Catholic 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
» Read more2-6 July 2018 — Vienna Irish Studies & Cultural Theory Summer School: “Stage Irish” Registration is now open for an ECTS-accredited week of lectures and seminars with internationally renowned Irish studies and cultural theory scholars at the Vienna Centre for Irish Studies! This year’s theme of ‘Stage Irish’ offers students the opportunity to develop and deepen their analytical skills and theoretical
» Read moreIrish Women’s Writing at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Alternative Histories, New Narratives Co-editors: Kathryn Laing and Sinéad Mooney This will be one of the first publications to inaugurate a new major Irish Studies Series: EER Publishers Studies in Irish Literature, Cinema and Culture General Editor: Pilar Villar Argáiz The aim of this essay collection is to capitalise on
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Colloquium – New Philologies, the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, and The Alps-Adriatic-Rectors’ Conference (AARC) present the 3rd AARC Conference Language.Literature.Politics. 1918-2018. (Un)doing Nationalism and Resistance Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria – September 20-22, 2018 Second Call for Papers The Open Access journal Colloquium – New Philologies, the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt and the Alps-Adriatic-Rectors’ Conference are happy to announce the 3rd AARC PhD Students’ Conference entitled:
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Becoming and Belonging in Ireland AD c. 1200-1600: Essays in Identity and Cultural Practice Edited by Eve Campbell, Elizabeth FitzPatrick, Audrey Horning The period AD c.1200–1600 in Ireland was marked by the achievements and decline of the Anglo-Norman colony, refashioning of Gaelic elite identity, Reformation, and reassertion of English control that led to Plantation projects, bringing new people
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The Gothic Novel in Ireland, c. 1760-1829 Christina Morin The Gothic Novel in Ireland, c. 1760-1829 offers a compelling account of the development of gothic literature in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Ireland. Countering traditional scholarly views of the ‘rise’ of ‘the gothic novel’ on the one hand, and, on the other, Irish Romantic literature, this study persuasively re-integrates a
» Read moreCork University Press is today launching its new book series today Síreacht: Longings for another Ireland.This series looks at reimagining a better Ireland with short, topical, and provocative texts on controversial contemporary issues ranging from Freedom to Commemoration and the Public Sphere. The books are €9.95 and are available at http://www.corkuniversitypress.com. Little books tackling big issues and written in a conversational, accessible
» Read moreThe School of English DCU is happy to announce the launch of a new MA in Creative Writing with playwright Marina Carr at the helm. This exciting new course offers an opportunity for early-career and emerging writers to spend a year working with professional writers in a supportive and intellectually stimulating environment to develop their work and to foster connections
» Read moreEzra Pound and Modernism: The Irish Factor Eds. Walter Baumann and William Pratt Edward Everett Root Publishers, 2017 (Preface by Seamus Heaney) That Ezra Pound was the chief architect of Modernism in English and American poetry is well established. So, too, is the fact that in T. S. Eliot he discovered a peer, whose early career he fostered. Together, Pound and
» Read moreGiving Shape to the Moment: the Art of Mary O’Donnell, Poet, Novelist, Short Story Writer Edited by Maria Elena Jaime de Pablos, Univ of Almería Publisher: Peter Lang (Reimagining Ireland series, general editor Eamon Maher)
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