Autumn 2025 Seminars

Jessica Martell (Appalachian State University), 'Beyond plantation mentalities in Irish literature, film, and culture' (8/12/25)

Emma Radley (UCD) and Daithí Kearney (DkIT), Irish Studies: Beyond the Text (1/12/25)

Catriona Kennedy (York), 'Women, politics, and the Irish public sphere in the age of revolution' (24/11/25)

Luca Bertolani Azeredo (Naples), 'The Enniskillen Horse: illegality, legitimacy and the birth of Irish paramilitarism' (17/11/25)

Hiram Morgan (UCC), 'Anatomies of death': forced famine in the Tudor conquest of Ireland (10/11/25)

Elena Bergia (QUB), 'In two stirrups: Identities in motion between Northern Ireland and Casalattico (Italy)' (3/11/25)

Ian d'Alton (Indep.), '1932: Seeing the same world differently: Irish Catholics and Protestants a decade after independence' (20/10/25)

Shinjini Chattopadhyay (UNC),  'Critical cosmopolitanism and Irish identity in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake' (13/10/25)

Alexandra Maclennan (Caen), Cardinal Owen McCann (1907-94): die Roomse gevaar in apartheid South Africa (6/10/25)

Noelle Moran and Caitlin O'Neill (UCD Press), Irish Studies publication workshop (29/09/2025)

Dominic Bryan (QUB), 'Authenticity, history and everyday nationalism: comparing Irish pubs to McDonald’s restaurants' (22/09/2025)