Locos Por Lorca: An Irish Celebration of the Great Spanish Poet. 8 November 2019, 10am-1pm. Aula García Lorca, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Granada.

Events

LOCOS POR LORCA: AN IRISH CELEBRATION OF THE GREAT SPANISH POET 8 NOVEMBER 2019. 10:00-13:00. Aula García Lorca, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Granada. ORGANIZED BY: Granada Centre of Irish Studies, Irish Embassy, Departamento de Filologías Inglesa y Alemana de la Universidad De Granada, Máster Universitario en Literatura y Lingüística Inglesa. PROGRAMME: 10:00 a.m. Opening ceremony. Introduction 10:15.

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CfP: IASIL 2020: “Creative Borders”; University of Lodz, Poland. 20-24 July, 2020.

Conference 2020

The IASIL 2020 conference wishes to reflect on the concept of borders and their creative potential that helps define identities, generates critical discourses, and provokes literary works to tackle issues of global political, social, and cultural nature. On the one hand, the border is seen here as a necessary confinement and a formal limitation. On the other, it is viewed

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Book Launch: Women and Embodied Mythmaking in Irish Theatre by Shonagh Hill. Project Arts Centre. Friday 8th Nov, 5-6pm

Book Launch

You are cordially invited to the launch of Women and Embodied Mythmaking in Irish Theatre by Shonagh Hill Published by Cambridge University Press Friday 8th November, 5-6pm Project Arts Centre Speakers: Dr Cathy Leeney, Dr Lisa Fitzpatrick, Amanda Coogan The book will be available at a special launch price on the night RSVP: shongah.hill@ucd.ie

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CfP: Durrell Library of Corfu: Borders and Borderlands. Corfu, Greece, 20-24 May 2020. Proposal deadline: 20th January 2020.

Call for Papers

The Durrell Library of Corfuinvites submissions on the themes of IDENTITY – MEANING – INCLUSION – EXCLUSION – DIFFERENCE The vulnerability, mutability and even the existence of borders in politics, cultural identity, cybernetics, psychology and linguistics are increasingly under scrutiny. This symposium will convene experts in these fields on an island in the Balkans on the cusp of many histories,

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New book: Sacred Weather: Atmospheric essentialism in the work of John McGahern by Niamh Campbell.

New Publications

The book asks the question is there such a thing as essential Irishness? A considerable number of artists, writers, philosophers, theorists, tourists and citizens think so, even if they do not always phrase it in this way, and Sacred Weather begins by taking the possibility seriously. The book aims to make an intervention in Irish literary and cultural studies by

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New publication: Woven Shades of Green: An Anthology of Irish Nature Literature. Edited by Tim Wenzell, Rutgers University Press.

New Publications

Woven Shades of Green is an annotated selection of literature from authors who focus on the natural world and the beauty of Ireland. The anthology begins with the Irish monks and their largely anonymous nature poetry, written at a time when Ireland was heavily forested. A section follows devoted to the changing Irish landscape, through both deforestation and famine, including

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Modernist Studies Ireland: Works in Progress Seminar: “Non-Canonical Modernism(s)”. Monday, October 21st, 4pm. Maynooth University.

Events

Modernist Studies Ireland are delighted to announce their Works in Progress Seminar on Monday, October 21st at 4pm. The event will take place in the Arts and Humanities Institute Seminar Room (Iontas Building, 1.33). This will be the first Modernist Studies Ireland event to be hosted outside of NUI Galway, where all of the organisation’s founding members are based. The

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Irish Humanities Alliance ‘By Imagination We Live’: A Strategy for the Humanities, 2020-2030′ launched by Professor Dame Marina Warner, 6.15pm, 6 November, Royal Irish Academy.

Events

The Irish Humanities Alliance (IHA) is pleased to announce the Launch of ‘By Imagination We Live’: A Strategy for the Humanities, 2020-2030by Professor Dame Marina Warner, writer, literary critic and Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College. The lunch will take place at 6.15pm, on Wednesday 6 November 2019, in the Royal Irish Academy. The IHA was formed in 2013 to address the

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Rhona and Michael Kenneally of Concordia University, Montreal, to receive Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad

General News

Concordia University’s School of Irish Studies is very pleased to share the good news that Rhona and Michael Kenneally have each been chosen to receive the Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad for 2019. The announcement was made by the Tánaiste (Deputy Head of Government) and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Simon Coveney. The Awards will be presented

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Book Launch Invite: Recalling the Celtic Tiger; eds Brian Lucey, Eamon Maher and Eugene O’Brien. Guest of Honour: Fintan O’Toole 3pm, Saturday 19 October, Luce Foyer, Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin.

New Publications

Peter Lang International Academic Publishers cordially invite you to the official launch of Recalling the Celtic Tiger, edited by Brian Lucey, Eamon Maher and Eugene O’Brien Guest of Honour: Fintan O’Toole 3.00pm, Saturday 19 October, Luce Foyer, Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin Light refreshments will be served Please RSVP to Anthony Mason at a.mason@peterlang.com Praise for Recalling the Celtic

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