Institute of Irish Studies

Winner of the John McGahern Prize

Winner of John McGahern Book Prize for Debut Irish Fiction announced

September 15, 2023

Professor John McGurk

Obituary: Professor John McGurk, Institute of Irish Studies

September 6, 2023

The covers of three shortlisted books for the John McGahern Prize

Shortlist of Books for John McGahern Prize Published

July 11, 2023

A picture of four women in nurses uniforms on a bus

Irish NHS nurses in Liverpool tell their stories for oral history project

June 13, 2023

Thinking Futures

Initiative launched to bring communities on the Island of Ireland together

April 3, 2023

A picture of a circus ticket

How the ‘circus’ became the metaphor of choice in political rhetoric

January 25, 2023

Philippe Sands giving a talk

The Institute of Irish Studies hosts Philippe Sands KC for the Fourth Annual Seamus Heaney Lecture

December 9, 2022

front page of Louise Kennedy book

Winner of the John McGahern Book Prize announced

September 23, 2022

UK Northern Ireland secretary Chris Heaton-Harris (second left) and Northern Ireland minister Steve Baker (far right) at a service in Belfast, with Irish Taoiseach Micheal Martin (far left) and UK foreign affairs minister Simon Coveney (second right)

Why Chris Heaton-Harris and Steve Baker mean instability for Northern Ireland

September 21, 2022

Institute of Irish Studies’ first Artist in Residence, Fion Gunn brings exhibition to VG&M

August 11, 2022