IRISH STUDIES REPORT: BRITAIN & NORTHERN IRELAND, 2019-2020

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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 headings 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.

EFACIS Report: Britain & Northern Ireland, 2019-2020

Monographs

  • Richard Parfitt, Musical Culture and the Spirit of Irish Nationalism, 1848–1972 (Routledge, 2019).
  • Sam McBride, Burned: The Inside Story of the ‘Cash-for-Ash’ Scandal and Northern Ireland’s Secretive New Elite (Irish Academic Press, 2019).
  • Francis Hutton-Williams, Thomas MacGreevy and the Rise of the Irish Avant-Garde (Cork University Press, 2019).
  • Martin O’Donoghue, The Legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Independent Ireland, 1922-1949 (LUP, 2019).
  • Virginia Crossman, Poverty and the Poor Law in Ireland, 1850-1914 (LUP, 2019).
  • Mike Meecham, William Walker: Social Activist and Belfast Labourist 1870-1918 (Umiskin Press, 2019).
  • Gladys Ganiel, Unity Pilgrim: The Life Of Fr Gerry Reynolds CSsR (Redemptorist Communications, 2019).
  • Margaret M Scull, The Catholic Church and the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1968-1998 (OUP, 2020).
  • Joshua Powell, Samuel Beckett and Experimental Psychology: Perception, Attention, Imagery (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020).
  • David M. Doyle and Liam O’Callaghan, Capital Punishment in Independent Ireland: A Social, Legal and Political History (LUP, 2020).
  • Trish Ferguson, Maude Gonne (UCD Press, 2020).
  • Margaret Ward, Fearless Woman: Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, Feminism, and the Irish Revolution (UCD Press, 2020).
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  • Maria Luddy and Mary O’Dowd, Marriage in Ireland, 1660-1925 (CUP, 2020).
  • Diane Urquhart, Irish Divorce (CUP, 2020).
  • Alice Johnson, Middle-Class Life in Victorian Belfast (LUP, 2020).
  • Richard Butler, Building the Irish Courthouse and Prison: A Political History, 1750-1850 (Cork University Press, 2020).
  • Michael Robinson, Shell-Shocked British Army Veterans in Ireland, 1918-39: A Difficult Homecoming (MUP, 2020).
  • Barry Hazley, Life History and the Irish Migrant Experience in Post-War England: Myth, Memory and Emotional Adaption (MUP, 2020)
  • Alison Garden, The Literary Afterlives of Roger Casement, 1899-2016 (LUP, 2020).
  • Timothy Bowman, William Butler, and Michael Wheatley, The Disparity of Sacrifice: Irish Recruitment to the British Armed Forces, 1914-1918 (LUP, 2020).
  • Stephen R. Millar, Sounding Dissent: Rebel Songs, Resistance, and Irish Republicanism (University of Michigan Press, 2020).

Edited Collections

  • Matthew Kelly, ed. Nature and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (LUP, 2019).
  • Marguerite Corporaal and Peter Gray, eds. The Great Irish Famine and Social Class (Peter Lang, 2019).
  • Irish Literature in Transition – Series (Cambridge University Press):
    • Volume 1: 1700-1870, ed. Moyra Haslett
    • Volume 3: 1830-1880, ed. Matthew Campbell
  • Kath Browne and Sydney Calkin, eds. After REPEAL: Rethinking Abortion Politics (Zed, 2020).
  • Kathryn Laing and Sinéad Mooney, eds. Irish Women Writers at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Alternative Histories, New Narratives (EER, 2020).

Major Scholarly Editions

  • Douglas Hyde, My American Journey (Foreword by President Michael D Higgins), eds. Liam Mac Mathuna, Niall Comer, Cuan O Seireadain, Maire nic an Bhaird, and Brian O’Conchubhair (UCD Press, 2019).
  • Anna Parnell, Tale of A Great Sham, eds. Dana Hearne and Margaret Ward (UCD Press, 2020).

Journal Special Issues

  • ‘The House in Irish Culture’ Special Issue, Review of Irish Studies in Europe, 3.1 (2019), ed. Shane Alcobia-Murphy.
  • ‘The Circles of Contemporary Irish Poetry’ Special Issue, Humanities 9.1 (2020), ed. Tara Stubbs.
  • ‘Translation in Ireland: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives’ Special Issue, Translation Studies Special Issue, 13.2 (2020), eds. Rióna Ní Fhrighil, Anne O’Connor and Michelle Milan.

Conferences and Symposia

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)
  • 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

  • Guest exhibition: ‘Posters from the Irish civil rights era’ (Working Class Movement Library, Salford, 01 April-04 June)
  • Culture Unconfined – Online Festival (Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool, 11-15 May)

Digital Projects and Resources

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