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 […]

Grassroots Peace Research on the Ground in Northern Ireland

Next up in our postgraduate bursary prize winner blog series is Amanda Hall (St Andrew’s University) on her field work this summer in Northern Ireland. As anyone following public debate about Brexit is aware, it is difficult to know Northern Ireland without the opportunity to spend time there. While my own research considers the inter-referendum […]

September Job Bootcamp Reflection

PhD student Jess McIvor (Southampton) shares her experience of our September 2018 PhD/ECR job ‘bootcamp’ at Hertford College, Oxford. On 22 September, I attended the British Association of Irish Studies ECR and PhD job workshop in Oxford, organised by Dr Maggie Scull and Lloyd Meadhbh Houston. It was a great day, which sought to make […]

‘Kindred Movements’: A Revolutionary Trip to Dublin

Next up in our postgraduate bursary winner blog series is Emma Dewhirst (Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool) on her BAIS funded visit to archives in Dublin. ‘If we were only left alone we could show that Irishwomen can work together tolerantly on matters which do not affect the bedrock principles of nationality, and on […]

In Search of the Creator of Irish Journalism

Next up in our postgraduate bursary winner blog series is Abigail Rieley (Sussex) on her BAIS funded visit to archives in Dublin. Thanks to the BAIS bursary I headed off to Dublin this July to research the life and work of newspaper editor Michael Staunton (1788 – 1870). Staunton was the founder of the Morning […]

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 […]