SOFEIR

Dear all,
I'm excited to share the CFP for the annual SOFEIR conference which I'm organising on 26-27 March 2026 in Strasbourg. The theme is "Irish Exceptionalism". You'll find the CFP here:

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@aedei.bsky.social
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La révolution irlandaise au prisme de la presse française BnF - Site institutionnel

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Unique, inspiring and making a real contribution to the understanding of Ireland’s past, present and future. Find out why @irishinstitute.bsky.social is one of the @liverpooluni.bsky.social most exciting departments (and what you could study there) bit.ly/42BnuT3 #AcademicSky

5 years after Brexit, has united Ireland push lost its momentum? Brexit forced the border question back onto the agenda, but the sense of crisis that once drove these conversations has started to dissipate

5 years after Brexit, has the push for a united Ireland lost its momentum as the sense of crisis that once drove these conversations has started to dissipate? By Catriona Shelly & @orlamuldoon.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social @researchireland.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

We were lucky to have Jan Carson on the first Irish Itinerary of 2025! She did some excellent events in Saarbrücken, Wuppertal, Stuttgart and Tübingen.

Many thanks to all the local organisers of this German Itinerary and to Culture Ireland for their support.

I'm developing a creative anthology related to my research. Please share this Call for Submissions widely with anyone you think might be interested!

Something mythic this way comes ...

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Postgraduate essay 2025 POSTGRADUATE ESSAY PRIZE The Editors of the interdisciplinary Australasian Journal of Irish Studies (AJIS) and the Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand are pleased to announc…

The 2025 ISAANZ Irish Studies Postgraduate Essay Prize competition is now open for entries. Entry open to anyone enrolled in an MA orPhD programme between June 2024 and June 2025 at any institution. Prizes include publication and AUD$300. Due Date 31 March 2025

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For Marianne Faithfull, Ireland was where one of the most misunderstood women in music could make sense of her life Ireland also gave the singer a first hit for nearly a decade, after ‘a deejay by the name of Patrick Kenny started to play it’

For Marianne Faithfull, Ireland was where one of the most misunderstood women in music could make sense of her life

Ireland also gave the singer a first hit for nearly a decade, after ‘a deejay by the name of Patrick Kenny started to play it’

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Dr Mary McAuliffe: The details of Ann Lovett's tragic death are still harrowing 40 years on The historian looks back at the loss of the teenager who died after giving birth in a grotto in Granard, 40 years ago today.

Thinking of Ann Lovett today, ##otd 1984, 15yrs old & pregnant, she went to the grotto in Granard where she gave birth to a still born baby boy, she was found sometime later but died shortly after of hypothermia & blood loss. Her story shocked the country #speirgorm www.thejournal.ie/readme/ann-l...

We are delighted to welcome Dev Murray as the new Assistant Editor of Film Ireland!

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Flyer for research seminar containing an image of a large, middle-class Irish family and event details. Feb 5 2025, 4 pm, Room GO10 Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway. Get in touch for zoom registration details.

Book cover of Shannon Devlin, Siblinghood and Sociability in 19th century Ulster (LUP, 2025). Shows a cabinet card portrait of a well-dressed middle-class family - two parents, three adult sons, an adult daughter and a younger daughter.

Next Wed 5 Feb 🚨 I’m speaking at the @historyatgalway.bsky.social Research Seminar Series at 4pm (in person and online) followed by the launch of my new book 🍾 Come along if you’re in Galway and fancy raising a glass 🥂

Remains found in Belgium may belong to war hero Sarsfield There are hopes that human remains found at the site of an ancient church in Belgium could be those of Irish war hero Patrick Sarsfield.

Exciting developments in the search for the remains of Patrick Sarsfield! Well done @sarsfieldhome.bsky.social #WildGeese #18thC
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PS. Si vous êtes doctorant·e ou jeune docteur·e et que vous souhaitez faire partie de cette initiative, veuillez me contacter par mail.

Retrouvez l'intégralité du portrait de Luca ci-joint, sur les réseaux de la SOFEIR ainsi qu’à la page suivante : www.sofeir.fr/focus-doctor...

Il prépare une thèse intitulée "'There are illegalities that are not crimes': an investigation into political violence and paramilitary bodies in Ireland before the Great War " sous la direction de Teodoro Tagliaferri.

Le premier portrait de 2025 du focus doctorant·es de la SOFEIR est celui de Luca Bertolani Azeredo, doctorant à la Scuola Superiore Meridionale à Naples, en Italie.

This Thursday, in the GIS seminar "Sensory Ecologies", Maureen O’Connor (University College Cork) will be giving a talk called "A Time to Die, A Time to Plant".
5.30pm, Paris time. Get in touch for the Zoom link.

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Don't miss out on episode 54 of the Irish Itinerary Podcast! Author Colin Walsh talks about his debut novel Kala (2023)

We will be publishing episode 55 this Thursday!

The SAHGB Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion 2024 has been awarded to Robyne Calvert for 'The Mack' & Steven Brindle for 'Architecture in Britain and Ireland, 1530-1830'.

Congratulations to all nominees and winners and thank you to SAHGB for celebrating architectural publishing.

Join us for a discussion on Dawn Watson's We Play Here (2023) this Wednesday!

Laurent Colantonio, L’homme-nation. Daniel O’Connell et le laboratoire politique irlandais, 1775-1847. Villeneuve-d’Ascq, Presses universitaires du Septentrion, « Histoire et civilisations », 2023, 400 p. Cet ouvrage vient combler un vide historiographique, puisqu’il est le premier, depuis le XIXe sièc...

Ma recension de l'important livre de Laurent Colantonio sur Daniel O'Connell a enfin paru dans le Mouvement social :

In Conversation With: Bill Rolston National Museums NI · Episode

NMNI in conversation with Bill Rolston . Bill speaks about his work, his relationships with muralists in Northern Ireland & his exhibition Drawing Support: Murals, Memory and Identity.

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Face au manque de soutien de l'Etat, l'université de Lille organise une "journée université morte" mardi 3 décembre - France Bleu C'est une décision très symbolique prise par le comité de direction de l'université de Lille : les bâtiments seront fermés, mardi 3 décembre. Pas de cours, pas de mails ni d'appels téléphoniques ce jo...

Question aux collègues #ESR :
L'université de Lille s'est clairement positionnée en faveur de la mobilisation du 3/12, notamment en maintenant les heures de service. Est-ce le cas ailleurs ? www.francebleu.fr/infos/educat...

Image of Inis Treabhair island from Gairfean, Rosmuc, and cover dustjacket of An Island Christmas, Price reduced from original €14.99 to €12.50 .

Cover image of a galway hooker ( steady... it's the boat) reflected in teh sea in front of an image of an island thatched cottage

Published by Mercier Press, translated from the original Irish by Micheál ó hAodha , An Island Christmas ( Nollaig Oileanách) is author Micheál Ó Conghaile's evocative account of growing up on Inis Treabhair, a now abandoned island off Rosmuc in Conamara. #irishbooks
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Irish Sporting Lives Serial winners and glorious losers, heroes and villains, trailblazing women, role models and rogues, all are here; so too are audacious sporting founders, enduring legends and forgotten or overlooked ...

'A joy ... the lesser told stories are a treat' The Irish Times

Launching our #12Pubs series celebrating 12 RIA publications, starting off with 'Irish Sporting Lives', edited by Terry Clavin and Turlough O'Riordan.

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No. 51-1, spring 2026: Children and the Youth in Ireland Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes Children and the Youth in Ireland...

Submissions for the next special issue of Etudes Irlandaises on Children and the Youth in Ireland are expected by 1 June 2025.

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Here you'll find the CFP for the 2025 conference of AEDEI (the Spanish Association of Irish Studies) at the university of Huelva.

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Joana Etchart’s book, Community Relations and the Troubles in Northern Ireland: A Policy History, has just been published with Liverpool University Press.

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