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Irish Humanities Alliance Blog

The Alliance’s Humanities blog is a collection of Humanities perspectives and comment pieces on news, current affairs and publications. The blog covers the range of Humanities subject areas and we encourage contributions from Humanities researchers and those interested in the Humanities. For Submissions see Template for Authors.

The Legal Humanities Working Group: An Introduction

Published: 25 Feb 2025

Born to Belong: The Origins and Impacts of US Birthright Citizenship

Published: 13 Feb 2025

The Green Credentials of the Wicked Witch of the West: An Ecocritical Perspective on Wicked (2024)

Published: 09 Dec 2024

Exhibiting Bad Bridget

Published: 16 Sep 2024

Theorising Research Ecologies? An Environmental Humanities (Meta) Symposium

Published: 26 Aug 2024

New funding agency represents a major step in Irish higher education

Published: 22 Mar 2024

“Ireland, We are at War”: Conor McGregor, Crisis Populism, & Transnational Flows of Digital Discontent

Published: 03 Jan 2024

Template Format for Blog Authors

Published: 13 Jul 2023

The “Decarbonizing Research Methods” Workshops

Published: 19 Jan 2023

Hunger in Modern Ireland

Published: 08 Dec 2022

Accessibility and School Websites

Published: 14 Oct 2022

Reading the Michael Collins Diaries

Published: 19 Aug 2022

Integrating arts and humanities into scholarship on ageing

Published: 24 Jun 2022

The Road to Europe: The 1972 Referendum on EU Membership

Published: 10 May 2022

Lessons learned from the past: medicine in period drama

Published: 29 Apr 2022

Threshold Times: From the “No Longer” to the “Not Yet”

Published: 20 Apr 2022

Putin’s Ukrainian Chimera

Published: 28 Feb 2022

'Climate Change: Perspectives from the Arts and Humanities'

Published: 07 Jan 2022

Tales of the times to come: the humanities and scenario planning

Published: 12 Aug 2021

Anthropocene consciousness and environmental humanities

Published: 15 Jul 2021

Technology in Education

Published: 29 Jun 2021

Seamus Deane (1940-2021)

Published: 18 Jun 2021

Sinn Féin abstentionism and partition, 1920-21.

Published: 12 May 2021

The crisis of European Studies in Irish third level education

Published: 01 Feb 2021

Pathways to interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research for the arts and humanities

Published: 18 Nov 2020

Margaret MacCurtain (1929-2020)

Published: 11 Nov 2020

Halloween: A merry gathering in the face of fear

Published: 27 Oct 2020

Careers & Skills Among AHSS Postgraduate Research Students

Published: 19 Aug 2020

Covid-19 and the Spectre of the 1630 Plague in Italy

Published: 17 Apr 2020

The “Planet Ocean” Workshop

Published: 02 Oct 2019

Maamtrasna: Language and Politics in Ireland, 1882–2019

Published: 05 Jun 2019

The Value of Teaching History

Published: 23 Apr 2019

When Melania went to Africa wearing a pith helmet

Published: 14 Nov 2018

Dark Tourism in Ireland

Published: 30 Oct 2018

Edna O'Brien Wins 2018 PEN/Nabokov Award

Published: 06 Apr 2018

Confederate Statues and the Legacy of Slavery and Racism in the U.S. South

Published: 01 Nov 2017

David Bowie – Tears For A Clown

Published: 14 Feb 2017

Georgetown University’s shameful past and the necessity for decolonising the university

Published: 13 Sep 2016

Journal of a Plague Year: Ebola and Daniel Defoe

Published: 14 May 2015