New series announcement | LUP is delighted to announce a new series: Pioneering Peace: New Paradigms in Peace and Conflict Studies. Read more here:

A reminder that our 2026 PGR Bursary and Essay Prizes are currently open for submission - you can read reports from our 2025 Bursary awardees now on our website: irishstudies.co.uk

My next article, which explores maternal mortality and the National Tale, is now up on Google books.google.com/books/about/...

‘Being Early Medieval: Encounters with Early Irish Society through Archaeology, History and Experimental Archaeology’ University of Chester, 2021-2022 research seminar. youtu.be/jFBXAivgd5s?...

REMINDER our PGR prizes are open for entries until TUESDAY 17 MARCH

An creideamh, an Ghaeilge agus na cnámha aduaine www.irishtimes.com/gaeilge/tuar...

This sounds really interesting congratulations to all involved. And there is 30% off!

We are delighted to announce the publication of a new article and an interview in our non-themed issue, RISE 8.1! ''Understanding Bernarda': Veronica Coburn's unpublished version of La Casa de Bernarda Alba', by María del Mar González Chacón Find the issue at risejournal.eu/index.php/ri...

Join us tomorrow, Tues 3rd Mar, 17:15 in the Parlour, Magdalene College for the final meeting of Lent Term. Prof Ciara Breathnach (UCC) will be giving her paper titled 'All That was Lost: Digitised Newspapers as Surrogate Irish Archives’. All welcome! @magdalenecollege.bsky.social @ucc.ie

Liz DeYoung’s 'Power, Politics and Territory in the New Northern Ireland’ has just been released in paperback by Liverpool UP. Winner of the 2023 ACIS Murphy Prize, we hosted the NI launch in Jan 2024. Many congrats Liz! www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Just a little over a week left to get those entries in.

If you’re in or around NYC Friday 6 March, you should RSVP for the Irish Studies Seminar and hear me waffle about care, injurability, and the Gothic. Then we’ll go for pints. Or Manhattans. universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminar/iris...

A reminder that our 2026 PGR Bursary and Essay Prizes are currently open for submission - you can read reports from our 2025 Bursary awardees now on our website: irishstudies.co.uk

Join us for a special 'Sharing Lands' screening of 'Sinners', focusing on connections between African-American, Choctaw & Irish history. 🗓️Friday 27th February 🕕18.00-21.00 📍Goldsmiths, University of London, Richard Hoggart Building Cinema Book your free tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/sharing-la...

Pleased to see that Finnegans Wake - Human and Nonhuman Histories is now available in paperback edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-finnega... @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social @edinburghup.bsky.social @standrewsenglish.bsky.social @bairishstudies.bsky.social

Fellow Irish Studies postgrads!! Do this!!!

Join us on zoom 👇 zoom.us/j/94151010639

Join us tomorrow at 5:15pm in the Parlour, Magdalene College, for Dr Amy Prendergast's paper, 'Narratives of Violence: Considering Irish Women’s Diaries and Memoirs as Testimony, 1760-1810'. All welcome! @amyprendergast.bsky.social @magdalenecollege.bsky.social

𝐔𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝟖 The Eighth International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales, Rathcroghan Visitor Centre 23-25 June 2026. Rathcroghan Visitor Centre is delighted to announce that it will be hosting the eighth edition of the International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales.

👉The Irish Language in Liverpool / An Ghaeilge cois Setei👈 Experts from Ireland, Canada + US will discuss Liverpool’s contribution to the Irish language English with 'cúpla focail' 📅6:30pm, 4 March 🧭Rathbone Theatre @liverpooluni.bsky.social FREE registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1981144632...

Only five days left to get those abstract in. Abstracts are due Friday 6th February. Thanks to all those that have already submitted we look forward to reading them.

Please do sumbit particulary if you are a PhD student or ECR. It is a great space to share your research

Jon Burrows was formally elected as UUP leader over the weekend, and he will be joining us next week to discuss the political challenges + opportunities facing Northern Ireland. 📅 6pm, 12 February 🧭GFlex, CTL @liverpooluni.bsky.social FREE registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1981423814...

Happy Birthday, Joyce! Here’s a new Finnegans Wake website I've developed with Research Computing at St Andrews: research.st-andrews.ac.uk/elucidationo... @starcnet.bsky.social @standrewsenglish.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @bairishstudies.bsky.social #JamesJoyce #IrishStudies

I am very happy this article is out [OA to come]. It builds on work by scholars like @matthewjkelly.bsky.social, Paul Townend, Michael de Nie, @alanlester.bsky.social (and others) to suggest that Irish nationalism had something important to say about the British Empire in the 1830s and 1840s. 🗃️

A reminder that our Postgraduate Essay and Bursary prizes are now open for applications! Deadline for submissions 17 March 2026 See the BAIS website for details on how to enter and eligibility: irishstudies.co.uk/prizes-and-f...

We are delighted to share our programme of seminars for Lent Term 2026, beginning on Tuesday 3rd February 🍃 👇

We are delighted this afternoon to announced the CFP for the 36th annual WHAI conference 2026. The conference will be held at Mary I Limerick on 29 & 30 May 2026. Closing dates for submissions on the theme of 'Gain' is 31 Jan. 2026. sites.google.com/view/whai202...

Our first emerging scholar's blog for 2026 has landed thanks to Aoife Lydon for taking the time time to write this brilliant piece for us. womenshistoryassociation.com/whai-emergin...

In case you missed the broadcast, the #TalkingHistory podcast with our Prof @downham.bsky.social is now available at www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig.... Enjoy!

Recently published | The Documentary Aesthetic in Irish Theatre, 2010-2020 is available now! Discover more about the first book-length study of documentary theatre in Ireland here ⬇️ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Did you know that Burns Library holds a collection of photographs and albums belonging to Irish activist, printer, and camogie player Máire Gill? They live in our Loretta Clarke Murray Collection and we’ve just digitized them! https://findingaids.bc.edu/repositories/2/resources/254/digitized

Out in February from @livunipress.bsky.social: The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature. The book started as a lockdown tweet. Delighted that it’s finally done! With Bridget English and @drreznicek.bsky.social

Thrilled to see Eva Gore-Booth biography anniversary edition now included in the @manchesterup.bsky.social trade catalogue 2026. Due in print March 2026! dhjhkxawhe8q4.cloudfront.net/manchester-u...

Happy New Year! In our new episode Dr Sparky Booker @historytcd.bsky.social shares some wonderful, instructive, insights into how we can explore gender, class, ethnicity & community through an exam of individual legal cases in a fascinating period of Irish history. open.spotify.com/episode/38Aq...

🍾Happy New Year🍾 We are slowly getting back into work, and noticed we picked up a few new followers while we were away. Hello👋 For anyone needing a summary/refresher of what we do, little video below or slightly longer version at youtu.be/dCBLhl2ZJH0

The cóta mór and its strange power to convey something of Irish culture Prof. @claireconnolly.bsky.social explores Irish romantic literature and coats as a way of thinking about these extraordinary decades of literary invention.

I reviewed Chris Morash's excellent "Dublin: A Writer's City" for Irish Studies Review - all now published online here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/G77YU...

Update !

A short history of mummers, straw boys and Wren Boys. From mummers to wren boys, the practice of rambling from house to house in rural Ireland lifted isolation for many communities at Christmas, writes @barryhoulihan.bsky.social @uniofgalway.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Absolutely thrilled to have this in my hands! What a joy working with Mary McGill on this & such an excellent group of contributors. Launch in Jan 2026! For more on Irish Digital Cultures: Identity, Context, Space click here: www.routledge.com/Irish-Digita... #AcademicSky #SpeirGorm

The proofs before Christmas and a rare foray into the twentieth century!

CFP: Violence: Legacies of Conflict in Ireland Comhfhios Boston Irish Studies at Boston College Feb 7, 2026, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA All proposals should be 200 - 300 words, for papers 15-20 minutes long. Please submit all proposals by January 5th, 2026. Contact [email protected]

CfP 'Intimacies in nineteenth-century Ireland' @ssnci.bsky.social annual conference in June 2026. Deadline 1 Feb 2026! For details see ssnci.org/annual-confe...

We have just added some information on accommodation options that are available for those travelling to Limerick. We hope to provide more options in the New Year. Still loads of time to get those abstracts in. The committee is looking forward to reading them.

Our friends @bairishstudies.bsky.social are now accepting single-author monographs published in 2025 on any #IrishStudies topic for the 2026 BAIS Book Prize. The BAIS PG Bursary Prize and BAIS PG Essay Prize are also accepting submissions. Full details: irishstudies.co.uk/prizes-and-f...

📣 BAIS PRIZES 2026: We are pleased to announce our Book, Essay and Bursary prizes for 2026! See the BAIS website for details on how to enter and eligibility: irishstudies.co.uk/prizes-and-f...