OPPORTUNITY: applications are open for the Keough-Naughton Library Research Award in Irish Studies

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...

📚 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:

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...

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

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.

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

📣 📣 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

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

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...

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...

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

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 brill.com/display/titl...

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... @muahi.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @benjamin-casey.bsky.social ‪

@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

Delighted to have my first peer-reviewed publication - a journey through affect, conflict societies and gendered violence in Anna Burns' novel 'Milkman' - in the latest issue of the esteemed @novelforum.bsky.social available to read here (or DM me): read.dukeupress.edu/novel/articl...

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...

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

Love when the pals win together 🤝

Delighted to have been awarded a BAIS bursary and highly commended in their essay prize. Congratulations to all the winners! 🥂

🎉 We are delighted that Amanda Hall has won the @bairishstudies.bsky.social Book Prize for Strained Peace: Northern Ireland from Good Friday to Brexit! Use code 27STRAINEDPEACE here for 30% off RRP ⬇️ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

big fan of BAIS ✨✨✨

Delighted that our PhD candidate @paddy-brennan.bsky.social was awarded a @bairishstudies.bsky.social bursary to support his research and was also highly commended for his essay, both looking at the literary significance of food in Irish fiction. 🍾Congratulations to all the winners🍾

We are delighted to announce the winners of our 2025 Awards and Bursaries, which will be presented at a reception at the Embassy of Ireland in London on the 22nd of May. Huge congratulations to all our winners. irishstudies.co.uk/2025/05/15/b...

@irishstudieswue.bsky.social @irishstudiesshu.bsky.social @irishinstitute.bsky.social @leabhairnua.bsky.social @cirishcaceres.bsky.social @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social @efacis.bsky.social @smuhalifax.bsky.social #Ireland #theIrish #conflict #19c #SSNCI #IrishStudies

On this month's podcast the authors of recent @conunitucl.bsky.social report, ‘Reform of Stormont, Options for Discussion’, discuss its findings. 🎙️: open.spotify.com/episode/2XB8... @ria.ie @ndirishstudies.bsky.social @alanrenwick.bsky.social @conorjkelly.bsky.social @alanwhysall.bsky.social

To mark the launch of our brilliant colleague Karl O'Hanlon's new book, Official Voices: Poets and the Irish State, @livunipress.bsky.social is offering a 30% discount. Pls spread the word&order this terrific book for yr library! @mulibrary.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie #irishstudies #irishlit

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...

📢Irish Language Day 2025 Beyond Cúpla Focal: The Hidden History of Irish Words No need to know any Irish – all welcome! 🗓️ 11am, 24 May 2025 🧭 @irishculturalcentr.bsky.social 🎫£10 incl lunch irishculturalcentre.giftpro.co.uk/events/beyond-cpla-focal-the-hidden-history-of-irish-words/ #speirgorm

'Greek in the Irish sea the ageless voice': Dylan Thomas and Irish writers 🗣️Prof John Goodby 🎶 excerpts from Stan Tracey's Jazz Suite performed by Richard Wetherall and narrated by Seamus Lavan 📅6pm, 1 May 🧭Rathbone Theatre @liverpooluni.bsky.social FREE tix: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1272644196...

We can’t wait to welcome you to Navigating War and Violence in Twentieth-Century Ireland on 4–5 April at DCU! Come join us for two days of thought-provoking papers and lively discussion. 📍All are welcome – see you there! #speirgorm #irishstudies #irishrevolution #troubles #conflict

Our #IrishStudies International Lecture this year will be given by Prof David Wilson (U of Toronto) on ‘Parallels and patterns: Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Conor Cruise O’Brien and Edmund Burke’, 20 May at 5pm (in person and online) #IrishHistory #CanadianHistory

We have extended our Postgraduate Essay Prize deadline until the 17 April 2025!! See the BAIS website for details and please share widely:-) irishstudies.co.uk/prizes-and-f...

We have extended our Postgraduate Essay Prize deadline until the 17 April 2025!! See the BAIS website for details and please share widely:-) irishstudies.co.uk/prizes-and-f...

We're seeking applications from suitable candidates to fill the post of Collections Assistant in the Registration Department- Closing Date for Applications- Friday, 28th March 2025- www.museum.ie/en-IE/About/...

Our next MCHRI seminar (Material & Cultural Heritages of Religion in Ireland - snappy, I know) is on 1 April, online via MS Teams, from 5pm-6.30pm. All are most welcome! Please RT & share! @catholicrs.bsky.social @catholicismsem.bsky.social @jdmccafferty.bsky.social forms.office.com/pages/respon...

In "Through Her Eyes", @clodaghfinn.bsky.social explores the lives of 21 women instrumental for #IrishHistory - crossing 5600 years from #StoneAge to our present day opac.sub.uni-goettin...#IrishHistory#StoneAge#WomensDay #InternationalWomensDay #Ireland #IrishStudies #IrishHistory #History #WomensStudies

Our #IrishStudies seminar on Mon 31 March will be given by Dr Colleen Taylor of @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social on 'Tales of seals and shipwrecks: Irish new materialism goes to sea’. All welcome, in-person or online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/irish-stud...

Last call for applications for our 2025 Irish Studies summer school - closes end of March! #IrishStudies

The @LEIGHEAS project @muahi.bsky.social @scs-dias.bsky.social is going on tour next week! First, I’ll be joining the brilliant Dr Sharon Arbuthnot on Tuesday 11th March for a joint talk with the Cambridge Group for Irish Studies: @researchireland.bsky.social

👩‍🎓✍️ UCD Professor and Booker Prize winner Anne Enright is this year's recipient of the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts & Letters. Awarded by @gihnyu.bsky.social – the Centre for Irish and Irish-American Studies at New York University – the honour recognises the best in Irish literature and arts.

Very happy to dispatch my latest book off to the editors! It’s about Dark Tourism. The primary focus is primarily on Irish Prison Museums. Out next year as part of Cork University Press’ Studies in Irish Crime History series. #darktourism #penalhistory #prisonhistory #irishhistory #publishing

Delighted to share that 'The Theatre of Louise Lowe' (Cambridge UP Elements 2025) is now available as open access: www.cambridge.org/core/element... My thanks to Louise Lowe and everyone at ANU, @uniofgalway.bsky.social, and @cambridgeup.bsky.social for their support in bringing this book to life!

Fond memories of rooting around archives across Ireland last summer, with the invaluable help of the BAIS bursary. Great to read updates on all the other wonderful projects as well!

The 35th Irish Conference of Historians will be hosted by @irishhistorians.bsky.social and @maynoothuniversity.ie Department of History 12–13 September 2025. The theme is 'Inner Lives and Outer Realities'! Deadline for Proposals 31 March 2025!

Operation Bogeyman: The Folk Horror Landscape of 1970’s Northern Ireland - Simon Aeppli @simonaeppli.bsky.social bairishstudies.wordpress.com/2025/02/26/o...

What I’ve been up to!!! Grateful for this.

Reminder of the excellent @bairishstudies.bsky.social Bursary and Essay Prizes currently accepting submissions Deadline: 17 March Info + application forms: bairishstudies.wordpress.com/prizes-and-f... Read 🧵👇for links to the reports by the 2024 awardees, incl our Hannah Evans and Declan Houten!

A reminder that our 2025 PGR Bursary and Essay Prizes are currently open for submission - you can read reports from our 2024 Bursary awardees now on our website bairishstudies.wordpress.com

Reminder that our 2025 Postgrad Prizes are open for entry until 17 March >>>