Fionna Barber, Manchester School of Art
- Irish art and visual culture; visualising gender, sexuality and embodiment; Northern Ireland conflict and post-conflict art/ visual culture; trauma
Dr Richard Barlow, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- James Joyce; Irish Modernism; Irish and Scottish Studies
Dr Hilary Bishop, Liverpool John Moores University
- Cultural and Historical Geography; Archaeology; Catholic Mass Rocks and Mass Paths; Folklore
Dr Scott Brewster, University of Lincoln
- Modern and Contemporary Irish literature; Northern Irish poetry; Irish Gothic
Dr Richard Butler, Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester
- Irish cities; Irish Catholic Church; town planning; architectural heritage and conservation; Irish prisons; environment and landscape studies
Jim Calcutt, Royal Holloway, University of London
- Northern Ireland and ‘the Troubles’: Relationship between Westminster and Northern Ireland 1968-1979; constitutional discussions during ‘the Troubles’
Dr Gemma Clark, University of Exeter
- Modern Irish History, especially violence, popular protest, nationalism, Anglo-Irish politics, the Irish Revolution (1912–23); civil war; arson
Dr Nicholas Collins, Swansea University
- Shakespeare and Ireland/Ireland in Shakespeare; John Banville’s fiction; literary theory; modern and contemporary Irish literature
Dr Sophie Cooper, Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester
- Irish diaspora history; Irish in Australia & United States; women religious; nineteenth century; education
Dr Alexander Coupe, Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool
- Gender & 20th-21st-century Northern/ Irish theatre, live art, dance, cultural performance; cultural policy, the arts & reconciliation
Professor Graham Dawson, Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories, University of Brighton
- politics of memory in Ireland; cultural memory and oral/life histories of the Northern Ireland conflict; post-conflict culture and conflict transformation; the Northern Irish Troubles in Britain
Emma Dewhirst, Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool
- Modern Irish and British History; Irish Revolution (1912-1923); Republicanism; Networks; Radicalism; C20th Irish Labour Politics; Emotion; and Gender
Tim Ellis, Teeside University
- Modern Irish history, particularly the history of the Irish Free State; cultural history; history of political culture; history of politics and visual culture; history of gender and masculinities
- Irish and British history in the nineteenth century, particularly the culture and politics of elite Irish and English Catholics; Catholic participation in the administration and governance of the British state and Empire; Irish and British liberalism; the Liberal Party and unionism
Christy Evans, Coláiste na nGael, Former European Commission Language Ambassador
- The Irish language
Dr Melissa Fegan, University of Chester
- Nineteenth-century Irish literature; representations of the Famine in literature; Irish travel literature
Dr Rachael Flynn, The Centre for Island Studies, University of the West of Scotland
- Female Diaspora; Site-specific Creative Practice; Moving Image and Performance; Storytelling and Seanchaí Traditions; Emotion, Memory and Performative Cultural Practices; Artistic Research Methodologies
Erin Geraghty, University of Warwick
- British feminists participating in the Irish suffrage and labour movements 1900-1921; imperial frameworks; transnational networks; international solidarities
Professor Richard Grayson, Goldsmiths, University of London
- Ireland and the First World War; Irish Revolution; early C20th Belfast; early C20th Dublin; commemoration and remembrance
- Police and crime in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Ireland; sport in Victorian and Edwardian Ireland, especially cycling; Fenianism
Professor Catherine Harper, University for the Creative Arts
- N/Irish textiles; cloth; stains; blood; gender; sexuality; feminism; intimacy; mourning; memory; material and visual culture/practice; identity; diaspora
Dr Keith Hopper, Kellogg College, Oxford; studying at King’s College London
- Modern and contemporary Irish Literature & Film; Modernism & Post-modernism; Critical Theory; Adaptation Studies; Digital Humanities
Dr Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston, Hertford College, University of Oxford
- Irish Modernism; Modernist Studies; Censorship and Obscenity; Social History of Medicine, Gender, Sexuality, and the Body
Conor Kelly, Birkbeck and University College London
- Northern Irish Political Parties and European Integration; politics of a ‘border poll’
Dr Stephen Kelly, Liverpool Hope University
- Modern Ireland: history and politics; modern Anglo-Irish relations; The Northern Ireland conflict; Northern Ireland: state and society; Margaret Thatcher and Thatcherism; and St John Henry Newman and Ireland
Dr George Legg, King’s College London
- Irish & British Literature; Capitalism; Political Violence; Urban Studies; Cultural Theory
- James Joyce; Modernist Studies; History of the Book; Literary London; Medical Humanities
Dr Alan MacLeod, University of Leeds
- Northern Ireland ‘Troubles; Irish-UK relations; Irish-US relations; international diplomacy; political violence; British political identities
Professor Ian McBride, University of Oxford
- Modern Irish History, especially the eighteenth century; the Northern Ireland Troubles; intellectual history and historiography
Dr Terence McBride, Open University
- Irishness in Victorian Scotland; Irish Home Rulers and Early Labour
Movement in Scotland; Glasgow Free Press and Irish Civic in 1850s/60s Glasgow
Dr Bronagh McShane, The National University of Ireland, Galway
- Society and religion in early modern Ireland and Europe (1500-1800) with a particular focus on women’s religious orders and the impacts of religious change and reform
Dr Caroline Magennis, University of Salford
- Contemporary Writing; Irish Fiction, Northern Irish Culture; Theoretical Approaches to Gender; Sexuality and the Body
Dr Mike Mecham, Visiting Fellow, St Mary’s University, Twickenham, London
- Irish labour history from the 19th century; Belfast labour movement; William Walker
Prof. Emilie Morin, University of York
- Irish modernism; Samuel Beckett; intellectual history; radio; literature
Dr Mo Moulton, University of Birmingham
- Irish diaspora; Irish in Britain; postcolonial history; gender history; queer history
Dr Claire Nally, Northumbria University
- Modern and contemporary Irish literature (specifically W. B. Yeats); the occult; Irish advertising; contemporary fiction; historical fiction in Ireland
Prof. Catherine Nash, Queen Mary University of London
- Irish cultural geographies; national belonging; genealogical and genomic relatedness; the Border
Dr Martin O’Donoghue, University of Sheffield
- Political and social history of modern Ireland; the relationship with British rule; the Irish revolution; fraternalism and the experience of Irish partition; commemoration in twentieth-century Ireland
Dr Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh, Aberystwyth University
- Irish Language Studies; eighteenth-century literature; Irish manuscript studies; translation; historical sociolinguistics; Irish and Scottish Gaelic literature
Dr Jennifer Orr, Newcastle University
- literary networks and correspondence; Comparative Romantic Literature (Scottish and Irish); print culture (especially newspapers); poetic self-fashioning in the ‘long’ Eighteenth Century, especially labouring-class
Dr Erin Scheopner, Goldsmiths, University of London
- Modern Irish history; Anglo-Irish relations; media and politics; the British press
Dr Maggie Scull, Syracuse University London
- Irish Catholic Church; Religious History; the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’; Entangled History; Catholicism; Peace and Reconciliation Studies
Dr Marc Scully, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick
- Irish diaspora; Irish in Britain; transnationalism; authenticity; second-generation identity; social psychological approaches. Currently working on a project on applications for Irish passports post-Brexit
Dr Gerry Smyth, Liverpool John Moores University
- Modernism; literature and music; popular music, James Joyce
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