British Association for Irish Studies (BAIS)
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BAIS is the national network for those with an interest in the study of Ireland. Posts by our comms team and council members.
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“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...
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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...
doi.org/10.1080/0967...
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This year’s O’Donnell Lecture at the University of Edinburgh will be given by Professor @brendankanect.bsky.social of @earlymodirish.bsky.social fame. Brendan is Visiting Leverhulme Professor in Edinburgh in 2025 and 2026.
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 AM
This year’s O’Donnell Lecture at the University of Edinburgh will be given by Professor @brendankanect.bsky.social of @earlymodirish.bsky.social fame. Brendan is Visiting Leverhulme Professor in Edinburgh in 2025 and 2026.
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We invite you to join us next Friday, 28th November, to celebrate the launch of Dr Claire Pierson's new book "Women's Troubles".
Dr Claire Pierson (University of Liverpool) will be in conversation with Dr Emma Campbell (UU) and Mhairi Claire Lynch (QUB).
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/womens-tro...
Dr Claire Pierson (University of Liverpool) will be in conversation with Dr Emma Campbell (UU) and Mhairi Claire Lynch (QUB).
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/womens-tro...
November 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
We invite you to join us next Friday, 28th November, to celebrate the launch of Dr Claire Pierson's new book "Women's Troubles".
Dr Claire Pierson (University of Liverpool) will be in conversation with Dr Emma Campbell (UU) and Mhairi Claire Lynch (QUB).
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/womens-tro...
Dr Claire Pierson (University of Liverpool) will be in conversation with Dr Emma Campbell (UU) and Mhairi Claire Lynch (QUB).
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/womens-tro...
OPPORTUNITY: Junior Research Fellowship in the Northern Ireland Peace Process
New vacancy (Junior Research Fellowship) working on the Northern Ireland Peace Process at the Quill Project in Oxford!
Based at Pembroke College with funding from the Carnegie Foundation of New York.
See details here: www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/juni...
Based at Pembroke College with funding from the Carnegie Foundation of New York.
See details here: www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/juni...
Junior Research Fellowship in the Northern Ireland Peace Process (Quill Project)
Pembroke College wishes to appoint a Junior Research Fellow in the History of the Northern Ireland Peace Process. The appointment will be from early 2026 until 31 July 2027. The post is full-time and ...
www.pmb.ox.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:19 AM
OPPORTUNITY: Junior Research Fellowship in the Northern Ireland Peace Process
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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
📅 Friday, 21st November
⏲️ 6.00pm
🏦 Kerry County Museum
🎙️ Minister Norma Foley
@drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social #booklaunch
November 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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
📅 Friday, 21st November
⏲️ 6.00pm
🏦 Kerry County Museum
🎙️ Minister Norma Foley
@drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social #booklaunch
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‘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...
Niamh Gallagher on a history of the Great Famine.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:40 AM
‘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...
Niamh Gallagher on a history of the Great Famine.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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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
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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
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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...
November 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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...
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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...
Irish Studies Seminar: Hiram Morgan
YouTube video by QUB Irish Studies
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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...
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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...
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
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.
www.rte.ie
November 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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...
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
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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...
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...
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
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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...
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...
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EFACIS Roundtable Discussion 13: Workshop on Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing - recording
EFACIS Roundtable Discussion 13: Workshop on Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing
YouTube video by EFACIS YouTube
youtu.be
November 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
EFACIS Roundtable Discussion 13: Workshop on Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing - recording
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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...
www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-e...
New Voices ECR Visiting Fellowship
www.abdn.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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...
www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-e...
OPPORTUNITY: The Childers Professorship of Irish History, University of Cambridge
October 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
OPPORTUNITY: The Childers Professorship of Irish History, University of Cambridge
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We are delighted to share our programme of seminars for Michaelmas Term 2025 🍂
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October 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
We are delighted to share our programme of seminars for Michaelmas Term 2025 🍂
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⚠️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!
🗓️6pm, 22 October 2025
🧭Rendall Building @liverpooluni.bsky.social
🎟️FREE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1753116200...
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!
🗓️6pm, 22 October 2025
🧭Rendall Building @liverpooluni.bsky.social
🎟️FREE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1753116200...
LIF 2025: Irish language taster session
Free Irish language taster session as part of the Liverpool Irish Festival 2025.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM
⚠️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!
🗓️6pm, 22 October 2025
🧭Rendall Building @liverpooluni.bsky.social
🎟️FREE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1753116200...
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!
🗓️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...
Established scholars, grad students, and postdocs are encouraged to apply!
See more details here: irishstudies.nd.edu/scholars/vis...
September 29, 2025 at 9:32 AM
OPPORTUNITY: applications are open for the Keough-Naughton Library Research Award in Irish Studies
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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...
Established scholars, grad students, and postdocs are encouraged to apply!
See more details here: irishstudies.nd.edu/scholars/vis...
September 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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...
Established scholars, grad students, and postdocs are encouraged to apply!
See more details here: irishstudies.nd.edu/scholars/vis...
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📚 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:
📍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:
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
edin.ac
September 29, 2025 at 9:06 AM
📚 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:
📍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:
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...
doi.org/10.1080/0967...
“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...
doi.org
September 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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...
doi.org/10.1080/0967...
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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
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
New collection of Druid plays | Druid Theatre
Marking Druid's 50th anniversary, this new book collects six of the company's most impactful plays together in one volume for the first time.
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September 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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
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
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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.
It's publication day of our new book!
Druid Theatre 1975-2025
50 Years of New Irish Plays
Marking our 50th anniversary, this new book collects six of Druid's most impactful plays together in one volume for the first time.
Druid Theatre 1975-2025
50 Years of New Irish Plays
Marking our 50th anniversary, this new book collects six of Druid's most impactful plays together in one volume for the first time.
September 19, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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.
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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
September 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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
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📣 📣 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...
Pls share
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...
Pls share
CONFERENCE 2026: Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU) Budapest – 6-10 July 2026 – International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures
www.iasil.org
September 15, 2025 at 9:18 AM
📣 📣 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...
Pls share
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...
Pls share
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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
'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
September 8, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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
'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
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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 event is free but booking is essential. We hope to see you there!
www.eventbrite.ie/e/book-launc...
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.
www.eventbrite.ie
August 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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 event is free but booking is essential. We hope to see you there!
www.eventbrite.ie/e/book-launc...