Irish Studies at Boston College

We're so proud of our own Teddy Lehre for winning the Krause Research Fellowship!

The Krause Research Fellowship wass awarded to Theodore Lehre for their project “Alternative Motherhoods in Twentieth- and Twenty-first Century Irish Literature.” This project identifies how alternative motherhoods challenge the foundations of Irish society, both the “bad” alternative mothers who disrupt the entire concept of motherhood and the “good” alternative mothers, who nonetheless challenge the status quo.

Professor Joe Nugent successfully launched JoyceWays at .

JoyceWays is not just a map. It is a time machine. An augmented reality layer of literature over the streets of Dublin.

There are more launches to come in Paris and in Krakow.

https://joyceways.vercel.app

Comhghairdeas lenár ndaltaí!

Congratulations to our students!

This weekend, we invited all graduates and their families to Connolly House for a celebratory brunch!

Congratulations to all our 2026 grads! We cannot wait to see what you do next!!

Our faculty and graduate students held a talk-back session with The Longwood Players following their production of Translations by Brian Friel this weekend.

http://www.longwoodplayers.org/index

Another productive year of seminars, conferences, symposiums, and concerts has come to an end at !

Many thanks to all of our speakers, faculty, students, and audience members who participated in or attended our events in 2025/2026.

The novels and short stories of James Joyce continue to inspire creativity in the arts and everyday life. Drawing on the work of scholars and our students, we held a conference today to celebrate and examine how Joyce's intricate wonders continue to shape the world we live in.

graduate students have won the university's Von Hendy Award for Graduate Student Writing.

PhD student Jessica Oyler won for her paper titled "O'Brien Other Country Girl: A Post-Dobbs Analysis of Down by the River." MA student Quinn Fisher won for her paper titled "Big House Bodies: Reading Anamility in Keane and Johnston."

Congratulations to both writers!!

Thank you to BC's AADS program for another fantastic collaboration!

Last night, we discussed Irish and African American diasporic connections seen in Sinners with Mary Burke (UConn), Jerry Rafiki Jenkins (University of Georgia), Demetrius Murphy (BC), & Diane Negra (UCD).

Join us tomorrow in Devlin Hall for a roundtable on how vampires & music reveal interconnected stories of the African American and Irish diasporas

Participants include Mary Burke (UConn), Jerry Rafiki Jenkins (University of Georgia), Demetrius Murphy (BC), & Diane Negra (UCD)