off the press release. My second book is a collection of interviews with Irish writers from Alice Taylor in 1991 to Sebastian Barry, Wendy Erskine, Colum McCann, Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín, John Banville, Emma Donoghue and Anna Burns in 2025. Out April from the Lilliput Press
November 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Hot off the press release. My second book is a collection of interviews with Irish writers from Alice Taylor in 1991 to Sebastian Barry, Wendy Erskine, Colum McCann, Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín, John Banville, Emma Donoghue and Anna Burns in 2025. Out April from the Lilliput Press
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Call for Papers: 'Regional Perspectives, Planetary Reach. Themes, Genres, Forms of Narration in Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction', 28-29 May 2026, Università di Napoli L'Orientale. Deadline for proposals: 10 January 2026. sites.google.com/view/irsconf...
November 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Call for Papers: 'Regional Perspectives, Planetary Reach. Themes, Genres, Forms of Narration in Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction', 28-29 May 2026, Università di Napoli L'Orientale. Deadline for proposals: 10 January 2026. sites.google.com/view/irsconf...
Launch of Honoured the latest volume of Irish Legal History Society discourses, Confluences of Law and History, in Belfast on Friday, November 14th.
November 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Launch of Honoured the latest volume of Irish Legal History Society discourses, Confluences of Law and History, in Belfast on Friday, November 14th.
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Yesterday, NUI proudly conferred honorary degrees on six outstanding individuals who have made exceptional contributions across science, literature, education, the arts, public life, and history; Emer Cooke, Claire Keegan, Maurice Manning, Aibhlín McCrann, Patricia O'Donovan and Robert Savage 🎓
November 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Yesterday, NUI proudly conferred honorary degrees on six outstanding individuals who have made exceptional contributions across science, literature, education, the arts, public life, and history; Emer Cooke, Claire Keegan, Maurice Manning, Aibhlín McCrann, Patricia O'Donovan and Robert Savage 🎓
Global Irish Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship at Notre Dame University. This is open exclusively to scholars of any nationality with a PhD from institutions outside the US, UK, Canada, and Ireland. Scholars working in any area of Irish Studies are encouraged to apply. apply.interfolio.com/176805
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November 9, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Global Irish Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship at Notre Dame University. This is open exclusively to scholars of any nationality with a PhD from institutions outside the US, UK, Canada, and Ireland. Scholars working in any area of Irish Studies are encouraged to apply. apply.interfolio.com/176805
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For #StandingStoneSunday #Stunday... The largest of 11 stones at Goles Stone Row in the Glenelly Valley, Tyrone, Ireland
#IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Megalithic #Neolithic #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #Photography #Infrared #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Art #BlueSky #EastCoastKin #Tyrone
#IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Megalithic #Neolithic #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #Photography #Infrared #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Art #BlueSky #EastCoastKin #Tyrone
November 9, 2025 at 8:15 AM
For #StandingStoneSunday #Stunday... The largest of 11 stones at Goles Stone Row in the Glenelly Valley, Tyrone, Ireland
#IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Megalithic #Neolithic #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #Photography #Infrared #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Art #BlueSky #EastCoastKin #Tyrone
#IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Megalithic #Neolithic #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #Photography #Infrared #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Art #BlueSky #EastCoastKin #Tyrone
Trespasses: Gillian Anderson steals every scene in this miraculous TV heartbreaker
Trespasses: Gillian Anderson steals every scene in this miraculous TV heartbreaker
Lola Petticrew and Tom Cullen’s chemistry in this tale of secret passion during the Troubles will floor you. But it is Anderson as a sour, ragey alcoholic who truly mesmerises
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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AHRC Awards for PhD study in Arts and Humanities at QUB (starting Sept. 2026) are now advertised at www.qub.ac.uk/Study/postgr...
November 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
AHRC Awards for PhD study in Arts and Humanities at QUB (starting Sept. 2026) are now advertised at www.qub.ac.uk/Study/postgr...
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On 10 November we will be joined by Hiram Morgan (UCC), who will talk about '"Anatomies of death": forced famine in the Tudor conquest of Ireland'. All welcome, in-person or online: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
October 22, 2025 at 12:28 PM
On 10 November we will be joined by Hiram Morgan (UCC), who will talk about '"Anatomies of death": forced famine in the Tudor conquest of Ireland'. All welcome, in-person or online: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
On 24 Nov. we welcome Dr Catriona Kennedy (York), to speak about her new book 'Women, politics, and the Irish public sphere'. All welcome (hybrid) www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
Irish Studies Seminar: Catriona Kennedy, 'Women, politics, and the Irish public sphere'
www.qub.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 8:20 AM
On 24 Nov. we welcome Dr Catriona Kennedy (York), to speak about her new book 'Women, politics, and the Irish public sphere'. All welcome (hybrid) www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
We are co-hosting on 3 Dec. a conference on 'From Boundary Commission to Border Poll? A Century of the Irish Border'. This is a free event, but registration is required (by 26 Nov.). Info at: www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...
November 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM
We are co-hosting on 3 Dec. a conference on 'From Boundary Commission to Border Poll? A Century of the Irish Border'. This is a free event, but registration is required (by 26 Nov.). Info at: www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...
If you missed Elena Bergia's talk on 'In two stirrups: Identities in motion between Northern Ireland and Casalattico (Italy)', a recording is now available at youtu.be/R_ampLPzWyU
Irish Studies Seminar: Elena Bergia
YouTube video by QUB Irish Studies
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November 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
If you missed Elena Bergia's talk on 'In two stirrups: Identities in motion between Northern Ireland and Casalattico (Italy)', a recording is now available at youtu.be/R_ampLPzWyU
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Join the EFACIS PhD Representatives for a chat and some focused writing time this Friday!
New PhD writing session and/or Lunch Break next Friday 7/11.
All PhD students in Irish Studies who want to write together or get to know each other better are very welcome!
Don't forget to register at us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
All PhD students in Irish Studies who want to write together or get to know each other better are very welcome!
Don't forget to register at us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Join the EFACIS PhD Representatives for a chat and some focused writing time this Friday!
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Thanks to QUB HAPP for sharing our online Opposition to Thatcher conference, held next Friday.
Just look at the speakers. Topics include: Ireland, Miners, local Gov, culture etc. Very multi-disciplinary.
Please share with anyone interested. @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social @qubhistory.bsky.social
Just look at the speakers. Topics include: Ireland, Miners, local Gov, culture etc. Very multi-disciplinary.
Please share with anyone interested. @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social @qubhistory.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Thanks to QUB HAPP for sharing our online Opposition to Thatcher conference, held next Friday.
Just look at the speakers. Topics include: Ireland, Miners, local Gov, culture etc. Very multi-disciplinary.
Please share with anyone interested. @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social @qubhistory.bsky.social
Just look at the speakers. Topics include: Ireland, Miners, local Gov, culture etc. Very multi-disciplinary.
Please share with anyone interested. @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social @qubhistory.bsky.social
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Check our this piece on the representation of the Irish revolution in the French press - coauthored with @siobhraaiken.bsky.social and Mark O’Rawe !
@cecille-ulille.bsky.social @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social @meshs.bsky.social @labnf.bsky.social @ccirlandais.bsky.social
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Comment la photographie de guerre a transformé le regard de la France sur la révolution irlandaise
Comment la photographie de guerre a transformé le regard de la France sur la révolution irlandaise
Les photographes ont joué un rôle majeur dans la perception de la cause irlandaise sur le plan européen et international.
theconversation.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Check our this piece on the representation of the Irish revolution in the French press - coauthored with @siobhraaiken.bsky.social and Mark O’Rawe !
@cecille-ulille.bsky.social @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social @meshs.bsky.social @labnf.bsky.social @ccirlandais.bsky.social
@cecille-ulille.bsky.social @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social @meshs.bsky.social @labnf.bsky.social @ccirlandais.bsky.social
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very grateful for this kind endorsement for 'Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955' by @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social @qubhistory.bsky.social Prof Fearghal McGarry
November 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
very grateful for this kind endorsement for 'Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955' by @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social @qubhistory.bsky.social Prof Fearghal McGarry
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
EFACIS Roundtable Discussion 13: Workshop on Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing - recording
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Our next seminar is on Monday 3 Nov. When Elena Bergia will speak on ‘In two stirrups: Identities in motion between Northern Ireland and Casalattico (Italy)’. All welcome in person/online. www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
October 21, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Our next seminar is on Monday 3 Nov. When Elena Bergia will speak on ‘In two stirrups: Identities in motion between Northern Ireland and Casalattico (Italy)’. All welcome in person/online. www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
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The new Changing Ireland Galleries at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, offer unprecedented public access to Irish political, cultural and social history from 1900-2020.
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
October 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The new Changing Ireland Galleries at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, offer unprecedented public access to Irish political, cultural and social history from 1900-2020.
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
On Monday 17 November we'll be joined by Luca Bertolani Azeredo (Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples), who will speak on 'The Enniskillen Horse: illegality, legitimacy and the birth of Irish paramilitarism'. All welcome, in-person or online. Registration is at: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
October 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
On Monday 17 November we'll be joined by Luca Bertolani Azeredo (Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples), who will speak on 'The Enniskillen Horse: illegality, legitimacy and the birth of Irish paramilitarism'. All welcome, in-person or online. Registration is at: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...