Our next #IrishStudies seminar coming up in Monday 29 Sept at 4.30

After difficult news today, a bright spot: the always delightful @domsball.bsky.social at @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social delivering a scathing deconstruction of Irishness, capitalism, the project of ethnonationalism and Guinness ... While pouring one out to lubricate the lecture. Time-defying indeed.

Our first Irish Studies seminar of the new year will be our very own Dom Bryan on 22 Sept speaking on 'Authenticity, history and everyday nationalism: comparing Irish pubs to McDonald's restaurants'. In-person and online - all welcome. Register at: www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...

6/6 The Lough Kinale Shrine reconstructed! Ireland’s oldest & largest Book Shrine was broken in the medieval period & the pieces left in a lake Now, Discovery Programme has used 3D modelling to digitally reconstruct it with @nmireland.bsky.social for #wordsonthewave exhibition: @heritagecouncil.ie

Most read on #RTEBrainstorm: how our words can have many different meanings when we speak in Irish English. By Gail Flanagan @unioflimerick.bsky.social @researchireland.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

One of the highlights of Words on the Wave at @NMIreland is Cod. Sang. 51—an 8th-c. Irish Gospel book with rare depictions of the Crucifixion & Second Coming. On display until 24 Oct. 🕊️ More: www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...

New deal to address Troubles legacy issues agreed between Dublin and London www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Conor Gearty obituary - The Guardian www.theguardian.com/law/2025/sep...

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 Ó Cléirigh seminars in @ucddublin.bsky.social resume on 10 Oct 2025. Fáilte roimh chách /all welcome. And feel free to re-post.

On Monday 6th Oct. we will be joined by Dr Alexandra Maclennan (Caen), who will speak on Cardinal Owen McCann (1907-94): die Roomse gevaar in apartheid South Africa'. All welcome (in-person and online) www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of... [image courtesy of Southern Cross archive]

100 ISSUES OLD TODAY! The new issue of The Dublin Review features work by Nathan O’Donnell, Laura Morris, Tara McEvoy, Molly McCloskey, Conor Dawson, alongside the mighty Colm Tóibín who also appeared in our very first issue 25 years ago. NUMBER 100 is out now in bookshops, or at thedublinreview.com

We're excited to release the conference programme for 'Ireland and the American Revolution: 250th Anniversary Perspectives'. There is limited space so if you would like to attend please book a place using the link below as soon as possible. Attendance is free but booking is essential!

Join the online EFACIS Book Club on 15 October for a discussion of Michael Magee's novel Close to Home (2023)! More information at www.efacis.eu/content/efac...

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

Job opportunity: Engagement and Outreach Officer at the Mellon Centre for Migration Studies - please let anyone know who might be interested ce0568li.webitrent.com/ce0568li_web... The link to NI Jobs is here – www.nijobs.com/job/Outreach...

It’s here! We’re elated to share that WTF Happened: #WakingTheFeminists and the Movement That Changed Irish Theatre by Sarah Durcan with Lian Bell has arrived in the world. Learn about the story behind this groundbreaking feminist movement. 🔗 Order at bit.ly/WTF-Happened or bookstores nationwide

📣 📣 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

Conference announcement: Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement, 3-5 Oct. Maynooth University. Full programme and registration details👇

Exciting list of speakers presenting in our Environmental History Research Seminar this term. If you happen to be in Dublin, come along. We'll meet on Mondays at 1 PM in the Trinity Long Room Hub #envhist Thanks to @tlrhub.bsky.social for hosting us! @historytcd.bsky.social 👇

Sept 16: Feast of Laisrén mac Feradaig (†605), abbot of Iona. He served as superior at Columba's Dermag (Durrow, Ireland) before attaining the abbacy. Fergnae (Virgno) the Briton succeeded him. Book of Durrow 📸RTÉ #medievalsky

To the point that the Irish do death 'well', can I offer you this forthcoming collection on the corpse in modern Irish literature from @livunipress.bsky.social www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

A reminder that the next CHOMI seminar is on 18 Sept at 4pm in K114, Newman Bdg, UCD: Prof Mary E. Daly (UCD): Not 'Goodenough' - Migrating doctors, medical schools and Dublin voluntary hospitals in the mid-20th century If you cannot join in person, join on Zoom at ucd-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi....

New from ARINS in Irish Studies in International Affairs: 📑 A Propaganda Failure in the Perimeter: The British in Northern Ireland, c.1969–82 by Tancred Bradshaw & Shelley Deane (DCU). Read here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/arti... #ARINSProject @ndirishstudies.bsky.social @shelleydeane.bsky.social

The next USIHS Lecture will be on 16 Oct. at 6pm - Seán Ó Hoireabhárd (Maynooth University), ‘When Ulster became Ulster and Meath became Meath: The divorce of the Northern and Southern Uí Néill in the Central Middle Ages’ Free event – all welcome! usihs36.com/2025/09/15/u...

QUB History research seminars - Fridays at 4pm starting 26 September. All welcome!

On 29 Sept. Noelle Moran and Caitlin O'Neill of @ucdpress.bsky.social will be leading a workshop on publishing in Irish Studies - all welcome in-person or online www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...

Confluences and Collaborations - event Sept 18th - and don't we need more of it! @machapress.bsky.social

IHS Lecture 23 Sept - Dr Amy Prendergast (TCD), 'Narratives of violence: considering Irish women's life written as testimony, 1760-1810' (also online) events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c32d66...

Mitchell Institute events for autumn 2025 www.qub.ac.uk/Research/GRI...

Join the Irish Humanities Alliance and @sahavoice.bsky.social at @ria.ie for a half day event - Irish-Scottish cultural diplomacy and relations. Tickets are booking fast and can be secured 👇 www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...

We corrected a couple of typos in our semester 1 seminar list - here's the updated version. All events are free and available in hybrid format.

🔖 Don’t miss out on 20% Off Social Justice and Activism Books Sonja Tiernan’s inspiring Irish Women’s Speeches Volumes I and II are currently included in a special offer on our website. 🔗 bit.ly/sj-act-offer – Limited Time, International Shipping Available

ICYMI: Scholars from around the world gathered this summer in Belgium to take stock of the state of Irish Studies and plan for the field’s further development. The Keough-Naughton Institute organized the event w/ support from @lcis-leuven.bsky.social. Read more: irishstudies.nd.edu/news/future-...

SSNCI members are now starting to receive their FREE copy of our latest conference volume: New Perspectives on Conflict and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century edited by Paul Huddie, Cathal Billings, Arlene Crampsie www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Seolfar 'Craobh eolais – a Festschrift for Ruairí Ó hUiginn' in ómós don scoláire mór le rá Ruairí Ó hUiginn a bhí ina Ollamh le Nua-Ghaeilge in @maynoothuniversity.ie agus ina ollamh in @dias.ie, Déardaoin 11 Meán Fómhair 2025 in @ria.ie ag 17:30. Cuirfear fíon agus sólaistí ar fáil. Bígí linn!

O’Malley Fellowship at Limerick www.ul.ie/artsoc/our-r...

Join us online on 13/10 for an open workshop on Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing, a forthcoming open-access special issue of Humanities that re-examines the role of unmarried women in Irish movements and literature. Find a full programme and registration link at www.efacis.eu/content/efac...

Research Paper - Inquiry (Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses) and Redress Scheme Bill This Paper provides an overview of the Inquiry (Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses) and Redress Scheme Bill. (1/2) www.niassembly.gov.uk/assembly-bus...

My interview with Colm Tóibín: ‘All the emotion I was suppressing, that I didn’t know what to do with, was grief’. He discusses taking ketamine as therapy; loathing business news; writing method; novellas; plot vs atmosphere; point of view; the importance of sleep www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Come and work with us! This is a brilliant residency open to established, mid-career writers resident in Ireland.

Our Irish Studies Seminar programme for the autumn is now available - all events will be in hybrid format and everyone is welcome. For more info and registration: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

Macha ‘pasture’ in Armagh (Ard Mhacha ‘height of Macha’) is the name of a land-goddess who represents sovereignty in the myths of the ancient Ulstermen. Armagh is also where Patrick built his great stone church in 445AD, making Armagh the Ecclesiastical Capital of Ireland.

Our first Irish Studies seminar of the new year will be our very own Dom Bryan on 22 Sept speaking on 'Authenticity, history and everyday nationalism: comparing Irish pubs to McDonald's restaurants'. In-person and online - all welcome. Register at: www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...

A mid-week plug for my recent article in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' (@royalhistsoc.org) examining the influence of the Campaign for Democracy in Ulster and its role in 'parliamentary activism' 📝 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...