31 May 2025. Undergraduates and postgraduates are invited to submit essays on any period of Irish legal history to compete for the Irish Legal History Society Student Essay Competition. The winning entrant will receive a prize of €250 and a selected volume of an Irish Legal History Society publication. In addition, the winner(s) will be considered for publication in a forthcoming issue of History Ireland magazine.
Applications are open for the 2025 O’Donnell Fellowship in Irish Studies at St Mary's Newman Academic Centre, University of Melbourne, Australia. The application deadline is Friday 12 July 2024.
2024 Winner of AJIS/ISAANZ postgraduate essay prize is Ciara Smart for her essay titled "Forty Years of Irish Engagements with Australian Aboriginal Peoples On-Screen". The editors received a wide field of excellent essays and wish to thank all those who entered the competition.
15 September 2024. Global Nineteenth-Century Studies is pleased to invite submissions for a special issue on “The Global / Oceanic / Nineteenth Century.” We welcome essays that employ oceanic approaches to nineteenth-century culture, ecology, economics, history, and politics in a range of global contexts.
15 May 2024. This symposium will analyse the diversity and the historical, cultural, linguistic and identity-related richness of these so-called "Celtic" diasporas, and question "Celtic" identities in the Pacific.
12 April 2024. Guest editors Emily Mark-FitzGerald (UCD) and Emma Radley (UCD) invite contributions for a special issue of Irish University Review. Over the last five years, a number of collections, special issues, handbooks, and critical companions have emerged in Irish Studies, focused (in various ways) on defining and mapping the field in the twenty-first century. Collectively they have sought to account for the state(s) of Irish Studies after the Celtic Tiger, through recession, austerity, and pandemic. These include the 2020 Jubilee issue of the Irish University Review, edited by Emilie Pine; Paige Reynolds’ The New Irish Studies, Cambridge University Press, 2021; Reimagining Irish Studies for the Twenty-First Century, edited by Eamon Maher andEugene O’Brien, published by Peter Lang in 2021; and, most comprehensively, The Routledge Handbook of Irish Studies, edited by Renée Fox, Mike Cronin and Brian Ó Conchubhair, published in 2022.
5 April 2024. The Oral History Network of Ireland (OHNI) is pleased to announce its 2024 conference on the theme of Oral History and Identity. The conference will be held 21-22 June 2024 at Ulster University (Derry ~ Londonderry Campus). To participate, please submit an abstract (of not more than 250 words) along with your contact details by no later than Friday 29th March 2024. All proposals must demonstrate a clear engagement with oral history and/or personal testimony, and we actively encourage the use of audio and/or video clips.
1 April 2024. CFP deadline for OHA Biennial Conference. Oral history can be powerful in so many ways. Interviews generate potent emotions. Recordings capture the power of voice as well as the power of silence. Multimedia productions engage and connect new audiences with the complexities of the past. Fundamentally, oral history transforms the historical archive and challenges mainstream histories. It can shift traditional power dynamics, bring forth new voices and perspectives, reshape policies and politics, and shake up old certainties. Yet those possibilities come with risk as well as reward. Recording sensitive subjects is never easy. Creating an oral history production takes time, skill and care, and sometimes goes wrong. Imaginative re-uses of oral history recordings can raise ethical and legal complexities. And oral histories that disrupt accepted narratives can generate pain and conflict, in families, communities and nations.
31 March 2024. The deadline for the receipt of abstracts for the Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland (SSCNI) Annual Conference 2024 has been extended. As we grapple with an accelerating digital culture defined by just-in-time deliveries, synchronous communication, instantaneous connectivity, and 24/7 availability, the 2024 SSNCI Conference aims to bring together researchers from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds to consider ‘time’ itself as a neglected dimension of Irish history. A critical approach to temporality in nineteenth-century Ireland and amongst the Irish diaspora might embrace a variety of methodological foci, from visual, dramatic and literary representations of time to its perception, measurement and use in everyday life. From the rise and fall of local ‘time zones’ to the disruptive ‘annihilation of time’ brought about by steam, locomotion and telegraphy, the emergence of modern synchronized ‘clock time’ accompanied seismic shocks in Irish life.
12 January 2024. The Women’s History Association of Ireland’s annual conference will take place at Queen’s University Belfast on 26-27 April 2024. The broad theme for this year is ‘Irish women and relationships from medieval to modern history’. Papers which relate to the theme are welcome. Abstracts of between 250-300 words and a short biography should be sent before 12 January 2024. The Women’s History Association of Ireland welcomes contributors at all career stages and international participants.
