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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.

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

"It’s a long way from Digital Hubs and cappuccinos that we were raised…”

Published: 20 Jan 2021

Deconstructing the 'Dreaded Auxiliaries'

Published: 09 Dec 2020

The public humanities

Published: 02 Dec 2020

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

John Hume, 1937-2020: Master of Consistency

Published: 06 Aug 2020

Now They Fell the Wildwood

Published: 10 Jul 2020

Searching for Planetary Icons

Published: 08 Apr 2020

Technological innovation & what it is to be human

Published: 04 Dec 2019

The “Planet Ocean” Workshop

Published: 02 Oct 2019

Compensation culture a century ago

Published: 25 Sep 2019

Humanists know the value of understanding the past – are we the only ones?

Published: 21 Aug 2019

Maamtrasna: Language and Politics in Ireland, 1882–2019

Published: 05 Jun 2019

Saint-Denis and Notre-Dame: Royal Abbey and Civic Cathedral

Published: 29 Apr 2019

The Value of Teaching History

Published: 23 Apr 2019

Prof. David Fitzpatrick, SFTCD MRIA (1948–2019)

Published: 11 Mar 2019

The Humanities and Climate Change

Published: 18 Feb 2019

Looking back on the First Dáil after 100 years

Published: 21 Jan 2019

When Melania went to Africa wearing a pith helmet

Published: 14 Nov 2018

Dark Tourism in Ireland

Published: 30 Oct 2018

Reflections on the Good Friday Agreement & Brexit

Published: 25 Oct 2018

The National Museum Fire in Brazil

Published: 04 Oct 2018

Edna O'Brien Wins 2018 PEN/Nabokov Award

Published: 06 Apr 2018

Dolores O’Riordan’s Impact and Legacy

Published: 31 Jan 2018

Zimbabwe: The End of an Era?

Published: 07 Dec 2017

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

Published: 01 Nov 2017

Catalonia and the Crisis of the Spanish Constitution: Personal Notes

Published: 11 Oct 2017

Sam Shepard (1943-2017)

Published: 09 Aug 2017

Portugal’s unlikely ‘contraption’

Published: 26 May 2017

Orwell’s 1984 and the idea of Europe

Published: 10 Apr 2017

Turkey and Academic Freedom

Published: 10 Mar 2017

David Bowie – Tears For A Clown

Published: 14 Feb 2017

Cuba: With or Without Castro

Published: 03 Feb 2017

Dario Fo and the Mistero buffo of his life and works

Published: 07 Nov 2016

The Rise of The Antagonistic Service Economy

Published: 03 Nov 2016

True Crime: O.J. Simpson’s America

Published: 05 Oct 2016

The role of Humanities and Digital Art in the Syrian Crisis

Published: 04 Oct 2016

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

Published: 13 Sep 2016

Conrad's Dangerous Heroine

Published: 29 Aug 2016

Implications of 'Brexit': A Historical Perspective

Published: 23 Aug 2016

Thoughts on the 1916 Proclamation’s Secrets

Published: 07 Jul 2016

Living with the Holocaust

Published: 28 Jan 2016

The Destruction of Palmyra

Published: 13 Jul 2015

Slavery and its Popular Depictions in the Age of Obama

Published: 11 Jun 2015

Journal of a Plague Year: Ebola and Daniel Defoe

Published: 14 May 2015

Barthes’s centenary lesson

Published: 14 May 2015

How can we talk about Syria?

Published: 14 May 2015