"institute of irish studies" blog posts

Watch the second Annual Seamus Heaney LectureProfessor Peter Shirlow, Sinead Cusack at the second annual Seamus Heaney lecture

Watch the second Annual Seamus Heaney Lecture

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

Posted on: 17 December 2021

Exiled Women – English and Irish nuns at home and awayPainting of a group of people

Exiled Women – English and Irish nuns at home and away

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.

Posted on: 23 March 2021

Confronting a 'dark and painful reality': the Mother and Baby Homes ReportFlowers left at the site of the Bon Secours, Mother and Baby Home, Tuam

Confronting a 'dark and painful reality': the Mother and Baby Homes Report

Postgraduate research student Lucy Simpson-Kilbane discusses the Mother and Baby Homes Report, Ireland, published earlier this month following a five-year inquiry.

Posted on: 18 January 2021

Watch: Mary Robinson discusses women's leadership and climate changeMary Robinson giving a lecture

Watch: Mary Robinson discusses women's leadership and climate change

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.

Posted on: 23 January 2020