Noel McLaughlin and Joanna Braniff: ‘The politician and the showman’: History, politics and popular music in 1960s Northern Ireland’ About this Event Dr Noel McLaughlin is a popular music historian and senior lecturer in the Department of Arts at Northumbria…
American Conference for Irish Studies statement
In response to recent horrific events the protests seeking racial justice, the American Conference for Irish Studies has issued a statement supporting this movement.
Gladneys in America
One of the most satisfying aspects of my job come from the people who seek me out as the director of Irish and Irish American Studies–strangers who are, as the proverb says, friends you haven’t met yet. Last summer, Janice…
Southern ACIS meeting
Click here for a program detailing the 2019 Southern meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies.
Shaun Doherty
Shaun Doherty died just before Thanksgiving this year. He was the first and best friend of Irish and Irish American Studies. I don’t remember when I first met Shaun. I thought it was at a screening of The Wind That…
Irish Oral History Project
Last Spring, students in CofC’s Irish and Irish American Studies introductory course interviewed fourteen local Irish and Irish Americans. Interviewees came from three categories: folks who grew up in the South; those who migrated to the South from other parts…
No Rain in Ireland?
Our students don’t believe it rains in Ireland. Each May, we counsel them to pack the rain gear. “Umbrellas are useless,” we caution. “Either the rain comes sideways off the Atlantic, or its a mist hanging in the air and…
St. Patrick’s Day
Many thanks to current students Hunter House, Darby Molony, and Barbara Dugan; and for ex-student Stephanie Glynn-Woodman, who brought the rainbow truck. The decorations for the 1954 classic Chevy Truck were designed by John Woodman (on the bodhran) and…
Donegal
Donegal is a large county on the north-western coast of Ireland. It is located in the province of Ulster, along the Donegal Bay in the North Atlantic. Donegal borders counties Derry, Tyrone and Fermanagh in Northern Ireland, and only borders…