Irish Studies at QUB

YouTube video by QUB Irish Studies Irish Studies Seminar: Marcus Breen (5.3.26)

The week we welcomed Prof Marcus Breen as our @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social visiting schoiar. If you missed his talk on 'The Struggle for Meaning in Irish Cultural Studies: Kneecap and Sinners', there's a recording at youtu.be/PcLnQxt-8mA

I'm delighted that we have enough archive film to create an entire event around ancient monuments.
March 18th, 1pm PRONI Belfast

📢 Call for Participation: #OHNI2026

Don’t forget to submit your abstract for the @oralhistoryie.bsky.social Annual Meeting in Tralee!

🗣️Theme: Oral History and Movement
🎙️ Keynote: Mary Stewart
⏳ Abstract Deadline: 20th March 2026

Apply at🔗 oralhistorynetworkireland.ie/events/2026-...

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Select tickets – Cnámha aduaine bíoblóra: Cnámh de chuid Thady Connellan i mbailiúchán an Acadaimh  – Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2 Cnámha aduaine bíoblóra: Cnámh de chuid Thady Connellan i mbailiúchán an Acadaimh  – Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2, Thu 5 Mar 2026 - Sa bhliain 2025 bronnadh cnámh de chuid an 19ú cé...

In 2025, the Academy Library was gifted a 19th-century bone with an inscription in Irish. Thady Connellan (Tadhg Ó Coinnialláin, c.1780–1854), a bibliographer and schoolmaster from Sligo, made this and various inscriptions on other bones.

EHRI-UK Seminar: Holocaust collections at Queen’s University Belfast An in-person seminar to mark the release of the Rabbi Jacob Shachter collection at QUB Special Collections & Archives.

EHRI-UK Seminar: Holocaust-related and Jewish refugee collections at Queen’s University Belfast Special Collections & Archives - 23 April, 13.00-15.30, McClay Library, QUB
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Irish History Matters While knowledge of history can explain our contemporary situation, an awareness of the myths and misuses of our history can bring a broader and more conciliatory approach to current political and soci...

Congrats to our former director Prof Brian Walker, whose book 'Irish History Matters: Politics, Identities and Commemoration' has been issued in paperback this week by The History Press Ireland thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/...

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On Thursday 5 March at 4.30 our visiting Boston College Irish Studies scholar, Marcus Breen, will be speaking about 'The Struggle for Meaning in Irish Cultural Studies: Kneecap and Sinners'. All welcome in-person (Lanyon 01/052) or online. www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

The Folk Bards of Ulster Born 175 years apart, two folk bards from County Down have been brought together through music and storytelling at our 'The Last Folk Bards of Ulster' event. Learn more about how we connected Joshua B...

Really cool to see this collaboration between Ulster Folk Museum and Joshua Burnside.

Maynooth University Early Irish & Celtic Studies Research Seminar, semester 2, 2025-6. 12 February: Dr Seán Ó Hoireabhárd, Positioning Meath and Clonard in the Central Middle Ages. 12 March: Prof. James Palmer, Pagan Knowledge, Christian World: Science, Medicine & Religion, c. 600-900. 23 April, Dr Edel Bhreathnach, New Religion, New Pots: Newgrange, St Brigit and Imported Pottery. All seminars are at 5pm in Room 2.31, Iontas Building, North Campus, Maynooth University. For queries: elizabeth.boyle@mu.ie

Our in-person research seminars this semester @ceilteachomn.bsky.social - come for the cutting-edge research, stay for the post-seminar spring rolls & potato wedges!

On This Day: 19 May 1928 - News Over 129 years of moving images from Northern Ireland, featuring amateur and professional films from 1897 to 2026, brought to you by Northern Ireland Screen.

Archive at 25.
As we celebrate a quarter of a century of collecting Northern Irish and Ulster's moving image heritage, we launch this year long series featuring some of our favourite collaborators.
First up, Phil Kieran - DJ, musician, filmmaker.
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The Rag Tree in Dungiven - View media Over 129 years of moving images from Northern Ireland, featuring amateur and professional films from 1897 to 2026, brought to you by Northern Ireland Screen.

One of our most popular collections features the folklore and cures of Ireland. We have a special mythology that conflates paganism and Christianity. We are very much a nation of people who hedge their bets as Charlie Witherspoon explains here.

Registration is now open for our joint event with the Seamus Heaney Centre on 2 March: LATE HEANEY: NICHOLAS ALLEN IN CONVERSATION WITH MARK CARRUTHERS (available online and in-person) www.qub.ac.uk/schools/seam...

Carrying the Irish Spirit Abroad: Protest, Politics & the Gold Rush With Constantin Torve Spotify video

Constantin Torve talks about his recent research on the Irish at the Eureka Stockade (1854) in Australia in a new podcast with 'The Celtic Way'
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Conference : The Plantation of Ulster

Thanks to all who supported the 'Plantation of Ulster' conference at PRONI on 12 February, associated with the 'People of Plantation Ulster' database project. Recordings of the talks are now available at: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

Publishing this week. Really thrilled with the result.

YouTube video by QUB Irish Studies Irish Studies Seminar: Patrick Gleeson (23/2/26)

If you missed Monday’s seminar by Dr Paddy Gleeson on ‘Landscapes of kingship: governance, rule and territory in early Medieval Ireland’, there’s a recording at:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wpl...

The History Seminar Series is happy to host Mál Farrell (Queen's University Belfast) on 27th February in Room 01.003, 27 University Square at 4:00pm. This is an alteration from our originally advertised paper which has sadly had to be cancelled.

On Thursday 5 March at 4.30 our visiting Boston College Irish Studies scholar, Marcus Breen, will be speaking about 'The Struggle for Meaning in Irish Cultural Studies: Kneecap and Sinners'. All welcome in-person (Lanyon 01/052) or online. www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

Power, Politics and Territory in the ‘New Northern Ireland’ | Home Girdwood Barracks and the Story of the Peace Process

Liz DeYoung’s 'Power, Politics and Territory in the New Northern Ireland’ has just been released in paperback by Liverpool UP. Winner of the 2023 ACIS Murphy Prize, we hosted the NI launch in Jan 2024. Many congrats Liz!

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Registration is now open for our joint event with the Seamus Heaney Centre on 2 March: LATE HEANEY: NICHOLAS ALLEN IN CONVERSATION WITH MARK CARRUTHERS (available online and in-person) www.qub.ac.uk/schools/seam...

YouTube video by QUB Irish Studies Irish Studies Seminar: Robin Usher 2026/02/16

If you missed Robin Usher’s talk on Sir Arthur Chichester and Dublin’s architecture c.1605-15, a recording is available at: m.youtube.com/watch?v=-5nX...

Our next seminar on Monday 23 Feb. will be Dr Paddy Gleeson (QUB) speaking on 'Landscapes of kingship: governance, rule and territory in early medieval Ireland'. All welcome in-person / online www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

The weird historic traditions around Pancake Tuesday in Ireland The day before Lent began may have involved feasting and food, but it certainly wasn't a good day for single people

The weird historic traditions around Pancake Tuesday in Ireland. The day before Lent began may have involved feasting and food, but explains @marionmcgarry.bsky.social ATU, it certainly wasn't a good day for single people www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

A reminder that our first seminar of 2026 is on Thursday! Neil Murphy @northumbriauni.bsky.social will speak on 'Violence, colonialism and the mid-Tudor monarchy: Ireland in context'. If you can't join us in person @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social join online 👇
www.eventbrite.ie/e/violence-c...

Funding boost announced for historic building in Belfast An international conservation group has selected one of Belfast's most historic buildings as one of 21 sites across the world it will fund this year.

An international conservation group has selected Belfast's Assembly Rooms as one of 21 sites across the world it will fund this year.

Close to Home is to be adapted for TV Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of tomorrow’s pages

Close to Home by @michaelmagee.bsky.social to be adapted for TV

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With St Valentine’s Day tomorrow, we’re dipping into some of the courtship rituals and games explored in Pious and Promiscuous by @leannecalvert.bsky.social

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