Coming soon: #QUB #IrishStudies on tour at #BostonCollege - October 4 at 5pm https://events.bc.edu/event/where_next_for_northern_ireland_a_panel_with_faculty_from_queens_university_belfast #Brexit #NorthernIreland #GFA #Boston

Our first #IrishStudies Seminar of the new semester will be by Anna Johnston (Queensland) on '“Songs of an Exile”: Sentiment and Violence in Eliza Hamilton Dunlop’s Irish and Australian Elegies, 1838-63'. Mon 18/9 at 4.30.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/irish-studies-seminars-anna-johnston-tickets-715868119817 #IrishAustralia #IrishLiterature

Our last #EFACIS conference keynote - a challenging critique of minority representation in Irish screen narratives by Zelie Asava #QUB #IrishStudies #FilmStudies

Great work by Lucy Cullen in chairing today’s scintillating readings by Jan Carson and Rosemary Jenkinson at #EFACIS #QUB #IrishStudies

The inimitable Glenn Patterson at tonight’s #Belfast City Hall reception #EFACIS #QUB #IrishStudies

The draft programme for our #EFACIS #IrishStudies conference 24-27 August at #QUB #Belfast is now online at https://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/efacis-2023/

Congratulations to our own Sophie Cooper #QUB on her book Forging Identities in the Irish World: Melbourne and Chicago, c. 1830-1922 winning the 2023 #ACIS Lawrence J. McCaffrey Prize for best book on Irish-America #IrishStudies #IrishHistory #IrishDiaspora

Congratulations to Robin Adams of #QUB Management School on his book
Shadow of a Taxman: Who Funded the Irish Revolution? wining the 2022 #ACIS Donald Murphy Prize for distinguished 1st book in #IrishStudies #IrishHistory #IrishRevolution

Congratulations to our own Siobhra Aiken #QUB on her book Spiritual Wounds: Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War (IAP) winning the 2023 #ACIS Michael J. Durkan Prize for best #IrishStudies book on Language & Culture

Bestseller summer reprints 📚🥳

The Maamtrasna Murders and In Spanish Trenches

Available at ucdpress.ie

AND back in stock at all distributors
Ireland: Gill Distribution UK: Central Books US: Chicago University Press

Get ordering 📚📚📚

#irishstudies #Irishhistory #Spanishcivilwar

A recording of Diane Hall's QUB #IrishStudies Annual Lecture on #Australians in Ireland, 1880-1925 is now available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHRmurIFe9Y&t=9s #IrishHistory #MigrationHistory

Spent last week in #Ottawa for the Canadian Association for #IrishStudies. Got to hang out with Jan Carson and Lloyd Meadhbh Houston

St Mary's Newman Academic Centre in #Melbourne has advertised the 2024 O'Donnell Fellowship in #IrishStudies for Jan/Feb 2024. Details at https://www.snac.unimelb.edu.au/odonnell-fellowship/ #IrishAustralia

Thanks to all who came along to this evening’s #QUB #IrishStudies lecture by Diane Hall on #Australians in Ireland 1850-1925

*Bestseller reprints for summer 23*

In Spanish Trenches is exceptional in providing a detailed narrative of what the Irish actually did in Spain 🇪🇸

'The scholarship of the 25 years that the authors spent on this outstanding work irradiates every page' - Irish Independent

#spanishcivilwar #IrishStudies ##revolutionaryhistory

Cheryl Lawther reflects on her recent #IrishStudies exchange visit to Boston College
https://www.qub.ac.uk/Research/GRI/mitchell-institute/news/BostonCollegeExchangeVisitApril2023.html

#IrishStudies Spring Seminar Series 2023
Tuesday 2nd May at 4.30pm - 27 University Square 01/003 and online via MS Teams

‘The use of the Irish language by Protestant missions in 19th c. Ireland: a multifaceted paradox’

Karina Bénazech Wendling, Sorbonne University, Paris

All welcome – register via Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/karina-benazech-wendling-sorbonne-university-paris-tickets-624254551167 #missions #gaeilge #IrishHistory

Wrote a short piece published in The Journal today, responding to the #eviction #art controversy over Spicebag’s reworked MacDonald painting, giving a bit of historical context, plus Davitt, because you can never have too much MD
#IrishStudies #IrishHistory

Opinion: Shouldn't protest art provoke exactly the response we've seen this week?

https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/art-as-protest-6037089-Apr2023/

#QUB #IrishStudies Seminars

Mon 24 April at 4.30pm, in person and online via MS Teams

‘Loose Ties: The Paris Commune, Aesthetics, and Popular Revolution in Ulysses’
Prof Catherine Flynn, University of California, Berkeley

All welcome – register at https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/loose-ties-the-paris-commune-aesthetics-popular-revolution-in-ulysses-tickets-603593553567 #Joyce #Ulysses

#IrishStudies International Lecture 2023

'Coming home: Travelling from Australia to Ireland before 1925'
Professor Dianne Hall, Victoria University, Melbourne

Wednesday 31 May at 5.00pm – Canada Room & Council Chamber, Lanyon Building #Australia #migration

Register at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/coming-home-travelling-from-australia-to-ireland-before-1925-tickets-603344257917