Don Murphy, husband of ACIS Past President Maureen Murphy, was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, and died in New York on March 2, 1986. He received his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and Bachelor of...

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…

This open access book explores what kinds of sources and methodologies are needed for a history of experience.

The belief in a ‘natural’ Irish sympathy with the Palestinian people, based on a shared history of colonisation, is a very widespread one. Indeed, many suggest that the legacy of resistance to Brit...

Abstract. This article reevaluates historians’ understanding of the Irish in post-war Britain from the perspective of a previously unresearched population,

Examining case studies from Asia, Africa, North America, and Europe, this book explores the debates around the past, present and future of public monuments. Thr…

This article examines the emigration of children from Belfast workhouse in the opening years of the twentieth century. Belfast, a thriving industrial city at the heart of empire and itself a produc...

After 10 years as Director of the Institute of Irish Studies, Prof Peter Gray is handing over to a new leadership team from the start of August 2026.

This article examines the contemporary return and reburial of human remains in two European contexts – Inishbofin, Ireland, and Pälkäne, Finland – to analyse how communities of descent experience, ...

This article examines the contemporary return and reburial of human remains in two European contexts – Inishbofin, Ireland, and Pälkäne, Finland – to analyse how communities of descent experience, ...

King’s College London’s Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, jointly supervised by English and War Studies.

This article reinterprets Irish links to Atlantic slavery as a problem of kinship, inheritance, and family memory. It focuses in particular on genealogy as a technology of memory within enslaver fa...

An Irish family learns about their ancestor's past as a slave-owner.

This article reinterprets Irish links to Atlantic slavery as a problem of kinship, inheritance, and family memory. It focuses in particular on genealogy as a technology of memory within enslaver fa...

Congratulations to the 2025 Book Prize & Fellowship recipients! Special thanks to the book prize and fellowship committees for your work and dedication!

Film from Kneecap director Rich Peppiatt will shoot across Ireland

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Open access violence: Legacies of white supremacist data making at the Penn Museum, from the Morton Cranial Collection to the MOVE remains - Volume 30 Issue 2

Save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire

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A Mary Immaculate College (MIC) academic has teamed up with the Cranberries drummer, Fergal Lawler, and acclaimed musician and producer Bernard Butler to release a new single rooted in the history of the Irish diaspora.