UNIVERSITY of LIMERICK/OLLSCOILL LUIMNIGH

IASIL I998

The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures 1998

Conference to be held at the University of Limerick, Ireland 

July 20-25, 1998

CALL FOR PAPERS


Conference Title:  "1798/1998: Back to the Present, Forward to the Past"

Main Focus: History and Literature
Sub-Themes:
Literary Commemorations of the 1798 Rebellion
Romantic Ideology of Ireland
Irish Gothic Writing
Regionalism in Irish Writing, including: 
	Kate O'Brien
	Frank McCourt
	other Limerick writers
	The Irish-American Imagination
	Ireland and Europe
	Irish Writing and Translation
	Music and Irish Writing
	New Trends in Irish Writing
	The Future of Irish Writing

Maximum duration: twenty minutes' speaking time. Papers may be submitted
as Gaeilge (in the Irish Language) if desired. 

Deadlines for Proposals - November 30, 1997
Deadlines for Abstracts - January 31, 1998

Address For Proposals:
Dr Patricia Lynch (Convenor of IASIL '98)
Department of Languages and Cultural Studies
University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
Tel. +353 61 202101; Fax. +353 61 20556
Email Patricia.Lynch@ul.ie

Proposals will be reviewed by the University of Limerick IASIL '98
committee, consisting of: Dr. Brian Coates; Dr. Joachim Fischer; Dr.
Tadhg O hIfernain; Dr Patricia Lynch; Dr. Bernadette Whelan.