BAIS CULTURAL PROGRAMME Institute of Irish Studies, Liverpool. More details on booking to follow. Please find our CFP here.  Thursday 2 July – What If? A Play by Patricia Downey (Spanner in the Works Theatre) Friday 3 July – Eimear McBride in conversation with Professor Derval Turbidy (Goldsmiths) Saturday 4 July – Tony Doherty and Jimmy McGovern in conversation   Biographies PATRICIA DOWNEY/SPANNER IN THE WORKS THEATRE Spanner in the Works Theatre […]

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. […]

We are pleased to announce our bursary winners for 2019, which will be presented at the Embassy of Ireland on 16th May 2019. This was an exceptionally competitive field and we thank Dr Erika Hanna (Bristol) for chairing our panel of judges as they made their decisions. Jess McIvor: ‘Women at war: Comparing the representation […]

The British Association for Irish Studies is proud to announce that the winner of its inaugural book prize is Dr Sarah Jankowitz (Liverpool) for her study The Order of Victimhood: Violence, Hierarchy and Building Peace in Northern Ireland (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). In praising the book, one judge commented that ‘This research is of great significance in terms […]

In June 2020, the English Shared Futures Conference will be held in Manchester/Salford. Full details at link. At the event in 2017 in Newcastle, there was a BAIS panel with Adam Hanna, Richard Kirkland and Caroline Magennis, which was lead and organised by Matthew Campbell. Several other scholarly organisations were represented at the event, which […]

Thank you for your interest in hosting the national conference of the British Association for Irish Studies in 2020. We anticipate that this will take place in early September 2020 in England, Scotland or Wales. This is our thirty-fifth anniversary and we are keen to mark it with a special event. BAIS General Principles: Our […]

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 presented at […]