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The ‘John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies’ is a UNSW research centre aimed at enhancing our understanding of Ireland and the Irish around the world. Irish people are one of the largest settler groups in Australia, and the connection between the two countries stretches back to the earliest days of European settlement. Globally, up to 80 million people claim Irish descent.
The Global Irish Institute (GII) embraces flexible and nuanced approaches to 'Ireland’ and ‘Irishness’ and seeks appropriate theoretical models in which to understand the Irish diaspora. The Institute adopts avowedly multi- and inter-disciplinary methods, drawing variously on history, politics, literary studies, social science, economics, music and the fine arts. Through fostering and disseminating scholarship and research of the highest standard, the GII seeks to probe and understand the past, present and future of the Irish in Ireland in Australia and around the world.
The Institute was founded in in November 2010 under the Directorship of the Australian Ireland Fund Chair in Modern Irish Studies, Professor Ronan McDonald. It operates as a sister to the UCD John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies, founded in University College Dublin in 2007.
What’s On
RSS- GIST: Bilinguals at the Bar: Maamtrasna RevisitedWhen: 7th June
- Bloomsday on Bondi 2012When: 16th June
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Professor Ronan McDonald: Beyond Ireland: cultures of encounter and exchange
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Professor Ann McGrath: For better or for worse: The Irish, the Aborigines and Australian Colonisation
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Dr Liam Weeks: The discreet charm of the Single Transferable Vote: What electoral reformers can learn from the Australian and Irish experience
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Christine Kelly: Family stories and national myths - The sinking of the German battleship Emden November 1914
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Yeats Evening - Professor David Fitzpatrick: The gardener and the stable boy: Yeats, MacNeice, and the problem of Orangeism
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Yeats Evening - Professor John Kelly: Inheriting a philosophy of life: W.B. Yeats's debt to his father
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The Inaugural Patrick O'Farrell Memorial Lecture - Professor David Fitzpatrick: Australia's Irish Question
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Dr Emily Mark-Fitzgerald, Commemorating the Irish Famine: Memory and the Monument
News
RSS- GIST: Irish Lawyers in AustraliaPosted: 14th May
- The Irish QuestionPosted: 16th November
- UNSW wakes finn againPosted: 1st February
- FASS partners with 2011 Sydney Writers' FestivalPosted: 7th April







