Lovely write up of the recent Flann O’Brien Conference, hosted by the Alley Theatre in collaboration with Derry City & Strabane District Council, Tourism NI, Strabane History Society, & @ndirishstudies.bsky.social. Congrats to all involved, especially Maebh Long and our own Brian Ó Conchubhair.

Irish abroad and Irish diaspora: The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is undertaking a consultation process to inform the Government’s new Diaspora Strategy. Fill in the survey below to ensure their new strategy meets diasporic needs and can adapt to evolving circumstances. #speirgorm

We're Hiring: The National Museum of Ireland is seeking a Curator of Contemporary Irish History 🕔 Deadline: Friday, 18 July 2025 at 17:00 📄 Learn more & apply: www.museum.ie/en-IE/About/... #JobFairy #museumjobs

Belated, but what a good time the @flannobriensoc.bsky.social conference in Strabane was 🚲

Incredibly excited to share that the special issue on Citizenship and Migration that @migrantherstory.bsky.social and I coedited for the Journal of American and Ethnic History is out: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss.... The introduction we wrote is open access

Very excited to see this book (supported by the @arinsproject.bsky.social, a joint initiative of @ndirishstudies.bsky.social and @ria.ie) coming to fruition. More here: shop.ria.ie/products/for...

Wonderful joyous evening at the Irish Embassy launching the 'Aunties in England' podcast Delighted to be part of the panel discussion alongside the brilliant author Catherine Dunne and Ashford Place's Renee Gallagher 🎙️You can listen to the podcast here👇 open.spotify.com/episode/09pJ...

“How do we talk about our shared island when our media remains so divided?” Join Sarah Carey, Eamon Quinn, Amanda Ferguson, Sarah Creighton & Eoin Brannigan on July 9th for a powerful panel on media, borders & belonging. 🎟️ Get your tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...

As part of the Ulster Fleadh in Warrenpoint next month, I’ll be talking about Dirty Linen alongside Eoin McNamee, who’ll be talking about his great new autobiographical novel, The Bureau. It’s free in! ulsterfleadh.ie/events/local...

Excellent opportunity here!

My chapter in “Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move” (out this month with @nyupress.bsky.social) looks at the “Returned Yank” in literary representations of Irish return migration. 1/4 @gihnyu.bsky.social @kevinkenny.bsky.social @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @ndirishstudies.bsky.social

Reason #485 why we love, love LOVE (and will always support) @realdollyparton.bsky.social’s Imagination Library.

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

Delighted to be here at the @ulstermuseum.org in Belfast for New Histories of Irish Art and Modernism: A Conference in Honor of S.B. Kennedy. @ndirishstudies.bsky.social @keoughglobalnd.bsky.social @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social

One of the many fine works of the Irish poet, Paul Durcan, who passed away this weekend - few have ever written better on death

This blog post captures the focus and spirit of “Rituals of Migration” so well, and the tangible and intangible ways in which ways in which we experience migration, as individuals, families, and communities. Thanks again to @kevinkenny.bsky.social and @irpinaingiro.bsky.social

I'm so honored to contribute a chapter to "Rituals of Migration"! My chapter examines how the Irish poor became deportable upon entering public almshouses in the US and Britain in the 19th century. Admission into almshouses served as a ritual for forced exit from the country. @nyupress.bsky.social

This was such a personal joy to work on, with a wonderful bunch of colleagues, and two exceptional editors. I’m thrilled with the feedback we’re getting so far! @ndirishstudies.bsky.social @keoughglobalnd.bsky.social @notredame.bsky.social

73% of mothers with kids under 18 are in the workforce. More than flowers or brunch, working moms need: -Paid family leave -Equal pay -Universal childcare (But get your mom flowers, too)

Applications are open for the 2026 O’Donnell Fellowship in Irish Studies at St Mary's Newman Academic Centre, University of Melbourne, Australia. Information about the program and how to apply is in the link. The application deadline is Friday 11 July 2025. www.snac.unimelb.edu.au/odonnell-fel...

Applications are invited for the position of Programme Manager (Publications) based at the Royal Irish Academy. Closing date: 23 May 2025 https://www.ria.ie/about/careers/vacancy-programme-manager-publications/ #JobFairy #DublinJobs #JobsIreland

Literally, no food … www.wfp.org/news/wfp-run...

Take time to read this excellent piece (and other coverage) by @patrickfreyne.bsky.social on the world’s largest humanitarian disaster currently unfolding in Sudan, the refugees he met in Chad, and the “glitch in western empathy.” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Tomorrow, Irish Studies & AADS will host a panel discussion on race in Ireland with Emma Dabiri (broadcaster and writer), Kim DaCosta (NYU), Chanté Mouton Kinyon (Notre Dame University), Victor Augusto da Cruz Pacheco (University of São Paulo), and Lorelle Semley (Boston College)

Join us for the EFACIS Book Club tomorrow! We will be discussing Clair Wills' Missing Persons, or My Grandmother's Secrets (2024). More info on how to join at www.efacis.eu/content/efac...

There’s a city of 237,000 refugees on the Chadian/sudanese border in Adre. The Sudan war is the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world right now. 150,000 dead and 12 million displaced. Chris Maddaloni and I spent a week in refugee camps in east Chad. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

check out Episode four of the #ARINS My Identity podcast which is now available! Listen to Professor Colin Graham in conversation with Lata Sharma: 🎙️ bit.ly/4jaOAFT arinsproject.com @RIAdawson @NDIrishStudies

Apply to join us at Notre Dame!

🚨Are you working on Irish Migration or Demography research?🚨 We're hosting a virtual @cephie.bsky.social workshop on May 23rd Full details of the CfP is below. Work from early career researchers is particularly welcome! Please share with anyone who may be interested

🚨FT Permanent Job 🚨 My department is hiring a lecturer (B/B) in 18th-c. Irish history, with the desire for someone whose research and teaching pertains to the Irish 'long eighteenth century (1690-1830)...and broader international, political and intellectual context of the period.' 🗃️

CALL FOR PAPERS – The International Yeats Society is now accepting submissions for its upcoming 2025 conference in Dublin. For full details and submission guidelines, please visit: www.tcd.ie/english/rese... #CallForPapers #Yeats #TrinityCollege #Dublin

Looking forward to talking with Seán Hewitt tomorrow afternoon about his gorgeous debut novel, "Open, Heaven." If you are in the NYC area, please join!

Fantastic opportunity here, and you won’t find many mentors more committed and supportive then @sophcocooper.bsky.social

Register below for a special in-person discussion @ihr.bsky.social on Weds 14 May on writing the history of the conflict in Northern Ireland. Panel includes Michael Kennedy, Lord Bew, Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid, Huw Bennett and Patrick Salmon. www.history.ac.uk/events/eisen...

This is high art

Coming in June 2025❗

The latest #ARINS podcast is now available! Listen to Mark Durkan and Rory Montgomery discuss Mark’s political career and Graham Spencer’s recent, The SDLP, Politics and Peace. 🎙️Spotify: spoti.fi/4i1YtVi 🎙️Soundcloud: bit.ly/4j1jTTQ arinsproject.com @ria.ie @ndirishstudies.bsky.social

Upcoming symposium, 25th April, on Contemporary Irish History. www.eventbrite.ie/e/new-direct...

Our M.A. in Irish and Irish-American Studies offers students a broad, interdisciplinary curriculum that emphasizes new approaches to the field. Interested in learning more? Join us for a hybrid M.A. Open House on April 10. Register: bit.ly/GIHOpenHouse...

//John McGahern Annual Book Prize// Submissions are now open! We are looking for the best debut work of fiction - either novel or collection of short stories - by an Irish writer published in 2025. Deadline: 12 December 2025 ℹ️ and submission forms: www.liverpool.ac.uk/irish-studie... #booksky

Congrats to Robert O’Sullivan, currently a postdoctoral research fellow with us @ndirishstudies.bsky.social, on the publication of his latest article. More below…

Excellent opportunity for an early career scholar of Irish literature: the W.B. Yeats Postdoctoral Fellowship in Irish Literature. Based in Notre Dame’s English Department and @ndirishstudies.bsky.social Closes April 15. Come join us in South Bend! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML961/t...

Congrats to our faculty fellow Chante Mouton Kinyon on being named a fellow of the Stuart Hall Foundation! She is an assistant professor of English at Notre Dame who investigates African American, Irish, and Caribbean literature and culture from the end of the 19th century to the present.

Poet and novelist Nick Laird, chair of creative writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast, will deliver the 2025 Seamus Heaney Memorial Lecture on Monday, March 24. Reception to follow. ▶️ go.nd.edu/nicklaird @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social

The new #ARINS seminar series launches this Thursday 20 March. Dr Philip McGuinness, 'Communal nip and tuck: unionism and nationalism in recent elections' Book now: bit.ly/42uaCy7 @ria.ie @ndirishstudies.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

The 100 best Irish books of the 21st century: how we made the list and what it says about the state of Irish fiction www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

QUB History Sem. Fri. 21 March at 4pm. Dr Livi Dee (QUB) will be presenting her paper: "A pregnancy, I suppose, ends in one of three ways": an oral history of unmarried pregnancy in N. Ireland, 1945-2015'. Please sign up with the Eventbrite link below: www.eventbrite.com/e/1280760331...