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Institute of Irish Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. An interdisciplinary research institute for all aspects of Irish culture, history, politics and society. See 'Lists' for more info. Find us at https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/
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-...
#OralHistory
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-related and Jewish refugee collections at Queen’s University Belfast Special Collections & Archives - 23 April, 13.00-15.30, McClay Library, QUB
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ehri-uk-se...
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/...
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...
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!
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.
digitalfilmarchive.net/archive-at-2...
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...
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'
open.spotify.com/episode/6ber...
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.
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...
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...
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 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...
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 by @michaelmagee.bsky.social to be adapted for TV
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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
Find out more about Pious and Promiscuous: shop.ria.ie/products/pious
