Event Archive

2024

November

• Ruaraigh Erskine's Galeic Magazines: Scottish and International Newtworks

  05 November 2024, 16:00 - 17:00

  New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies  Onlien Seminar: All Welcome

October

• Rethinking Irish Rock Music, 1970-1985

  29 October 2024, 16:00 - 17:00

  New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Online Semianr: All Welcome

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  New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Webinar: Dr Yen-Chi Wu

  22 October 2024, 12:00 - 13:00

  Dr Yen-Chi Wu (Tunghai University) will be presenting the second paper in the 'New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies' webinar series.

• Irish Writers, the New Yorker, and the First-Reading Agreement, 1940-1980

  22 October 2024, 12:00 - 13:00

  New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Online Seminar: All Welcome NB: This is a lunchtime seminar

• New Voices Seminar: TBC

  15 October 2024, 16:00 - 17:00

  New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Online Research Seminar: All Welcome

September

• Workshop: Towards a History of Political Thought in Ireland

  21 September 2024, 09:30 - 17:00

  This workshop will bring established and early career researchers together with a view to produce a proposal for an innovative book on the history of political thought in Ireland. The history of political thought is an emerging and dynamic field within Irish studies, with scholars increasingly exploring the intellectual dimensions...

May

• Irish Anti-Communism and Responses to the Russian Revolutions, 1905-1923

  08 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:00

  RIISS / History Department Seminar All Welcome

March

• 'An Instant Affinity': The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black, Black Oil in Ireland, 1974

  19 March 2024, 16:00 - 17:30

  RIISS Research Seminar All Welcome Abstract: 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of one of the Scotland’s most renowned and influential works of drama, the 7:84 (Scotland) Theatre group’s “ceilidh-play”, The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black Black Oil. The Cheviot aimed to engage local communities around Scotland, especially the Highlands, and argued...

• Negotiating Peace in Northern Ireland

  12 March 2024, 16:00 - 17:30

  RIISS Research Seminar All welcome

February

• Crisis Management: The World of Irish Tories during the 1830s and 1840s

  27 February 2024, 16:00 - 17:30

  RIISS Research Seminar All welcome