"institute of irish studies" blog posts
Watch the second Annual Seamus Heaney Lecture
Posted on: 17 December 2021 | Category: 2021 posts
On Thursday 18 November 2021 the Institute of Irish Studies welcomed Professor Roy Foster (Emeritus Professor of Irish History, University of Oxford, and author of On Seamus Heaney) to deliver the second Annual Seamus Heaney Lecture
Exiled Women – English and Irish nuns at home and away
Posted on: 23 March 2021 | Category: 2021 posts
In seventeenth century England, Catholicism was outlawed across the land, punishable by heavy fines, imprisonment, and sometimes execution. Ireland (then under English rule) had just concluded the Nine Year’s War that effectively ended the Gaelic political systems that had survived for centuries, with greater plantation of Protestant settlers to follow.
Confronting a 'dark and painful reality': the Mother and Baby Homes Report
Posted on: 18 January 2021 | Category: 2021 posts
Postgraduate research student Lucy Simpson-Kilbane discusses the Mother and Baby Homes Report, Ireland, published earlier this month following a five-year inquiry.
Watch: Mary Robinson discusses women's leadership and climate change
Posted on: 23 January 2020 | Category: 2020 posts
Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson spoke about women’s leadership and climate change at a special event organised by the London Irish Lawyers Association in association with the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Irish Studies.