Historical Puzzles

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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Being English in Ireland

Being English in Ireland The fourth instalment in our series of posts by BAIS postgraduate bursary winners comes from Victoria Brown (Queen Mary, University of London). Victoria used her bursary funding to conduct preliminary research in the Republic of Ireland for her thesis on the experience English emigrants in Ireland. “Do you mean Irish people […]

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Researching paramilitary prisoners in the archive, the museum and the conference

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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Researching Representations of Women’s Militancy in Conflict and Post-Conflict Ireland

“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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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 […]

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‘The Irish Pipe Roll for 14 John: Early Evidence for Bureaucratic Royal Government in Ireland’

‘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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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. […]

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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 […]

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