Next Wednesday, April 3 @ 5 pm in Connolly House #BCIrishStudies will be hosting Martin Doyle as he discusses his new book, Dirty Linen: The Troubles In My Home Place Doyle's book presents a microcosm of the Troubles, examining the paramilitary violence in Tullylish, County Down

“We must familiarise ourselves with our troubled past…but in this remembering, we most decommission any such weaponising of history” Thrilled to host Martin Doyle on his Dirty Linen US book tour! Thanks to Culture Ireland & the Irish Consulte in Boston for support the event!

So thrilled to speak at the Easter Rising commemoration tomorrow – love talking about women's militancy during the Irish Revolution! Hope to see you there!

Our own Tiffany Thompson and Christian Dupont were invited to speak at the annual commemoration of the Easter Rising in Scituate this weekend!

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You’ve been Dr. Ray for almost a year now but watching you officially graduate brought tears to my eyes - I’m so proud of you bestie!! 📚🥂🎓☘️🤍

Today’ office: a train ride along the Northern Irish coast 🌊

Had a great time hosting this networking session with Tiffany Thompson (she/her)! There’s some amazing work happening in this room!!

"The future of Irish Studies is in this room"

Such a great week at #ACIS2024 and presenting alongside these two lovely ladies was absolutely the highlight for me 🩷 Rachael Young Liz DeYoung

Delighted to open the call for our new Emerging Scholars' Blog series.... see the call below ⬇️⬇️⬇️ We're eager to promote some of the newest cutting edge research and to provide the space for ECRs to showcase their work. Please RT widely!

If any of my fellow grad students are considering attending the NE/MA Regional ACIS (‘Ireland at Risk’) this October & also love yapping about the precarity of grad students in Irish Studies… feel free to slide into my dms bc I’m thinking about a roundtable 👀

So excited about Meitheal - our new Irish Studies grad student workshop! We’ve got a full semester of seminar papers and skills workshops planned so feel free to reach out if you’re interested in joining ☺️☘️📚

Join us at the Burns Library for an Irish Double-Header on September 18! Start the evening with a lecture from Hillary Dully focusing on Irish Revolutionary Máire Comerford and finish with a film screening and discussion of Joe Comerford's 'Reefer & the Model.'

Next Wednesday, September 25, at 7:00 pm, #BCIrishStudies will host Rita Duffy! The Belfast-born artists will give a lecture titled "You Can't Hope for a Better Past" as part of the #BC Lowell Lecture series. That talk is free and open to the public!

Our graduate students participating in an interdisciplinary colloquium on the legacy of mother and baby homes & related institutions in Ireland with Margo Harkin, @SarahAnneBuckle, @maireadenright, & patricia carey

Thank you to Patricia Carey, Sarah-Anne Buckley, Margo Harkin, Máiréad Enright, & Clair Wills for participating in an incredibly moving and informative Q&A session following the BC screening of Harkin’s film Stolen Margo Harkin @SarahAnneBuckle @maireadenright patricia carey

“The Vegetarian” stays in my top 5 favorite books of all time how exciting is this?! ❤️

Looking forward to speaking at Boston College this weekend on Environmental Citizenship: The Ecology of Contemporary Irish Poetry UMass Amherst HFA UMass English KOCallaghan

The program for #Comhfhios 2025 is out! Join us this Saturday, February 8, in Connolly House for a great showing of graduate student research on environmentalism in Irish Studies!