We would like to congratulate all of our prize winners for 2020. We hope to be able to celebrate their successes in person in 2021. We thank our judges for their scrupulous work in difficult circumstances this year and the Embassy of Ireland for funding our bursaries. The BAIS Essay Prize is kindly supported by […]
Read more "BAIS Prize Winners 2020"During the month of May, BAIS will facilitate an online month-long Irish Studies ‘Conference’ on Twitter. We welcome speakers from anywhere in the world, at any stage of their careers, on any topic as long as it is related to Ireland or the Irish diaspora. We ask that during this period you upload to Twitter […]
Read more "BAIS Virtual Conference – May 2020"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 […]
Read more "BAIS Conference Cultural Programme – Liverpool 2020"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 […]
Read more "Workshop Report: Rebellion, Revolution and Resistance in the Twentieth Century – Social Movements, Class and Political Violence (Newcastle University, 4-5 October 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. […]
Read more "Irish Studies Report: Britain & Northern Ireland, 2018-2019"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 […]
Read more "BAIS Prize-Giving 2019"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 […]
Read more "New Directions in Irish History Conference"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 […]
Read more "BAIS Bursary Winners 2019"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 […]
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