Lecturer in Contemporary British History at Queen’s University Belfast.
Historian of migration and diversity in Britain and Ireland.
Jack Crangle
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Anaka Collective have set up a crowdfund now for helping support victims of the pogrom.
chuffed.org/project/1854...
I spoke to @france24.com this evening about the racist riots in Belfast. These are the images of the city being broadcast to audiences across the world.
youtu.be/sxvZtVefF0c?...
Belfast City Centre a complete ghost town tonight. Nearly all the businesses closed earlier this afternoon. City holding its breath for what might or might not happen this evening, with endless fake threats of road closures doing the rounds from the far right.
Was good to join Shane Beatty on the Newstalk podcast to discuss our new project on 100 years of Irish diversity. Listen below
www.newstalk.com/podcasts/new...
Sadly of immediate relevance
🚨SAVE THE DATE🚨
🎉 Launch of "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" (Special Issue) & "Unmarried Sisters" (Podcast Series)
📆 Friday 10 July (early evening)
📍 The James Joyce Centre, Dublin
🗣️ Katherine Ebury, Paul Fagan, Deirdre Foley, Maureen O'Connor & more
We are raising funds to support people who have been attacked, displaced and traumatised in racist attacks in Belfast.
I have a piece in today’s Irish Examiner about a new AHRC project I’m proud to be involved in with @jcrangle.bsky.social & @tortietabby.bsky.social on a hundred years of diversity in Ireland
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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
modbritstud.org.uk/notes-from-t...
The ‘Critical Enough?’ Gender and Sexuality PGR conference is at Queen’s University Belfast on 12 June 2026. Six panels, a keynote from Dr Mary McAuliffe, and a plenary workshop from Prof Dina Zoe Belluigi. Attendance is free and open to all! Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1977719171...
I was on BBC Radio Ulster Talkback today with @williamcrawley.bsky.social talking about "Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation" - listen here from 12:47pm! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Refugees from Hungary and Belgium; migrant workers from Poland and Germany; doctors from Africa and Asia — over the last century, Ireland was far more diverse than many of us seem to realise
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...
