Our next #IrishStudies seminar on Mon. 7 April will be Rob Savage (Boston College) on ‘The death of an informer, London, 1974’. This event is in-person only. #NorthernIreland #Troubles

https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/NewsandEvents/IrishStudiesSeminarRobSavageThedeathofaninformerLondon1974.html

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 https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/NewsandEvents/IrishStudiesInternationalLectureDavidWilson-DArcyMcGeeCruiseOBrienandBurke.html

Our #IrishStudies seminar on Mon 31 March will be given by Dr Colleen Taylor of BC Irish studies on 'Tales of seals and shipwrecks: Irish new materialism goes to sea’. All welcome, in-person or online: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/irish-studies-seminar-colleen-taylor-tickets-1279666790819

Our #IrishStudies Seminar on Monday 24 March will be given by Dr Frank Rynne (Paris) on The Most Wanted tourist, the Invincible Frank Byrne in France, 1883' - all welcome (in-person or online) https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/irish-studies-seminar-frank-rynne-tickets-1272205503909?aff=oddtdtcreator #IrishHistory

Our next #IrishStudies seminar will be on Mon. 3 March when visiting @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social Postgrad Tiffany Thompson will talk about 'Belfast barricades & burnt out homes: Women navigating street violence & displacement in August 1969' https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/NewsandEvents/IrishStudiesSeminarTiffanyThompsonBelfastBarricadesandBurntOutHomes1969.html

On 10 Feb we will welcome Adrian Frazier to QUB #IrishStudies to talk about his new book ‘John Montague: A Poet’s Life’. All welcome in-person or online https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/NewsandEvents/IrishStudiesSeminarAdrianFrazierJohnMontagueAPoetsLife.html. #IrishPoetry

Our Spring 2025 #IrishStudies programme is now available at: https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/NewsandEvents/

At our #IrishStudies Seminar on Mon 27 Jan. we welcome Dr Ida Milne and Paul Donnelly to talk about 'The Elmes letters: a Wexford Protestant family in the 1798 rebellion and aftermath'. All welcome in-person or online.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/irish-studies-sem-ida-milne-paul-donnelly-the-elmes-letters-and-1798-tickets-1153886980019 #IrishHistory

Our #IrishStudies seminar series is taking a break over the holidays, but we will will be back (in-person and online) on Monday 20th January at 4.30 when Margaret Ward will talk about her new book 'Rebel Women'. All welcome. https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/NewsandEvents/IrishStudiesSeminarMargaretWardRebelWomen.html

Thanks to everyone who supported our QUB #IrishStudies research seminar series this semester. If you missed any, we have recordings of most seminars (including yesterday's by Eithne O'Neill on bher father's 1947 novel Tonn Tuile, available via our webpages at https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/NewsandEvents/PreviousSeminars/

Our next #IrishStudies seminar will be Máire McCafferty (UCD), on '"The flower of the Gaelic League endeavour"? The Irish language summer colleges, 1904-1940'. Mon 2 Dec at 4.30pm (in-person and online). All welcome. https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/NewsandEvents/IrishStudiesSemMaireMcCaffertyUCDThefloweroftheGaelicLeagueendeavour.html

Here are 3 new arrivals on #Ireland & Irish-American relations!

Examining the image of #Irishness in the US 1890s-1960s, Marion R. Casey's "The Green Space" looks at the transformation of Irish identity in #PopularCulture
#CulturalStudies #IrishStudies #AmericanStudies

Our next #IrishStudies seminar will be Gordon Gillespie (QUB), on 'The 1974 "Spongers" speech revisited: Harold Wilson, Lady Falkender and David Bowie', on Monday 25 November at 4.30. In-person and online - all welcome. Register at https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/NewsandEvents/IrishStudiesSeminarGordonGillespieThe1974Spongersspeechrevisited.html #IrishHistory

New post on our #IrishStudies Working Papers site - Brandon Morgan, ‘The three distillations of Belfast’s whiskey industry; The rise, fall, and renaissance from the 1860s to present day’ https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/Research/IrishStudiesWorkingPapers/ #IrishHistory

Keough-Naughton Fellowship in #IrishStudies at Notre Dame https://www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/listing/383774/the-neh-keough-naughton-fellowship/

Our next Irish Studies Seminar is Prof Peter O'Neill (Georgia) on 'The Dakota, the Ojibwe, and the diaries of T.J. Sheehan' - Mon 18 Nov. at 4.30 https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/NewsandEvents/IrishStudiesSeminarPeterONeillTheDakotatheOjibweandthediariesofTJSheehan.html #IrishStudies