Fearghal McGarry, professor of modern Irish history at Queen’s University Belfast, is the spring 2021 Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies. A member of the Royal Irish Academy, McGarry has written or edited 11 volumes on Irish history. With colleagues at the University of Edinburgh and Boston College, he leads the international research project A Global History of Irish Revolution, 1916–1923, which will culminate in a conference at BC in September 2021. His Burns Lecture, "Communism, Sex, and All That Jazz: The Struggle Against Modernity in Interwar Ireland," is scheduled for Wednesday, March 31 at 2:00 pm.
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The Irish Influence, a weekly online interview series hosted by Professors Mike Cronin and Joe Nugent during the pandemic, continues this spring with a wide-ranging slate of Irish cultural icons, a special series commemorating the four Irish Nobel laureates, and more. Join the transatlantic conversation every Friday at 4:30 pm EST/9:30 Irish time at the following Zoom link.
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On April 7, the Institute for the Liberal Arts and the Irish Studies Program will welcome the Irish-Canadian playwright, historian, novelist, and screenwriter Emma Donoghue for a 7:00 pm virtual reading from her 2020 novel The Pull of the Stars. Set on a Dublin maternity ward during the 1918 Spanish Flu, Donoghue’s book has been hailed as “our first pandemic caregiver novel.”
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On November 12, the Irish Studies and African and African Diaspora Studies Programs co-hosted a webinar titled “What’s Next? Race, Protest, and Justice After the Election.” BC seniors Angelina Vallejo and Czar Sepe moderated a discussion with Boston City Councilor Matt O’Malley, MIT lecturer Malia Lazu, and political scientist Reuel Rogers about challenges confronting the U.S. in 2021 and beyond. The two programs are also partnering with the History Department on another webinar exploring police reform, which will take place in April, with details to follow.
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Pictured from the top: Malia Lazu, Social Justice Leader, Entrepreneur, Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management; Matt O’Malley, City Councilor, District 6, City of Boston; Reuel Rogers, Associate Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
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This spring, the John J. Burns Library of Rare Books and Special Collections is continuing to offer access to researchers by appointment during the coronavirus public health crisis. Visit bc.edu/burns for more information and updates.
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On October 28, Irish Studies hosted a virtual book launch for Little Red and Other Stories, the latest book by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, the fall 2020 Burns Scholar. 117 viewers joined online as Ní Dhuibhne read in the Burns Library’s Thompson Room.
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The legacy of Irish composer, pianist, and musicologist Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin (1950–2018), whose 1990 visiting professorship at Boston College inspired the Burns Library’s Irish Music Archives, will be celebrated this year in two documentary programs and an essay collection.
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Image of Michael Coleman, John J. Burns Library, Boston College
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Featured image in the banner: Photo showing two Richard J. King windows in the James Jeffrey Roche Room, Bapst Library, Boston College. Photographed by Gary Wayne Gilbert for Transforming Light: The Stained-Glass Windows of Boston College (Linden Lane Press, 2009) and included in the catalog for the 2016 exhibition The Arts and Crafts Movement: Making It Irish, curated by Vera Kreilkamp and Diana Larson at the McMullen Museum.
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