Irish Studies at Queen's University Belfast - QUB

15/10/2026

Fixed term lectureship in Irish Literature at QUB (Jan-Sept 2027)

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12/10/2026

Institute of Irish Studies Seminar Series - Autumn 2026

Monday 19 October - 4.30pm (27 Univ. Sq. 01/003 and online)

Lucy Cogan (University College Dublin) Decoding the Politics of Alcohol in the Writings of the Ulster Weaver Poets

Register here: https://ow.ly/5hU450ZWfx1

Lucy Cogan is Assistant Professor in Literature and Medical Humanities at University College Dublin and PI of the Wellcome Trust funded project, “Drinking Cultures: The Cultural Reception of Medical Developments Related to Alcohol in Ireland, 1700-1900” (2023-28). She has published a monograph on William Blake, and a range of articles and essays on Blake, women’s writing, and medical humanities in the long eighteenth century. Her next monograph, Drunkenness in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Irish Literature, will be published by Edinburgh University Press in January 2027.

09/10/2026

Participants wanted! Contact Dr Lundqvist here: [email protected]

08/10/2026

CFP: Michael Longley Conference at QUB, 9-12 June 2027

Michael Longley, who died in January 2024, was one of the foremost lyric poets of his time. He was celebrated in Ireland, Britain, Europe, the USA and beyond for a body of work which, over a period of more than sixty years, combined beauty of precise observation with depth of vision and a remarkable...

06/10/2026

If you missed the inaugural Seamus Deane Lecture last Wednesday by Malcolm Sen on 'Irish Anthropocene: Literary Ecologies and Political Geologies', there's a recording at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlW4KmMOJpI&feature=youtu.be

This is a collaboration between Irish Studies at QUB, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, and the W.B. Yeats Chair of Irish Studies, USP (ABEI - Associação Brasileira de Estudos Irlandeses)

Malcolm Sen (UMass Amherst), ‘Irish Anthropocene: Literary Ecologie...

06/10/2026

Institute of Irish Studies Seminar Series - Autumn 2026

Monday 12 October : 4.30pm (27 Univ. Sq. 01/003 and online)

Natalie Boehmer (Ulster University, National Museums NI) ‘Beyond the Atalantic’s foam’: Transatlantic Perspectives in the Robert Huddleston Papers

Register here:

Tickets are now available for Natalie Boehmer (Ulster University, National Museums NI) at Irish Studies Seminar Room, 27 University Square 01/003, Belfast on Mon 12 Oct 2026 at 4:30PM. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!

01/10/2026

Special Collections is pleased to announce that a new section of the Alderdice Collection (MS 88/2) is now available for consultation. These papers are the second release of material in the Alderdice Collection. The collection, which is a part of the Modern Political Collections project, is a donation of personal papers from Lord John Alderdice, former Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly and leader of the Alliance Party Northern Ireland. This section contains 14 boxes of items dating largely from 1985 to 1992, comprising correspondence, press clippings, policy papers, meeting minutes, party strategy documents, and handwritten notes. These documents provide insight into Lord John Alderdice’s political career during the period prior to the Multi-Party Talks, 1991–1992 and during their earliest stages, following the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement and its period of review in 1988. You can find a full listing of the Alderdice Photograph Collection on the Special Collections webpages. We are happy to help with any questions regarding consultation.

30/09/2026

Today at 5pm!

We are delighted to announce that we will be hosting, in collaboration with the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame University, and the WB Yeats Chair of Irish Studies at the University of Sao Paulo, the Seamus Deane Memorial Lecture Series in Irish Studies.

Each institution will take its turn in hosting an annual public lecture by a leading Irish Studies scholar, which will be available online as well as in person. The first lecture will be given by Malcolm Sen (UMass Amherst) on 30 September 2026. https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/NewsandEvents/SeamusDeaneMemorialLecture-MalcolmSenIrishAnthropocene.html

The series is named for the distinguished Irish critic and writer Seamus Deane, who was professor of English and the Donald and Marilyn Keough Chair of Irish Studies at Notre Dame from 1992 until his retirement.