#NationalACIS26 Fellowship winners with #ACIS executive committee members!

Lovely to see my book has received an honourable mention for the Lawrence J. McCaffrey Prize, an @acirishstudies.bsky.social award for the best monographs on Irish America. Congrats to @irishacw.bsky.social on a well-deserved win for his work on Irish-American soldiers. acisweb.org/2025/05/2024...

Delighted to have won the Dalsimer Prize! Thank you to @acirishstudies.bsky.social!

My deepest thanks to @acirishstudies.bsky.social for selecting Green & Blue for the Lawrence J. McCaffrey Prize for Books on Irish America. A super way to kick off June 😀

Eamon Wall giving one of New Hibernia Review’s James Rogers article prizes to Damjana Mraović-O'Hare (with her husband and son.

Thanks @acirishstudies.bsky.social for this welcome news!

A real honour to receive this prize for my book - the list of past winners includes some of my favourite people and some of my favourite books in Irish history.

We're so proud of our own Teddy Lehre for winning the #ACIS Krause Research Fellowship!

Congratulations to our 2025 Fellowship winners! We cannot wait to see the fantastic completed projects these scholars are working on.

We're thrilled to announce the #ACIS 2025 book awards! Congratulations to all our winners and many thanks to everyone who served on the committees.

For the final plenary at #NationalACIS26, Molly Sturdevant and Michael Patrick MacDonald discussed Irish American Literature of Working Class Resistance

Many thanks to @emilymfg.bsky.social for sharing these amazing images with us at #NationalACIS26!

Absolutely fascinating paper by @emilymfg.bsky.social this morning at @acirishstudies.bsky.social on the relationship between photography, surveillance, and Irish anti-eviction aggression

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston came to welcome #NationalACIS26 to town and to thank the conference organizing committee!

Congratulations to all the winners of this year’s @acirishstudies.bsky.social book prizes and fellowships

I had the privilege to serve as the @acirishstudies.bsky.social History Rep, which meant I also chaired the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book. We had an amazing slate of books – truly inspiring stuff – and it was such a pleasure to read. Irish Studies future is bright!

Off to a panel for @acirishstudies.bsky.social on the transnational relations between Ireland and Tanzania; Ireland and Palestine; and Ireland's diaspora and the Moycullen DNA Project

A moving visit to the Leadville Irish Paupers’ Memorial in Colorado, by delegates to the annual American Conference for Irish Studies - marking 1300 graves, the majority of which were impoverished Irish migrants @acirishstudies.bsky.social

Today's plenary at #NationalACIS26 was delivered by James Walsh of the University of Colorado, Denver, and his students. The group's presentation was titled "Leadville's Irish Pauper Memorial: A New Lens into the Rocky Mountain Irish Immigrant Story."

There really is nothing like an @acirishstudies.bsky.social conference for collegiality. My first ACIS was 18 years ago and I can’t wait for next year in the Pitt.

QUB’s Helen Hayes Sweeney speaking about the migration journey of Mick McGee, from Donegal to Leadville Colorado, at @acirishstudies.bsky.social . @sophcocooper.bsky.social

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I’ll be discussing several varieties of Irish vampire on Sunday morning

📣 Call for Papers 📣 The Keough-Naughton Institute is hosting the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS) Midwest and South Regional Conference this fall, Sept. 24-27, at the University of Notre Dame. 👉 Visit go.nd.edu/acis for all the details. 🗓️ Deadline for submissions: June 20

Many thanks to @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social for sponsoring a graduate student lunch mixer at #NationalACIS26 in Denver!! #ACIS is committed to fostering grad student networking at all our conferences.

Gearing up for our first keynote at #NationalACIS26 from award-winning photographer Sean McKernan. His talk is titled “Belfast - Conflict to Peace: A Personal Photographic Journey, 1982-Present.”

I’ll be speaking on instantaneous and surveillance photography in 19th century Ireland, incl the influence of Kodak and detective cameras on tracking ‘seditious’ activity 👀📸

If anyone at #NationalACIS26 has questions or concerns about the #ACIS code of conduct, feel free to find someone with a rainbow lanyard who will be happy to help!

Day 1 of American Conference for Irish Studies @acirishstudies.bsky.social here in Denver kicks off in about half an hour.

Looking forward to seeing Irish Studies scholars in Denver this week for #NationalACIS26! #ACIS members: let us know if you're attending & what you're presenting on! We'd love to feature faculty, postdocs, & grad students on our social media. acisdenver2026.com

We're gearing up for #NationalACIS26 in Denver next week! #ACIS members: let us know if you're attending & what you're presenting on! We'd love to feature faculty, postdocs, & grad students on our social media. acisdenver2026.com

#ACIS is officially on BlueSky, just in time for the #NationalACIS26 conference in Denver from May 27-31!