Writer and researcher from Belfast

Writing about people and everyday politics in Northern/Ireland, using interviews, memoir, archives and storytelling.

Recent writing and media is here.

Latest book, The Ghost Limb: Alternative Protestants and the Spirit of 1798.

Formerly senior lecturer in Sociology, Queen’s University Belfast. BA, PhD & post-doc in Politics, University College Dublin.

Committee member, Naíscoil na Seolta.

Committee member, Reclaim the Enlightenment.

Professional member, Irish Writers Centre.

Researcher, FactCheckNI.

Commissions, queries - claire@clairemitchell.net

Tweets @ClaireMitchell2 - less often these days

Bluesky @clairemitchell.bsky.social