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Current Research

Mother and Baby Homes and Magdalene Laundries in Northern Ireland
Research Report 26 Jan. 2021

Co-led by Prof Sean O'Connell (History) with Ulster University

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Brian Moore at 100
Celebrating the centenary of the birth of the novelist

Co-led by Dr Alison Garden (English) with Exeter University

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Atlas of Lost Rooms
The Magdalene Laundry on Sean MacDermott St, Dublin

Co-led by Chris Hamill (Architecture)

Atlas of Lost Rooms
Constitutional Futures
Podcast Series on the Future of Northern Ireland

Led by Prof Colin Harvey (Law)

Constitutional Futures
BrexitLawNI
Legal Consequences of Brexit for NI

Led by Prof Colin Harvey (Law)

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New Romantics: Performing Ireland and Cosmopolitanism
on the Anniversary of Human Rights

Led by Dr Eva Urban (Mitchell Institute)

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Apologies, Abuses
And Dealing with the Past

Led by Prof Kieran McEvoy (Mitchell Institute)

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The Art of Reconciliation
Do funded arts projects transform conflict?

Co-led by Victoria Durrer, David Grant and Des O'Rawe (Creative Arts) with University of Liverpool

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eDIL - Electronic Dictionary
of the irish language

Led by Prof Greg Toner (Irish)

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Northern Ireland Place-Name Project
the history behind our place-names

Led by Prof Mícheál Ó Mainnín (Irish)

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QUOTE
Queen’s University Oral History, Technology & Ethics

Led by Prof. Sean O'Connell

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Representation of the People
Franchise Extension and The ‘Sinn Féin Election’, 1918

led by Alan de Bromhead and Alan Fernihough

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Commemorating Partition and Civil Wars in Ireland 2020-23
The Decade of Centenaries

Led by Dr Marie Coleman (History)

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What can prison inmates tell us
about 19th Century Ireland?

Co-led by Dr Chris Colvin (Economics)

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From Dark Tourism to Phoenix Tourism
The Ethics of Cultural Translation in Urban Festivals

Led by Prof Margaret Topping (Languages) and Dr Michael Pierse (English)

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Living Legacies 1914-18
From Past Conflict to Shared Future

Led by Prof Keith Lilley (Geography)

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Contested commemoration in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland's 2016

Led by Dr Marie Coleman (History)

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Scientific Metropolis
Belfast in an Age of Science c. 1820-1914

Led by Dr Diarmid Finnegan (Geography)

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Digital Prototypes
GIS-based projects using IHTA material

Led by Prof Keith Lilley (Geography)

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Bad Bridget: Criminal and Deviant Irish Women
In North America, 1838-1918

Co-led by Dr Elaine Farrell (History)

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A Global History of Irish Revolution
1916-23 in International Context

Led by Prof Fearghal McGarry (History)

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The Irish Song Project
Types and Histories

Led by Prof Moyra Haslett (English)

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Prisons Memory Archive
Filmed memories of NI prisons

Led by Prof Cahal McLoughlin (Film Studies)

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Welfare and public health in Belfast and the its region
c. 1800-1973

Led by Prof Peter Gray and Dr Olwen Purdue (History)

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Flags - Towards a New Understanding
2016 Report

Led by Dr Dominic Bryan (Anthropology)

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emap
Early Medieval Archaeology Project

Co-led by Dr Finbar McCormick (Archaeology)

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Cultural Policy Ireland Network
an all island research network

Co-led by Dr Victoria Durrer (Creative Arts)

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PERFORMING AND MEDIA ARTS IN THE POST-CONFLICT CITY
Cities of Memory

Led by Dr Des O'Rawe and Dr Mark Phelan (Creative Arts)

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Student Research Projects

Niamh M. Dolan (MA Irish Studies, 2018): 'Remembering Anthony Daly - A Captain of the Galway Ribbonmen in 1820'.

A film based on research for the MA dissertation.

 

Past Research Projects
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