Professor Derval Tubridy, Goldsmiths University of London

• Modern and Contemporary Irish literature and visual art; Samuel Beckett; Intermediality in theatre and performance; Neurodiversity and disability; Small press publication and the livre d’artiste; Thomas Kinsella and contemporary poetry

Dr Amanda Hall, University of Reading

• Northern Ireland after the Troubles; Political Violence; Peace Processes; International Relations

Dr Bryan Radley, University of York

• Contemporary Irish fiction; comedy and the novel / humour studies; John Banville; genre fiction; modern and contemporary Irish literature

Fionna Barber, Manchester School of Art

• Irish art and visual culture; visualising gender, sexuality and embodiment; Northern Ireland conflict and post-conflict art/ visual culture; trauma

Dr Richard Barlow, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

• James Joyce; Irish Modernism; Irish and Scottish Studies

Dr Hilary Bishop, Liverpool John Moores University

• Cultural and Historical Geography; Archaeology; Catholic Mass Rocks and Mass Paths; Folklore

Dr Scott Brewster, University of Lincoln

• Modern and Contemporary Irish literature; Northern Irish poetry; Irish Gothic, Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester

Dr Gemma Clark, University of Exeter

• Modern Irish History, especially violence, popular protest, nationalism, Anglo-Irish politics, the Irish Revolution (1912–23); civil war; arson

Dr Alexander Coupe, Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool

• Gender & 20th-21st-century Northern/ Irish theatre, live art, dance, cultural performance; cultural policy, the arts & reconciliation

Professor Graham Dawson, Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories, University of Brighton

• politics of memory in Ireland; cultural memory and oral/life histories of the Northern Ireland conflict; post-conflict culture and conflict transformation; the Northern Irish Troubles in Britain

Dr Tim Ellis-Dale, Teeside University

• Modern Irish history, particularly the history of the Irish Free State; cultural history; history of political culture; history of politics and visual culture; history of gender and masculinities

Christy Evans, Coláiste na nGael, Former European Commission Language Ambassador

• The Irish language

Dr Melissa Fegan, University of Chester

• Nineteenth-century Irish literature; representations of the Famine in literature; Irish travel literature

Dr Rachael Flynn, The Centre for Island Studies, University of the West of Scotland

• Female Diaspora; Site-specific Creative Practice; Moving Image and Performance; Storytelling and Seanchaí Traditions; Emotion, Memory and Performative Cultural Practices; Artistic Research Methodologies

Dr Erin Geraghty, University of Nottingham

• British feminists participating in the Irish suffrage and labour movements 1900-1921; imperial frameworks; transnational networks; international solidarities

Professor Richard Grayson, Oxford Brooks University

• Ireland and the First World War; Irish Revolution; early C20th Belfast; early C20th Dublin; commemoration and remembrance

Dr Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston, Trinity College, University of Cambridge

• Irish Modernism; Modernist Studies; Censorship and Obscenity; Social History of Medicine, Gender, Sexuality, and the Body

Conor Kelly, Birkbeck and University College London

• Northern Irish Political Parties and European Integration; politics of a ‘border poll’

Professor Stephen Kelly, Liverpool Hope University

• Modern Ireland: history and politics; modern Anglo-Irish relations; The Northern Ireland conflict; Northern Ireland: state and society; Margaret Thatcher and Thatcherism; and St John Henry Newman and Ireland

Dr George Legg, King’s College London

• Irish & British Literature; Capitalism; Political Violence; Urban Studies; Cultural Theory

Dr Eleni Loukopoulou

• James Joyce; Modernist Studies; History of the Book; Literary London; Medical Humanities

Dr Alan MacLeod, University of Leeds

• Northern Ireland ‘Troubles; Irish-UK relations; Irish-US relations; international diplomacy; political violence; British political identities

Professor Ian McBride, University of Oxford

• Modern Irish History, especially the eighteenth century; the Northern Ireland Troubles; intellectual history and historiography

Dr Terence McBride, Open University

• Irishness in Victorian Scotland; Irish Home Rulers and Early Labour Movement in Scotland; Glasgow Free Press and Irish Civic in 1850s/60s Glasgow

Dr Bronagh McShane, University of Limerick

• Society and religion in early modern Ireland and Europe (1500-1800) with a particular focus on women’s religious orders and the impacts of religious change and reform

Dr Caroline Magennis, University of Salford

• Contemporary Writing; Irish Fiction, Northern Irish Culture; Theoretical Approaches to Gender; Sexuality and the Body

Dr Mike Mecham, Visiting Fellow, St Mary’s University, Twickenham, London

• Irish labour history from the 19th century; Belfast labour movement; William Walker

Professor Emilie Morin, University of York

• Irish modernism; Samuel Beckett; intellectual history; radio; literature

Dr Mo Moulton, University of Birmingham

• Irish diaspora; Irish in Britain; postcolonial history; gender history; queer history

Dr Claire Nally, Northumbria University

• Modern and contemporary Irish literature (specifically W. B. Yeats); the occult; Irish advertising; contemporary fiction; historical fiction in Ireland

Professor Catherine Nash, Queen Mary University of London

• Irish cultural geographies; national belonging; genealogical and genomic relatedness; the Border

Dr Martin O’Donoghue, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt

• Modern Irish History; History of political thought; the Irish Parliamentary Party; The British Empire; The Irish revolution

Dr Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh, University of Edinburgh

• Irish Language Studies; eighteenth-century literature; Irish manuscript studies; translation; historical sociolinguistics; Irish and Scottish Gaelic literature

Dr Jennifer Orr, Newcastle University

• literary networks and correspondence; Comparative Romantic Literature (Scottish and Irish); print culture (especially newspapers); poetic self-fashioning in the ‘long’ Eighteenth Century, especially labouring-class

Dr Maggie Scull, Syracuse University London

• Irish Catholic Church; Religious History; the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’; Entangled History; Catholicism; Peace and Reconciliation Studies

Dr Marc Scully, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick

• Irish diaspora; Irish in Britain; transnationalism; authenticity; second-generation identity; social psychological approaches. Currently working on a project on applications for Irish passports post-Brexit

Dr Gerry Smyth, Liverpool John Moores University

• Modernism; literature and music; popular music, James Joyce

Dr Nicholas Taylor-Collins, Cardiff Metropolitan University

• John Banville’s fiction; literary theory; ethics; modern and contemporary Irish literature; Shakespeare and Ireland/Ireland in Shakespeare;

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