The School of English, Drama and Film is pleased to announce two teaching fellowships (3 year; part time posts) in creative writing (one poetry; one fiction). Closing date is 12 July. For more details see http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ANZ271/teaching-fellow-in-creative-writing-fiction/ http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ANZ672/teaching-fellow-in-creative-writing-poetry
» Read moreCóilín Parsons Advances an original argument about the importance of the Ordnance Survey to the development of modern Irish literature Offers an expanded temporality of Irish modernism, beginning at a moment of profound cultural change in the 1830s Presents a new assessment of space and scale in modernist literature Draws on a range of theoretical frameworks: postcolonialism, theories of space,
» Read moreThe editors are seeking contributors for a volume focused on science, technology, and Irish literature of the revival and modernist period. Since W. B. Yeats infamously wrote in 1890 that “the man of science is too often a person who has exchanged his soul for a formula,” the anti-scientific and Luddite bent of the Irish literary and cultural revival has
» Read moreThe Nineteenth Century Studies Association (NCSA), is an interdisciplinary association for the study of nineteenth-century world cultures. www.ncsaweb.net You will find here information about our Student and Scheuerle-Zatlin International Travel Grants NCSA Article Prize NCSA Emerging Scholars Award
» Read moreEdited by Brad Kent Forthcoming October 2016 The first collection of essays by one of the most important public intellectuals in Ireland. Sean O’Faolain (1900-1991) was Ireland’s leading social and political critic in the period following the country’s independence from the United Kingdom. Since his death, scholarly opinion has alternately cast him as an arch-revisionist, a liberal nationalist, and a
» Read moreSoldiers of the Short Grass: A History of the Curragh Camp is the first complete history of this national landmark from 1855 to the present day, taking into account every facet of its development. The Curragh Camp had enormous implications for the outcome of Easter Week 1916 and the War of Independence. The story of the Curragh Camp is inextricably linked to the development
» Read moreUCD Press requests the pleasure of your company at a reception to celebrate the publication of The Real People of Joyce’s Ulysses: A Biographical Guide by Vivien Igoe at 6.30 pm, Thursday 9 June 2016, in the James Joyce Centre, 35 North Great George’s Street, Dublin 1. The book will be launched by Professor Declan Kiberd, followed by a wine
» Read moreDear colleagues I’d like to draw your attention to the publication of the following peer-reviewed book, which is the result of an I+D+I National Research Project, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO). http://www.peterlang.com//index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=91102 Morales-Ladrón, Marisol (ed.) Family and Dysfunction in Contemporary Irish Narrative and Film. Oxford, Bern: Peter Lang, 2016. 352 pp. ISBN 978-3-0343-2219-5. Book synopsis
» Read moreThe schedule for Law, Punishment, and Accountability, the second conference in the Institutions and Ireland series, has now been launched. The conference takes place in Trinity College Dublin on 7 June and will include a keynote by former Governor of Mountjoy Prison John Lonergan. The schedule can be found on the conference website: https://institutionsandireland.wordpress.com/schedule/ Registration is free. See https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/d/ireland/institutions-and-ireland%3A-law-punishment-and-accountability/?mode=search
» Read moreThe School of Canadian Irish Studies has become the premiere academic location in Canada for the study of Ireland and the Irish abroad. With six full-time professors and three fellows, Irish Studies at Concordia promotes an interdisciplinary engagement of the discipline, annually offering courses in History, Literature, Language, Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, Film, Theatre, Performance, Diaspora Studies, Visual and Material Culture, that
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