News & Events – International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

Islands of the Mind Festival, Corfu: 23-28 June 2019

February 15, 2019 Cliona O'Gallchoir Events, Other Conferences

We are now taking final bookings for the ISLANDS OF THE MIND literary and scientific festival, in Corfu, Greece, 23-28 June. Full details of the festival, including keynote speakers and festival programme available here: ISLANDSprogramme13.2.19 To secure one of the remaining places at the festival, please send an email to: durrelllibrarycorfu@gmail.com. ——————————————————————- The Durrell School/Library has always attracted the enquiring

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Symposium: Musical Theatre in Ireland, 3,200 BCE to 1922

February 15, 2019 Cliona O'Gallchoir Events, General News, Other Conferences

“Musical Theatre in Ireland, 3,200BCE to 1922: History, Theory, and Performance” Booking and schedule now available online. Free, but booking essential. Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/symposium-musical-theatre-in-ireland-tickets-55962409072 symposium- MT in Ireland- 8 March 19- BOOKING INFO SCHEDULE- Associated Event: ‘Irish Musical Instruments from Prehistory to the Middle Ages’ Lecture-presentation, including the chance to play accurate replicas. Sat 9th March 2019, ACD Dublin, 9:30-12:00 (150

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Call for Papers: 10th International George Moore Conference

February 13, 2019 Cliona O'Gallchoir Call for Papers, Other Conferences

TENTH INTERNATIONAL GEORGE MOORE CONFERENCE Truth, Innovation and Commitment: the Artistic Legacy of George Moore October 24-25, 2019 At the University of Almería, Spain with sessions at Museo Arqueológico de Almería Comprising over 50 books, numerous short stories and articles, plays, and even some poetry, the Moore oeuvre invites inspection and responses, particularly from scholars in the fields of

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New Publication: A New History of the Irish in Australia

February 13, 2019 Cliona O'Gallchoir New Publications

A New History of the Irish in Australia by Elizabeth Malcolm and Dianne Hall Irish immigrants and their offspring were the largest group to populate Australia between 1788 and 1945, after settlers of English birth and descent. The Irish comprised nearly 25 per cent of all non-Indigenous Australians by the time of Federation in 1901. A New History of

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ISTR Conference 2019: Call for Papers

February 4, 2019 Cliona O'Gallchoir Call for Papers, Other Conferences

ISTR 2019: Tara Building, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick May 10th & 11th 2019 Call For Papers: Conversations Through Time: Intersectional, Intergenerational, Interdisciplinary Keynote Speakers: Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick, Ulster University Dr. Emilie Pine, University College Dublin Theatre and performance practices have often been called upon as ways to understand contemporary discourses. Now more than ever academics and theatremakers

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UCD Maria Helena Kopschitz Scholarship for MA in Irish Literature and Culture, 2019

February 1, 2019 Cliona O'Gallchoir Scholarships and Grants

Announcement and Call for Applications The School of English, Drama and Film, University College Dublin, is pleased to announce the continuation of the Maria Helena Kopschitz Scholarship to enable a Brazilian student to pursue the MA in Irish Literature and Culture, University College Dublin. The scholarship honours the pioneering contribution to Irish studies in Brazil made by Professor Maria Helena

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New Publications: Ireland and Masculinities in History

January 29, 2019 Cliona O'Gallchoir New Publications

Ireland and Masculinities in History Rebecca Anne Barr, Sean Brady and Jane McGaughey, editors Palgrave Macmillan This edited collection presents a selection of essays on the history of Irish masculinities. Beginning with representations of masculinity in eighteenth-century drama, economics, and satire, and concluding with work on the politics of masculinity post Good-Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, the collection advances the

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Edward Everett Root Irish Studies Catalogue

January 27, 2019 Cliona O'Gallchoir General News, New Publications

A message from Pilar Villar Argaiz, Series Editor, Studies in Irish Literature, Cinema and Culture, EER Publishers. IrishStudies-Catalogue(12pp_PRINT)20%-Offer Publishing proposal form – Irish Studies Series Dear IASIL members,It is with great pleasure that we distribute the Irish Studies catalogue of the new titles published by Edward Everett Root, Publishers (with a 20% discount). As you can see, the new series of monographs in Irish

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Call for Papers: 2019 North American James Joyce Symposium

January 27, 2019 Cliona O'Gallchoir Call for Papers, Other Conferences

The 2019 North American James Joyce Symposium will be jointly hosted by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM). This will be the first annual gathering of Joyceans in the global south, as well as the first to host panels in both English and Spanish, and will thus foreground the excellent work on Joyce

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New Publication: Imagining Irish Suburbia

January 21, 2019 Cliona O'Gallchoir New Publications

Eoghan Smith and Simon Workman, eds, Imagining Irish Suburbia in Literature and Culture (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018). This collection of critical essays explores the literary and visual cultures of modern Irish suburbia, and the historical, social and aesthetic contexts in which these cultures have emerged. The lived experience and the artistic representation of Irish suburbia have received relatively little scholarly consideration

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