We welcome all PhD students working on Irish Studies-related topics in the university to become Postgraduate Research Associates of the Institute of Irish Studies. Please contact us at irish.studies@qub.ac.uk if you'd like to be added to the list.
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Law |
Ex-prisoners and community -based restorative justice: a comparative analysis of Northern Ireland and North America |
aalbert01@qub.ac.uk |
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Education |
The potential of transformative learning in study abroad programmes: factors and conditions that promote or constrain transformative learning |
aalblooshi01@qub.ac.uk |
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English |
Things in Northern Irish poetry: from Mahon to Morrissey |
janderson35@qub.ac.uk |
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Politics |
Do lower preference transfers in STV elections assist moderate political parties in deeply divided societies? Evidence from local, Assembly and European elections in Northern Ireland since 1973 |
jarmstrong47@qub.ac.uk |
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Politics |
Identifying diversity in Irish nationalism: a study of Irish identity in the Gaelic Athletic Association |
jarthur08@qub.ac.uk |
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History |
Irish-America and the Northern Irish Civil Rights Movement 1966-1969 |
mbaird09@qub.ac.uk |
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Geography |
Co-designing a shared future: how can children be a part of reimagining Belfast’s interfaces? |
rblack17@qub.ac.uk |
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Architecture |
Exploring the City Through Film Locations and Cinematic Representations: A Comparative Study of Belfast and Dublin | ebora01@qub.ac.uk | ||
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Politics |
Young people and PEACE: the EU PEACE Programmes and young people's experiences of conflict transformation in Northern Ireland and the Border Region |
obrabazon01@qub.ac.uk |
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Politics / IR |
Political attitudes of the Good Friday Agreement generation in Northern Ireland |
mbrennan36@qub.ac.uk |
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History |
Building a dynasty: Ballymena to Baltimore: Alexander Brown and the internationalisation of the Irish Presbyterian network, 1760 – 1840; an economic, social and political analysis |
Sbrown583@qub.ac.uk |
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English/ Creative Writing |
Familiar landscapes disappear: how ecofeminist subversion of apocalyptic fiction creates new narratives of hope. My novel is set in Ireland and N. Ireland four decades from now, after environmental catastrophe has radically transformed the landscape. |
ebyrne17@qub.ac.uk |
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History |
Old age, poverty and welfare in Ulster, 1850-1921 |
aclyde03@qub.ac.uk |
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History |
French Fashions: Huguenots of Ulster in the Eighteenth Century |
rsauman01@qub.ac.uk |
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Music |
John O'Keeffe and William Shield: a collaboration in eighteenth-century comic opera. |
cconway22@qub.ac.uk | ||
| Kathryn Cribbin |
Politics |
Evaluating the effectiveness of co-operation between the Irish and the Northern Irish police against cross-border paramilitary threats, 1956 to 2021 |
kcribbin01@qub.ac.uk |
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| Lucy Cullen |
English |
Modernity and Identity in Contemporary Irish Fiction |
lcullen17@qub.ac.uk |
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| Stephen de Burca |
English |
Atlantic Breadth: Coastal life and marine imagination in Irish poetry since 1960 | ||
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History |
‘Let the girl go home’: gender and political imprisonment in Britain and Ireland, 1939-1945 |
sdeedigan01@qub.ac.uk |
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English |
A critical-creative examination of the significance of gender and class in Northern Irish crime fiction | sdempsey05@qub.ac.uk | ||
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Economics |
Three essays on disability and work among over 50s in Northern Ireland and England |
anne.devlin1@hotmail.co.uk |
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History |
Sibling relationships in nineteenth-century Ulster |
sdevlin27@qub.ac.uk |
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History |
The roots of radicalism: Networks, organisation and the Irish Revolution, 1913-1919 |
edewhirst01@qub.ac.uk |
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Anthropology |
Photography ethics in post-conflict Belfast |
sdodd02@qub.ac.uk |
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Economics |
A reversal of fortunes: a study of poverty in 19th-century Ireland |
adoran13@qub.ac.uk |
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History |
The partition of Ireland in the transnational perspective of the Commonwealth |
segan02@qub.ac.uk |
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Architecture |
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kelliott13@qub.ac.uk |
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Archaeology |
Investigating the timing and causes of Nitrogen Cycle changes in Bronze Age Ireland |
sferrandin01@qub.ac.uk |
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Archaeology |
Feeding Medieval Carrickfergus – A multi-proxy study of livestock husbandry in a frontier town |
jfindlater01@qub.ac.uk |
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English |
Irish innovations: proto-modernism in neglected Irish writing c.1880-1920 |
mflowers01@qub.ac.uk |
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Film Studies |
Where are the unionists? An investigation into the representation of Northern Irish unionism and loyalism in fiction film. |
rgallagher31@qub.ac.uk |
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History |
Women of the Irish Citizen Army: an assessment of their role and recognition during and after the revolutionary period |
sgarland01@qub.ac.uk |
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Anthropology |
'Commemorating the Troubles' - Remembrance in contested rural spaces |
mgault09@qub.ac.uk |
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Ethnomusicology |
Cultural intimacy and Irish country music | hgibson08@qub.ac.uk | ||
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History |
Queer Belfast: the social and cultural practices of gay men, c. 1967-2005 |
ngilmore03@qub.ac.uk |
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Architecture |
Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries |
chamill625@qub.ac.uk |
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Geography |
Rural 'belonging' and family farm men across their life-course in Northern Ireland: challenges for 'remaining-in and leaving' family farming |
lhollowaymccarney01@qub.ac.uk |
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Politics / IR |
Queer Matters: the impact of Brexit on the Irish border |
phughes38@qub.ac.uk |
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Politics |
Collaborative governance for waste crime enforcement as a catalyst for environmental peacebuilding in Northern Ireland: a nexus approach to environment, peace and security |
jhwang02@qub.ac.uk |
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Politics |
Football and identity in deeply divided societies |
njagoe01@qub.ac.uk |
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History |
Women's employment, equal pay and anti-discrimination legislation from 1969 to 1993: A comparative study of the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Great Britain. |
sjobling01@qub.ac.uk |
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Irish |
The Irish dialect of South Leinster: evidence found in placenames and in 18th and 19th century written sources. |
ajowett01@qub.ac.uk |
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Film Studies |
The 'piercing breach of a border': Irish cinema as a mediator of modern trauma. |
ekelly54@qub.ac.uk |
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English |
Censorship in the poetry of Northern Ireland, Romania, and Poland |
skelly727@qub.ac.uk |
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Music |
Scribal practice of selected repertory in the Edward Bunting manuscript collection |
elavelle01@qub.ac.uk |
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Politics |
European integration and British-Irish intergovernmentalism: inextricably intertwined? |
dlitter01@qub.ac.uk |
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Fiona Lowe |
Management |
Institutional change in cultural organisations across Northern Ireland in response to COVID-19 |
flowe01@qub.ac.uk |
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Anthropology |
Examining place-making and belonging through the movements of Muslim women in and around Belfast. |
alubit01@qub.ac.uk |
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History |
Commemoration and social memory in Northern Ireland: using heritage to remember the Easter Rising and the Battle of the Somme. |
dmacbride01@qub.ac.uk |
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Anthropology |
Youth conflict-related trauma through generations: an ethnography on the relationship between health and society in post-conflict Northern Ireland |
cmagliacane01@qub.ac.uk |
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Anthropology |
An ethnography of researchers during the COVID-19 pandemic |
lmarshall07@qub.ac.uk |
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Cynthia Mathews |
English |
Language variation across the generations in spoken Irish English, using historical audio recordings and newly collected interviews |
cmathews03@qub.ac.uk |
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English |
Virginia Woolf and dance |
rmayne04@qub.ac.uk |
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Anthropology |
The long-term impact of growing up with the Troubles. |
amazzetti01@qub.ac.uk |
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English |
Gendered and classed: an intersectional approach to the drama and fiction of the Troubles |
cmcallister42@qub.ac.uk |
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Law |
The Role of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 1852 to 1922, with particular emphasis on the judicial role of the office |
rmcbride22@qub.ac.uk | |
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English |
Creating a lesbian history through historical fiction: challenges, ethics and freedoms |
hmccollum03@qub.ac.uk |
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Urban Planning |
The right to Belfast: power, politics and public participation of retail-led regeneration in Belfast city centre |
tmcconaghie02@qub.ac.uk |
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Sociology |
Parental alienation - an exploratory study of legal professionals’ views and experiences in Northern Ireland |
mmccormack12@qub.ac.uk |
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Politics |
Nationalism and Separatism in Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales | bmckee18@qub.ac.uk | |
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History |
Clothing the poor in Ulster, c. 1850-1914 |
emckee10@qub.ac.uk |
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Irish |
The Irish language and the mark of the beast |
gmclaughlin14@qub.ac.uk |
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Law |
Land ownership and nature conservation: reconceptualising property rights to further environmental governance in Northern Ireland |
bmcneill02@qub.ac.uk |
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Archaeology |
The place of the late medieval church in Ulster |
fmoffet01@qub.ac.uk |
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Politics |
Martyr or mother: Irish republicanism versus Irish motherhood in Northern Ireland prison protests, 1975-1981 |
mmohrenweiser01@qub.ac.uk |
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Politics |
For men and Ulster: Post-Agreement loyalism, patriarchy and identity |
jmooney04@qub.ac.uk |
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Drama |
How theatre in Northern Ireland presents and engages with many issues that are central to transitional justice aims and practices |
emoore23@qub.ac.uk |
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Archaeology |
Mapping the physical and religious influences behind cillíní distribution on the island of Ireland: counties Antrim, Fermanagh, Tyrone, Mayo, Limerick, and Meath as case studies |
cmundt01@qub.ac.uk |
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Education |
Education and transitional justice in Northern Ireland (the effects of the 'Troubles' on education, and how issues such as shared education can address divided societies will feature heavily) |
rmurtagh05@qub.ac.uk |
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Politics |
The British and the Irish Question: Historical perceptions and the current crisis |
fneilson01@qub.ac.uk |
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History |
Women in the dock: female criminality and Ulster society 1880s-1930s | rnewell05@qub.ac.uk | |
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History |
“Making Ulster the Tourists’ Mecca”: Leisure, Identity and Modernity in the North of Ireland, c.1900-1970 | jnugent13@qub.ac.uk | |
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History |
A study of post-traumatic stress disorder in post-revolutionary Ireland. |
dodoherty03@qub.ac.uk |
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Irish |
Mid-Ulster placenames: an analysis of the names of townlands in selected parishes in the baronies of Loughinsholin, Co. Derry, and Dungannon Upper, Co. Tyrone |
bdevlin14@qub.ac.uk |
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Management |
From conflict to competitive advantage in sub-national contexts: Comparing business leaders as institutional entrepreneurs in Northern Ireland and the Geneva region of Switzerland. |
gomalley02@qub.ac.uk |
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Sociology |
Ordinary women’s experiences of conflict and conflict transformation: comparing the cases of urban and rural communities in Northern Ireland |
yomori01@qub.ac.uk |
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Translation |
Content and language integrated learning for languages other than English: a pilot project in the Northern Ireland policy context |
soneill932@qub.ac.uk |
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English |
Northern Irish poetry and the news |
jcostellooreilly01@qub.ac.uk |
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Politics / Conflict Studies |
States and “Pro-Government” Militias (PGMs): Delegation, deniability, acquiescence or antagonism? Explaining variation in state-PGM relationships in Northern Ireland, the Philippines, and Colombia. |
dpankhurst01@qub.ac.uk |
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Anthropology |
Dancing to the Same Beats?: Gender, Activism and COVID-19 in Electronic Music Scenes in Belfast and Dublin |
cpower14@qub.ac.uk |
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English / Creative Writing |
Storytellers in fallen worlds: the metaphysical longings of crime fiction detectives |
aquinn76@qub.ac.uk |
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English |
Researching the use of horror in Troubles literature, film, and theater |
areid44@qub.ac.uk |
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Archaeology |
Society and the Dead: Geospatial and Statistical Analysis of Complex Cemeteries in Early Medieval Ireland |
crichardson09@qub.ac.uk |
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Law |
An oral history of the transgender movement in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland: rights, recognition and the law |
privers02@qub.ac.uk |
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Politics |
The role of interest groups in policymaking in Northern Ireland with particular attention to the European context |
nrobb03@qub.ac.uk |
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Sociology |
Brexit at the border: applying the lens of biopolitics |
brosher01@qub.ac.uk |
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Michael Sharry |
Politics |
How will citizenship develop on the island of Ireland in the wake of Brexit and the NI Protocol? |
msharry01@qub.ac.uk |
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English/ Creative Writing |
Inner voice, ‘The sound that will never stop’ (sound and language intersections in my own creative practice and in the work of Irish author Eimear McBride) |
lsheary01@qub.ac.uk |
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History |
The internationalism of Muintir na Tire History Now (NVTV) |
bsheppard02@qub.ac.uk |
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History |
St Patrick's Purgatory: its function and significance in late Medieval Irish society |
tshields05@qub.ac.uk | |
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Law |
Remembering what they can never forget: exploring memorialisation of historical institutional abuse from the perspective of victim-survivors, the public and the state, with a particular focus upon the Magdalene laundries and mother and baby homes in Ireland |
pshilliday01@qub.ac.uk |
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History |
Landscape, economy, and agriculture in Medieval Ireland; management and decision making on the manors of Roger Bigod |
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Architecture |
The cultural heritage of everyday streets |
anna.scoura@gmail.com |
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Translation |
Media coverage of political violence: Othering during the Troubles in Northern Ireland |
hsmith09@qub.ac.uk | |
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History |
The pauper children of Belfast’s poorhouse, 1800-1851 |
lsmyth62@qub.ac.uk | |
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Anthropology |
Tracking online political sociality in Northern Ireland: social media engagement in a context of persistent antagonism and increasing diversity |
asoares03@qub.ac.uk |
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Sociology |
An investigation into the experiences of parents and young people in Northern Ireland with regards to freedom of expression |
esymington03@qub.ac.uk |
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History |
International responses to the Northern Irish hunger strikes of 1980/81 |
rthomas08@qub.ac.uk |
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History |
Cumann na mBan's Military Pensions and Service Medals Campaign: A Fight for Equality, 1924-1958 |
straxler01@qub.ac.uk |
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English |
Sri Lankan experiences of migration to the West in literature (incl. Northern Ireland and Ireland) |
eveerasingam01@qub.ac.uk |
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Law |
'One State, Two Systems: A legal framework for Northern Ireland's post-Brexit trade regime' |
dwilkinson13@qub.ac.uk |
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Politics |
Were the intelligence and military activities in the conflicts in Northern Ireland and Colombia ethical, and did those activities have an impact on the peace processes? |
ewilliams08@qub.ac.uk |
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History |
Gardens and landscapes of nineteenth-century Ireland |
pwilson40@qub.ac.uk |
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History |
The photographer and the city: the work of A.R. Hogg in recording social conditions in early twentieth-century Belfast. |
lwray04@qub.ac.uk |
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Translation |
Translating Philadelphia, Here I Come! for Chinese performance - study mainly focuses on Brian Friel and translating his plays into Chinese |
syang13@qub.ac.u |
To be added to this list, please email us with your details at irish.studies@qub.ac.uk