Previous 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)

'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

‘Peace education in a post-conflict society - from Nova Scotia to Northern Ireland’ (19 Feb. 2018)

• 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

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 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/