Tickets are now available for Seamus Deane Memorial Lecture: Malcolm Sen at Great Hall, Queen's University Belfast, and online, Belfast on Wednesday 30th September 2026 at 5:00PM. Click the link for f...

Seamus Deane warns of the dangers of sentimentalising a precolonial past (the Gaelic Eden) or idealising a postcolonial future (when the island is one, all will be well)

This article surveys writings on the history of eighteenth-century Ireland over the first forty years of the journal Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá Chultúr. Commissioned to mark the journal’s fortieth anniversary, it adopts a cautiously ...

Tickets are now available for Book launch: Dr Stephen R. Millar (QUB) at Irish Studies Seminar Room, 27 University Square 01/003, Belfast on Monday 21st September 2026 at 4:00PM. Click the link for fu...

Northern Ireland Peace Index reveals sharp fall in violence but slow progress on positive peace, institutions and trust across local districts.

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.

The US-UK Fulbright Commission's Queen's University Belfast Award in Irish Studies covers a six-month appointment to research, lecture and teach in Irish Studies in Northern Ireland.

By Elizabeth Malcolm The boycott in late 1880 of Captain Charles Boycott, the English-born agent for the earl of Erne’s Lough Mask estate in south-east Mayo, is still remembered today mainly because i...

A history of Censorship of Comics in Ireland

Mercier Press published 52 Proverbs Against Depression and Trauma in 2024 — an Irish self-help book using ancestral wisdom, CBT, and mindfulness to overcome depression. Available now.

Mr Benn has pledged to support the new UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham from the back benches.

The poet continued to write ardent lyrics full of love for me, his daughters, nature and for our troubled world

A tribute to Thomas Moore for Ireland's Presidency of the Council of the European Union

Almost 200,000 historical records have been released online by the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland.

Tracing the path of a global issue through accomplished writers

Queen’s University academic Dr Stephen R Millar on his new book which explores the scene — and why the Orange Order wasn’t keen on its subject matter

When More is Less - % Dublin Review of Books

Professor Dominic Bryan believes those involved in disorder feel ‘empowered’ by their actions

Military service pensions for the dependants of deceased combatants of the Irish Revolution and Civil War in Northern Ireland

Hamnet author’s 10th novel urgently and passionately maps historical change driven by famine, emigration, language loss, secularisation and much more

Website for the 2026 American Conference for Irish Studies

From Kneecap director Rich Peppiatt, Bad Bridgets follows two Irish sisters who make a treacherous journey to America and cause mayhem in New York