![Review of the year 2023/24](/media/livacuk/irish-studies/blog/Review2324.jpg)
Review of the year 2023/24
As we enter the summer months – in addition to hoping for some nice weather – it is a good time to reflect upon the many successes enjoyed by the Institute of Irish Studies during the past academic year.
Posted on: 28 June 2024
![Exploring LGBTQI+ themes in History, Languages and Cultures modules](/media/livacuk/histories-languages-and-cultures/LGBTQI-Blog-Modules.jpg)
Exploring LGBTQI+ themes in History, Languages and Cultures modules
We're celebrating Pride Month! We've gathered a list of some modules available in the School of Histories, Languages, and Cultures which cover LGBTQI+ issues, or could relate to them. Programme details and modules listed are illustrative only and subject to change.
Posted on: 18 June 2024
![Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Irish Gothic](/media/livacuk/histories-languages-and-cultures/Spooky-castle-image-684-x-355.jpg)
Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Irish Gothic
On the 20th of April 1912, legendary author Bram Stoker passed away. He is most famous for penning Dracula, published in 1897. The novel, and characters within it, have left a long, exciting legacy of adaptations, in various forms. Now, over 100 years later, we look into the teaching of Dr. Niall Carson on Dracula, within the context of the Irish Gothic in his teachings on Irish Literature at the University of Liverpool.
Posted on: 2 April 2024
![Spotlighting the Irish Centre](/media/livacuk/histories-languages-and-cultures/blog/resized,irish,blog,banner.jpg)
Spotlighting the Irish Centre
Recently, we met with Irish Studies PhD student, Louise Coyne, to talk about Liverpool’s Irish Centre. In this blog she discusses the history of the Irish Centre and its cultural importance in our society today.
Posted on: 29 November 2023
![The Future of the Past with AI](/media/livacuk/irish-studies/blog/St._Brendan_celebrating_a_mass(blog).jpg)
The Future of the Past with AI
Across the UK Higher Education, Humanities departments are facing a fresh wave of cuts. The value of disciplines such as history has been undermined by two decades of derision by government ministers.[1]
Posted on: 30 October 2023
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Celebrating the HLC Graduations
On the 21st of July our HLC graduates, dressed in their finest threads, donned caps, gowns and hoods to celebrate the conclusion of their degrees.
Posted on: 25 August 2023
![Irish Nurses in the NHS: the Liverpool story](/media/livacuk/irish-studies/blog/Nurses,on,the,bus,cropped.jpg)
Irish Nurses in the NHS: the Liverpool story
Following the establishment of the NHS in 1948 and given the urgent need to rapidly expand the number of nurses, there was an active campaign to recruit thousands of young Irish women as trainee nurses. Irish Nurses in the NHS is a three-year project that aims to relate the untold stories of these Irish nurses.
Posted on: 5 July 2023
![Investigating Medieval Irish Records](/media/livacuk/irish-studies/blog/Investigating,Irish,Medieval,Records,684x355.jpg)
Investigating Medieval Irish Records
This month, June 2022, is the 100-year anniversary of the gelignite explosion at the Record Treasury in the Four Courts, Dublin during the Irish Civil War. Thousands of manuscripts and documents from seven centuries of Irish history were destroyed. A very few survived on the day. But others survived by being held in other locations. Here, Dr Stephen Hewer of the Institute of Irish Studies discusses one such manuscript.
Posted on: 23 June 2022
![Beyond Exclusion in Medieval Ireland](/media/livacuk/irish-studies/blog/medieval,inscription,684x355.jpg)
Beyond Exclusion in Medieval Ireland
The Institute of Irish Studies’ Leverhulme Fellow, Dr Stephen Hewer, recently published a book on the legal status of different groups in medieval Ireland. The Institute hosted a book launch on 16 March. Here, he details the processes of making the book and some of the major findings.
Posted on: 28 April 2022