Workshop Report: Rebellion, Revolution and Resistance in the Twentieth Century – Social Movements, Class and Political Violence (Newcastle University, 4-5 October 2019)

Jack Hepworth (University of Central Lancashire) reports on the Rebellion, Revolution, and Resistance in the Twentieth Century – Social Movements, Class, and Political Violence workshop hosted by Newcastle University and supported by the BAIS Events Fund. With thanks to generous funding support from the British Association of Irish Studies, Newcastle University Labour and Society Research Group […]

Irish Studies Report: Britain & Northern Ireland, 2018-2019

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. […]

BAIS Prize-Giving 2019

On 16th May 2019, we held our Annual Prizegiving Ceremony in the Embassy of Ireland in London. The Council of BAIS would like to thank the Embassy for making us feel so welcome, particularly Ambassador Adrian O’Neill, Ruaidhri Dowling, Rachel Ingersoll and Gerry Doherty. Ambassador O’Neill’s warm, thoughtful words encouraged us in our efforts to […]

New Directions in Irish History Conference

A report by Sean Donnelly: On 22-23 March 2019, my colleague, Tim Ellis and I ran a conference entitled ‘New Directions in Irish History’ at Teesside University in Middlesbrough. The eventaimed to foreground papers by early career researchers (ECRs)seeking to introduce fresh theoretical perspectives and innovative interdisciplinary and transnational methodologies to the study of Irish […]

BAIS Bursary Winners 2019

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 […]

Inaugural Book Prize Winner: Dr Sarah Jankowitz

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 […]

BAIS at English Shared Futures: Call for Contributions

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 […]

Call for Applications: BAIS Conference 2020

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 […]

Irish Studies in Britain, 2017-8

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 […]

Irish Language in Britain Update

Irish Language in Britain Update BAIS council member Christy Evans provides his annual review of the Irish language in Britain and what’s to come in 2016. Irish language classes at St Mary’s University, Twickenham continue to grow. Our September 2015 BAIS symposium featuring Professor Alan Titley was very well attended. On 16 January, I am […]