Conferences

The next PSAI Annual Conference will be hosted by University College Cork in October 2026.

The PSAI also organises a biennial Postgraduate Conference. The next Postgraduate Conference will be held at Ulster University in November 2026.

From our Blog

PSAI 2026 Annual Conference Final Programme 13/10/2026
The Department of Government and Politics at University College Cork welcomes you to the 2026 annual conference of the Political Studies Association of Ireland. The conference will take place at the Metropole Hotel in Cork City over the weekend 16–18 October 2026. More information on the hotel venue and how to reach it is available…
Theresa Reidy
SHOULD FIANNA FÁIL SEEK A MARK CARNEY? 11/10/2026
Prof Ken Carty (UBC) It is hard to click into an Irish politics podcast these days without hearing some reference to a coming leadership contest in Fianna Fáil. Perhaps that is not so surprising. The current occupant of the office has held it longer than any of his predecessors, with the obvious exception of the…
Theresa Reidy
Explaining Radical Left Electoral Strategies in Ireland 03/09/2026
Dr Jonathan Arlow, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick Many scholars have attempted to address the absence of a left-led government in Ireland. But this focus on left-wing failure has meant that the unusual electoral focus of the two largest Trotskyist parties in Ireland, the Socialist Workers’ Network (SWN) and the Socialist…
Jonathan Arlow
After Independence Seminar: Political Culture, Party Competition and Policy Making in a Stable Democratic State 16/07/2026
Professor Brian Girvin, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow. I convened a seminar at the National University of Ireland, Merrion Square, on June 18, 2026. The seminar was made possible thanks to generous funding from the PSAI and the provision of facilities by the NUI. My fellow participants and I are grateful…
Jonathan Arlow
Opponents of Immigration in Ireland: A threat to the democratic public sphere? 02/07/2026
Professor Tom Turner, Department of Work and Employment Studies, University of Limerick. Ireland is relatively unique in a European context in the absence of an established right-wing populist party with anti-immigrant policies and representation in the national parliament (the Dáil) despite having a sizeable immigrant population with a greater number of immigrants per 1000 inhabitants…
Jonathan Arlow