Republican Feminism(s): Literature and Women’s History of the Northern Irish ‘Troubles’ Conflict The final instalment in our BAIS postgraduate bursary prize winner series comes from Aimee Walsh (Liverpool John Moores University). Aimee utilised her bursary winnings to attend a writing retreat in the late stages of her PhD. My PhD research examines the representation of […]

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Everything A Woman Could Ask For?: Irish Women in Late-Nineteenth Century New York The sixth instalment in our series of posts by BAIS postgraduate bursary winners comes from Beth Kitson (Oxford). Beth used her bursary funding for a research trip to New York, where she examined archives relating to the lives of Irish women in America. […]

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Historical Puzzles The fifth instalment in our series of posts by BAIS postgraduate bursary winners comes from Rachel Kowalski (Wolfson College, Oxford). Rachel utilised her bursary funding for a trip to Galway to speak at an NUI Galway research seminar about her work on the Provisional IRA and sectarianism. As a historian, I spend my […]

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Loyalty in Captivity: Researching paramilitary prisoners in the archive, the museum and the conference The third instalment in our series of posts by BAIS postgraduate bursary winners comes from James Bright (University of Edinburgh). James used his bursary funding for a research trip to Belfast, where he examined material relating to loyalist paramilitaries. Fieldwork in […]

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“The Girls Were There and Did Their Share…”: Researching Representations of Women’s Militancy in Conflict and Post-Conflict Ireland Next up in our BAIS postgraduate bursary winners series is Jess McIvor of the Universities of Bristol and Southampton. She explores Irish women’s militancy and used her bursary winners for a research trip to Dublin. “I feel […]

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‘The Irish Pipe Roll for 14 John: Early Evidence for Bureaucratic Royal Government in Ireland’ We begin again our BAIS PhD 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 PhD student […]

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