IES Irish Studies

We're delighted to announce our 2018/19 Seminar Schedule! All talks will begin at Senate House at 6pm, rooms and paper titles TBC. We hope to see you there! #Irishstudies

Reminder! This week, Thursday 25 April, Dr James McConnell will speak on 'Parnell redivivus: grief, conspiracy theories, and spectrality after 1891'. Please note that the seminar is being held at 18:00 in... facebook.com/IESirishstudie…

Reminder! Next week, Thursday 21 March, Dr Gemma Clark will give a paper for the IES Irish Studies Seminar. Dr Clark will speak on 'Women’s interactions with the Irish Civil War'. Please note that the seminar... facebook.com/IESirishstudie…

One of our convenors, Professor Roy Foster will deliver his Inaugural Lecture at Queen Mary tomorrow, 14 March 2019 at 18:30. He will speak on 'The Buried Tombstone, The Melting Iceberg, And The... eventbrite.co.uk/e/roy-foster-i…

Suffrage and Citizenship in Ireland, 1912-1918 | Institute of Historical Research history.ac.uk/events/event/1…

Confirmed major essays for the 2018 @IrisMurdoch Review! @humanities_chi @chiuni Letters from Iris Murdoch to Miklos Veto @GaryBrowning15 'Iris Murdoch, The History Woman' Nora Hämäläinen ‘Iris Murdoch and the Descriptive Aspect of Moral Philosophy’ @UniPardubice @IWWNetwork

Dr Lindsey Earner-Byrne @LindseyEarner will be speaking at the Melbourne Irish Studies Seminar on 10 July at 6pm - "My very manhood seems sapped': Negotiating gender in the Irish Charity Market, 1920-1940'. All are very welcome! #Irishstudies

To mark the 4th of July, a treasure of @thelinenhall - the first printed version of the Declaration of Independence outside of the United States - from the Belfast Newsletter of August 1776 - all thanks to rough seas! Hear the full story on a tour of the Library.

We are delighted to share our special trailer ahead of Friday's public opening of Listen Now Again. The exhibition is free and no ticket will normally be required. However, we expect high demand during opening weekend and recommend booking a free ticket: bit.ly/2MC73vo

🎉Congratulations to @IrishInstitute PhD Dr. Angela Duffy, whose book Informers in Twentieth-Century Ireland has just been published @McFarlandCoPub! mcfarlandbooks.com/product/inform…

Are you interested in Anna Parnell or the Ladies Land League? We have an exciting new website resource: a collection of Anna Parnell's speeches 1881-1882 with a detailed introduction by Liz Padmore womenshistoryassociation.com/womens-history……/

Event: 'The Last September' Screening and Q&A (Irish Film Institute, Dublin, 04 July) facebook.com/events/5854776… In an elegant estate in Cork in 1920, Sir Richard... facebook.com/BritishAssocia…

TOMORROW: Launch of @IrishInstitute alumnus and @edgehill lecturer @paddyhoey's new book "Shinners, Dissos and Dissenters". Free but registration required: liverpool.ac.uk/irish-studies/….

Thanks to all for coming to my book launch last night. Esp to Ewen Cameron @HCAatEdinburgh for launching it on a lovely evening.

We're hiring! Our annual studentships for 2018/19 are open for applications. The deadline for applications is this Friday, 22nd June. Find out more here: bit.ly/1KB8khb #jobfairy

Had such a good time at @acis2018 & esepcially enjoyed my panel with @SineadExeter & @drtinamorin. Just realised it will probably be my last paper on Casement! Thanks #LoveIrishResearch + #ACISCork. Now back to @UCDHumanities to finish my book...

The Q&A for an excellent panel on the Irish Diaspora in the USA @acis2018 #ACISCork Engafing discussions on the history and future of Irish America and what constitutes that identity.

The latest issue of The Irish Review Vol. 54, ‘Embodied Geographies of the Nation’ edited by Dr Nessa Cronin (@NUIGIrishStu) and Professor Karen E. Till (Geography, Maynooth University), is now available #IrishStudies

Do spread the word about UCD's International #PoetryCompetition for the best single poem on war and its effects - deadline 15 September 2018 centenaries.ucd.ie/events/voices-… #contemporarypoetry @HumanitiesUCD @UCD_English @UcdEgs @UCDLibrary