Next up in our postgraduate bursary prize winner blog series is Amanda Hall (St Andrew’s University) on her field work this summer in Northern Ireland. As anyone following public debate about Brexit is aware, it is difficult to know Northern Ireland without the opportunity to spend time there. While my own research considers the inter-referendum […]

Next up in our postgraduate bursary winner blog series is Emma Dewhirst (Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool) on her BAIS funded visit to archives in Dublin. ‘If we were only left alone we could show that Irishwomen can work together tolerantly on matters which do not affect the bedrock principles of nationality, and on […]

Next up in our postgraduate bursary winner blog series is Abigail Rieley (Sussex) on her BAIS funded visit to archives in Dublin. Thanks to the BAIS bursary I headed off to Dublin this July to research the life and work of newspaper editor Michael Staunton (1788 – 1870). Staunton was the founder of the Morning […]

Next up in our postgraduate bursary winner blog series is Bobbie Nolan (Edinburgh) on her BAIS funded visit to archives in San Francisco. With thanks to the BAIS bursary I had the opportunity to undertake a two-week research trip to San Francisco in June 2018; where I consulted materials in the University of San Francisco’s […]

John Marcus O’Sullivan and Philosophy of Treatyite Conservatism We begin again the postgraduate bursary winner blog series. First up is Seán Donnelly (Teeside) on his BAIS funded visit to archives in Dublin. The help I received from the BAIS bursary enabled me to spend a week in Dublin this summer at the University College, Dublin Archive […]

British Tabloids’ Cartoon Coverage of the IRA Roseanna Doughty (Edinburgh) discusses how her BAIS bursary allowed her to purchase the copyright for an exciting new journal article. This week I submitted the revision for my first article, soon to be published in Media History, as part of a special edition on Media Connections between Britain […]

SEEKING A FEMININE TOUCH’: RESEARCHING ALICE MILLIGAN AND EVA GORE-BOOTH IN BELFAST Yasmine Radjabi (Institute of Irish Studies, Liverpool) discusses her research trip to archives in Belfast. ‘Fear not to fall for the land ye love, Irish earth beneath you, Irish sky above, Beat the standard onward down the sacred glen, All the saints in […]

‘Shooting the Visible Army’: Using Dublin Archives to think about the Irish Civil War through a different lens   Tim Ellis (Teesside) discusses his trip to military and state archives across Dublin. ‘the tracking down of raiders, looking after suspects and the other multifarious duties of Oriel house made it necessary to have the best […]