The EFACIS book club aims to introduce readers to highlights of Irish literature, both past and present. In our book club sessions we predominantly focus on contemporary fiction (mostly books that were published in the past 2-3 years) and sometimes include works from the twentieth or earlier centuries that are relevant for contemporary Ireland, but have remained under the academic
» Read moreThe next PhD Lunch Break will take place on 28 September at 1 pm CET via zoom. Introduced by EFACIS PhD representatives, Marie Gemrichová and Zoë Van Cauwenberg, the PhD Lunch Break offers an opportunity for graduate students in Irish studies to meet and talk to their peers. The meeting is informal and aims to give students a space to discuss everyday as well
» Read moreIrish Itinerary Podcast Episode 43 – Click HERE In his conversation with Nathalie Lamprecht, Alan Gilsenan discusses his documentary film The Laughing Boy (2022), which tries to uncover how the song The Laughing Boy, written by a young Brendan Behan and later used in his play The Hostage, travelled via Paris to Greece and there became an anthem of defiance for the Greek left.
» Read moreRISE 6.1 Irish Sexual Liberation and Its Literatures, Part 2. A Long Time Coming, edited by Robert Brazeau and Laura Sydora Now available on the RISE website: https://risejournal.eu/index.php/rise/index RISE 6.1 is the second of a two-volume themed issue dedicated to the study of sexual liberation and its literatures in Ireland in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries that extends the line of scholarly
» Read moreApril Episode now available – Nicky Gogan and Paul Rowley in conversation with Kate Huber In their conversation with Kate Huber, Paul Rowley and Nicky Gogan talk about their documentaries Seaview (2008), Build Something Modern (2011) and The Red Tree (2018). They discuss their journey into filmmaking and how they met; Seaview’s experimental style, which challenges the aesthetics of documentaries while foregrounding the asylum seekers’ experiences; the
» Read moreThe next EFACIS PhD Lunch Break takes place on Thursday 4 May from 1 to 2 pm CET. Any (post)graduate student in Irish Studies who wants to join the zoom session can send an e-mail to Marie Gemrichová at mgemrichova@gmail.com. You can also find the event on https://fb.me/e/y2chCdTV EFACIS: The PhD Lunch Break is aimed specifically at PhD students, where PhDs have
» Read moreThe next EFACIS Book Club (and last of this academic year) will be on Wednesday 26 April at 8pm CET. https://www.efacis.eu/content/efacis-book-club They will be discussing Mary Costello’s The China Factory (2012) and this session will be introduced by Margaret Bonass Madden. Those interested in joining please email Sien Deltour: efaciscoord@efacis.eu EFACIS Book Club are also looking for book suggestions for future EFACIS Book Club sessions
» Read moreThe 41st Irish Itinerary Podcast episode from EFACIS has just been released. In her conversation with Auxiliadora Pérez-Vides, Catherine Dunne discusses how stories have the power to change the minds of people; how she wants her characters to speak for themselves and how she allows them to inhabit her while writing. She also talks about her novel A Name for Himself (1998);
» Read more9th EFACIS Roundtable Discussion Irish and Irish English linguistics: interfaces and synergies Organised by the Irish English Network 15 February 2023, 6 pm GMT/ 7 pm CET Please register here for this online Roundtable Discussion! Programme Opening Remarks: Katharina Rennhak (EFACIS President, University of Wuppertal) Chairs: Anne Barron (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg) Carolina Amador-Moreno (University of Bergen) Participants: Aidan Doyle (University College Cork) Ray
» Read moreIrish Itinerary Podcast episode 39 is now available online. In this episode artistic director of Big Telly Theatre Company Zoë Seaton talks to Eleanor Lybeck. Zoë Seaton discusses the history of Big Telly Theatre Company; their response to the pandemic; and their use of technology. She also talks about making work, with and relevant to the community, that is time
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