Laing, Kathryn and Mary Pierse, eds. George Moore: Spheres of Influence | Liverpool: Liverpool University Press | forthcoming October 2023 This invigorating volume explores the literary worlds inhabited by the pioneering Irish author George Moore (1852–1933). With an eye to Moore’s innovative embrace of visual art, feminism and literary history, and in the spirit of his feisty resistance to ‘orthodoxy’,
» Read moreThe School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin is pleased to announce a doctoral scholarship to work as part of a funded project under the supervision of Dr Tim Groenland with co-supervisor Professor Margaret Kelleher. The award includes a stipend of €19,000 per annum (for a maximum of four years, renewable each year subject to satisfactory progress),
» Read moreThe EFACIS book club aims to introduce readers to highlights of Irish literature, both past and present. In our book club sessions we predominantly focus on contemporary fiction (mostly books that were published in the past 2-3 years) and sometimes include works from the twentieth or earlier centuries that are relevant for contemporary Ireland, but have remained under the academic
» Read moreThe next PhD Lunch Break will take place on 28 September at 1 pm CET via zoom. Introduced by EFACIS PhD representatives, Marie Gemrichová and Zoë Van Cauwenberg, the PhD Lunch Break offers an opportunity for graduate students in Irish studies to meet and talk to their peers. The meeting is informal and aims to give students a space to discuss everyday as well
» Read moreRegistration now open for the All Borders Blur Conference – November 11 & 12, London & Virtual All Borders Blur: Mapping Intersections and Genre Crossings in UK Spoken-Word Poetries Since 1965 is a two-day academic conference co-organised by the FWF/ERC-funded project Poetry Off the Page together with Queen Mary University of London and the University of Vienna. The conference investigates
» Read moreIntersectional Humanities Seminar Series, National University of Ireland, Maynooth 1-2 p.m., Iontas 1.33 Book your place here This interdisciplinary seminar series presents a capacious and provocative vision of intersectional inquiry across the Arts and Humanities. It has been designed to invite audiences both to excavate the intersectional stories that are embedded in our research and to better recognize the intersectional
» Read moreIn Beautiful World, Where Are You (2021), Sally Rooney creates a character Alice, a young professional writer who feels conflicted about her literary stardom and financial success. Through Alice, Rooney reflects on the commodification of literary labor and responds to critics who dismiss her work as romance novels in fancy dress. Literary works that are perceived as commercial or popular—literatures that lean
» Read moreApplications due: 26th October, 2023, 12 noon (EST). The Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies and Notre Dame International are delighted to announce the continuation of the Keough-Naughton Library Research Award in Irish Studies. The award provides grant funding to assist scholars who travel to use the collections of the Hesburgh Libraries for research in all aspects of Irish studies. The
» Read moreby ELAINE CALLINAN, MEL FARRELL and THOMAS TORMEY | University College Dublin Press After 11 arduous months, on 24 May 1923, the guns fell silent, and the Irish Civil War finally came to an end. Twelve weeks later, all adults aged 21 or over – regardless of social status or gender – cast their vote in the State’s first general
» Read morePatrick Lonergan | Published online by Cambridge University Press Available to download for free until 1 September 2023 from Cambridge Core – CLICK HERE. Elements in Theatre, Performance and the Political series This Element argues that the climate emergency requires a new approach to the study of theatre history – a suggestion that is developed through an analysis of the
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