Institute of Irish studies celebrating 60 years

2025 marks sixty years since Professor Emyr Estyn Evans established the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen’s, to promote and co-ordinate research in ‘those fields of study which have a particular Irish interest'. Six decades on we continue to stimulate scholarly conversations around Ireland’s culture, history, society and politics, and its connections to the wider world. We invite you to join us in celebrating this milestone with an end of terms drinks reception on Monday 8 December 2025, in the Irish Studies seminar room, 27 University Square 01/003. The reception will start at 5.45, following a research seminar by visiting researcher Dr Jessica Martell (Appalachian State Univ.) on 'Beyond plantation mentalities in Irish literature, film, and culture' (starting at 4.30). Everyone is welcome to either or both events.

Jessica Martell (Appalachian State Univ.): Beyond plantation mentalities in Irish literature, film, and culture

Dr Jessica Martell is associate professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Appalachian State University in North Carolina. She is the author of Farm to Form: Modernist Literature and Ecologies of Food in the British Empire (2020) and the co-editor of Modernism and Food Studies: Politics, Aesthetics, and the Avant Garde (2019). In 2025-6, she is a Visiting Fellow at the QUB School of HAPP, and the Fulbright-QUB Scholar in Irish Studies.

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