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’
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] |
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Kathryn Milligan: 'Painting Dublin, 1886-1949: Exploring Ireland's urban art history' |
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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] |
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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):
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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) | ![]()
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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) |
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Listen again to Dr Sarah Jankowitz: 'Contested victimhood and the legacy of the past in Northern Ireland’ (4 Feb. 2019) |
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Listen again to our New Books Session (Dr Tim Watt and Dr Chris Loughlin) (11 Feb. 2019) |
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Listen again to Dr Heather Laird: 'Commemoration against the grain' (18.2.19) |
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Listen again to Dr Gordon Gillespie: ‘The Journey of Reconciliation Trust: remembering the past differently’ (25 Feb. 2019) |
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Listen again to Dr Edward Burke: ‘The British Army in Northern Ireland: combat, cohesion and deviancy’ (4 March 2019) |
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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) |
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Listen again to Dr Órla McGrory: (29 April 2019) |
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Listen again to Colleen Taylor: 'Violent materials: mantles, spinning wheels and the development of 18th-Century Irish Character' (7 May 2019) |
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Listen again to Dr Peter Hession: 'Approaching a technological history of the Great Famine' (13 May 2019) |
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Listen again to Dr Massimiliano Nastri: (20 May 2019) |
Autumn 2018 Seminars