The 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
» Read moreYou are cordially invited to the 8th EFACIS Roundtable Discussion for the launch of IRISH STUDIES IN EUROPE XIIreland: Interfaces and Dialogues 11 January 2023, 6 pm GMT/ 7 pm CET Please register here for this online Roundtable Discussion!
» Read moreNEW EPISODE: 38. Vivienne Roche in conversation with Charles Armstrong (15/12/2022) In her conversation with Charles Armstrong, Vivienne Roche talks about being a sculptor first; the influence of her father and the language of engineering on her work; sculpture’s potential for abstraction and her interest in architecture; working with the hidden archeology of a site and the research this involves;
» Read moreIreland: Interfaces and Dialogues. EFACIS Irish Studies in Europe series, vol. 11 (2022). Edited by Ondřej Pilný, Radvan Markus, Daniela Theinová and James Little, the volume ranges across the fields of history, literary studies, music studies, theatre and performance studies, film studies, media studies, and the study of material culture, providing a snapshot of some of the most exciting emerging
» Read moreEFACIS Conference at Queen’s University Belfast, 24-27 August 2023 ‘Unions and Partitions in Ireland’ Call for Papers EFACIS (European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies) travels to Belfast for the first time in 2023, during a pivotal time for Northern Ireland. The ‘Decade of Centenaries’ (2012-22) in the north has demonstrated that public memories of Ireland’s partition and
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