In her book "Through Her Eyes", Clodagh Finn explores the lives of 21 women who were instrumental for #IrishHistory - crossing 5600 years from #StoneAge to our present day
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1898219222
In her book "Through Her Eyes", Clodagh Finn explores the lives of 21 women who were instrumental for #IrishHistory - crossing 5600 years from #StoneAge to our present day
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1898219222
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
Our final book for the #YearOfTheSnake series is this 1989 case study by Mary Condren on #Ireland under the advent of the Catholic Church and its effects on #CelticMythology, from a #feminist perspective.
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=018274463
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
"Irish Materialisms" by Colleen Taylor provides 5 original case studies on nonhuman agents in Irish colonial culture, in #IrishLiterature: on coins, flax, spinning wheels, mud, and the pig
#nonhuman #materiality
#PostcolonialStudies #IrishStudies #LiteraryStudies #Irishness
"The Routledge History of Irish America", edited by Cian T. McMahon & Kathleen P. Costello-Sullivan, collects 41 essays on Irish migration to the US from the 1600s, during & past the Great Famine, until the present
#IrishDiaspora #IrishStudies #AmericanStudies #AmericanHistory
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
Our next #IrishStudies
seminar is on Mon. 11 November at 4.30. Patrick Joyce will speak about his book 'Remembering peasants'. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/irish-studies-seminar-patrick-joyce-tickets-1054704953909
There are a couple of new items on our Irish Studies Working Paper site: 'The Changing Face of Belfast: An Oral History of Immigration to the City after the Signing of the Good Friday Agreement' by Benjamin Hayden Harris, and '"Flavit et dissipati sunt" – Public history representations of the Spanish Armada in Ireland' by Emma Rankin https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/Research/IrishStudiesWorkingPapers/ #IrishStudies
The 2025 #IrishStudies Summer School at QUB is now available - details are at https://www.qub.ac.uk/International/International-students/Studyabroad/international-summer-schools/summer-school-25/irish-studies/ . Also available as a #Fulbright Summer Institute. Please share with potential students!