Dr Pauline Collombier (University of Strasbourg): ‘Women and Home Rule: insights from fictional and non-fictional sources’

Dr Pauline Collombier is Maître de Conférences and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anglophones Studies at the University of Strasbourg, France, where she teaches British and Irish history. She holds degrees from the École Normale Supérieure (Fontenay St Cloud/Lyon) and a PhD from the university Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle. She has published widely on the Irish Home Rule movement and the great famine, including La Grande Famine en Irlande (2015), jointly with Peter Gray, and is particularly interested in political discourse analysis and Anglo-Irish relations during the long 19th century, representations of the Irish nation and the relationship between Irish Home Rulers and the British Empire. Pauline’s most recent book is Imagining Ireland’s Future, 1870-1914: Home Rule, Utopia, Dystopia, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2023, which analyses of a body of about 30 little known future fictions dealing with Irish home rule, and provides a comparative study of the nationalist discourse and of the unionist discourse on Irish home rule.

This event will be both in-person in the Irish Studies Seminar Room, 27 University Square, and online via MS Teams. All welcome in-person or online.

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