“Nochtaithe” (Unveiled) is an artistic response to the survivor testimonies gathered and archived as part of the Tuam Oral History Project (TOHP) at NUI Galway, Ireland. It premiered in the Bealtaine Festival on Saturday 1 May followed by a webinar with survivors from the Tuam institution chaired by award-winning journalist Conall Ó Fátharta. It will remain online for the month
» Read moreHosted by the Centre for Irish Studies, Charles University, Prague. Deadline for abstracts extended until 30 May 2021. The format of the conference – hybrid or fully online – will be determined by 7 June at the latest. For Gaeilge please scroll down Keynote speakers Louis de Paor (NUI Galway) Mary McAuliffe (UCD) Gavan Titley (Maynooth) Clair Wills (Cambridge) The
» Read moreThe 2020 Bibliography is now being compiled, and members are invited to submit bibliographic information of work published in 2020 to their local IASIL Bibliography Committee representative. You can find contact details for your local representative on the IASIL Bibliography Committee page, and full guidelines on how to submit your publication information at Bibliography Guidelines. The IASIL Bibliography, listing work on Irish literature
» Read moreEFACIS 2021: Interfaces and Dialogues 1-4 September 2021 Hosted by the Centre for Irish Studies, Charles University, Prague.Conference venue: Faculty of Arts main building, Náměstí Jana Palacha 2, Prague 1. Keynote speakers Louis de Paor (NUI Galway) Mary McAuliffe (UCD) Gavan Titley (Maynooth) Clair Wills (Cambridge) The conference proposes to approach Ireland as interface, a locus that allows intercultural exchange,
» Read moreMichael McAteer, Excess in Modern Irish Writing: Spirit and Surplus (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2020). This book examines the topic of excess in modern Irish writing in terms of mysticism, materialism, myth and language. The study engages ideas of excess as they appear in works by major thinkers from Hegel, Kierkegaard and Marx through to Nietzsche, Bataille, Derrida and, more recently, Badiou. Poems,
» Read more‘to be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail’ Writing in a time of global change and at the intersection of literary modernism and postmodernism, Samuel Beckett’s work was preoccupied with the failure of language to express the human condition. Resolved to finding a way for language to ‘fail better’, Beckett’s writing ripped up convention and created
» Read moreThis book examines Thomas MacGreevy’s central role in the development of Irish culture from the arrival of national independence in 1922 to the moment of programmatic modernisation during the early 1960s. Thomas MacGreevy and the Rise of the Irish Avant-Garde, By Francis Hutton-Williams It makes a strong case for the reassessment of his achievement across the full range of his
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Prof Laura Izarra, on behalf of Brazilian Association of Irish Studies (ABEI), has sent the following wonderful news: “It is an honor to announce that Prof. Munira Hamud Mutran has received today the Presidential Distinguished Service Award, from His Excellency Michael D. Higgins. The ceremony celebrates Prof. Mutran’s achievements in the field
» Read moreThe LPJIS is looking for editors for the following sections: Literature Politics Reviews Prospective editors should send a short personal introduction stating desired role & summary of any experience (not necessarily required) to the following email address: lpjirishstudies@gmail.com www.lpjis.wordpress.com
» Read moreCatholic Survival in Protestant Ireland, 1660-1711: Colonel John Browne, Landownership and the Articles of Limerick Eoin Kinsella Boydell and Brewer This is the first monograph-length study of an Irish Catholic landowner in late seventeenth and early eighteenth century Ireland, a period of sustained, violent upheaval in Irish Catholic history. It is also the first monograph-length study of all of
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