Edited by Joseph Valente and Marjorie Howes Paper $39.95s | 9780815637943 eBook 9780815655794 | Click here “An excellent collection of essays….Highly engaging, provocative, yet lucidly argued and tremendously enjoyable.” —Caoimhín DeBarra, Gonzaga University The Irish Revival has inspired a richly diverse and illuminating body of scholarship that has enlarged our understanding of the movement and its influence. The general tenor
» Read moreApril Episode now available – Nicky Gogan and Paul Rowley in conversation with Kate Huber In their conversation with Kate Huber, Paul Rowley and Nicky Gogan talk about their documentaries Seaview (2008), Build Something Modern (2011) and The Red Tree (2018). They discuss their journey into filmmaking and how they met; Seaview’s experimental style, which challenges the aesthetics of documentaries while foregrounding the asylum seekers’ experiences; the
» Read moreThis online symposium marks the recent publication of the Irish Historical Studies, special issue, ‘A New Agenda for Women’s and Gender History in Ireland’. Register here. 3.00-3.05 Welcome and Introduction Dr Alistair Malcolm and Dr Bronagh Ann McShane 3.05-4.00 Panel 1 Contributors: Dr Sparky Booker (Dublin City University) Dr Evan Bourke (Maynooth University) Prof. Marie-Louise Coolahan (University of Galway) Dr
» Read moreDHSI Atlantic, a summer school designed to introduce and demystify key concepts from the digital humanities for students and scholars at any stage of their careers, will be hosted at University College Cork this coming June – 19th – 23rd, 2023. All of the courses offered at DHSI Atlantic are taught by internationally-recognised scholars with extensive experience in the application and
» Read moreby David Pierce | Edward Everett Root Publishers Co. Ltd. This new book by David Pierce, provides further evidence that William Butler Yeats is still our contemporary but still in need of the critic. From a position which is at once inside and outside history, Yeats manages to hold our attention still. He continues to intrigue critics and readers alike.
» Read moreBy Tony Tracy | Suny Press White Cottage, White House examines how Classical Hollywood cinema developed and deployed Irish American masculinities to negotiate, consolidate, and reinforce hegemonic whiteness in midcentury America. Largely confined to discriminatory stereotypes during the silent era, Irish American male characters emerge as a favored identity with the introduction of sound, positioned in a variety of roles as mediators
» Read moreThe next EFACIS Book Club (and last of this academic year) will be on Wednesday 26 April at 8pm CET. https://www.efacis.eu/content/efacis-book-club They will be discussing Mary Costello’s The China Factory (2012) and this session will be introduced by Margaret Bonass Madden. Those interested in joining please email Sien Deltour: efaciscoord@efacis.eu EFACIS Book Club are also looking for book suggestions for future EFACIS Book Club sessions
» Read more(PUBLIC VERY WELCOME, NO REGISTRATION NECESSARY) School of Irish Studies, Concordia University, Montréal Date: 14-15 April 2023 Location: Hall Building, Room 1001 (10th Floor) The North American Gaels Conference brings together over twenty scholars from both sides of the Atlantic to discuss the Gaelic languages in North America. Featuring experts on Scots Gaelic, Irish, Manx and Mi’kmaq cultures, the panels
» Read moreInaugural symposium to shine a light on the brilliant Yeats Sisters A project has commenced that aims to revive and expand public knowledge and understanding of the prodigious achievements of Susan and Elizabeth Yeats. A principal objective is to promote public appreciation of the sisters’ pioneering ideals and their relevance to modern Ireland, to encourage a new generation of discovery
» Read moreThe 41st Irish Itinerary Podcast episode from EFACIS has just been released. In her conversation with Auxiliadora Pérez-Vides, Catherine Dunne discusses how stories have the power to change the minds of people; how she wants her characters to speak for themselves and how she allows them to inhabit her while writing. She also talks about her novel A Name for Himself (1998);
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