Spring 2025 Seminars

Margaret Ward (QUB) , 'Rebel Women' (20/1/25)

Ida Milne (Carlow College) and Paul Donnelly, 'The Elmes letters: a Wexford Protestant family in the 1798 rebellion and aftermath' (27/1/25)

Aisling Reid (QUB) ‘Borders and Barbed Wire: Cahir Healy’s Memoirs from the Argenta Prison Ship’ (3/2/25)

Adrian Frazier (Galway) with Fran Brearton (QUB), 'John Montague: A Poet's Life' (10/2/25)

Paddy Hillyard (QUB), ‘The Stalker Affair and its legacy' (17/2/25)

Tiffany Thompson (BC), 'Belfast barricades and burnt-out homes: women navigating street violence and displacement in August 1969' (3/3/25)

Felix Larkin, 'Cartoons and the Irish - two centuries of humour' (10/3/25)

Frank Rynne (CY Cergy Paris), 'The Most Wanted tourist, the Invincible Frank Byrne in France, 1883’ (24/3/25)

Colleen Taylor (Boston College), 'Tales of seals and shipwrecks: New Irish Materialism goes to sea' (31/3/25)

Rob Savage (Boston College), 'The death of an informer: London, 1974' (7/4/25)

Booklaunch of Shannon Devlin (Galway), Siblinghood and Sociability in Nineteenth-Century Ulster  (28/4/25)

Sean Farrell (Northern Illinois), ‘Sanitary Reform and the Politics of Public Health in Victorian Belfast’ (1/5/25)

Ciaran O'Neill (TCD), 'Power and powerlessness in Union Ireland' (6/5/25)

IRISH STUDIES LECTURE: David Wilson (Toronto), 'Parallels and patterns: Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Conor Cruise O’Brien and Edmund Burke’ (20/5/25)

Mark McGowan (Toronto), 'Honouring Indigenous aid for Famine Ireland from Canada, 1847' (27/5/25)

Autumn 2024 Seminars

David Hayton (QUB), Booklaunch of Allen Leeper’s Letters Home, 1908-1912 (23/9/24)

Anne Jamison (Western Sydney), 'Revising folklore and fairy tale in 19th-century Ireland: Rosa Mulholland’s "The Girl From Under the Lake" (1881)' (30/9/24)

Colin Armstrong (QUB), ‘Scholarship and controversy in the nineteenth-century Church of Ireland: Edward Hincks of Killyleagh, 1792-1866’. (14/10/24)

Finola O'Kane (UCD), 'Sharp gradients: comparing the landscape design of 18th-century Haiti (St Domingue), Jamaica and Ireland, 1730-1830 (21/10/24)

Ruth Duffy (QUB), Book launch of Healthcare and the Troubles: The Conflict Experience of the Northern Ireland Health Service, 1968-1998 (4/11/24)

Patrick Joyce (Manchester), 'Remembering Peasants' (11/11/24)

Peter O'Neill (Georgia), 'The Dakota, the Ojibwe and the diaries of Timothy J. Sheehan' (18/11/24)

Gordon Gillespie (QUB), 'The 1974 "Spongers" speech revisited: Harold Wilson, Lady Falkender and David Bowie' (25/11/24)

Máire McCafferty (UCD), ‘“The flower of the Gaelic League endeavour”? The Irish language summer colleges, 1904-1940’ (2/12/24)

Eithne O'Neill (Paris), ‘Was Séamus Ó Néill's autobiographical novel Tonn Tuile (1947) ahead of its time?’ (9/12/24)

Spring 2024 Seminars

Red Washburn (CUNY), 'Irish Women’s Prison Writing: Mother Ireland’s Rebels, 1960s-2010s’. (22/01/24)

Booklaunch of Liz DeYoung (Pennsylvania), Power, Politics and Territory in the ‘New Northern Ireland’: Girdwood Barracks and the Story of the Peace Process, with Marianne Elliott (Liverpool). (29/01/24)

Juliane Röleke (Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam), ‘Little Belfast in Westphalia? British close quarter battle facilities in West Germany during the Troubles’ (12/02/24)

Crawford Gribben (QUB), 'J.N. Darby and the making of Dispensationalist Theology' (20/02/24)

James Quinn (DIB), 'Irish soccer and the rhetoric of unity, 1973-93: where did it all go wrong’ (26/02/24)

Molly Quinn-Leitch (QUB) and Emer McHugh (QUB), 'Shakespeare in Ireland' (4/3/24)

Pauline Collombier (Strasbourg), 'Women and home rule: insights from fictional and non-fictional sources' (11/03/24)

Andrew Holmes (QUB), ‘The northern revival, Presbyterians, and the second series of the Ulster Journal of Archaeology, 1894-1911’ (08/04/24)

Karl O'Hanlon (Maynooth), 'Beyond Regionalism and Nationalism in Irish Poetry' (15/04/24)

Aidan Enright (Leeds Beckett), ‘A symbol of West Britonism in Ireland’: the O’Conor Don and the culture and politics of liberal Catholicism and Catholic unionism, 1860-1906 (22 /04/24)

Brian Gurrin (TCD): ‘The religious census of Ireland, 1766: Ireland’s first census’ (29/04/24)

Rachael Young (Boston College): ‘Less violent, but no less visible: criminalization and community murals in Brixton and Belfast, 1980-89’ (7/5/24)

Huw Bennett (Cardiff) 'Uncivil War: The British Army and the Troubles, 1966-75' (co-hosted with Mitchell Institute, 13/5/24)

Autumn 2023 Seminars

Anna Johnston (Queensland), ‘“Songs of an Exile”: Sentiment and Violence in Eliza Hamilton Dunlop’s Irish and Australian Elegies, 1838-63’ (18/9/23) [Anna Johnston Slides]

Michelle McGoff-McCann (Indep.), 'Death investigation during the Great Irish Famine: the role of the coroner and the inquest' (2/10/23)

Luca Crispi (UCD), 'James Joyce and Paul Leon: A friendship at work' (16/10/23)

Peter Gray (QUB), 'Charles Gavan Duffy and the land question in Ireland and colonial Victoria' (23/10/23)

Martin Doyle (Irish Times), 'Dirty Linen: the Troubles in my home place' (1/11/23)

Keith Lilley (QUB), 'Mapping encounters: exploring the spaces and places of the Ordnance Survey in Ireland' (6/11/23)

Kathryn Carter (Wilfred Laurier University), ‘Irish Diaries and Letters as Material Artefacts of Settler Colonialism in Canada, 1820-60’ (5/12/23)

Booklaunch of William Sharman Crawford by Peter Gray and Thomas Drew by Sean Farrell (11/12/23)

Spring 2023 Seminars

Prof Graham Walker and Dr James Greer (QUB), ‘Ties that bind? Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Union’ (6.2.23)

Dr Emmet O’Connor (UU), ‘Rotton Prod: The Unlikely Career of Dongaree Baird’ (6/3/23) Youtube

Dr Dieter Reinisch (University of Galway), 'Learning behind Bars: How IRA Prisoners Shaped the Peace Process in Ireland'

Dr Marilynn Richtarik (Georgia State University), 'Getting to Good Friday: Literature and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland'

Prof Bernadette Whelan (University of Limerick), 'Private and public lives of first ladies in 1920s Ireland' 

Dr Catherine Flynn (University of California, Berkeley), 'Loose Ties: The Paris Commune, Aesthetics, & Popular Revolution in Ulysses'

Dr Karina Bénazech Wendling (Sorbonne University), 'The Use of Irish Language By Protestant Missions in 19th c. Ireland: a multifaceted paradox' 

Dr Niall Carson (University of Liverpool), 'The Gates Flew Open: Peadar O’Donnell, Communism and the Irish Academy of Letters'

Autumn 2022 Seminars

Booklaunch of 'On Every Tide' by Sean Connolly, with Dr Sophie Cooper (QUB) (10/10/22)

Dr Briony Widdis (QUB),'"The finest war canoe in Europe": John Casement, displacement, and ethnographic histories in Belfast'. (17/10/22)

Prof Joe Nugent (Boston College), 'Priests, Pigs and People: How the Irish smelled Civilization' (24/10/22)

Dr Shonagh Hill (QUB), 'Feminist theatres of freedom and resistance in the Free State years' (26/10/22)

Dr Andrew Newby (University of Jyväskylä): '“It Would Lead to Sheer Anarchy”: Joseph R. Fisher, Finland and the Home Rule Question 1899-1914' (7/11/22)

Prof Cóilín Parsons (Georgetown University): ‘Is there a global Irish literature?’ (14/11/22)

Dr Roisín Higgins (Teeside University): '“You didn’t see it, but you could hear the echoes and the sounds”: sounds and silences during the Troubles' (21.11.22)

Dr Richard Fitzpatrick (QUB): ‘The Ulster Settlers Database: a new digital resource for the study of the province and its people’ (28.11.22)

Dr Jay Roszman (UCC): 'The Irish face of British politics: Irish agrarian violence, ultra-Tories, and the end of Whig government, 1835-1841’ (5.12.22)

Launch of The First Great Charity of This Town, ed. by Olwen Purdue (Irish Academic Press, 2002) (12.12.22)

Spring 2022 Seminars

Prof Fearghal McGarry (QUB) and Dr Darragh Gannon (UCD) Booklaunch of Ireland 1922 (7 Feb. 2022)

Prof Bryan Fanning (UCD), 'Roadside picnic: picking through the traces of the Dublin Eucharistic Congress of 1932' (23 Feb. 2022)

Dr Robbie Turner (St Andrews), 'The no-go areas in Northern Ireland, 1969-72' (14 Mar. 2022)

Prof Rob Savage (Boston College), ''Northern Ireland, Censorship and the BBC World Service' (4 April 2022).

Prof Eugenio Biagini (Cambridge): '1940-49: The Last Stand of the Monaghan Orangemen?' (2 May 2022)

Dr Ruth Coon (QUB): 'Providing healthcare during the Northern Ireland Troubles: realities for medical staff' (9 May 2022)

Autumn 2021 Seminars

Spring 2021 Seminars

Nicholas Allen: ‘North of Ireland: Literature, History and the Archipelago’ (1/2/21) [Youtube]
Kathryn Milligan: 'Painting Dublin, 1886-1949: Exploring Ireland's urban art history' (8/2/21) [Youtube]
Daragh Curran: 'The revival of the Orange Order in the 1840s - a smooth process?' (15/2/21) [Youtube]
Noel McLaughlin and Joanna Braniff, 'The politician and the showman: history, politics and popular music in 1960s Northern Ireland' (22/2/21) [Youtube]
Victoria Pearson, '"Breaking the penal laws": the life and work of Francis Moylan, 1735-1815' (8/3/21) [Youtube]
Feargal Cochrane, 'Brexit and Northern Ireland - into an uncertain future' (22/3/21) [Youtube]
Emilie Pine, 'Performing testimony in the memory marketplace’ (19/4/21) [Youtube]
Sean O'Connell and Leanne McCormick, 'North and South: Comparing the history and legacy of the Mother and Baby Homes' (26/4/21) [Youtube]
Ruud van den Beuken, 'Staging the Free State: New Irish drama at the Dublin Gate Theatre' (10/5/21)

Autumn 2020 Seminars

James Bruce, 'The "peculiar theories" of James Fintan Lalor' (5/10/20) [Youtube]
Liam Kennedy, 'Who was responsible for the Troubles?' (19/10/20) [youtube]
Booklaunch of Alice Johnson, Middle-Class Life in Victorian Belfast (26/10/20) [Youtube]
Pádraig McGonagle, 'Éamon de Valera and the state's revival of Irish: the DEVolution of responsibility' (2/11/20) [Youtube]
Emer Nolan, 'Women of the second wave: nationalism in Irish feminism' (9/11/20) [Youtube]
Mary O'Dowd, Who cares for the elderly? A history of old age in Ireland, 1500-1850' (16/11/20) [Youtube]
Michael Doorley, ‘Justice Daniel Cohalan, 1865-1946: The making of an Irish-American nationalist’ (7/12/20) [Youtube]

Spring 2020 Seminars