Incredibly excited to announce I have passed my PhD viva! A huge thanks to Jon Tonge and Cathal McManus for being such enthusiastic and encouraging examiners. Delighted that only a few minor corrections stand between me and graduation!
HAPP at Queen's

Click here to access a copy of the Interim Report of the Independent Panel looking at Mother and baby institutions, Magdalene laundries and Workhouses (and related pathways and practices) in NI - published May 2024 independentpanel.truthrecoveryni.co.uk/publications/i…

Hello folks. Here is the website of the Independent Panel looking at mother and baby institutions, Magdalene laundries and workhouses in Northern Ireland. - Independent Panel Truth Recovery NI independentpanel.truthrecoveryni.co.uk

Calling all those working on women's writing from Ireland, from medieval to 19c! #CFP for special issue of Taylor & Francis Research Insights Women's Writing think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues… Ed by Lucy Cogan & me Irish Studies QUB Irish Studies at Boston College IASIL British Association for Irish Studies (BAIS) Irish Studies@LivUni

Every Irish Trad musician knows ‘Dance Music of Ireland: O’Neill’s 1001’ published in 1907. Here’s a chance to learn a little more about the man, his music and the times he lived in. Irish Studies QUB

Prof. Aoife McGrath, Aoife McGrath Ireland's first ever professor of dance, inaugural lecture @QUB 👏👏

Her work on interdisciplinary research projects & collaborative contexts, a superb testament to artistic practice & embodied knowledge speaking to science.
#Dance #Science #Art

Don’t miss out! Register now to get your ticket for the OS200 conference on 21st June!

The website for our project PARISH (Preserving and Recording Ireland's Sacred Heritage), a collaboration between Maynooth History and @NDIrishStudies is now live: parishproject.nd.edu. Database to follow!

1. Professor Ian McBride's letter in response to Brian Feeney article in The Irish News It seems that the sharpest criticisms of the public history on British policy during the Troubles falls under three categories...

Congrats to PhD student Constantin Torve, whose research article ‘'The mendacious Irish character:' Molly Maguire, anti-Irish sentiment, and anti-labor propaganda in the American press, 1880–1920', has been published online by Labor History at tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

The Royal Irish Academy is hosting a conference on Archives, Access & Human Rights on 13 June
ria.ie/archives-acces…

This looks great. Open to all from HAPP at Queen's Queen's University Belfast 🎓 African American Irish Diaspora Network Kimberly M DaCosta

If you missed Huw Bennett's seminar on Monday talking about his new book 'Uncivil War: The British Army and the Troubles, 1966-75', a recording is now available at: youtube.com/watch?v=c8WaJl…

Ciorcal na míosa, a chairde - amárach. Bígí linn!

Our annual International Irish Studies Lecture will be given on 4 June by Prof Michael O’Malley (George Mason University) on ‘Policing and the Construction of Irish Culture: The Case of Captain O’Neill’ (in person and online).

Register at eventbrite.co.uk/e/irish-studie…

Join us on 12 June for a symposium on 'The Future of Irish Studies', co-hosted with the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, Notre Dame, The Institute of Irish Studies, QUB, and The Mitchell Institute. This is a free event, in-person and online.
eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future-o…

Our colleague Gordon Gillespie interviewed for Donald Clark’s piece on the 1974 UWC strike: ‘For a few weeks, the reliable machinery of suburban life shut down. There was no milk, no petrol, often no electricity’

irishtimes.com/history/2024/0…

Karl O’Hanlon: ‘There’s too much death: Prospect of an ‘official’ British history of the Troubles is hurtful to families like mine’

irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0…

** History of Catholicism **
Great event at QUB History next 31 May 2024 about the history of #Catholicism in #Ireland #Australia #Wales #USA #world All welcome ! Great initiative by Conor Brockbank HAPP at Queen's Queen's University Belfast 🎓 The Graduate School

We're delighted to be launching a new issue of our Review of Irish Studies in Europe (RISE) journal on May 16 at 7pm (CET) - You can register to join us at efacis.eu/content/efacis…