On Thursday, October 30, we will be joined by the interdisciplinary development team of the video game 1711 Ireland: A Witch's Fate The four-person team from Ulster University will guide the audience through the construction of the historical video game Join us in Devlin Hall!

You can now watch the lecture on our YouTube page:

Here here. 🇮🇪🇮🇳 Well done @CauveryMadhavan 👏👏👏

Join us for our upcoming seminar Constructing Victimhood: Beyond Innocence and Guilt in Transitional Justice with Mitchell Institute Fellow @LawtherC , discussing her new book and exploring complex victimhood, victims’ voices, the role of victims’ groups, and the haunting impact

"Keeping the Hirschfeld 'awake' challenges forces that prefer queer histiories hideen or earased - memory is resitaence." Many thanks to Páraic Kerrigan for delivering a fantastic Flatley Lecture and for advising our interested graduate students!

Join us for our next Gaelic Roots concert on Thursday, October 30, in Connolly House. Two of today's premier Irish fiddlers, Kimberly Fraser and Oisín McAuley, will be performing!

Join us tomorrow evening as Páraic Kerrigan delivers our 2025/2026 Flatley Lecture! 'Waking the Hirschfeld: An Oral & Archival History of Dublin's Hirschfeld Centre' 5:00 PM Connolly House

The Keough-Naughton Institute’s Gráinne McEvoy, right, and Visiting Scholar Jill Bender, second from left, discussed their contributions to the book “Rituals of Migration” last week at @BCIrishStudies. Also pictured: Kevin Kenny, @nyuniversity, and Hidetaka Hirota, @UCBerkeley.

If you missed the event, you can now watch the discussion on our YouTube channel: https://t.co/DfGDs3lJhH

This past weekend, we discussed water and the Blue Humanities at Connolly House. Many thanks to director Ruán Magan for attending and allowing us to screen Out Blue World: A Water Odyssey for our students, faculty, & friends!

A timely and informative discussion on rituals created by migrants and their descendants, as well as those who regulated, excluded, and deported these migrants Thanks to Kevin Kenny and #BCIrishStudies alumni Jill Bender, Hidetaka Hirota, and Gráinne McEvoy for returning to BC

This Saturday, join us for a discussion on the Irish Blue Humanities as well as a film screening of Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey, directed by Ruán Magan

Next Wednesday, October 22, Páraic Kerrigan (UCD) will deliver this year's Flatley Lecture! Drawing on oral histories, memories, and archival research, this talk highlights how the Hirschfeld Center became a pivotal space for the emerging queer Irish community.

Join us tomorrow at 5 pm in Connolly House as former #BCIrishStudies faculty and graduates discuss the newly published Rituals of Migration (NYU Press)

You can't watch the entire panel on our YouTube channel!

BC Ireland is now accepting applications for the Neenan Fellowship in Irish Studies! Interested scholars should submit all necessary application materials to Professor Mike Cronin by November 17.

Join us in Connolly House on Saturday, October 18, for a discussion of the Blue Humanities as we explore humanity's profound relationship with water! The day will include various papers, a film screening of Our Blue World, and an interview with director Ruán Magan.

A discussion on Irish women writers, why to study Irish women writers, & how writing about Irish women writers changes the literary field! Thanks to Paige Reynolds, Claire Bracken, & Kate Costello-Sullivan for joining Marjoire Howes for a fantastic evening at BC!

Rituals of Migration offers snapshots of Irish migrants on the move in the 19th and 20th centuries On October 16, we will host a panel with the book's co-editor, Kevin Kenny, and 3 #BCIRishStudies alumni in the publication: Jill Bender, Hidetaka Hirota, & Gráinne McEvoy

Attended an interesting discussion on “Ireland, the EU, & the US in a Shifting Global Order” at the MA State House, hosted by @repjohnlawn & sponsored by @BCIrishStudies for a thoughtful exchange on Ireland’s membership of the EU and the role of the EU in a changing world. 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇸