British Association for Irish Studies (BAIS)

Tonight week, Friday, 21st November, please join us for the official launch of our new edited collection on the Civil War in Kerry and beyond from Four Courts Press

📅 Friday, 21st November
⏲️ 6.00pm
🏦 Kerry County Museum
🎙️ Minister Norma Foley

@drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social #booklaunch

Niamh Gallagher · Carrion and Earth: Ireland’s Great Famine Although Ireland had endured earlier famines – including one in the 1740s that, proportionally, claimed more lives...

‘Capitalism within the British Empire created in Ireland a society especially vulnerable to the effects of crop failure.’

Niamh Gallagher on a history of the Great Famine.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Very happy with this cover for ‘Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955’, which features a detail from Evie Hone’s stained glass window 'Four Green Fields'. This window was originally shown at the New York's World Fair in 1939, but is now found in Government Buildings on Merrion Street

We are co-hosting on 3 Dec. a conference on 'From Boundary Commission to Border Poll? A Century of the Irish Border'. This is a free event, but registration is required (by 26 Nov.). Info at: www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...

YouTube video by QUB Irish Studies Irish Studies Seminar: Hiram Morgan

If you missed Hiram Morgan's talk on 'Anatomies of death: force famine in the Tudor conquest of Ireland', an recording is now available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hAI...

In praise of small presses: Ireland's indie publishers celebrated Ahead of the inaugural Dublin Small Press Fair this November, co-founders Tim Groenland and Éireann Lorsung salute a golden age for independent publishing in Ireland.

Me and @eireannmor.bsky.social have a few words on @rte.ie about small presses, the "rich forest of independent publishing," and the Dublin Small Press Fair @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social (28/29 November, Pearse St library):
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

The 2025 Seamus Heaney Lecture: ‘Politics and the Poet' by Sir Simon Schama The 2025 Seamus Heaney Lecture by Sir Simon Schama, with readings by Leanne Best

The 2025 Seamus Heaney Lecture will be in just 🔟days, and there's just a handful of spaces left so best register now:
Professor Sir Simon Schama
Leanne Best
🗓️ 6:00 pm, 13 November
🧭 Yoko Ono Lennon Centre @liverpooluni.bsky.social
🎟️ FREE registration REQUIRED: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1765402248...

YouTube video by EFACIS YouTube EFACIS Roundtable Discussion 13: Workshop on Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing

EFACIS Roundtable Discussion 13: Workshop on Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing - recording

We're delighted to announce that, after a very successful first year, RIISS will be hosting a further New Voices ECR Visiting Fellow in 2026. Applications are open until 5th December 2025.
www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-e...

OPPORTUNITY: The Childers Professorship of Irish History, University of Cambridge

We are delighted to share our programme of seminars for Michaelmas Term 2025 🍂

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LIF 2025: Irish language taster session Free Irish language taster session as part of the Liverpool Irish Festival 2025.

⚠️1 week warning⚠️
Want to pick up Cúpla Focal or learn more about the history of the Irish Language?
Join our Taster/History Session as part of #LIF2025
All welcome - no Irish required!
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🗓️6pm, 22 October 2025
🧭Rendall Building @liverpooluni.bsky.social
🎟️FREE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1753116200...

OPPORTUNITY: applications are open for the Keough-Naughton Library Research Award in Irish Studies

Take advantage of the Hesburgh Libraries’ outstanding Irish studies collection — including the finest collection of Irish-language printed texts in North America.

Established scholars, grad students, and postdocs are encouraged to apply!

See more details here: irishstudies.nd.edu/scholars/vis...

Launch & Discussion: Political Change Across Britain and Ireland Published by Edinburgh University Press 2025. Panellists: Dr Paul Gillespie, UCD: Prof Katy Hayward, QUB: Prof Michael Keating, Aberdeen

📚 Book launch
📍The Irish Secretariat, Belfast
📆 Wednesday October 1st,  5pm

Panelists Paul Gillespie,  Prof Katy Hayward @katyhayward.bsky.social
and Prof Michael Keating host a roundtable discussion on their new book!

Book your spot:

“I took the left turn for eternity”: otherworlds, afterlives, and discursive storytelling traditions in Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman and Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Graveyard Clay This essay explores Flann O’Brien’s posthumously published The Third Policeman (1967) and Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s 1949 Irish language novel Cré na Cille (Graveyard Clay) through their use of literary o...

The 2025 BAIS Essay Prize winner, written by Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social is now available to read on Irish Studies Review!
doi.org/10.1080/0967...

The book is now available to order in a variety of formats.

We recommend ordering direct from Methuen or via Galway's wonderful booksellers, @kennysbookshop.bsky.social or Charlie Byrne's Bookshop.

Find out more about the book on our website: tinyurl.com/mwtvnmx5

So great to see this in print! A real pleasure to work on this book with @druidtheatre.bsky.social @methuendrama.bsky.social and of course with the best of co-editors of Patrick Lonergan and Máiréad Ní Chrónín.

Collage of a newspaper clipping, hand colored image of Maud Gonne, and handwritten letter over a black and white photo of an elderly veiled Maud Gonne

Digitization alert! We recently digitized materials by and about Irish patriot and suffragist Maud Gonne. The materials include correspondence, photo, articles, Women's Prisoners' Defence League records, and more. Check them out: https://findingaids.bc.edu/repositories/2/resources/254/digitized

📣 📣 The CFP for IASIL 2026 is now LIVE! 📣 📣

Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU) Budapest – 6-10 July 2026
Translating Ireland

The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday, November 28, 2025.

#IrishStudies #Translation #IrishLiterature

Full CFP:
www.iasil.org/2025/09/conf...

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The Studia Hibernica social media graphic features the white plain cover of the journal to the left atop four bright red rectangles as the journal's motif, with the journal summary written to the right which reads: 'Devoted to the study of the Irish language and its literature, Irish history and archaeology, Irish folklore and place names, and related subjects.' The background is a pale blue acrylic abstract painting of the Irish sky with the LUP logo in white on the top right.

Most read in Studia Hibernica this week:
'Theatre in Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century: the troubled 1840s' by Karina Holton
Read it online: bit.ly/SH-Holton
@ciarandunbarrach.bsky.social @bairishstudies.bsky.social @dublincityuni.bsky.social @irishinstitute.bsky.social @fsg-dcu.bsky.social

Book Launch: James Joyce’s Legacies in Contemporary Irish Women’s Writing A talk and Q&A on a new book on the Irish women writers who are reshaping literature today, inspired by James Joyce's enduring influence.

Join us on Thursday, 11 Sept. 2025 at 6.30pm for the launch of "James Joyce’s Legacies in Contemporary Irish Women’s Writing" (Routledge), a new monograph by Dr. Annalisa Mastronardi.

The event is free but booking is essential. We hope to see you there!

www.eventbrite.ie/e/book-launc...

The Secret Life of May O’Callaghan: The Kremlin’s Irish Insider | Irish History Podcast How did an Irish Catholic become a Kremlin insider in the 1920s?

Thanks so much to Fin of the Irish History Podcast for having me on to talk in detail about the Irish world of the Hotel Lux.

You can listen here: shows.acast.com/irishhistory...

The Laurence Sterne Conference 'Terraqueous Globe: Land and Sea in the Age of Sterne' from 5-7 Nov 2025 in the School of the Arts Library. Registration deadline 1/09/25, proposal deadline 15/08/25.

We are delighted to be co-hosting the Laurence Sterne Conference this year from 5th - 7th November 2025 at @sotauol.bsky.social🌍
Deadline for registration: 1st September
Deadline for proposals: 15th August
Find out more and how to register: bit.ly/SterneConference25
@lsternetrust.bsky.social

Continuity and Change in the Irish Culinary History and Culture, 1922-1973 "Continuity and Change in the Irish Culinary History and Culture, 1922-1973" published on 28 Apr 2025 by Brill.

New pub: Continuity and Change in the Irish Culinary History and Culture, 1922-1973

Explore how food reflected and influenced Irish social, cultural, and economic shifts during these pivotal years.

@bairishstudies.bsky.social
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We are delighted to announce that a full programme and registration for the 35th Irish Conference of Historian is now available. Maynooth University, 12-13 September.

Please share widely.

www.eventbrite.com/e/35th-irish...

@muahi.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @benjamin-casey.bsky.social
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@ssnci.bsky.social Just a month and a half to go until you can a hold of this baby! Order your copy now for the first ever dedicated book on conflict in 19c Ireland and amongst or involving "the Irish" abroad. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... #conflict #ssnci

QUB Irish Studies Posting talks, public lectures and other events given at the Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University Belfast.

Thanks again to everyone who supported our academic programme in #IrishStudies this year. You can find recordings of most of our events on our YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@QUBIrishStu...

Edinburgh University Press Journals - Table of Contents - iur: Vol 55, No 1

Delighted to share that the special issue of Irish University Review (IUR 55.1) that I co-edited with Dr Emma Radley — ‘Irish Studies: Beyond the Text’ — has now been published by Edinburgh University Press: www.euppublishing.com/toc/iur/55/1. Our thirteen essays (plus intro) follow!
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