Tag Archives: Ireland
Ireland 1913-23
Revolutionary Times – Ireland 1913-23: The Forging of a Nation (Merrion Press, 2024) is an illustrated chronicle of a nation on the brink of a new dawn. Co-authored by Academic Director of Boston College Ireland Mike Cronin and Mark Duncan, … Continue reading
Learning about Máire Comerford
On September 18 at 4:30 p.m., documentary filmmaker Hilary Dully will speak about Máire Comerford (1893-1982) who was actively engaged in the Irish War of Independence and the subsequent Civil War. Dully will trace Comerford’s footsteps from gentile beginnings in … Continue reading
Irish family ties
During the 19th and 20th centuries, millions of Irish immigrated to the United States. Among them was 20-year-old Bridget Meade of County Clare who arrived alone in Boston in 1909. Her grandson, Vincent J. Quealy, Jr., chronicles her story in … Continue reading
Writing True Crime: Mark O’Connell
Award-winning author Mark O’Connell will discuss writing true crime and his latest book, A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder (Penguin Random House, 2023), at Boston College on September 13. The event, which is free and open … Continue reading
Richard Kearney: a novel and scholarship
Irish philosopher Richard Kearney, who holds the Charles B. Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College, has published a novel titled Salvage (Arrowsmith Press, 2023) that centers on the timeless tension between progress and tradition. A description of the novel … Continue reading
Educational policy reform in Ireland
As calls for further reducing the role of the Catholic Church in Irish primary schools gains traction in a rapidly evolving Irish society, The Politics of Irish Primary Education: Reform in an Era of Secularisation (Peter Lang, 2022) demonstrates how the … Continue reading
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Tagged education, Ireland, Political Science department
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The centenary of the Irish Civil War
The Irish Civil War of 1922-1923—a wrenching, destructive run-up to the establishment of an independent Ireland—has long persisted in the national Irish memory, despite efforts to downplay or outright erase it from official discourse. Irish historian Síobhra Aiken has written … Continue reading
Censorship in Thatcher’s Britain
“The ease with which censorship became part of the political and broadcasting culture of the United Kingdom and Ireland is a lesson in the fragility of democracy,” writes Boston College Interim Director of Irish Studies Robert Savage in the Irish … Continue reading
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Tagged Britain, Ireland, Irish Studies, media, Northern Ireland
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Redressing a legacy of abuse in Ireland
A new collection of interdisciplinary essays seeks to answer the question of how will Ireland remedy its legacy of institutional abuse. REDRESS: Ireland’s Institutions and Transitional Justice (University of College Dublin Press, 2022) focuses on the structures which perpetuated widespread … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, English Department, Ireland, Irish Studies, justice, transitional justice, trauma
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Magdalene Laundries and the campaign for justice
Between 1922 and 1996, over 10,000 Irish girls and women, specifically unmarried mothers, and those considered promiscuous, sexually abused, and/or a burden to their families or the state, were imprisoned and subjected to forced labor in Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries. The … Continue reading
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Tagged adoption, human rights, Ireland, social justice
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