David Cooper is Senior Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University where he is the founding co-director of the Centre for Place Writing.

This in-person event will convene scholars, practitioners, policymakers, artists, families of the disappeared, and advocacy organisations to explore the socio-political, cultural, legal, and economic ...

The book launch of Outward Bound from Liverpool: Reading Malcolm Lowry by poet, writer and LJMU creative writing lecturer Helen Tookey.

The fascinating world of women’s work as business owners is illuminated in Antonia Hart’s excellent book The Commercial Lives of Irish Women, 1850–1922 which is the twenty-fourth book published in …

The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society serves to promote original, multidisciplinary research into Ireland in the long eighteenth century. Founded in 1985, it has members across Ireland and internationally. ECIS is open to all.

In this post, authors Renée Fox and Mary L. Mullen discuss the findings of their edited collection, Race, Violence, and Form: Reframing Nineteenth-Century Ireland. The second volume in the new Studies in the Global Nineteenth-Century series from Liverpool University Press, this book challenges assumptions about nineteenth-century Irish identity, exceptionalism, and literary conventions. Credit: “Two forces,” Punch, 1881. Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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This is not the best book for late night reading in bed. Its subject matter – death, dying and the dead – are not conducive to sleep. But for the rest of the

In Ireland, 1st February is St Brigid's Day, honouring St Brigid of Kildare and marking the beginning of spring. The holiday is also used to celebrate Irish women. Here, author of Irish Emigration to England Explored through Buildings, Samantha Lyster, discusses the impact Irish women had on English architecture. St Patrick’s Day is a fixture in the British calendar, but there’s another Irish patron saint that rarely makes the news here.