About

The purpose of the Society is to promote research into nineteenth-century Ireland. Its membership is open to scholars both from Ireland and other countries. It welcomes members from a wide range of disciplines: literature, history, economics, geography, sociology, anthropology, theology, women’s studies, fine arts, etc. It thus seeks to foster an inter-disciplinary approach to nineteenth-century Irish studies.

The principal activities of the Society are the organising of conferences and the publication of works or collections of papers on Nineteenth-Century Ireland.

To date the Society has held or is organising the following conferences:

  • Time in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (NYU, 2024)
  • Colonising and Decolonising the Irish Nineteenth Century (Radboud University, Nijmegen, 2023)
  • New Perspectives on Conflict and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century (University College Dublin, 2022)
  • Dwelling(s) in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (University College Cork, 2021 (postponed from 2020))
  • Dreams of the Future in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (University of Leicester, 2019)
  • Happiness in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Trinity College Dublin, 2018)
  • Figures of Authority in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Irish College, Leuven, Belgium, 2017)
  • Nature and the Environment in Ireland during the Long Nineteenth Century (University of Southampton, 2016)
  • Literacy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (NUI Galway, 2015)
  • Irish Urban Spaces in the Nineteenth Century (Queen’s University Belfast, 2014)
  • Crime, Violence and the Irish in the Nineteenth Century (University of Northumbria, 2013)
  • Leisure and the Irish in the Nineteenth Century (University College Cork, 2012)
  • Irish Elites in the Nineteenth Century (University of Liverpool, 2011)
  • Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (University College Cork, 2012)
  • Science and Technology in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Royal Irish Academy, 2009)
  • Visual, Material and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (University of Limerick, 2008)
  • Romantic Ireland – from Tone to Gonne (University of Glasgow, 2007)
  • ‘Across the Water’: Ireland and Scotland in the Nineteenth Century (University of Ulster, 2006)
  • Structures of Belief in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (De Paul University, Chicago, 2004)
  • Ireland and Europe in the Nineteenth Century (Queen’s University Belfast, 2003)
  • The Irish Revival Reappraised (All Hallows, Dublin, 2002)
  • Victoria’s Ireland (University of Southampton, 2001)
  • Nineteenth-Century Studies in the Twenty-First Century (Maynooth University, 2000)
  • Ireland Abroad (University of Aberdeen, 2000)
  • Ireland and the Union: Questions of Identity (Bath Spa University, 1999)
  • 1798, 1848, 1898: Revolution, Revival, and Commemoration (University College Cork, 1998)
  • Regionalism and Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Queen’s University Belfast, 1997)
  • Ideology and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century (NUI Galway, 1996)
  • Gender and Nineteenth-Century Ireland (All Hallows College, Dublin, 1995)
  • The Famine (Maynooth University, 1994)
  • Victorian Ireland Revisited (Maynooth University, 1992)

Volumes of collected essays originating from most of these conferences are already available. Others are in preparation.