QUB Projects relating to Ireland currently underway or recently completed
Queer Northern Ireland
Sexuality Before Liberation
Co-led by Dr Tom Hulme and Dr Leanne McCormick (UU). Research Fellow Dr Maurice Casey (QUB). AHRC funded 2022-5,.
Project website
R.J. Hunter Digital Fellowship
Settlers in the Ulster Plantation (1609-1700)
PIs Prof Mary O'Dowd (RIA) and Prof Peter Gray (QUB), Research Fellow Dr Richard Fitzpatrick (QUB). Funded by the Royal Irish Academy (2022-3).
Ulster Settlers Database
OS200
Re-Mapping Ireland's Ordnance Survey Heritage
Led by Prof Keith Lilley (QUB) in collaboration with University of Limerick. Funded by IRC and AHRC (2021-4).
Project website
Acts of Union
Mixed Marriage in Modern Ireland
Led by Dr Alison Garden. Research Fellow: Dr Ruth Coon. Funded by UKRI (2020-4).
Project webpage
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
Website
Brian Moore at 100
Celebrating the centenary of the birth of the novelist
Co-led by Dr Alison Garden (English) with Exeter University
Blog
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
New Romantics: Performing Ireland and Cosmopolitanism
on the Anniversary of Human Rights
Led by Dr Eva Urban (Mitchell Institute)
Website
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
Website (UKRI)
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)
Website
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)
Website
Contested commemoration in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland's 2016
Led by Dr Marie Coleman (History)
Website
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)
Website
Bad Bridget: Criminal and Deviant Irish Women
In North America, 1838-1918
Co-led by Dr Elaine Farrell (History)
Website
A Global History of Irish Revolution
1916-23 in International Context
Led by Prof Fearghal McGarry (History)
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Prisons Memory Archive
Filmed memories of NI prisons
Led by Prof Cahal McLoughlin (Film Studies)
Website
Welfare and public health in Belfast and the its region
c. 1800-1973
Led by Prof Peter Gray and Dr Olwen Purdue (History)
Website
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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