Previous Seminars

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


*Booklaunch of Crawford Gribben, The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland, 4 Oct. 2021 (Youtube)*
*Katrina Goldstone, 'Loyal and cosmopolitan Irishmen? Leslie Daiken and Michael Sayers, Irish Jewish writers negotiating identity and politics in the 1930s & 1940s'.* 11 Oct. 2021 (Youtube)**
*Dr Gail McConnell (QUB), ‘A grammar in which everything is significant’ (Ciaran Carson): Poems and reflections from The Sun is Open* (18 Oct. 2021) (Youtube)**
*Dr Clíona Ó Gallchoir (UCC) ‘Harry Ormond, of no town’: The local, the transnational and the imperial in Maria Edgeworth’s Ireland* (25 Oct. 2021)**
*Dr Shahmima Akhtar (RHUL), "Ireland on the Midway": the Chicago World's Fair, 1893* (1 Nov. 2021) (youtube)**
*Dr Sophie Cooper (QUB), ‘in harmony with the people of the parish’: Working towards a multigenerational Irish community in nineteenth-century Melbourne and Chicago* (8 Nov. 2021) (youtube)**
*Dr Amy Prendergast (QUB), 'Inhabiting and creating the diurnal environment: Place and identity in women's diaries from Ireland in the long eighteenth century'* (15 Nov. 2021) (youtube)**
*Dr Siobhra Aiken (QUB), 'Uncovering an alternative archive of testimony from the Irish Civil War (1922–23)' (22 Nov. 2021, Youtube)*
*Prof. Frank Shovlin (Liverpool): The Letters of John McGahern* (29 Nov. 2021).**
*Dr Gordon Gilleslpie (QUB): Flags of our fathers? An inner East Belfast flag survey, 2001-21* (6/12/21)**
*Prof Colin Harvey (QUB): The constitutional change conversation in Ireland: where now?* (13/12/21)**

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

Listen again to Dr Laurence Cooley (Birmingham/QUB): ‘No status – no census!’ The causes and consequences of the 1971 and 1981 Northern Ireland census boycotts (27 Jan. 2020): Cooley 27.1.20 (MP3 file)
Listen again to Dr Breandán Mac Suibhne: '"Of men long dead and trivial little stories"; or, making a history of the homeplace: problems and possibilities in the social and cultural history of mid-nineteenth century Ireland' (3 Feb. 2020) MacSuibhne 3.2.20 (MP3 File)
Listen again to Prof Wang Zhenpeng (Beijing Foreign Studies University) speak on 'Brexit, evolving Irish identity, and Irish Studies in China' (10 Feb. 2020): Wang 10.2.20 (MP3 file)

Autumn 2019 Seminars

Listen again to booklaunch of Civic Identity and Public Space in Belfast (23 Sept 2019)
Listen again to Dr Peter McLoughlin, 'War of words: American media and the NI conflict (30 Sept. 2019) McLoughlin 30.9.19 (MP3 file)
Listen again to Prof Colin Harvey, 'Sharing the Land: Brexit and Constitutional Futures' (14 Oct. 2019) Colin Harvey 14.10.19 (MP3 file)
Listen again to Prof Brian Walker, 'Who are the Irish: Identity in Ireland and the Irish Diaspora' (7 Oct. 19) Brian Walker 7.10.19 (MP3 file)
Listen again to Richard O'Leary, 'The faithful underground: Gay Christian activism in Ireland in the 1970s and 1980s' (21 Oct. 2019) O'Leary1 21.10.19 (MP3 file)
Listen again to Sara Dybris McQuaid, 'Remembering the 1916 Easter Rising and the end of empire: transnational templates of Irish and Indian freedom struggles’ (28 Oct. 2019) Sara McQuaid 28.10.19 (MP3 file)
Listen again to Mary Hatfield, 'Growing up in nineteenth-century Ireland' (11 Nov. 2019) Mary Hatfield 11.11.19 (MP3 file)
*Listen again to Caroline Magennis, 'Moving through Milkman: The body in motion in some recent Northern Irish texts. (18 Nov. 2019)*

Spring 2019 Seminars

Listen Again to Dr Marie Coleman:

‘Gender and compensation after the Irish Revolution’

(28 Jan. 2019)

Listen again to Dr Sarah Jankowitz:

'Contested victimhood and the legacy of the past in Northern Ireland’

(4 Feb. 2019)

Listen again to our New Books Session (Dr Tim Watt and Dr Chris Loughlin)

(11 Feb. 2019)

Listen again to Dr Heather Laird:

'Commemoration against the grain'

(18.2.19)

Listen again to Dr Gordon Gillespie:

‘The Journey of Reconciliation Trust: remembering the past differently’

(25 Feb. 2019)

Listen again to Dr Edward Burke:

‘The British Army in Northern Ireland: combat, cohesion and deviancy’

(4 March 2019)

Listen again to Dr Alan de Bromhead and Dr Alan Fernihough:

‘Representation of the people: franchise extension and the 1918 “Sinn Féin Election” in Ireland’

(11 March 2019)

Listen again to Dr Órla McGrory:

‘From the Free State to the continent: Irish language legal terminology and (mis)translation, 1922-2022’

(29 April 2019)

Listen again to Colleen Taylor:

'Violent materials: mantles, spinning wheels and the development of 18th-Century Irish Character'

(7 May 2019)

Listen again to Dr Peter Hession:

'Approaching a technological history of the Great Famine'

(13 May 2019)

Listen again to Dr Massimiliano Nastri:

‘Do we need to talk about Fascism in the Free State? Cumann na nGaedheal's Crises and Solutions, 1930 – 1932’

(20 May 2019)

Autumn 2018 Seminars

Listen again to Dr Emma Reisz,

'Robert Hart from ‘the banks of the Lagan’ to ‘the world’s work’: Ulster, Ireland and British imperialism in China'

(15 Oct. 2018)

Listen again to Dr Eddie Molloy:

'Religious dimensions in the political thought of John Mitchel'

(22 Oct. 2018)

Listen again to Prof. Anna Teekell:

‘Alternative facts / alternative fictions: The Emergency and the language of modernism’

(29 Oct. 2018)

Listen again to Dr Rena Maguire:

'Unlocking the stable door: using equestrianism to enhance our understanding of the Late Iron Age in Ireland’

(5 Nov. 2018)

Listen again to Dr Hugh Turpin:

'Unholy Catholic Ireland: morality and the rejection of Catholicism in the contemporary Republic’

Powerpoint slides Turpin slides

(12 Nov. 2018)

Listen again to Dr Darragh Gannon:

'The Republic of Letters: Ireland and the World, 1919-23'

Powerpoint slides: Gannon slides
(19 Nov. 2018)

Listen again to Dr Peter Gardner:

‘Ulster-Scots as catharsis: regaining senses of collective dignity through ethnic narrative’

(26 Nov. 2018)

Listen again to Stephen O'Neill:

‘“A question of formulas”: locating Irish culture after partition’
(3 December 2018)

Listen again to Andrew Newby:

'“Death had lost its meaning”: remembering the Great Finnish Famine (1867-68)’
(10 Dec. 2018)

Powerpoint slides: Newby Powerpoint

Spring 2018 Seminars

Listen again to Liam Kennedy on ‘Before childhood, after death: Irish mothers reflect on the fate of unbaptized infants’ (22 Jan. 2018)
Listen again to Chris Colvin (QUB), Matthias Blum (QUB) and Eoin McLaughlin (St Andrews), on ‘Ireland’s chosen many: scarring and selection in the Great Irish Famine’ (29 January 2018)
Listen again to Paddy Gleeson (QUB): ‘Ruling early medieval kingdoms: landscape and governance in the Irish Sea region’ (5 Feb. 2018)
Listen again to Muiris Mac Carthaigh (QUB) on 'From Free State to Crisis State: The Evolution of the Irish Administration, 1922-2015' (12 Feb. 2018)
Listen again to Bridget Brownlow (St Mary's University, NS) on ‘Peace education in a post-conflict society - from Nova Scotia to Northern Ireland’ (19 Feb. 2018)
Listen again to David Bell (QUB) on ‘Bronze Age blades and the Battle of Ballynahinch: unexpected connections' (20 March 2018)
Listen again to Conor Lucey (UCD) on 'Personality crisis? Public architecture in eighteenth-century Ireland' (30 April 2018)
Listen again to the QUB Launch of the Cambridge History of Ireland (14 May 2018)
Listen again to Kathryn McNeilly (QUB) and Mairead Enright (Birmingham) on 'Abortion law reform in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland' (8 May 2018)

Autumn 2017 Seminars

Listen to Justin Dolan Stover on 'Towards an environmental history of the Irish Revolution' (2 Oct. 2017)
Listen to Ken Dawson on '“At the head of the conspirators”: Samuel Neilson and radical Belfast in the 1790s’ (9 Oct. 2017)
Listen to Marguerite Corporaal on 'Redefining regionalism: Irish local colour fiction through a transnational lens’ (23 Oct. 2017)
Listen to Alice Johnson on ‘The Workman family of 19th-century Belfast: A study of a middle-class elite’ (30 Oct. 2017)
Listen to Daniel Roberts on ‘Patriotism and empire in early Irish fiction, 1690-1775’ (6 Nov. 2017)
Listen to Rob Savage on ‘Broadcasting bias? Sedition, censorship and television in 20^th-century Ireland’ (13 Nov. 2017)
Listen to Margaret Ward on 'Hannah Sheehy Skeffington – suffragist and Sinn Féiner’ (20 Nov. 2017)
Listen to Connal Parr on ‘Mythmaking, education, and alternative Ulster Protestant culture(s)’ (27 Nov. 2017)
Listen to Peter Gray on 'Representations of Irish famine and rebellion in the British satirical press, 1845-49’ (4 Dec. 2017)
Listen to Jon Evershed on ‘All changed, changed utterly? Reflections on commemoration and politics in 2016' (11 Dec. 2017)

Spring 2017 Seminars


Listen to Sarah and Triona O'Hanlon on ‘Dublin publications and stage representations: a survey of Moore’s Irish Melodies and Lalla Rookh' Listen to David Heffernan on 'The early history of the Ulster Plantation, c.1609-1641: Some problems and opportunities' Listen to Finbar McCormick on 'From Meeting House to Chapel: The evolution of Presbyterian and Catholic churches’ Listen to Brice Dickson on ‘Ireland’s Supreme Court: an assessment of its achievements' Listen to Sean Connolly on 'Do we need to think again about the Irish diaspora?' Listen to Peter McLoughlin and Alison Meagher on ‘Before “Hope and History”: Irish-America, and the Political Foundations for Clinton’s Peace Initiative in Northern Ireland' Listen to James Greer and Graham Walker on ‘Christian Socialism in Belfast and Lanarkshire: the 1924 general election’ Listen to Lucy McDiarmid on 'The dreamer on the train in contemporary Irish poetry' [pdf Lucy McDiarmid handout] Listen to Marilynn Richtarik on *'Forging a usable past: Brian Friel's Making History'* Listen to Aglaia de Angeli on 'A republic for Ireland and China: a new beginning, 1911-22' Listen to Cahal McLaughlin on ‘The Prisons Memory Archive: ethics and aesthetics – a case study in addressing the legacy of the past’ See Prison Memory Archive website

Autumn 2016 Seminars

Listen to Dominic Bryan on ‘Flags, parades and carnivals: approaches to public space in Belfast'. See Powerpoint slides
Listen to Peter Gray on 'William Sharman Crawford and the dynamics of Ulster radicalism, 1830s-50s'. See Powerpoint slides.
Listen to Erin Hinson on 'Compounding identities: the production of artefacts within the UVF/RHC prison experience'
Listen to Liam Kennedy on 'Writing Irish history in the shadow of the "Troubles"' .
Listen to Mark Phelan on 'The politics and performance of commemoration in Ireland’
Listen to Conor Caldwell speak (and fiddle!) on 'Beyond the Irish Song Project: Sounding out research in musicology'‌. The Irish Song website is at: http://irishsongproject.qub.ac.uk/
Listen to Richard English on ‘Does terrorism work? The case of the Northern Ireland Troubles’.
Listen to Andrew Holmes on 'Union, Presbyterians and Ulster Scots'.
Listen to Elena Bergia on 'The trouble with women: gender and conflict in nationalist West Belfast’
Download the Seminar Poster Autumn 2016