Next Thursday, October 2, #BCIrishStudies welcomes Andy Irvine to campus for a Gaelic Roots concert! Join us in Connolly House at 6:30 pm for a great evening of music!!

Thank you to Doireann Ní Ghríofa for a fantastic evening at BC! Not only did she take the time to meet with our students on all things writing, but she also captivated an entire lecture hall with a lecture on how literature can capture the voices of those who have passed

Join us tomorrow at 6:30 pm in the Theology and Ministry Library for our first Gaelic Roots concert of the semester, featuring Lane to the Glen!

#BCIrishStudies invites applications for visiting summer Burns fellowships in 2026, 2027, & 2028 The application is open to researchers and writers in any discipline pertaining to Irish Studies. Early-career scholars are particularly encouraged to apply apply.interfolio.com/174086

Join us tomorrow at 7:00 pm in Gasson Hall to hear Doireann Ní Ghríofa give a Lowell Lecture!

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

Doireann Ní Ghríofa will talk about her prose debut, 'A Ghost in the Throat,' at Boston College on September 24. The genre-defying work was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist. Details/registration link: bcbookmarks.com/2025/09/15/a...

Join us next Thursday, September 25, in the Theology & Ministry Library to hear Lane to the Glen! The Sligo trio featuring Oisín Mac Diarmada (fiddle), Daithí Gormley (accordion), and SamanthHarvey (piano/dance) have just released a superb collection of music!

A full house for Kelly Sullivan's (NYU) Dalsimer Lecture last night!!

Next Wednesday, September 24, poet & essayist Doireann Ní Ghríofa will deliver a BC Lowell Lecture! Her most recent work, A Ghost in the Throat, has been sold in 20 languages and named book of the year by various presses. Join us in Gasson 100 at 7 pm to hear her lecture!

Join us in Connolly House tomorrow evening as Kelly Sullivan (NYU) delivers this year's Dalsimer Lecture, "Censorship and the State circa 1926: Representing Literature in Clarke's Geneva Window."

Tomorrow in Higgins Hall, Irish Studies is co-sponsoring a lecture by Alex de Waal, Director of the World Peace Foundation and Professor at Tufts University. Join us for his lecture, titled "Gaza, Sudan, Ethiopia: Weaponized Starvation & the Future of Humanitarianism."

Zoë Van Cauwenberg (Universiteit Gent & Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) is joining us as a visiting BAEF postdoc for the year. For her research project, “Echoes of Eire: Materializing the Past in Anglo-Irish Women’s Writing (1780-1830)," she will work with Colleen Taylor.

#Meitheal year two began last night! Our Irish Studies graduate student work group has once again organized a semester of great skills workshops and student seminars for writing feedback. We're excited to see what our brilliant grads accomplish this year!

Next Wednesday, September 17, we will host our 2025 Dalsimer Lecture! #BCIrishStudies alumna Kelly Sullivan (NYU) will discuss the censorship of Harry Clarke's 1926 stained glass window, which scandalously depicted 15 works of Irish literature Join us in Connolly House at 5 PM!

Cassidy Allen presented her work at the International Association of Studies in Irish Literature at the University of Galway. Her paper was titled “Technology in Sally Rooney’s Normal People and Naoise Dolan’s Exciting Times.”

Professor Seán Cahill helped organize Blaiseadh na Gaeltachta, A Taste of the Gaeltacht, an all-Irish language course in Donegal for the 2nd consecutive year. Locals gave lectures & song workshops, 23 students from Ireland & the US took field trips, and everyone had a great time!

From archival research to language programs, to international conferences and roaming the Irish coast, the PhD and MA students at #BCIrishStudie had a very busy summer! Here's a quick summary of what some of them were up to:

We're planning a busy semester here at #BCIrishStudies! Check out our online events calendar for more information on our fall line-up! bc.edu/content/bc-w...

Happy first day of school, Eagles! A warm welcome to the BC class of 2029!

This summer, PhD student Paloma Carroll-Ryan completed an internship at the Burns Library. She designed a physical exhibition for the Irish Room & created a digital exhibit. Titled A Part to Play, the exhibition explores the cultural sphere of the Troubles.

Caitriona Lally spent a couple of weeks on campus as our Burns Summer Fellow for 2025! She explored correspondence held in the @burnslibrary.bsky.social archive to explore that practical side of writing, a topic closely tied to current discussions on state funding for Irish contemporary writers

Tiffany Thompson was named the 2025 Dalismer Fellow! Her dissertation, “Fleeing the Troubles: Gendering Violence, Displacement, & Migration in Northern Ireland, 1969-1976,” centers an analysis of women and their distinctive experiences during the migration of the Troubles.

Guy Beiner's keynote lecture, “Commemoration Between Remembering and Forgetting,” from the NEH conference on "Memorialization: Theory, Methods, Goals, and Ethics" at the University of Mississippi, has just been released online! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNiS...

Congratulations to Daniel Crown, the 2024/2025 Dalsimer Fellow! This month, Daniel successfully defended his dissertation, "The Immigrant Revolution: Rhenish and Scots-Irish Colonists, Western Expansion, and the Remaking of British North America (1740-1775)."

From the Irish Consulate in Boston: An inspiring chat with the 1st Woman President of Ireland & Co-Founder of, Mrs. Mary Robinson. Thank you to our partner, Mná Mheiriceá and moderator, Prof Murphy of BC. As Mrs. Robinson said, “you are never too old to learn, & never too young to lead.”

Happy Commencement, #BC2025! 🎓

Today, we hosted a celebratory brunch for our graduating Irish Studies students and their families in Connolly House! Comhghairdeas lenár ndaltaí go léir!

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Thanks to all our students, faculty, and friends who came to Connolly House to celebrate another successful year of Irish Studies at BC!!

Last week's Flatley Lecture with Emma Dabiri and our panel discussion on Race in Ireland are up on our YouTube channel. Click here to watch both events! www.youtube.com/@irishstudie...

Today in Connolly House, 2024/2025 Dalsimer Fellow Daniel Crown presented his dissertation titled “The Immigrant Revolution: Irish and Rhenish Settlers and the Politics of Western Expansion, 1740-1780.”

Another successful year of Irish events at Boston College!!

Many thanks to Emma Dabiri, Kim DaCosta, Chanté Mouton Kinyon & Victor Pacheco for joining us for a discussion on race in Ireland We hope this event will begin an annual collaboration between Irish Studies and AADS - so be on the lookout for future race-related discussions!

Panelists for our Race in Ireland event met with graduate students and faculty to discuss the current struggles of researching race in academia and the importance of making safe and supported educational spaces to talk about race-related topics

Emma Dabiri delivered this year’s Flatley Lecture, discussing the Irish language conceptualization of duine gorm - blue person - a term used to describe people racialized as Black. The lecture explored decolonial ideas of thinking about difference outside the taxonomy of race.

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)

Tomorrow award-winning broadcaster & author Emma Dabiri will deliver the 2025 Flatley Lecture Her talk compares Yourba & Irish ontologies to discuss the Irish language notion of duine gorm - 'blue person' - a term used to describe people racialized as Black individuals

I'll be at BC this week!

Thursday, April 24, in Connoly House, Irish Studies & AADS will host a panel discussion on race in Ireland with Emma Dabiri (broadcaster & writer), Kim DaCosta (NYU), Chanté Mouton Kinyon (Notre Dame University), Victor Pacheco (University of São Paulo), & Lorelle Semley (BC).

On April 23, award-winning broadcaster & author Emma Dabiri will deliver the 2025 Flatly Lecture Her talk compares Yourba and Irish ontologies to discuss the Irish language conceptualization of duine gorm - 'blue person' - a term used to describe people racialized as Black individuals as Gaeilge.

A fantastic Burns Scholar by Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid exploring the history of emotions and using love to better understand the daily lives of those in the Irish Revolution

Thursday, April 10 @ 6:30 pm in Connolly House Gaelic Roots - From Cork to Boston: The Life and Music of Irish Accordion Master Jerry O'Brien, 1899-1968 Dan Neely, ethnomusicologist, will give a lecture followed by a performance by Diarmuid Ó Meachair, accordion player

We are delighted to join Bluesky!

Great news! I am recruiting a(nother) PhD student! 'Ulster Americans' is a collaborative PhD with National Museums NI, specifically the Ulster American Folk Park, and is open to home and international students so please spread the word! More details in the link. www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...

A few seats left! Workshop 2 of LGBT Activism in Ireland (1973–2023) is next week @ucdgender.bsky.social @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social 🗓️ Wed 16 Apr 🕥 10.30–15.30 📍 UCD Humanities Institute Join us to reflect, resist, and reimagine. 🔗 Register now! #LGBTQI #TransRights #QueerFutures

We gathered students from BC, BU, Northeastern, and Tufts to discuss the Joyce of Everyday Life last weekend!

@burnslibrary.bsky.socialNext Wednesday, April 9, our visiting Burns Scholar Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid will deliver a lecture titled 'Love in the Time of Revolution: Intimacy, Affection & Kinship in Ireland, 1916-1923' The lecture will be held in the Burns Library at 6:00 pm @burnslibrary.bsky.social

The Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies is accepting applications for the W.B. Yeats Postdoctoral Fellowship in Irish Literature. The two-year fellowship is open to recent PhDs whose research includes a substantial focus on Irish literature. See more details here: go.nd.edu/yeats-fellow...

If you missed Colleen Taylor’s #IrishStudies talk on ‘Tales of seals and shipwrecks: Irish new materialism goes to sea’ it’s now available at: youtu.be/J_j5uQY6GAY?... @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social