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 8 December we have a joint seminar with the Centre for Public History. Visiting Scholar Jessica Martell (Appalachian State Univ.) will speak on 'Beyond plantation mentalities in Irish literature, film, and culture'. In-person and online.
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Irish Studies / Public History Seminar: Jessica Martell
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November 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
On 8 December we have a joint seminar with the Centre for Public History. Visiting Scholar Jessica Martell (Appalachian State Univ.) will speak on 'Beyond plantation mentalities in Irish literature, film, and culture'. In-person and online.
www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
Book Launch: Consociational Powersharing in Northern Ireland, 25 November at 4pm
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Book Launch: Consociational Powersharing in Northern Ireland
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November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Book Launch: Consociational Powersharing in Northern Ireland, 25 November at 4pm
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A century on from the unpublished Boundary Commission report, on 3 December, a Belfast conference of QUB's Institute for Irish Studies & Centre for International Borders Research will hear leading academics analyse the history, cultures & futures of the #Irishborder
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November 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
A century on from the unpublished Boundary Commission report, on 3 December, a Belfast conference of QUB's Institute for Irish Studies & Centre for International Borders Research will hear leading academics analyse the history, cultures & futures of the #Irishborder
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Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
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November 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
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My review of ‘Colin Davidson: Twelve Paintings – Conversations with Mark Carruthers’ from the weekend. A deep and beautiful book, and the paintings of Belfast are masterly.
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Colin Davidson: Twelve Paintings - A rich study of one of Ireland’s great contemporary artists
Study of Colin Davidson’s art from the beginning to the present has many surprises
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November 19, 2025 at 12:14 PM
My review of ‘Colin Davidson: Twelve Paintings – Conversations with Mark Carruthers’ from the weekend. A deep and beautiful book, and the paintings of Belfast are masterly.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Frank O’Connor holding forth on and in Cork in 1961 with a BBC interviewer wanting to grasp The Provincial Mind. Good footage from Shandon St (obligatory urchins, shawlies, etc) and middle-class Sunday Best outside St Mary’s, with brylcreemed chancers, a suspicious lad in a Christians blazer, etc.
1961: Frank O'Connor's Cork | Monitor | Writers and Wordsmiths | BBC Archive
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November 19, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Frank O’Connor holding forth on and in Cork in 1961 with a BBC interviewer wanting to grasp The Provincial Mind. Good footage from Shandon St (obligatory urchins, shawlies, etc) and middle-class Sunday Best outside St Mary’s, with brylcreemed chancers, a suspicious lad in a Christians blazer, etc.
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In GLORIOUS EXPLOITS Ferdia Lennon uses a contemporary Irish voice for his ancient Syracusian characters, a distinguishing feature of the book that surprised his first readers. Learn more from the author and see an exclusive interview at https://loom.ly/EZ8G8Wo #booksky
November 19, 2025 at 10:59 AM
In GLORIOUS EXPLOITS Ferdia Lennon uses a contemporary Irish voice for his ancient Syracusian characters, a distinguishing feature of the book that surprised his first readers. Learn more from the author and see an exclusive interview at https://loom.ly/EZ8G8Wo #booksky
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A recording of @sophcocooper.bsky.social's recent @usihs.bsky.social talk on 'Building to feel ‘at home’: Embedding/embedded memory in the built environments of Belfast and the diaspora' is now available at: usihs36.com/2025/11/04/u...
USIHS Lecture – Dr Sophie Cooper (QUB): Building to feel ‘at home’
USIHS Seminar. Online only, Thursday 13 November at 7pm. Building to feel ‘at home’: Embedding/embedded memory in the built environments of Belfast and the diaspora. This paper will explore the var…
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November 19, 2025 at 8:56 AM
A recording of @sophcocooper.bsky.social's recent @usihs.bsky.social talk on 'Building to feel ‘at home’: Embedding/embedded memory in the built environments of Belfast and the diaspora' is now available at: usihs36.com/2025/11/04/u...
If you missed Luca Bertolani Azeredo's talk on 'The Enniskillen Horse' this week, a recording is now available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoWY...
Irish Studies Seminar: Luca Bertolani Azeredo
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November 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
If you missed Luca Bertolani Azeredo's talk on 'The Enniskillen Horse' this week, a recording is now available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoWY...
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Looking forward to this week’s @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar by @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social, chaired by @kieranconnell.bsky.social! Snacks and drinks will be provided as usual. For more information and to sign up to attend online, see the link below:
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November 18, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Looking forward to this week’s @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar by @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social, chaired by @kieranconnell.bsky.social! Snacks and drinks will be provided as usual. For more information and to sign up to attend online, see the link below:
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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'
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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...
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The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine is Waterstones Irish Book of the Year
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The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine is Waterstones Irish Book of the Year
Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of tomorrow’s pages
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November 15, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine is Waterstones Irish Book of the Year
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Míle buíochas le Mary Claire agus lucht @raidiofailte.bsky.social as labhairt liom faoin siompóisiam a bheas ar siúl againn sa Chultúrlann ar Dé Máirt an 25 Samhain. Is féidir clárú anseo: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/symposium-...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Míle buíochas le Mary Claire agus lucht @raidiofailte.bsky.social as labhairt liom faoin siompóisiam a bheas ar siúl againn sa Chultúrlann ar Dé Máirt an 25 Samhain. Is féidir clárú anseo: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/symposium-...
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Congratulations to our Senior Visiting Scholar Jack Foster on the publication of his edition of Shivaun O’Casey's memoir 'Next Year Will Be a Good One'. It will be launched at the Lyric Theatre Belfast on 18th November.
November 14, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Congratulations to our Senior Visiting Scholar Jack Foster on the publication of his edition of Shivaun O’Casey's memoir 'Next Year Will Be a Good One'. It will be launched at the Lyric Theatre Belfast on 18th November.
UPNS Autumn Lecture on 4 Dec. at 8.00pm, 'Names in the Travels of Suibhne the Wild Man', which will be delivered by Dr Kay Muhr.
November 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
UPNS Autumn Lecture on 4 Dec. at 8.00pm, 'Names in the Travels of Suibhne the Wild Man', which will be delivered by Dr Kay Muhr.
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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...
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Great to have these videos up for those interested who weren't able to attend the conference. Keynotes by Prof. Eliga Gould and Prof. Nicholas Canny and a @virtualtreasury.bsky.social panel. Please share widely.
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November 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Great to have these videos up for those interested who weren't able to attend the conference. Keynotes by Prof. Eliga Gould and Prof. Nicholas Canny and a @virtualtreasury.bsky.social panel. Please share widely.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
@historytcd.bsky.social @historyatgalway.bsky.social
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@historytcd.bsky.social @historyatgalway.bsky.social
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My new article is out with Irish Political Studies ‘The Rocky Road to Decommissioning: Revisiting the Decommissioning of Irish Republican Army Weapons Part 1 – August 1994 to October 2001’. Thanks all interviewees, reviewers and archive staff. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Rocky Road to Decommissioning: Revisiting the Decommissioning of Irish Republican Army Weapons Part 1 – August 1994 to October 2001
Decommissioning of paramilitary weapons formed a crucial part of Northern Ireland’s peace process. But the decommissioning of Irish Republican Army (IRA) weapons (the most prominent paramilitary gr...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:13 AM
My new article is out with Irish Political Studies ‘The Rocky Road to Decommissioning: Revisiting the Decommissioning of Irish Republican Army Weapons Part 1 – August 1994 to October 2001’. Thanks all interviewees, reviewers and archive staff. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Congratulations Melissa on publishing ''Friends of the Country and of the Government': Irish America, the Irish Government, and the Northern Irish Civil Rights Movement'
Grateful for an awfully slow news day to share my newly published article.
What else would you be reading today?
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What else would you be reading today?
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November 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Congratulations Melissa on publishing ''Friends of the Country and of the Government': Irish America, the Irish Government, and the Northern Irish Civil Rights Movement'
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Monica McWilliams broke the mould in so many ways, as a woman, as an activist and as a politician. In her frank and fascinating memoir, #StandUpSpeakOut she tells her extraordinary story.
Available now: blackstaffpress.com/stand-up-spe...
#LyseDoucet #MonicaMcWilliams
Available now: blackstaffpress.com/stand-up-spe...
#LyseDoucet #MonicaMcWilliams
November 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Monica McWilliams broke the mould in so many ways, as a woman, as an activist and as a politician. In her frank and fascinating memoir, #StandUpSpeakOut she tells her extraordinary story.
Available now: blackstaffpress.com/stand-up-spe...
#LyseDoucet #MonicaMcWilliams
Available now: blackstaffpress.com/stand-up-spe...
#LyseDoucet #MonicaMcWilliams
On Mon. 1 Dec. at 4.30 we'll be joined by Emily Mark-FitzGerald, Emma Radley (UCD) & Daithi Kearney (Dundalk IT) to talk about 'Irish Studies - Beyond the Text', drawing on the 2025 special issue of Irish University Review. All welcome in-person/online. Reg at www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...
November 12, 2025 at 11:26 PM
On Mon. 1 Dec. at 4.30 we'll be joined by Emily Mark-FitzGerald, Emma Radley (UCD) & Daithi Kearney (Dundalk IT) to talk about 'Irish Studies - Beyond the Text', drawing on the 2025 special issue of Irish University Review. All welcome in-person/online. Reg at www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...
If you missed Hiram Morgan's talk on 'Anatomies of death: force famine in the Tudor conquest of Ireland', an recording is now available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hAI...
Irish Studies Seminar: Hiram Morgan
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November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
If you missed Hiram Morgan's talk on 'Anatomies of death: force famine in the Tudor conquest of Ireland', an recording is now available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hAI...
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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!