Seven Questions with... Nadia Dobrianska

Nadia Dobrianska This week we meet PhD candidate and Ukrainian refugee Nadia Dobrianska, who recently addressed Irish Parliamentarians on how the conflict in Ukraine has upended the lives of Ukrainians. Here, she chats to us about her research and favourite libraries. What are you studying, why are you interested in this subject and what do you plan to do in the future?. My PhD project is focused on the intercommunal conflict in Belfast and Northern Ireland between Catholics and Protestants during the partition of Ireland in 1920-22. Irish nationalists referred to this conflict as the Belfast Pogrom. I am exploring how politicians, the press and the broader public represented the ongoing violence in political discourse, as it helps us to better understand the nature of the conflict and its place within the Irish Revolutionary period. I am particularly interested in propaganda and the role that politicians and the press played in the dynamic of violence, especially in inciting or, on the contrary, restraining it.