It is a pleasure to invite you to the IV International Seminar in Irish Studies, which will be held at the University of Granada on 11-15 February 2019. Please find attached the final programme and the poster of the event. Programme IV International Seminar Ireland UGR (1) Poster IV Irish Studies Seminar UGR This year (and thanks to the Irish
» Read moreLiterature and the Law: The Irish Case Saturday 6 April 2019 Dublin City University Organisers: Eugene McNulty (Dublin City University) and Adam Hanna (UCC) Confirmed keynote speakers: Professor Margaret Kelleher (School of English, UCD) | Dr Tom Hickey (School of Law and Government, DCU) | Dr Heather Laird (School of English, UCC) Full Call for Papers available here: Law and Literature
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By Brian Boydell and Edited by Barra Boydell Brian Boydell (1917 – 2000) was a leading figure in Irish musical life. Composer, performer, broadcaster, agitator for music, musicologist, and Professor of Music at Trinity College Dublin, he profoundly influenced the development of music and music education in Ireland. In his later years he wrote his memoirs focusing in particular
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José Lanters Cork University Press Thomas Kilroy, Ireland’s leading intellectual playwright, has, over the span of a fifty-year career, consistently resisted fixed categories and boundaries in both his stagecraft and the themes of his plays. In a close consideration of ten of his major works for the stage, and drawing extensively on archival materials, Lanters explores how Kilroy has challenged
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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 moreConference call for papers: Radical Young People’s Literature and Culture The Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature Friday 29th and Saturday 30th March 2019 Marino Institute of Education, Dublin 9, Ireland Keynote address: Professor Kimberley Reynolds It is now over ten years since Kimberley Reynolds highlighted the importance of radical dimensions of children’s literature in her book, Radical Children’s Literature: Future
» Read moreCALL FOR APPLICATIONS European Joint Doctorate (EJD) MOVES Migration and Modernity: Historical and Cultural Challenges MOVES is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network project funded by the European Union under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. EJD MOVES has been designed to provide an understanding of the historical, cultural and social roots of migration as a necessary prerequisite for
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Ernest Blythe in Ulster: The making of a double agent? David Fitzpatrick Ernest Blythe (1889–1975) was a central figure in the Irish revolution and the first decade of the Irish Free State. He was a leading republican organiser before 1916, a Dáil minister from 1919 and a controversial member of Cosgrave’s executive council, becoming vice-president after the murder of
» Read moreDeadline extended until December 15 2018 Please find at the links below the call for papers for the Canadian Association for Irish Studies’ 2019 conference, “Irish Bodies and Irish Worlds.” Proposals are welcome in English, French or Irish. Please submit your proposal by emailing us at this address (cais2019.concordia@gmail.com). We would appreciate your sharing of this CFP within your community.
» Read moreYeats and Mass Communications, ed. David Dwan and Emilie Morin, spec. issue of International Yeats Studies 3, no. 1: https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/iys/vol3/iss1/ W. B. Yeats’s pursuit of an audience led him into the world of mass media—a landscape populated first by newspapers and later by radios, which he learned to navigate with shrewdness and skill. The purpose of this special issue is
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