School of Irish Studies, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec

From the Bog to the Cloud From the Bog to the Cloud - Dependency and Eco-Modernity in Ireland; This provocative book exposes the colonial roots of tech-driven climate policies and highlights global resistance to resource extra...

Congratulations to former Irish Studies Scholar-in-Residence Dr. Patrick Brodie on his new book (in collaboration with Dr. Patrick Bresnahan). Click below for more details.

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/from-the-bog...

Montreal's St. Patrick's Parade 2025! What a momentous 200th Parade with Concordia's School of Irish Studies students handing out stickers and lollipops to the throngs cheering all along. And The Morrigan with her crow was also in our group of marchers! #Montreal #StPatrick #IrishStudies #Irish

Reminder of CAIS 2025 in Toronto (June 11-13)! Abstract deadline is now March 21! All things borders, boundaries, and frontiers for scholars of Ireland, the Irish diaspora, et al @canadianirish.bsky.social @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social @gihnyu.bsky.social @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social #irishstudies

So enjoyed this wonderful chat with @peterbunzl.bsky.social

Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

Deadline extension for An Fód Dúchais: Home, Heritage and Origins, the 8th International Flann O’Brien Conference An Fód Dúchais: Home, Heritage and Origins The 8th International Flann O’Brien Conference Alley Arts & Conference Centre, Strabane, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland 24-27th June 2025 Keynote speake...

💥Deadline Extension for An Fód Dúchais: Home, Heritage and Origins, the 8th International Flann O’Brien Conference💥

Get your proposals in by 14 February 2025. Join us and amazing keynote speakers Dr Tobias W. Harris (Birkbeck), Dr Michael Pierse (QUB), Dr Emily Ridge (Galway)

Find out how you can study current world issues from Irish, European Union & Irish diaspora perspectives in many disciplines-one degree! Unique benefits too!
Chat online:
Thurs, Feb 6 1:30-2:30pm (English)
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vendredi, 7 fev 13h30-14h30
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The other Brigids: the forgotten mighty women of Medieval Ireland St Brigid may have led the way, but there were other powerful, inspiring and influential women who blazed a trail in Medieval Kildare

In honour of the upcoming long weekend in honour of St Brigit/Feb 1st, see below a great article by Tiago Veloso Silva on some of the great Irish women who came after Brigit in Kildare @maynoothuni.bsky.social @celticstudiesmu.bsky.social @researchireland.bsky.social
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Ethnomusicologist Kate Bevan-Baker is currently teaching 'Irish Traditional Music in Canada' here at Irish Studies in Montreal and is quoted in this @irishexaminer.bsky.social article. Approximately 40% of Quebecers are of some Irish descent.
Thanks @petoconnell.bsky.social for the link

Find out about how you can study current world issues from an Irish and EU perspective through many disciplines, all in one degree. New $5,000 Entrance Awards, study grants to Ireland, annual tuition awards and more. Online chat: Thursday, February 6 1:30pm ET.
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Cold, crisp, sunny day in Montréal with a great view of Leonard Cohen mural from Concordia University’s School of Irish Studies. We’re ready to welcome back students on Monday morning for start of Winter 2025 semester!
#IrishStudies #Montreal #Mtl #Québec #LeonardCohen #winter

RTÉ Short Story Competition: The Other Órla by Emer O'Toole We present another story from the RTÉ Short Story Competition shortlist 2024...

Congratulations to our own professor of Irish Performance Dr. Emer O'Toole for winning third prize at RTÉ Short Story Competition! The 2024 shortlisted stories were broadcasted over ten nights on @rteradio1.bsky.social 'Late Date' in November. Read/listen here:
www.rte.ie/culture/2024...

Great Galloping Giant Deer Skeleton! #Megaloceros chasing around the walls of Collins Barracks, home to the National Museum of Ireland, well worth 20 minutes of your time as part of a great laser light show

Newgrange Winter Solstice | Heritage Ireland Newgrange is one of 40 passage tombs in Brú na Bóinne (meaning the bend of the Boyne River) in County Meath. During sunrise on the

The annual livestream of the Winter Solstice from inside the neolithic passage tomb at Newgrange has been confirmed for 2024.
Highly recommended for the spectacle + the extensive knowledge shared so kindly by the resident experts!
Here's to sunshine on 21 December!
heritageireland.ie/learn/newgra...

Congratulations to our own School of Irish Studies professor Dr. Emer O'Toole for winning third prize at the 2024 RTÉ Francis MacManus Short Story Competition!

Read or listen to the @rte.ie audio version of 'The Other Orla' at the Concordia University link below:
www.concordia.ca/cunews/artsc...

A depiction of rolling green hills and sheep in the Irish countryside behind the text 'Call For Papers, Comhfhios 2025, Hibernia Beyond Humans'

The CFP deadline for #Comhfhios year 8 has been extended!

An Irish Studies conference for grad students by grad students, this year's theme is 'Hibernia Beyond Humans.'

Grads from all over are encouraged to submit a paper!

docs.google.com/forms/d/1AZ1...

Recommendations for authors Contact Submissions for non-thematic issues should be sent by 1 March to Helen Penet (helen.penet@univ-lille.fr), in two formats, PDF and .odt or .doc.On average, the number of signs per article (i...

Submissions for the next non thematic issue of Etudes Irlandaises are to be sent by 1 March 2025.

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Last Friday, the 2024 Ann Saddlemyer Public Lecture was given by Dr. Emer O'Toole, Associate Professor of Irish Performance Studies, in the School of Irish Studies' McEntee Reading Room where 'she-beast' educated the overflowing audience on colonialism and the extinction of wolves in Ireland.#EduSky

'Conflict of Many Colours' - Frank McNally in 'An Irishman's Diary' @IrishTimes this morning on the 'sumptuously illustrated' Atlas of the Irish Civil War.

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

Alright #IrishStudies friends, here's the #CFP for #ACIS2024 "Ireland and New Beginnings" to be held in Limerick by Mary Immaculate College www.mic.ul.ie/ACIS2024

The Moral Case for No Longer Engaging With Elon Musk’s X The former Twitter is incentivizing violent content, which will only become worse to stand out to users.

"X is now an app that forcibly puts abhorrent content into users’ feeds and then rewards financially the people who were the most successful in producing it, egging them on to do it again and again" www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...