Was good to join Shane Beatty on the Newstalk podcast to discuss our new project on 100 years of Irish diversity. Listen below
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With the Modern British Studies conference at Birmingham again next week, it was a pleasure to write this blog about my past research on multicultural Britain and my new project which takes me back to my Irish roots
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In January 2015 I took up my first permanent academic job as a lecturer in contemporary British history at Queen’s University Belfast. A few months earlier I had made the trip over from Birmingham, w...
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My latest newsletter now on Substack - covering cholera pits & with the details of some exciting new events over the next few weeks.
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Delighted to share my first academic article with you all 🖊️ I have thoroughly enjoyed exploring the life of Lady Hester Hart, and amplifying her voice from the archives.
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I have an essay in the Irish Times this weekend reflecting on the intimate practice of writing about queer history in Belfast.
Warning: contains pillow talk
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Áine Poland, ‘Reading Between the Lines: The Emotional and Social World ofHester Bredon Hart in Late Qing China’, Robert Hart Project Working Papers, no. 3 (2026), pp. 1-28. ISSN: 2514-…
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Kieran Connell: How did an attack in a nationalist part of Belfast lead to rioting in loyalist areas?
AI-generated images with the Union Jack and Irish Tricolour displayed side by side circulated on social media before this week’s riots, but loyalists were at the centre of the disturbances
