The Electronic IASIL Newsletter Vol. 5, No. 1 (April 1999)

edited by Bruce Stewart (IASIL Sec./Univ. of Ulster)

Feature Article: At the Heart of Atavism: "A Fatal Excess"- Marina Carr's By the Bog of Cats.

Report from the Chair: Michael Kenneally's Letter to the Membership

The Conference Table [I]: 1798 Commemorations; W. B.Yeats International Summer School; Annual Trieste Joyce School; "New Voices"; Canadian Association for Irish Studies; Third Galway Conference on Colonialism; "Minority Identities Today" (Aberdeen); International Summer School at University College; ACIS Meetings - 37th Annual Meeting (Roanoke Conference Center in Virginia); American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS) 2000/Millenial Meeting (University of Limerick); ACIS Regional Meetings Programme.

The Conference Table [II]: Society for the Study of Nineteenth-century Ireland; British Association for Irish Studies (BAIS); The Year of the Irish at Univ. de Brétagne; La Societé Française des Études Irlandaises (SOFEIR); Irish Programme at Catholic University of America; Millikin University (Decatur, Illinois, USA); British Society for Population Studies; Centre for Irish Literature and Bibliography (UU/Coleraine); Glucksman Ireland House (NYU); W. B. Yeats Society of New York.

The Conference Table [III]: Carleton Summer School; Central New York Conference on Language and Literature (SUNY); Creative Writing at Trinity College, Dublin; Synge Summer School (Wicklow); Queen's University Belfast English Society; Royal Irish Academy; Princeton University; University of South Mississipi; University College, Galway Centenary; North American James Joyce Conference; Keough Institute of Irish Studies (Notre Dame/Dublin); The James Joyce Summer School (Dublin); Celtic Cultures at Leeds; North London University Irish Centre; Kiberd Seminar (WVU).

Acts of Union: WUB/PRONI/Historical Association Conference (Sept. 1999) and Princess Grace Irish Library Symposium (Sept. 2000).

The Journals Rack: History Ireland; Sewanee Review; Irish Historical Studies; New Hibernia Review; Religion and Literature; Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies; Nua: Studies in Contemporary Irish Writing; Bullán: An Irish Studies Journal; Irish Studies Review; Boston College Newsletter; Ethnos-Nation; Irish Studies Review; Irish University Review; Writing Ulster.

Membership News: Festscrift for Professor Heinz Kosok; Instauration of John Montague. News from Hungary, Poland, and Romania. Lucy McDiarmid in Galway; homage to Norstedt and Brinlee (Irish-Studies List Eds.)

Robert Hogan (1930-1999): Editor and Critic-Friend of Irish Drama - Obituary Homage.

Publishers & Publications: Colin Smythe publishes plays of T. C. Murray and M. J. Molloy; Princess Grace Irish Library Conference Proceedings; Chrystal Hug and the Politics of Sexual Morality in Ireland; jacqueline Genet's Anthologie du théâtre irlandais; Monique Gallagher on Flann, Myles, et les autres; Pierre Joannan's and Richard Deutsch's timely publications; The Supernatural and the Fantastic at the Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco); Neil Corcoran, After Yeats and Joyce; Eugene O'Brien, The Question of Irish Identity; Longman and Routledge Series; Irish Literature Exchange; Rodopi to the Rescue; Reviewing Ireland and Irish Encounters-the Bath Collections. Chapters sought-Deborah Fleming on Post-Colonial Yeats, James McElroy on Ireland 1900-2000. Crazy Jane at Loughrea; The Michael MacLaverty Rights.

The Bulletin Board: Four Court Press's J. C. Beckett Prize; Jefferson Smurfit Corporation Professorship in Irish Studies; Robert W. Woodruff Library Research Fellowships; Irish Government's British Scholarships to Ireland; The British Association for Irish Studies Bursaries; Mary McNeill Scholarship (QUB); Duquesne's Gerry Adams Scholarship; British Library Irish Collection Web Page

Editor's Remarks: Apologia; electronic actualities; plans for the Newsletter; the Monaco Connection.

Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco): Programmes and Projects.

HE Dictionary: Stones to the Cairn: Reflections on Terry Dolan's Dictionary of Hiberno-English (G&M 1998)

Select Bibliography of Irish Studies for 1998: A 12pp. listing of Irish studies book titles for 1998.

Review Articles: Robert Tracy, The Unappeasable Host: Studies in Irish Identity (Dublin: UCD Press 1998), 288pp.; Gerry Smyth, Decolonisation and Criticism: The Construction of Irish Literature [Contemp. Irish Studies, gen. ed., Peter Shirlow] (London: Pluto 1998), 262pp. [with index.]