Seminars are on Mondays at 4.30 pm in the Irish Studies Seminar Room, 27UQ/01/003, unless otherwise indicated

Most seminars will be both in-person and online via MS Teams. Please register via MS Teams. Events are free and open to all.

Professor Dianne Hall, Victoria University, Melbourne: 'Coming home: Travelling from Australia to Ireland before 1925'. Wednesday 31 May at 5.00pm, Canada Room & Council Chamber, Lanyon Building

Many Irish who settled in Australia wrote about their desire to go 'home'. Of all of those who dreamed of return, only a small number of the 400,000 Irish who settled in Australia between 1788 and the 1920s did so. Irish census records as well as family archives of some of the returning travellers reveals some of the women and men who travelled to Ireland before 1925, for leisure, education, employment and for support if their hopes of success in Australia faded. Prof. Diane Hall (Victoria University, Melbourne) os the co-author of A New History of the Irish in Australia (with Elizabeth Malcolm, 2018) and Imperial Spaces: Placing the Irish and Scots in Colonial Australia (with Lindsay Proudfoot, 2011) and has published widely on the histories of gender, violence, religion and migration in Ireland and the diaspora. This is a public lecture - all welcome. Register via Eventbrite

28-29 April 2023 at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland

The International Consortium for the Study of Africans in Ireland (ICSAI) invites submissions of papers for an interdisciplinary conference on Africa in Ireland: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives. This conference aims to address the historical presence of Africans and the Black diaspora in the past, present, and future on the island of Ireland. It will critically engage with this presence and the convergences of Irish-African cultural, political and religious relationships and connections. For details and Call for Papers (closing 1 Feb. 2023) click below.

A one-day conference at Queen's University Belfast, 23 September 2022

CFP closes 30 April. Contact Susie Deedigan via genderpoliticalimprisonment22@gmail.com for more infornmation.

When ‘all of Christendom had come’: The Dublin Eucharistic Congress – Ninety Years On, 23 February 2022 (PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DAY)

The Eucharistic Congress of 1932 is widely recognised to be a defining moment in the religious, social, and political life of the Irish Free State. The thirty-first international Congress took place in Dublin over the week of 21-26 June 1932, with smaller celebrations taking place in towns and villages across the island. With the input of the church, politicians, individuals, and community groups, the event represented an unparalleled display of the Catholic faith in the state. Coinciding with the fifteenth centenary of Patrick’s mission to Ireland, the Congress was viewed as public reaffirmation of faith and the just conclusion of Ireland’s religious history.

Monday 7 February 2022 at 4.30pm

We are delighted to be able to launch Ireland 1922: Independence, Partition, Civil War, edited by Darragh Gannon and Fearghal McGarry - an important collection of interdisciplinary essays, published by the Royal Irish Academy in January 2022. Both editors, Dr Darragh Gannon (UCD) and Prof Fearghal McGarry (QUB) will speak to the book's themes and approaches, and Dr Margaret O'Callaghan (QUB) will give her assessment of its contribution to understanding that momentous year in Ireland's history. Everyone is welcome to join us either online via MS Teams or in person at 27 University Square 01.003. Please register online via Evenbrite.

A Series of Online Talks

In order to mark the centenary of the partitioning of Ireland, Queen’s University Belfast is organising and hosting a major series of online public talks. The series is supported by the UK Government and the Irish Government, and by the British Academy and the Royal Irish Academy. The talks are being recorded and produced by the BBC. Talks will be posted weekly on Mondays at 12.00, starting 26 April 2021.

The Institute of Irish Studies at Queen's University Belfast is hosting a one day workshop organised by our postgraduate researchers on Wednesday 29 September 2021. This event is free and open to the public, and will be delivered online via MS Teams. Please pre-register via EVENTBRITE and we will send you a link to participate. For more information, contact the convenors Mylie Brennan (mbrennan36@qub.ac.uk) or Frances Neilson (fneilson01@qub.ac.uk). .

A free online public conference on Friday 25 June 2021 hosted by the Institute of Irish Studies

This conference will discuss the crisis of 1971 in Northern Ireland, including the introduction of internment, political upheaval, the upsurge in violence and the Ballymurphy Massacre, and their legacies, from the perspective of 50 years on. This event will be held online via MS Teams. Registration and the programme are available via our Eventbrite page. All welcome.

Has the past year caused you to look to digitised collections for your research? If so, why not join the conversation?

The Institute of Irish Studies at Queen’s University, Belfast presents a one-day postgraduate symposium, via Microsoft Teams, on Thursday 13 May 2021. It seeks to explore and promote the use of online collections in PGR Research. Contact Lucy Wray (lwray04@qub.ac.uk)

A project to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Brian Moore, led by Dr Alison Garden (QUB) and Professor Sinéad Moynihan (Exeter)

Designed to coincide with the centenary of his birth, Brian Moore at 100 seeks to critically appraise, and thus revive scholarly and public interest in, the work of neglected and important Belfast-born writer, Brian Moore (1921-99). Throughout 2021, we will be organising at series of public-facing and academic events to celebrate, revisit and evaluate Moore's life and career. The project has been generously funded through a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Small Research Grant. - Launch Event for Brian Moore at 100: Roundtable Discussion (20 Jan. 2021, 6.30) - CFP: Brian Moore in Context (21-23 April 2021)