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Cambridge Group for Irish Studies

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Cambridge Group for Irish Studies | Seminar group exploring all aspects of Irish culture, literature and history based at the University of Cambridge | Account run by the CGIS secretary

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Cambridge Group for Irish Studies @irishstudiescam.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We are delighted to share the Cambridge Group for Irish Studies (CGIS) seminar series programme for Michaelmas Term 2026 with our first meeting on Tuesday, 27th October. All seminars take place on Tuesdays at 5:30 pm (Cambridge time) in person at Magdalene College, with a hybrid option via Zoom.
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Cambridge Group for Irish Studies @irishstudiescam.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Please join us today at 5pm for the last meeting of term. We are delighted to be in collaboration with @pembroke1347.bsky.social and @theul.bsky.social to welcome three of Ireland’s leading artists, Bernadette Kiely, Siobhán McDonald and Paul Mosse. 📍Pembroke College Auditorium, CB2 1RF
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University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk · 21/03/2026
Living Water: Poetry, Art and the Fight for Clean Rivers is now open at Cambridge University Library. 🎟️ FREE entry 📍Cambridge University Library and @pembroke1347.bsky.social Find out more about the exhibition 👉 bit.ly/4lHHtHh
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Cambridge Group for Irish Studies @irishstudiescam.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Join us today at 5:30pm in the Parlour, Magdalene College, for the first Easter Term meeting of the CGIS. Parnell Fellow Prof Colin Barr will give his paper, 'O’Connell’s Heirs: Irish Catholics and Liberal Democracy.' All welcome! @magdalenecollege.bsky.social
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Cambridge Group for Irish Studies @irishstudiescam.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
We are delighted to share our programme for Easter 2026, with our first meeting of term on Tuesday 5th May, 5:30pm, the Parlour, Magdalene College @magdalenecollege.bsky.social 👇
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Cambridge Group for Irish Studies @irishstudiescam.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Join us tomorrow, Tues 3rd Mar, 17:15 in the Parlour, Magdalene College for the final meeting of Lent Term. Prof Ciara Breathnach (UCC) will be giving her paper titled 'All That was Lost: Digitised Newspapers as Surrogate Irish Archives’. All welcome! @magdalenecollege.bsky.social @ucc.ie
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Cambridge Group for Irish Studies @irishstudiescam.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Join us tomorrow at 5:15pm in the Parlour, Magdalene College, for Dr Amy Prendergast's paper, 'Narratives of Violence: Considering Irish Women’s Diaries and Memoirs as Testimony, 1760-1810'. All welcome! @amyprendergast.bsky.social @magdalenecollege.bsky.social
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Cambridge Group for Irish Studies @irishstudiescam.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Our first meeting of term takes place this evening at 8:45pm, the Parlour @magdalenecollege.bsky.social Dr Deirdre Serjeantson will give her paper: ‘From Tuscan cam my ladies worthi race’: the Earl of Surrey’s 'Fair Geraldine' and early-modern Ireland.' All welcome!
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Cambridge Group for Irish Studies @irishstudiescam.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
We are delighted to share our programme of seminars for Lent Term 2026, beginning on Tuesday 3rd February 🍃 👇
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Cambridge Group for Irish Studies @irishstudiescam.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Join us next week, Tues 2nd December at 8:45pm, the Parlour @magdalenecollege.bsky.social for the final CGIS meeting of term. Prof Anthony Bale @girtoncollege.bsky.social will speak on 'Approaching the Kilkenny Witch-Hunt of 1324: Questions and Challenges'. All welcome! 🧹
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Cambridge Group for Irish Studies @irishstudiescam.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
The 2025 Parnell Lecture in Irish Studies takes place today at 5:15pm, Cripps Court Auditorium, @magdalenecollege.bsky.social. Professor Colin Barr will be speaking on 'The Irish Pope: Paul Cullen, 1803-1878', with a wine reception to follow.
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Cambridge Group for Irish Studies @irishstudiescam.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Join us next week, Tues 18th Nov for our second meeting of term. Author and journalist Mark O'Connell will be in conversation with the Guardian's Ireland Correspondent Rory Carroll. All welcome, refreshments will be served. 5pm at the Lightfoot Room, Old Divinity School, St John's College
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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Editors of the collected #poems of Seamus Heaney, Rosie Laven & Bernard O'Donoghue, in conversation with Josie O'Donoghue this evening @irishstudiescam.bsky.social. Moved to (discreet) tears by BOD's gentle reading of Heaney's 'At the WellHead'. #irishstudies
A woman listening carefully with her head to one side while an older man, her father, speaks. on the screen behind them a further woman, the other editor, also listens intently.
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Cambridge Group for Irish Studies @irishstudiescam.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Join us on Tues 28th October for the first meeting of term. The editors of The Poems of Seamus Heaney will discuss this long-awaited edition of Heaney's poetry. 5pm, Lightfoot Room, Old Divinity School, St John's College @faberbooks.bsky.social
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Cambridge Group for Irish Studies @irishstudiescam.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
We are delighted to share our programme of seminars for Michaelmas Term 2025 🍂 👇
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