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If you’d like to learn more about our research, please take a read of the following.
- Alison Garden, ‘Brian Friel’s Translations: The ‘Boy-Girl School Romance’, Friel Reimaginedwebsite, 12 December 2022.
- Alison Garden, ‘“Our uneasy mixed community”: cross-community romance, magic realism and Northern Ireland’, Community in Contemporary British Fiction: From Blair to Brexit, ed. Sarah Upstone & Peter Ely. Bloomsbury Academic (2022), pp.45-66.
- Ruth Duffy and Alison Garden, ‘Using oral history to tell stories of Irish “mixed marriage”’, the Oral History Society blog, 27 July 2022.
- Alison Garden, ‘Why a play about Ireland’s native language finds new resonance in Anglo-Irish relations today’, The Conversation, 10 June 2022.
- Alison Garden, ‘Troubled love: the North and writing romance across the divide’ in Northern Ireland 1921–2021: Centenary Historical Perspectives Paul Bew, Marie Coleman & Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid. Ulster Historical Foundation, (2022), pp.129-134.
- Alison Garden and Ruth Duffy, ‘Mixed Marriages in Irish Culture’, The Honest Ulsterman, 25 February 2022.
- Alison Garden, This is no love story: when England met Ireland', Aeon, 5 November 2021.
- Alison Garden, ‘Normal people: Kevin and Sadie’s teenage love story’, RTÉ Brainstorm, 11 August 2020.
We’ve also got a co-edited collection forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan’s ‘Genders and Sexualities in History’ series: Mixed Marriage and Mixed Relationships in Twentieth Century Ireland. Stay tuned for more!
Alison worked with BBC NI in 2019 to produce a series of short films about four novels of ‘Love Across the Divide’ as part of BBC programming on ‘Books that Changed the World’. Take a look here.