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Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies

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Promoting research into the languages, histories and literatures of Ireland and Scotland, and of their global diasporic communities. Est. 1999 at the University of Aberdeen.

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International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures @iassl.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Sarah Sharp @abdnriiss.bsky.social @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social received the Honourable Mention for the article ‘The Settler Colonial Cotter: Situating “The Cotter’s Saturday Night” in Post-Revolutionary America,’ published in the Burns Chronicle @edinburghup.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/255n2rm6
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International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures @iassl.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Kang-yen Chiu (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan) is the recipient of the 2025 Jack Medal. Sarah Sharp (@abdnriiss.bsky.social @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social) was awarded the Honourable Mention. Congratulations! 🏵️ Find out more about the awardees: tinyurl.com/255n2rm6
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International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures @iassl.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
The @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social @abdnriiss.bsky.social Spring Seminar Series begins this week. Members of the public and students and scholars from other institutions worldwide are welcome to attend. Please contact Michael Brown (m.brown@abdn.ac.uk) to request the link and join online.
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Aberdeen University Press @abdnunipress.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Yesterday we celebrated the official launch of our final print-only book, The Seven Incorporated Trades of Aberdeen, in their historic Trinity Hall. This epic work charts the history of the 7 Trades, and Aberdeen itself, from Medieval origins to present. Pick up a copy here abdn.site/7Trade
Book cover with an image of a building at night, it has brightly lit coloured stain glass windows, each window lit in a different color, teal, green, yellow, pink, and purple. It says 'The Seven Incorporated Trades of Aberdeen'
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Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies @abdnriiss.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Our scheme closes to application on Friday! If you are an ECR with a doctorate, please do consider making an application.
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Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies @abdnriiss.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
A reminder that our fellowship scheme is open for a second year!
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Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies @abdnriiss.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
We're delighted to announce that, after a very successful first year, RIISS will be hosting a further New Voices ECR Visiting Fellow in 2026. Applications are open until 5th December 2025. www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-e...
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New Voices ECR Visiting Fellowship
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Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies @abdnriiss.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
We're back with the New Voices next week! Maurice Casey from QUB will be sharing his research paper 'Hotel Lux: Researching an Irish Woman's World in 1920s Moscow'. Join us at 4pm on Tuesday by contatcing Dr Sarah Sharp for the link.
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International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures @iassl.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
The John Galt Society welcomes applications for a grant (of up to ₤1000) to defray expenses incurred in connection with research into the works, life or influence of John Galt. Deadline: 31 January 2026. More information: thejohngaltsociety.com/research-gra...
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Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies @abdnriiss.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Coming to a computer near you this afternoon! Email Dr Sharp if you'd like to hear Dr Zukovs fascinating paper.
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Aberdeen University Press @abdnunipress.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Our latest issue of the Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies is now out, and free to read! This is a special 'New Voices' issue featuring the work of Early Career Researchers. We hope it will be the first of many such issues #SupportECRs abdn.site/121
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Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies | Issue: Issue: 1(12) (2025)
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Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies @abdnriiss.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
We have more exciting things lined up this semester. The New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies webinar series is back and has a stellar line-up of emerging researchers. To attend simply contact Dr Sharp at the address on the poster:
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Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies @abdnriiss.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Bookending the summer, in September we also saw the publication of the inugural New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies issue of the Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies. Full of fresh new scholarship from emerging researchers, the issue is fully open access here: jiss.aberdeenunipress.org
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The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
📢 We're seeking a volunteer Treasurer! 📍 Glasgow | ⏰ ~4 hrs/month 💼 Join our Board & support the legacy of Alasdair Gray. 📅 Apply by Thurs 6 Nov 2025, 5pm 📧 sorcha@thealasdairgrayarchive.org thealasdairgrayarchive.org/wp-content/u...
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Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies @abdnriiss.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
We've also welcomed a number of amazing publications over the summer. In May, Dr Bradford Boy edited a new issue of the Journal of Scottish Thought focused on John Witherspoon. All articles are available open access for you to enjoy: jst.aberdeenunipress.org/issue/37/info/
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Journal of Scottish Thought | Issue: Issue: 1(14) (2025)
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Liam McIlvanney @liammcilvanney.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Applications are invited for the 2026 CISS Scottish Writing Fellowship at the University of Otago in Aotearoa New Zealand. Flights, accommodation & stipend for 2 months at the Caselberg House near Dunedin. Apply at the link below by 31 October. Good luck…! www.otago.ac.nz/ciss
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Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies
The Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies provides an opportunity to study the literature, history, politics and culture of Ireland and Scotland – and of the Irish and Scottish diasporas – over the pa...
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Deirdre Flynn @deirdreflynn.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
📣 📣 The CFP for IASIL 2026 is now LIVE! 📣 📣 Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU) Budapest – 6-10 July 2026 Translating Ireland The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday, November 28, 2025. #IrishStudies #Translation #IrishLiterature Full CFP: www.iasil.org/2025/09/conf... Pls share
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CONFERENCE 2026: Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU) Budapest – 6-10 July 2026 – International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures
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Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies @abdnriiss.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
It was a great joy to welcome so many new and familiar faces to RIISS over June! Tune back in tomorrow to hear what else we had going on this summer.
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Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies @abdnriiss.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
But we weren't done. On 25th June, contributors gathered at RIISS to discuss the upcoming Routledge Companion to Scottish Literature. www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-e...
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Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies @abdnriiss.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
In June, we also co-hosted a symposium bringing together policy makers, statutory and non-departmental public bodies, academics, industry and civil society organisations from across Ireland and Scotland to discuss current actions and challenges around empowering Gaelic and Irish speaking communities
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
A great first day at @ssnci.bsky.social in Aberdeen. Learned a ton, almost melted in the heat, and had a great evening in Aberdeen’s lovely Botanic Gardens.
A few toward the North Sea from the Linrary’s 7th Floor with Aberdeen’s old campus buildings below.Looking up inside the Sir Duncan Rice Library.
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Michael Lawrence @mpalawrence.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Had a great time presenting in the @ssnci.bsky.social conference! Aberdeen, as a city, is often taken for granite in my opinion.
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Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland @ssnci.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Thanks to all speakers, organisers, attendees, and everyone involved in our annual conference and thanks to @abdnriiss.bsky.social for hosting us!!!!
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Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies @abdnriiss.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
We hosted @ssnci.bsky.social for their conference on one of the hottest weekend's of the year in Aberdeen. Lots of sun and lots of incredible research shared!
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Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies @abdnriiss.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Hello everyone, we've been a bit quiet whilst we've been figuring out our social media(s) but WE'RE BACK BABY! And boy have we been busy this summer...
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Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland @ssnci.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
The SSNCI will hold its 2025 Annual Conference at the @abdnriiss.bsky.social at the University of Aberdeen on 19-21 June 2025! To find out more see ssnci.org/annual-confe...
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Annual Conference 2025 | The Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland
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Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies @abdnriiss.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Dr Elisa Cozzi is here to research the nineteenth-century Dante scholar John Taaffe and his connections to Scottish Romanticism. You can read more about her project here: www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-e...
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Inaugural New Voices ECR Visiting Fellow Arrives
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Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies @abdnriiss.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
We're so excited to welcome SSNCI!
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Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Our next JST #JacobiteStudies workshop is upon us on Tue, 8 April at 5pm UKT, and we'll be welcoming Dr Katarzyna Gmerek, who will be updating us on her longstanding research into the Jacobite O’Byrn family through their movements from Ireland to Central Europe. jdb1745.net/events/jstwo...
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Steve Murdoch @profmurdoch.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Post Doc! "Materialising the Scots in Northern Europe c.1500-1750: Mobilities, Communities and Materiel Culture" Focus on the Netherlands, Scandinavia or Poland www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa... #Skystorians 🗃
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IASH-National Museums Scotland Fellowship | IASH
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Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies @abdnriiss.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Hello everyone! RIISS (Aberdeen's Research Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies) is now on Bluesky. We're excited to see familiar faces and make new friends. Please do give us a follow if you're interested in Scottish and/or Irish Studies.
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Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland @ssnci.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Announcement! Deadline extended to 20 April for submitting an abstract to our annual conference @abdnriiss.bsky.social on 'Universalism and Locality in Nineteenth-Century Ireland'!! For more see ssnci.org/annual-confe...
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Annual Conference 2025 – CFP EXTENDED 20 April | The Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland
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