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The CfP Deadline for our annual conference has been extended. See here for more.

Our Call for Papers for our Annual Conference 2022, to be hosted at UCD, has now been announced. See here for more information.

Our Annual Lecture 2022 will be given by Dr Elizabeth Tilley (NUIG). For more information see the Annual Lecture page on this website.

Our Essay Prize competition for 2022 has been launched: for more see the Essay Prize page on this website.

The SSNCI Essay Prize 2021 has been awarded to Dr Kathryn Milligan for her article ‘Social Smoking and French Fancies: The Dublin Art(s) Club, 1886-98’ which was published in the Journal of Victorian Culture in 2020. The article explores the role of the Dublin Art(s) Club and the ways members of the club demonstrated ‘the … Essay Prize 2021

Our Annual Conference took place 24-25 June 2021. The event was held online via University College Cork owing to the Covid-19 restrictions. Thanks to our organisers Dr. Heather Laird and Dr. Jay Roszman for all their hard work!

Our latest volume, Happiness in Nineteenth-Century Ireland, has been published by Liverpool University Press and distributed to Members. It is edited by Mary Hatfield. Click here to learn more about this new volume.

Our Annual Lecture for 2021 will be given by Dr. Ciaran O’Neill of Trinity College Dublin, at 7pm on Tuesday 19 January 2021. With the assistance of the National Library of Ireland, the lecture will be held online via Zoom. The title of Dr. O’Neill’s lecture will be: ‘Searching for a “normal” Irish person: metrics and … Annual Lecture 2021

Submissions are welcome for this year’s Essay Prize, which highlights the work of an early-career researcher, non-tenured faculty, or someone in a profession outside academia on any aspect of 19th-c. Ireland. The prize carries a value of €/£250. Entries are welcome until the deadline of 31 January 2021. Details about the prize and guidelines for … 2020/21 Essay Prize

Our latest volume, Figures of Authority in Nineteenth-Century Ireland has been published by Liverpool University Press and distributed to Members. It is edited by Raphaël Ingelbien and Susan Galavan. Click here to learn more about this new volume