Principal Investigator
CHRISTINE FERGUSON is a Professor in English Literature at the University of Stirling, where her research focuses on the entwined histories of the literary gothic and the British occult revival in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Her publications include the books Determined Spirits: Eugenics, Heredity, and Racial Regeneration in Angl0-American Spiritualist Writing 1848-1930 (2012) and Language, Science, and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin de Siècle (2006); she is the editor of Spiritualism, Health, Race, and Human Variation (2014), a volume in Routledge’s Spiritualism 1840-1930 facsimile edition series, and, with Andrew Radford, The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947 (forthcoming 2018). She is currently at work on a new project on the popular fiction networks and periodical culture of the Victorian occult revival.
Aideen Ni Riada always knew she wanted to be a musician, she just didn t know how to write music.
It was during the first lockdown when it clicked, while helping her husband Mike Wolpe recover from a massive heart operation. Prior to the second lockdown they moved back to Mike s native Michigan home where they have been releasing music, growing their fan base.
There they released a cover of Radiohead s Just - a slow groove, with dense production and magical vocals.
Aideen said: We moved at the end of August to be with Mike s Mom. We had two weeks self isolation; first at his step-Mom s place and then at his Mom s which is a State park. Everyone has been in lockdown in Ireland; we may as well be here!
); A nun poured urine on my head because I snored : Survivors contact DPC and gardaí over destruction of testimony
People who spent time in Mother and Baby Homes and County Homes say they have been “re-traumatised” by recent developments. By Órla Ryan Tuesday 9 Feb 2021, 12:05 AM Feb 9th 2021, 12:06 AM 57,275 Views 0 Comments
Mary Teresa pictured as a child
Image: Laura Angela Collins
Image: Laura Angela Collins
Updated Feb 9th 2021, 12:05 AM
PEOPLE WHO GAVE evidence to the Mother and Baby Homes Commission are contacting the Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) and gardaí about the destruction of audio recordings of their testimony.
One witness, Mary Teresa Collins, says she was not informed that the recording of her testimony would be destroyed and she would not have testified if she knew this was the case.
A study has described genetic changes in patients with the most common form of hereditary kidney disease that affects an estimated 12.5 million people worldwide. The research, which focussed on Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) in Ireland, provides insights into PKD that will assist doctors and patients in the management of this of inherited condition.
TWO Fermanagh musicians have been awarded the Young Musicians’ Platform Award, supported by National Lottery funding through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and BBC Northern Ireland. Opera singer Andrew Irwin, and composer and multi-instrumentalist Rose Connolly, are two of six young musicians from across Northern Ireland (NI) to have been selected for the prestigious award. The other four award recipients include classical awardees, cellist, Angus McCall and pianist, Justine Gormley; traditional music awardees, Jack Warnock; and singer-songwriter awardee, Roisin Donald (ROE). The biennial awards, which are run by the Arts Council in collaboration with BBC Northern Ireland, aim to showcase and support the development of young musicians from the region by providing individual funding awards of up to £5,000.