Irish Studies Report: Britain & Northern Ireland, 2018-2019

EFACIS Report: Britain & Northern Ireland, 2018-2019

This is a report on major Irish Studies activity, compiled by Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston, BAIS Communications Manager. If you wish to be included in a future report and have activities under the following headlines only, please mail lej.houston@outlook.com. Please note, this is limited to activity in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

It will be circulated to the EFACIS Steering Committee by Dr Caroline Magennis, Chair of the BAIS Executive and British representative on the Board.

Monographs

Dominic Bryan and Sean Connolly with John Nagle,Civic Identity and Public Space: Belfast Since 1780 (MUP, 2019).
Ruth A Canning, The Old English in Early Modern Ireland: The Palesmen and the Nine Years’ War, 1594-1603(Boydell & Brewer, 2019).
Cara Diver, Marital Violence in Post-Independence Ireland, 1922–96: ‘A living tomb for women’(MUP, 2019).
Patrick Doyle, Civilising Rural Ireland: The Co-operative Movement, Development, and the Nation-State, 189-1939(Manchester University Press, 2019).
Lindsey Earner-Byrne and Diane Urquhart, The Irish Abortion Journey, 1920-2018(Palgrave Pivot, 2019).
David Finkelstein, The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 2: Expansion and Evolution, 1800-1900(EUP, 2019).
Adrian Grant, Derry: The Irish Revolution, 1912–23(Four Courts, 2019).
Richard S Grayson, Dublin’s Great Wars: The First World War, the Easter Rising and the Irish Revolution (CUP, 2018).
Steafán Hanvey and Bobbie Hanvey, ‘Reconstructions: The Troubles in Photographs and Words’ (Irish Academic Press, 2018).
David Heffernan, Walter Devereux, First Earl of Essex, and the Colonization of North-East Ulster, c.1573–6(Four Courts, 2018).
Clare Hutton, Serial Encounters:Ulysses and theLittle Review (OUP, 2019).
Maria Kennedy, Irish Quaker Hybrid Identities: Complex Identity in the Religious Society of Friends(Brill, 2019).
Marisa McGlinchey, Unfinished Business: The Politics of ‘Dissident’ Irish Republicanism(MUP, 2019).
Allison Macleod, Irish Queer Cinema(EUP, 2018).
Catriona J McKenzie & Eileen M Murphy,Life and Death in Medieval Gaelic Ireland: The Skeletons from Ballyhanna, Co. Donegal(Four Courts, 2018).
Victor Merriman, Austerity and the Public Role of Drama: Performing Lives-in-Common(Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
Connor Morrissey, Protestant Nationalists in Ireland, 1900–1923(CUP, 2019) – Forthcoming.
Sinéad Moynihan, Ireland, Migration and Return Migration: The “Returned Yank” in the Cultural Imagination, 1952 to Present(LUP, 2019).
Gearóid Ó Faoleán, A Broad Church: The Provisional IRA in the Republic of Ireland, 1969–1980(Merrion Press, 2019).
Okan Ozseker, Forging the Border: Donegal and Derry in Times of Revolution, 1911–1925(Irish Academic Press, 2019).
Connal Parr, Inventing the Myth: Political Passions and the Ulster Protestant Imagination(OUP, 2019) – Paperback.
David Pierce, James Joyce’s Portrait: A New Reading(EER, 2019).
Simon Prince, Northern Ireland’s ’68: Civil Rights, Global Revolt and the Origins of the Troubles – New Edition(Irish Academic Press, 2018).
Margaret M Scull, The Catholic Church and the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1968-1998(OUP, 2019) – Forthcoming.
Catherine Wynne, Lady Butler: War Artist and Traveller, 1846–1933(Four Courts, 2019).

Edited Collections

Fionna Barber, Heidi Hansson, and Sara Dybris McQuaid, eds. Ireland and the North(Peter Lang, 2019).
Michela Bariselli, Niamh M. Bowe, and William Davies, eds. Samuel Beckett and Europe: History, Culture, Tradition(Cambridge Scholars, 2019).
Rebecca Anne Barr, Sean Brady, Jane McGaughey, eds. Ireland and Masculinities in History(Palgrave, 2019).
John Cunningham, ed. Early Modern Ireland and the World of Medicine: Practitioners, Collectors and Contexts(MUP, 2019).
Bryan Fanning and Lucy Michael, eds. Immigrants as Outsiders in the Two Irelands(MUP, 2019).
Matthew Kelly, ed. Nature and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century Ireland(LUP, 2019).
Georgina Laragy, Owen Purdue, and Jonathan Jeffrey Wright, eds. Urban Spaces in nineteenth-century Ireland(LUP 2018).
Patrick Little, ed. Ireland in Crisis: War, politics and religion, 1641–50(MUP, 2019).
Donald MacRaild, Tanja Bueltmann, and JCD Clark, eds. British and Irish Diasporas: Societies, Cultures, and Ideologies(MUP, 2018).
Nicholas Taylor-Collins and Stanley van der Ziel, eds. Shakespeare and Contemporary Irish Literature(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

Major Scholarly Editions

David Hayton and Adam Rounce, eds. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. VI – Irish Political Writings after 1725: A Modest Proposal and Other Works (CUP, 2018).
John Kelly and Ronald Schuchard, eds. The Collected Letters of WB Yeats, Vol V: 1908-1910(OUP, 2018).

Journal Special Issues

Richard Butler and Erika Hanna, eds. ‘Irish urban history’, in Urban History, 46.1 (February 2019).
Brian Griffin and John Strachan, eds. ‘Sport in Ireland from the 1880s to the 1920s’, Irish Studies Review(August 2019).

Conferences and Symposia

New Directions in Irish History Conference (Teeside University, 22-23 February 2019) – Supported by BAIS Conference Fund.
‘Irish Language – A day of Literature, Film and Song’ (University of Liverpool in London, 23 February 2019).
4th Symposium of the Irish Modern Urban History Group(Queen’s University Belfast, 05 April 2019).
‘Elizabeth Bowen: Blurring Boundaries’, Elizabeth Bowen Society Annual Conference (University of Bedfordshire, 06 June 2019).
‘1969: The Outbreak of the Troubles in Northern Ireland’ (QUB, 07-08 June 2019).
Britain and Ireland: Keogh Naughton Irish Seminar (09-21 June 2019).
Michael Longley in Context – A Symposium (QUB, 11 June 2019).
Prisons, Asylums, Workhouses – Institutions in Irish History (PRONI, 13-14 June 2019).
‘Dreams of the Future in Nineteenth-Century Ireland’, Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland Annual Conference (University of Leicester, 27-28 June 2019).
‘Leaving in Irish History, Politics and Culture’, part of the 11th Percy French Festival (Castlecoote House, Co. Roscommon, 09-12 July 2019) – organised by Bath Spa University.
‘Activist Histories of Ireland’ (University of Oxford, 12-13 July 2019).

Seminar Series

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar (University of Cambridge)
Modern Irish History Seminar (University of Cambridge)
Modern Irish History Seminar (University of Edinburgh)
Oxford Seminar in Irish History (Hertford College, University of Oxford)
NI Troubles, 50^thAnniversary Seminar Series – Violence Studies Oxford (University of Oxford)
Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar (Institute of English Studies, University of London)
Finnegans Wake Research Seminar (Institute of English Studies, University of London)
Irish Studies Seminar (Institute of English Studies, University of London)
Irish Literary Society
Irish Studies Research Group Seminar (Liverpool Hope University)
Irish Studies Research Seminar (Queen’s University, Belfast)
Postgrad Irish Studies Reading Group (Queen’s University, Belfast)
Tyneside Irish History Lecture Series (Tyneside Irish Cultural Society & Newcastle University)
Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies

Exhibitions and Galas

11th Dr John Kennedy Lecture in Irish Studies in Irish Studies – Bertie Ahern: Negotiating the Good Friday Agreement Since 1998 (University of Liverpool, 22 November 2018).
Voices of ’68 – 50th Anniversary of Civil Rights 1968-2018(Victoria Gallery & Museum, Liverpool, 20 November – 15 December 2018) – Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool.
Visit by the joint patrons of the Institute, His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales and President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins (Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool, 12 February 2019).
John Coffin Memorial Irish Studies Lecture 2019 – Ruth Padel, ‘This is the Vowel of Earth: on the Katabasis of Seamus Heaney’ (Institute of Advanced Studies, University of London, 30 May 2019)

Research Projects

Hillary Bishop (Liverpool John Moores), ‘A Well-Trodden Path: The History and Heritage of Mass Paths in Ireland’, British Academy Small Research Grant, awarded September 2018, for 2018-2020.
Richard Butler (University of Leicester), ‘Church, State, and the Building of Ireland’s South Coast Cities: Cork and Waterford, c. 1935-1965’, AHRC Leadership Fellowship (£199,919), awarded June 2019, for 2020-22.
Conal Parr (Northumbria University), ‘Ulster Protestant Imagination’, International Fund for Ireland (IFI) and Fermanagh and Omagh District Council – an 8-week cross-border reading/discussion group programme for ordinary citizens and community groups in the border region, to be held in Leitrim and Enniskillen in October – December 2019.

Digital Projects and Resources