Tiffany Thompson (she/her)

History PhD Candidate at Boston College studying women, activism, displacement, and violence in Northern Ireland📚

[Tiffany Thompson (she/her) @tiff__thompson]

For your Monday morning reading… Such a joy to work with Tommy and Roseanna @TroublesWriting Thank you both so much!!

[Writing the 'Troubles' @TroublesWriting]

In our first article for 2023, @tiff__thompson looks at Bernadette Devlin vs. Reginald Maudling, and what we can learn from a gender-based analysis of their clash in the Commons that followed Bloody Sunday.

https://t.co/RH6MuwhqdR

[Malcolm Sen @malcolmsen]

Looking forward to speaking at Boston College this weekend on Environmental Citizenship: The Ecology of Contemporary Irish Poetry @UMassHFA @UMassEnglish @abeggvariations

[Irish Studies at Boston College @BCIrishStudies]

The program for #Comhfhios 2025 is out!

Join us this Saturday, February 8, in Connolly House for a great showing of graduate student research on environmentalism in Irish Studies!

[WHAI @WHAIreland]

Delighted to open the call for our new Emerging Scholars' Blog series.... see the call below ⬇️⬇️⬇️

We're eager to promote some of the newest cutting edge research and to provide the space for ECRs to showcase their work.

Please RT widely!

[Irish Studies at Boston College @BCIrishStudies]

Our graduate students participating in an interdisciplinary colloquium on the legacy of mother and baby homes & related institutions in Ireland with @MargoHarkin, @SarahAnneBuckle, @maireadenright, & @cicerocarey

[Irish Studies at Boston College @BCIrishStudies]

Thank you to Patricia Carey, Sarah-Anne Buckley, Margo Harkin, Máiréad Enright, & Clair Wills for participating in an incredibly moving and informative Q&A session following the BC screening of Harkin’s film Stolen

@MargoHarkin @SarahAnneBuckle @maireadenright @cicerocarey

[Tiffany Thompson (she/her) @tiff__thompson]

“The Vegetarian” stays in my top 5 favorite books of all time how exciting is this?! ❤️

[Irish Studies at Boston College @BCIrishStudies]

Next Wednesday, September 25, at 7:00 pm, #BCIrishStudies will host Rita Duffy!

The Belfast-born artists will give a lecture titled "You Can't Hope for a Better Past" as part of the #BC Lowell Lecture series.

That talk is free and open to the public!

[Irish Studies at Boston College @BCIrishStudies]

Join us at the Burns Library for an Irish Double-Header on September 18!

Start the evening with a lecture from Hillary Dully focusing on Irish Revolutionary Máire Comerford and finish with a film screening and discussion of Joe Comerford's 'Reefer & the Model.'

[Tiffany Thompson (she/her) @tiff__thompson]

So excited about Meitheal - our new Irish Studies grad student workshop! We’ve got a full semester of seminar papers and skills workshops planned so feel free to reach out if you’re interested in joining ☺️☘️📚

[Irish Studies at Boston College @BCIrishStudies]

Yesterday we had our first Irish Studies graduate student workshop!

Named ‘meitheal’ to inspire a coming together to help a community for the greater good, we’re expecting amazing word to come from these grads this year!

[Tiffany Thompson (she/her) @tiff__thompson]

If any of my fellow grad students are considering attending the NE/MA Regional ACIS (‘Ireland at Risk’) this October & also love yapping about the precarity of grad students in Irish Studies… feel free to slide into my dms bc I’m thinking about a roundtable 👀

[Tiffany Thompson (she/her) @tiff__thompson]

@MaireMcCafferty Comhghairdeas!! 🥰❤️

[Tiffany Thompson (she/her) @tiff__thompson]

Such a great week at #ACIS2024 and presenting alongside these two lovely ladies was absolutely the highlight for me 🩷 @RAYHistoryNerd @LizDeYoung5

[Rachael Young @RAYHistoryNerd]

Cannot express how amazing it was to be on a panel with these brilliant women to discuss reframing narratives of the Troubles!!

[Luca Bertolani Azeredo @luca_b_a]

"The future of Irish Studies is in this room"

[Rachael Young @RAYHistoryNerd]

Had a great time hosting this networking session with @tiff__thompson!

There’s some amazing work happening in this room!!

[Tiffany Thompson (she/her) @tiff__thompson]

Today’ office: a train ride along the Northern Irish coast 🌊

[Tiffany Thompson (she/her) @tiff__thompson]

You’ve been Dr. Ray for almost a year now but watching you officially graduate brought tears to my eyes - I’m so proud of you bestie!! 📚🥂🎓☘️🤍

[Tiffany Thompson (she/her) @tiff__thompson]

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[Irish Studies at Boston College @BCIrishStudies]

Our own Tiffany Thompson and Christian Dupont were invited to speak at the annual commemoration of the Easter Rising in Scituate this weekend!

[Tiffany Thompson (she/her) @tiff__thompson]

So thrilled to speak at the Easter Rising commemoration tomorrow – love talking about women's militancy during the Irish Revolution! Hope to see you there!

[Irish Boston @TheBostonIrish]

This Sunday April 21 the South Shore #IrishHeritageTrail holds an #EasterRising Memorial in #Scituate w/ guest @CGBostonIreland Síghle Fitzgerald, plus an exhibit from @burnslibrary about #Women of the Easter Rising. @BCIrishStudies. @SeePlymouth https://t.co/yeanmlTOLc

[Tiffany Thompson (she/her) @tiff__thompson]

@shan_devlin @tait_clodagh omg how exciting!! congratulations 🥳