A Comparative Study of Women’s Economic Agency in Medieval Ireland and Iceland

The second report from our 2024 Bursary Prize winners comes from Hannah Evans (University of Liverpool). Hannah used her BAIS bursary to attend conferences in Iceland and France and disseminate her research findings: The BAIS Bursary Prize 2024 facilitated my attendance at two academic conferences this year, where I had the opportunity to present my […]

Operation Bogeyman: The Folk Horror Landscape of 1970’s Northern Ireland

We begin again our BAIS PGR bursary prize winners blog post series. Each year we ask our bursary prize winners to write up a short post on how they spent their bursary funds. This year we begin with Simon Aeppli (University of Brighton), for whom the BAIS bursary supported the development of his practice-based PhD: […]

British Association for Irish Studies Awards and Bursaries 2024

We are pleased to announce the winners for our 2024 awards and bursaries, which will be presented at the Embassy of Ireland on 28th May. BAIS would like to acknowledge the valuable support of the Embassy of Ireland, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Cambridge University Press and the Irish Studies Review. Book Prize The […]

Ulster Loyalists and the British White Working Class: An Exploration in Modern Alienation

Our final report from the 2023 BAIS Bursary Prize winners comes from Peter Bothwell (University of St Andrews). Peter’s bursary enabled him to travel to Northern Ireland to conduct integral interviews for his doctoral project: The bursary allowed me to travel to Northern Ireland to conduct three rounds of interviews for the project. The project […]

Bin Lid Brigades and Mummy’s Little Helpers: An Oral History Investigation of Communal Networks amongst the Women of West Belfast between 1970 – 1985

Next up is 2023 BAIS Bursary Prize winner, Sarah Mason (University of Edinburgh). As an oral history investigation, Sarah used her bursary to support the interview stage of her doctoral project: Sarah Mason is a PhD student in History at the University of Edinburgh. Her doctoral project focuses on the quotidian realities of women across […]

Seán Cronin: Reflecting and developing republican thought as an activist intellectual, observer and influencer 1956-1973.

The second report from our 2023 Bursary Prize winners comes from David Glover (University of Liverpool). David used his BAIS bursary to conduct archival research for his PhD project on the prominent republican figure and journalist Seán Cronin: David Glover is a PhD student at the University of Liverpool Institute of Irish Studies. His project […]

The Irish Front? : The Easter Rising and the First World War

We begin again our BAIS PGR bursary prize winners blog post series. Each year we ask our bursary prize winners to write up a short post on how they spent their bursary funds. This year we begin with Henry Theakston (University of Leeds), for whom the BAIS bursary supported his archival research in London: Receiving […]