Spring 2026 Seminars

Nicholas Allen (Georgia), Late Heaney (2.3.26)

Patrick Gleeson (QUB), 'Landscapes of kingship: governance, rule and territory in early medieval Ireland' (23.2.26)

Robin Usher (QUB): Sir Arthur Chichester and Dublin's official architecture, c.1605-15 (16.2.26)

Niall Whelehan (Strathclyde), Radicalism, colonialism and the life of an Irish doctor in Argentina at the fine de siecle (9.2.26)

Ciara McAllister (Galway), A class apart: Representing the ‘Troubles’ and the working class (2.2.26)

Connal Parr (Northumbria), No Borders? The Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement and its legacies (26.1.26)

Veronique Altglas, Gladys Ganiel and Tristan Sturm (QUB), Booklaunch of Judaizing Christianity and Christian Zionism in Northern Ireland: For God, Israel, and Ulster (Routledge, 2025), 19.1.26

Autumn 2025 Seminars

Patrick Walsh (TCD), 'A colonial sinew of power? Rethinking the 18th-century Irish state' (15/12/25)

Jessica Martell (Appalachian State University), 'Beyond plantation mentalities in Irish literature, film, and culture' (8/12/25)

Emma Radley (UCD) and Daithí Kearney (DkIT), Irish Studies: Beyond the Text (1/12/25)

Catriona Kennedy (York), 'Women, politics, and the Irish public sphere in the age of revolution' (24/11/25)

Luca Bertolani Azeredo (Naples), 'The Enniskillen Horse: illegality, legitimacy and the birth of Irish paramilitarism' (17/11/25)

Hiram Morgan (UCC), 'Anatomies of death': forced famine in the Tudor conquest of Ireland (10/11/25)

Elena Bergia (QUB), 'In two stirrups: Identities in motion between Northern Ireland and Casalattico (Italy)' (3/11/25)

Ian d'Alton (Indep.), '1932: Seeing the same world differently: Irish Catholics and Protestants a decade after independence' (20/10/25)

Shinjini Chattopadhyay (UNC),  'Critical cosmopolitanism and Irish identity in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake' (13/10/25)

Alexandra Maclennan (Caen), Cardinal Owen McCann (1907-94): die Roomse gevaar in apartheid South Africa (6/10/25)

Noelle Moran and Caitlin O'Neill (UCD Press), Irish Studies publication workshop (29/09/2025)

Dominic Bryan (QUB), 'Authenticity, history and everyday nationalism: comparing Irish pubs to McDonald’s restaurants' (22/09/2025)