Research projects

Our research projects

The Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool conducts diverse research across Irish history, literature, and politics.

Our research projects offer valuable insights into Ireland's cultural, social, and political development. Key projects include exploring civic spaces, reconciliation through art, the letters of author John McGahern, religious identity and the Irish divorce process.

Rapallo: Yeats, Pound, and Late Modernism in Interwar Italy
Religion, Identity and Conflict in Ireland
The Popularisation of Literature in and from the West of Ireland
Hagiography at the Frontiers
The Letters of John McGahern
A history of Irish divorce
Agreement: A People's Process
Art for Reconciliation
The Viking Age in the Irish Sea and cross cultural interaction - REF 2021 Case Study
Civic Space
Whose History