Claire Mitchell

Favourites

Chalk on the Wall, BBC Radio 3 The Essay (2021)

Conjuring My Women: Protestant Lives During Partition, The Honest Ulsterman (2021)

Northern Protestants’ Irish Ghost Limb, The Honest Ulsterman (2020)

What Should I Tell My Kids About The 12th July? Slugger O’Toole (2018)

Selected

2022

'Missionary Blood' (forthcoming) in Catherine Harper ed. Studies In Iconology: Ireland's Stained and Bloodied Cloths. Peeters Publishers, Belgium.

'Northern Protestants and the Irish Language' (forthcoming) in Máirtín Ó Catháin and Laura McAtackney (eds.), Handbook of the Northern Ireland Troubles and peace process. London: Routledge.

2021

Place and Power, live recording of the Irish Passport Podcast, with Linda Ervine

Northern Protestants: A gravitational pull towards the future, Irish Times Book Review of Susan McKay's Northern Protestants.

Observe the Sons of Ulster, A Worker’s Guide to Everything Podcast

A reformation for Protestants? Conversation with Susan McKay and Mark Carruthers, Red Lines Podcast

As it reaches its centenary, Northern Ireland is not OK, The Big Issue

What Northern Ireland means to me, Shared Future News Podcast

Contributor to The Lady, Year ‘21 Podcast, BBC

Conversation with Pádraig Ó Tuama on the Corrymeela Podcast

Thank You NHS (Sorry about the PPE), Fortnight magazine

Life, Love and Loss on the Road to Partition, Belfast Telegraph

Understanding Northern Ireland Through Voice and Story, Irish Historians in Britain

Telling Hidden Stories, The Irish Association

2020

Divided Politics, Blended Lives, Fortnight Magazine

May Tyrants Tremble: A candid portrait of a misunderstood radical, Irish Times Book Review

I spent much of 2020 researching and writing about COVID-19 for FactCheckNI

2019

2018-2019 Curated series of 23 articles on the theme ‘Future Ireland’, for Slugger O’Toole

Contributor to David Cannadine: On Crossing the Religious Divide, BBC Radio 4

Guest on the Motherfoclóir podcast

In a devastating election, is Northern Ireland the crack where the light gets in? Slugger O’Toole

Is Northern Ireland spiralling out of control? Slugger O’Toole

UK Parliament Declares Environment and Climate Emergency, Slugger O’Toole

Can Northern Ireland Change? Slugger O’Toole

Brexit at a Belfast School Gate, Slugger O’Toole

Ards and North Down Declare Climate Emergency, Slugger O’Toole

2018

Future Ireland: Where Can the North Thrive? Slugger O’Toole

Contributor to Generation Neither, BBC Radio 4

Contributor to Northern Ireland - Where Next? Analysis, BBC Radio 4

The Dog Show, live storytelling at Tenx9

Power to the People, Best Irish podcasts of 2018, Slugger O’Toole

Doctrine and Decline: Irish Churches and the Conservative Turn, Slugger O’Toole

I Voted for Peace and All I Got Was This Lousy Culture War, Slugger O’Toole

2017

Take Back Control - Of Our Ulster Scots Histories, Slugger O’Toole

If Not Loyalists, Who Else Will Do This Job? Slugger O’Toole

I’ve Got A Message, live storytelling at Tenx9