EFACIS Conference at Queen’s University Belfast, 24-27 August 2023 ‘Unions and Partitions in Ireland’ Call for Papers EFACIS (European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies) travels to Belfast for the first time in 2023, during a pivotal time for Northern Ireland. The ‘Decade of Centenaries’ (2012-22) in the north has demonstrated that public memories of Ireland’s partition and
» Read moreThe University of Notre Dame invites applications for a tenured or tenure-track position in Irish Language and Literature. This will be a rank-open search. Discipline is open, but we especially invite applications from those whose work has a comparative focus. Deadline: Dec 15, 2022 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time The successful hire will be affiliated with the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish
» Read moreSamuel Beckett Working Group at IFTR in Accra, Ghana, 24th-28th July 2023 Samuel Beckett’s Drama and the Undoing of Myths of Empire and Imperialism Beckett’s life is a dance between imperialisms, colonialisms and independence struggles. He has been portrayed, if not as a border thinker, at least as an artist for whom borders shaped his life, political thinking and artistic
» Read moreViolence: Repercussion, Resistance and Representation in Irish Society and Culture Universitat de València. 31 May, 1-2 June 2023 Call for Papers As a country under the colonising yoke of the United Kingdom, the island of Ireland has endured many different types of violence over the centuries. The decolonisation of part of it after the 1922 War of Independence and Partition
» Read moreIn the atmosphere of the current global, intersectional crisis, the sustainability of life on the planet has become a most pressing issue. While humans have always been coexistent with nature, it is now imperative to realise that, to quote Thomas Nail, “Climate change is a significant problem that demands radical social change.” As Nail points out, “Some historical actors and
» Read moreSymposium: Monday 27th March, 2023 Museum of Literature Ireland, Dublin Dr Gail McConnell (Queen’s University Belfast) & Dr Karl O’Hanlon (Maynooth University) This symposium sets out to explore mid-century Irish poetry’s rich web of affiliations, reconceptualising the period from Partition to the Troubles by bringing to light forgotten cross-border collaborations, transnational connections, feminist, queer, ecocritical, socialist, and working-class perspectives. Feminist
» Read moreSpecial edition of Irish Studies Review ‘Critiquing Crisis and Commemoration’ Guest Editors: Eóin Flannery and Eugene O’Brien. Volume 30, Issue 4 of Irish Studies Review: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cisr20/30/4 . One of the core aims of this special issue is to offer questions and critiques to notions of commemoration, and in this respect, the collation of interventions is setting up a type of counter-commemorative epistemology, one which looks
» Read moreThe Irish Studies Program at Boston College invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor rank. The position is open to scholars in any discipline whose work relates to the study of Ireland and/or the transnational Irish diaspora. The successful candidate will be appointed to a tenure-track faculty position in a Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
» Read moreby John Fanning In spite of recession, austerity and pandemics, Ireland has demonstrated an extraordinary degree of resilience, becoming one of the most successful economies in Europe and developing into a society remarkably at ease with itself. This book argues that the seeds of this achievement were sown between the mid-1950s and 1960s, when a Second Irish Revival took place which
» Read moreEamon Maher, Director of the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies, has been given a TU Dublin Scholarship to recruit a PhD student who will work on the general theme of Cultural Tourism: A Case Study of John McGahern’s Leitrim. Dr Eugene O’Brien, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick will co-supervise the project with Professor Maher, and their joint expertise on the theory of space/place will undoubtedly prove a big advantage to
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