We are excited to extend the call for applications to the IASIL PG Conference Travel Scholarship until 3 March, 2023. Reviews will commence once the call has closed. To receive the scholarship, you must be currently enrolled in a PhD. Should you have any questions about the application, please reach out to Matthew Reznicek at matthewreznicek@creighton.edu. Download the application form
» Read moreResearch Centre for Irish Studies (RCIS) & the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, The British University in Egypt IASIL 2023: Sustainability CALL FOR PAPERS EXTENDED TO MARCH 30TH! Updates – Accommodation Publication Call for Papers In the atmosphere of the current global, intersectional crisis, the sustainability of life on the planet has become a
» Read moreCall for members We are forming a new sub-committee on EDI – please contact our secretary Dr Deirdre Flynn by Jan 12th, 2023 should you wish to be involved secretary [@] IASIL.org – with an online meeting planned for late January We welcome expressions of interest from all members of the IASIL Community and all backgrounds to join the Equality,
» Read moreWe are excited to announce the schedule for Ireland’s first working-class studies conference! The conference will now take place 8th-12th November, 2021. Over 5 days there will be 30 panels, 2 Keynote Speakers and 2 live Performance evenings. First 3 days take place online via ZOOM. The final 2 days 11th & 12th are in-person at Liberty Hall Keynote Speakers:
» Read moreDescription This book addresses W.B. Yeats’s and Rabindranath Tagore’s engagements with identity, nationalism, and the literary and cultural traditions of Ireland and India. It offers a fresh critical perspective on their work from the beginning of the twentieth century, the point at which their international collaborations most significantly influence the cross-border lives of their literature. This book foregrounds the Yeats-Tagore
» Read moreThe IASIL 2021 conference wishes to reflect on the concept of borders and their creative potential that helps define identities, generates critical discourses, and provokes literary works to tackle issues of global political, social, and cultural nature. On the one hand, the border is seen here as a necessary confinement and a formal limitation. On the other, it is viewed
» Read morePat Burke R.I.P. It is with great sadness that we share the news that Pat Burke, cherished long-standing IASIL member died on 11 November after a heroically-borne advanced Parkinson’s disease. Pat’s passionate love for drama and theatre, his bright essays on Brian Friel and other playwrights, his tireless work as adjudicator of amateur performances all over Ireland, his success as
» Read moreThe essays collected in this volume draw unprecedented critical attention to the centrality of politics in Flann O’Brien’s art. The organising theme of Gallows humour focuses these inquiries onto key encounters between the body and the law, between death and the comic spirit in the author’s canon. These innovative analyses explore the place of biopolitics in O’Brien’s modernist experimentation and
» Read moreIn 1928, Hilton Edwards and Micheál mac Liammóir founded the Dublin Gate Theatre, which quickly became renowned for producing stylistically and dramaturgically innovative plays in a uniquely avant-garde setting. While the Gate’s lasting importance to the history of Irish theater is generally its introduction of experimental foreign drama to Ireland, Van den Beuken shines a light on the Gate’s productions
» Read moreWrite My Name: Authorship in the Poetry of Thomas Moore By Justin Tonra Write My Name: Authorship in the Poetry of Thomas Moore is the first monograph devoted to Moore’s poetry. The focus of the book is on Moore’s poetry and differing formulations of authorship therein. Its scope comprises poetic publications from Moore’s early career, from his Romantic Orientalist writings, and
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