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acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The CFP for the Michael Longley conference and commemoration at QUB this spring is now on our website! acisweb.org/announcement...
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Michael Longley: A Conference and Commemoration | American Conference for Irish Studies – An Chomhdháil Mheiriceánach do Léann na hÉireann
Michael Longley: A Conference and Commemoration Wed 9 – Sat 12 June 2027 | Queen’s University Belfast Michael Longley, who died in January 2024, was one of the foremost lyric poets of his time.
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Irish Studies at Boston College @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We're now accepting applications for the Hachey Professorship of Irish & Irish-American History! This is a tenured position in the History Department and the Irish Studies Program. Apply here apply.interfolio.com/194167 by November 13.
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acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Those close to Notre Dame may be interested in this discussion on the development & current state of Indigenous language rights around the world, with a focus on ongoing efforts in Ireland
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acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The CFP for our 2027 National ACIS conference in Pittsburgh is now up on the website! The theme for the conference is 'Wrong Resilience: The Labor & Material of Irish Identities.' Submit paper proposals by December 1! acisweb.org/conferences/...
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ACIS National Conference 2027 | American Conference for Irish Studies – An Chomhdháil Mheiriceánach do Léann na hÉireann
Deirdre Cooper Owens, Professor of History at University of Connecticut; Organization of American Historians’ (OAH) Distinguished Lecturer; author of the award-winning Medical Bondage: Race…
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acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The CFP deadline for the #ACIS Mid-Atlantic/New England 2026 regional conference has been extended until September 15th! Find more information here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Call For Papers Mid-Atlantic/ New England ACIS 2026
American Conference for Irish Studies Mid-Atlantic and New England Regional Conference November 6th and 7th 2026 Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ CFP Proposal Extension: The Call for Papers d...
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Irish Studies at Boston College @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
We're now accepting applications for the newly created role of Assistant Professor of the Practice / Assistant Director of Irish Studies! Apply here apply.interfolio.com/191724 by October 18.
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acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The CFP for IASIL can be found on our website: acisweb.org/announcement...
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CFP: Children of the Nation | American Conference for Irish Studies – An Chomhdháil Mheiriceánach do Léann na hÉireann
How has our sense of the nation and its children changed since 1916, or even since the decade of centenaries? What are the new approaches to the expansion of the nation, with its diasporic identities…
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acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
There's new info on opportunities for students in Irish Studies on our website! Check out this call for internship applications from the American Irish Historical Society acisweb.org/announcement...
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American Irish Historical Society Internship | American Conference for Irish Studies – An Chomhdháil Mheiriceánach do Léann na hÉireann
Applications are open for the American Irish Historical Society’s Fall Internship program. The program is a competitive application, providing training for undergraduate and graduate students who…
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acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Registration for our joint Midwest/Southern regional 2026 conference is now open! Anyone registering before 10 September gets the early bird discount. #ACISregional2026
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uniofgalwaycasscs.bsky.social @uniofgalwaycasscs.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Morgan Mayo and Dr Molly-Claire Gillett, early career researchers at the Centre for Irish Studies, @uniofgalway.bsky.social, have received awards from @acirishstudies.bsky.social 🔗: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
University of Galway branded graphic including photographic image of Morgan Mayo (left) and Dr Molly-Claire Gillett (right)
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acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The CFP for our joint New England/Mid-Atlantic regional ACIS conference is up! Taking place at Seton Hall University from November 6-7, the conference's theme is "Not a Monoculture": Ideas of Irishness. More information can be found here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Call For Papers Mid-Atlantic/ New England ACIS 2026
American Conference for Irish Studies Mid-Atlantic and New England Regional Conference November 6th and 7th 2026 Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ Please send abstracts of 250 words to Elizabe...
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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Very nice not only to have good news but to have it shared - thanks @martindoyle.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social
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Claire Connolly wins Robert Rhodes Prize
Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of tomorrow’s pages
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Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies @ndirishstudies.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Congratulations to @laurenjean1693.bsky.social on winning the Adele Dalsimer Prize for Distinguished Dissertation from ACIS! Lauren earned her Ph.D. in history from Notre Dame this year. She also completed the graduate minor in Irish studies through the Keough-Naughton Institute. 👏
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acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Our website is highlighting some summer CFPs: Transformations: Irish Literature & Social Change - due June 15 Irish Diasporas & the Making of America - conference due August 30 Ireland and America: After the Good Friday Agreement - due August 31 acisweb.org/announcement/
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Archives: Announcements | American Conference for Irish Studies – An Chomhdháil Mheiriceánach do Léann na hÉireann
The American Conference for Irish Studies is a multidisciplinary scholarly organization with approximately 800 members in the United States, Ireland, Canada, and other countries around the world.
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Rachael H @rach-healy.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Very honoured to have been awarded the John & Pat Hume Foundation Fellowship for my ongoing PhD research on working-class girlhood, care, and violence in West Belfast. The fellowship supports research reflecting Hume's commitment to peacebuilding & reconciliation across Ireland.
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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
We are delighted to announce that Irish Studies at QUB will host @acirishstudies.bsky.social in 2028. The dates will be June 12-15; CFP to follow.
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acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
#NationalACIS26 Fellowship winners with #ACIS executive committee members!
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Catherine Healy @catherine-healy.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Lovely to see my book has received an honourable mention for the Lawrence J. McCaffrey Prize, an @acirishstudies.bsky.social award for the best monographs on Irish America. Congrats to @irishacw.bsky.social on a well-deserved win for his work on Irish-American soldiers. acisweb.org/2025/05/2024...
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2025 Book Prize Winners Announced | American Conference for Irish Studies – An Chomhdháil Mheiriceánach do Léann na hÉireann
Congratulations to the 2025 Book Prize & Fellowship recipients! Special thanks to the book prize and fellowship committees for your work and dedication!
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Lauren Jean @laurenjean1693.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Delighted to have won the Dalsimer Prize! Thank you to @acirishstudies.bsky.social!
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Damian Shiels @irishacw.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
My deepest thanks to @acirishstudies.bsky.social for selecting Green & Blue for the Lawrence J. McCaffrey Prize for Books on Irish America. A super way to kick off June 😀
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acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Eamon Wall giving one of New Hibernia Review’s James Rogers article prizes to Damjana Mraović-O'Hare (with her husband and son.
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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Thanks @acirishstudies.bsky.social for this welcome news!
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Sarah Roddy @seroddy.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
A real honour to receive this prize for my book - the list of past winners includes some of my favourite people and some of my favourite books in Irish history.
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Irish Studies at Boston College @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
We're so proud of our own Teddy Lehre for winning the #ACIS Krause Research Fellowship!
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acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Morgan Mayo (University of Galway) was awarded the Maureen Murphy Postgraduate Prize for her distinguished paper at last year's #NationalACIS. Grads who presented a paper at #NationalACIS26 in Denver can submit their papers for next year's Murphy Prize!
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acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Collin Bonnell (Concordia University) won the Emmet Larkin Research Fellowship. His dissertation, titled “Joining the Ascendancy,” proposes that it would be more accurate to understand the British ruling class as operating along the lines of the ‘Historic Bloc.'
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acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Awarded the Larkin Interdisciplinary Fellowship, Kaitlynn McShea-Jones' dissertation, titled “Irish Women Playwrights: Writing in Response to the Irish Free State Period,” examines how eight Irish women dramatists wrote before, during, and after the Irish Free State (1922–1937).
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acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The Krause Research Fellowship is awarded to Theodore Lehre (Boston College) for their project “Alternative Motherhoods in Twentieth- and Twenty-first Century Irish Literature.” This project identifies how alternative motherhoods challenge the foundations of Irish society.
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acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
For her outstanding and highly distinctive project that combines strong ethnographic research with contemporary theoretical insight, Rachael Louise Healy (Stanford University) was awarded the John & Pat Hume Foundation Fellowship
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acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Congratulations to our 2025 Fellowship winners! We cannot wait to see the fantastic completed projects these scholars are working on.
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acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Claire Connolly was awarded the Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature for her work Irish Romanticism: A Literary History
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acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Molly-Claire Gillett's Irish Lacemaking: Art, Industry and Cultural Practice merits the Durkan Prize for its distinctive combination of scholarly rigor and creative imagination. Gillett's meticulous research reconstructs the lives and labor of Irish lacemakers.
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acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
In Green & Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military 1861-1865, Damian Shiels offers fresh insights into the lives of Irish men serving in the Union military. Shining light into the heterogeneity of Irish America, this work was awarded the Lawrence McCaffery Prize
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acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Winner of the James S. Donnelly Prize for Books on History, Sarah Roddy's Mondy & Irish Catholicism develops an important interdisciplinary study that integrates social history with economics, religious studies, & diaspora scholarship
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acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Winner of the Irish Language prize, Miotal ár Sinsear, by Liam Mac Peaircín, is a driving tour de force in the field of sociolinguistics. It covers all the key issues in the field, with a primary focus on the Irish language revival in County Tipperary from 1900 to 1930
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acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The Donald Murphy Prize Committee congratulates Molly-Claire Gillett on her book Irish Lacemaking: Art, Industry and Cultural Practice – a fresh contribution to the field, weaving together material culture, history, & embodied practice on a topic that long deserved such attention
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acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The Ann Owens Weeks Award was won by Adam Behan for his theoretically rich essay that provides a vital window onto performances of masculinity in rock music in Ireland in the 1970s and 1980s.
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acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Our newest award, the Catherine Shannon Bursary, was awarded to Melissa DeLury (George Mason University).
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acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The Adele Dalsimer Prize for Distinguished Dissertation is awarded to Lauren Jean (University of Notre Dame) for her dissertation titled: “‘Gnúis Charthonach gan Chailg n-Aor’: Social Capital, Honor, and Gender in the Late Medieval Mág Uidhir Lordship of Fir Manach, c.1300-1650.”
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acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
We're thrilled to announce the #ACIS 2025 book awards! Congratulations to all our winners and many thanks to everyone who served on the committees.
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acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
For the final plenary at #NationalACIS26, Molly Sturdevant and Michael Patrick MacDonald discussed Irish American Literature of Working Class Resistance
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acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Many thanks to @emilymfg.bsky.social for sharing these amazing images with us at #NationalACIS26!
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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Absolutely fascinating paper by @emilymfg.bsky.social this morning at @acirishstudies.bsky.social on the relationship between photography, surveillance, and Irish anti-eviction aggression
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acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston came to welcome #NationalACIS26 to town and to thank the conference organizing committee!
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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Congratulations to all the winners of this year’s @acirishstudies.bsky.social book prizes and fellowships
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I had the privilege to serve as the @acirishstudies.bsky.social History Rep, which meant I also chaired the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book. We had an amazing slate of books – truly inspiring stuff – and it was such a pleasure to read. Irish Studies future is bright!
Molly-Claire Gillett's "Irish Lacemaking: Art, Industry and Culture Practice" book cover, with white lace and a red background. Gillett won the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book.
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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Off to a panel for @acirishstudies.bsky.social on the transnational relations between Ireland and Tanzania; Ireland and Palestine; and Ireland's diaspora and the Moycullen DNA Project
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Emily Mark-FitzGerald @emilymfg.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
A moving visit to the Leadville Irish Paupers’ Memorial in Colorado, by delegates to the annual American Conference for Irish Studies - marking 1300 graves, the majority of which were impoverished Irish migrants @acirishstudies.bsky.social
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acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Today's plenary at #NationalACIS26 was delivered by James Walsh of the University of Colorado, Denver, and his students. The group's presentation was titled "Leadville's Irish Pauper Memorial: A New Lens into the Rocky Mountain Irish Immigrant Story."
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