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Welcome to the IASIL Latest News Page. This page lists information about new Irish Studies centres, lectures, and activities of other Irish Studies organisations. Interesting information about Irish writers may also be included from time to time. If you wish to include a listing, email webmaster@iasil.org These pages are provided for information only - you should confirm all information with its original source. Headlines November 2005 Faber's 2006 Catalogue Features new Irish Work: Heaney, Muldoon, Beckett, Joyce
Headlines October 2005 Banville Wins Mann Booker Prize Launch of New Research Initiative: Screening Irish America
Headlines, September 2005 Banville & Barry Shortlisted for Booker Prize Children's Book Festival, Ireland - 5-31 October
Headlines June - August 2005 New Tom Murphy Play for London
Headlines May 2005 The 2005 Dublin Writers Festival New Irish Studies Journal Launches Dorothy Cross Exhibition for Boston New Searchable Database on Irish Film Stewart Parker Trust Awards 2004 Announced New Irish Journal - The Irish Book Review Spanish Association for Irish Studies Launches Online Journal
Headlines, January 2005 Centre for Franco-Irish Studies Established at IT Tallaght Thomas Davis Lectures on Irish Drama - available from RTE website Rough Magic announce new Irish work Database launch: British Fiction, 1800-1829 New McGuinness Play for RSC in 2005 Abbey Theatre Centenary - Crisis as Staffing Cut, Shows Cancelled
Headlines, July 2004 2003 Irish Play of the Year Published Hiberno-English Poetry Competition Bloom - Joyce's Ulysses filmed
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| Faber's 2006 Catalogue Features new Irish Work: Heaney, Muldoon, Beckett, Joyce The 2006 Catalogue from Faber features some important new Irish works. Seamus Heaney's District and Circle - a new collection of poems - will be published in April 2006. The volume includes a number of prose poems and translations and, according to Faber, "offers resistance as the poet gathers his staying powers and stands his ground in the hiding places of love and excited language" Paul Muldoon's the End of the Poem collects his Oxford Lectures in poetry, which consider the theme of the "end of the poem", focussing not only on how poems conclude, but also on what their purpose might be. The volume focusses on such writers as Yeats, Bishop, Lowell, Pessoa, Tsvetayeva, and others. It is scheduled to appear in March 2006. As the centenary of Samuel Beckett's birth approaches, we can expect a number of new publications on his work. Faber are producing the first bilingual edition of Waiting for Godot. CJ Ackerley and Stan Gontarski have edited the Faber Companion to Samuel Beckett. The book is 736 pages long, and will appear in papberback, retailing at STG£16.99 Finally, from Richard Davenport-Hines is A Night at the Majestic - an account of a 1922 dinner party attended by Joyce, Proust, Picasso, and Stravinski Visit the Faber and Faber website on http://www.faber.co.uk/books.cgi
John Banville has won the 2005 Man Booker Prize for The Sea Listen to John Banville's acceptance speech on RTE (Real Player required) - http://dynamic.rte.ie/av/2081452.smil Listen to an interview with Banville on RTE (Real Player required) - http://dynamic.rte.ie/av/2081472.smil or go to http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/1011/morningireland.html for both. John Banville was tonight (Monday 10 October) named the winner of the £50,000 Man Booker Prize for Fiction with The Sea, published by Picador. The Irish-born writer was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989 for his novel, The Book of Evidence, but lost out to Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day. This year, however, the tables have turned with The Sea winning over Ishiguro's shortlisted Never Let Me Go. A former literary editor of The Irish Times, John Banville is an experienced author, seen as this year's literary editors' choice. He is the first Irish author to win in over a decade, since Roddy Doyle won with Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha in 1993. His winning book, The Sea, is a novel of loss, identity and remembrance. It is written in beautifully crafted prose and has led to Banville being heralded as 'a master at the top of his game' and 'one of the great fictional stylists of our time'. Chair of the judges, John Sutherland, made the announcement at the awards dinner at Guildhall, London, which was broadcast live on BBC TWO. Harvey McGrath, Chairman of Man Group plc, presented John Banville with a cheque for £50,000. John Sutherland comments, "In an extraordinarily closely contested last round, in which the judges felt the level of the shortlisted novels was as high as it can ever have been, they have agreed to award the Man Booker Prize to John Banville's The Sea, a masterly study of grief, memory and love recollected. The judges salute all the shortlisted novels." Over and above his prize of £50,000, John Banville is guaranteed a huge increase in sales and recognition worldwide. Each of the six shortlisted authors, including the winner, receives £2,500 and a designer-bound edition of their book. The judging panel for the 2005 Man Booker Prize for Fiction is: John Sutherland (Chair); Lindsay Duguid, fiction editor of the Times Literary Supplement; Rick Gekoski, writer and antiquarian book dealer; Josephine Hart, novelist; and David Sexton, literary editor of The Evening Standard. Launch of New Research Initiative: Screening Irish-America The O’Kane School of Film at the School of Languages, Literatures and Film, UCD, with the Clinton Institute, UCD and the Irish Studies Program, Boston College, in collaboration with the Huston School of Film and Digital Media, NUI Galway, and the School of Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia have announced the launch of a new research project entitled: Screening Irish-America. This project aims to bring together academics working in the field of film, television and electronic images of Irish-America to facilitate the exchange of ideas and the publication of research. Screening Irish-America will be hosted by UCD Dublin with membership open to all individuals and institutions working in this area. It is particularly hoped that research students will become involved in this project. The group are initially planning two events, a research symposium to be held at Boston College on 17-18 March 2006 and a major conference to be held in UCD in Spring 2007. In the short term, they will soon be launching a website dedicated to the dissemination of information regarding resources in the field of screen images of Irish-America. They will also be inviting all those with an interest in this area to register with a Listserv that will facilitate member-to-member communication. They hope that this project will cover all aspects of images of Irish-America on screen, including historical, archival, theoretical, practical and contemporary research. In the short term, they invite individuals to register with the project by emailing film.studies@ucd.ie and including the phrase ‘Register Screening Irish-America’ in the subject of your email. Bruce Stewart, formerly IASIL Secretary - and the creator of the first IASIL website back in 1997 - has relaunched the Eirdata website at a new address - www.eirdata.com. Users of the site in the past will be aware that Eirdata is an indispensible resource for scholars, students and enthusiasts of Irish literature. It provides a vast collection of materials for the study and appreciation of Anglo-Irish literature and its contexts, including a biographical dictionary, an up-to-date bibliography of Irish studies, a library of digital texts, a bulletin and gateway to related websites, and an Irish-studies gazette. Go now
to http://www.eirdata.com to register.
CHILDREN'S
BOOK FESTIVAL 2005/ FÉILE LEABHAR NA bPÁISTÍ 2005 This year the Children¹s Book Festival, now in its ninth year, will run from 5th ¬ 31st October, and as ever will form one of Ireland's biggest arts festivals, with hundreds of events across the country celebrating children' books. Authors taking part this year range from Aubrey Flegg to G P Taylor to Cathy Hopkins with events including all things book related. The Festival is a major focus for children¹s books in Ireland, and boasts a line-up of children's writers of the highest calibre, with a particular emphasis on Irish children's literature. The Festival is designed to spread the message that reading is fun and stimulating, accessible and inclusive. Literally hundreds of events will be happening nationwide in bookshops, libraries, schools, community and arts centres. Events are free and take place throughout the country and, while they are all about books, take on all kinds of forms. The Festival is presented by Children's Books Ireland, in association with The Youth Libraries Group. The Children's Book Festival on line (www.childrensbooksireland.com), has a searchable Event Guide listing all events nationwide. Along with daily updated Festival news there will also be information about the Festival competitions and downloadable order forms for exciting Festival school packs. This year young readers will also be voting for their favourite author, online or in Library Polling Stations. Email: festival@childrensbooksireland.com
Barry and Banville Shortlisted for Booker Prize JOHN BANVILLE and SEBASTIAN BARRY are among the six authors shortlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, the UK's best known literary award. The six shortlisted books were chosen from a longlist of 17 and are: Banville,
John The Sea (Picador) The winner receives £50,000 with a guaranteed increase in sales and recognition worldwide. Each of the six shortlisted authors, including the winner, receives £2,500 and a designer bound edition of their own book. The judging panel for the 2005 Man Booker Prize for Fiction is: John Sutherland (Chair); fiction editor of the Times Literary Supplement, Lindsay Duguid; writer and antiquarian book dealer, Rick Gekoski; novelist, Josephine Hart; and literary editor of The Evening Standard, David Sexton. The winner will be announced on Monday 10th October at an awards ceremony at Guildhall, London and will be broadcast live on BBC TWO. The
Sea by John Banville The Sea is both a reconciliation with loss and an extraordinary meditation on identity and remembrance. Utterly compelling, profoundly moving and illuminating, it is unquestionably one of the finest works yet from a sublime master of language. A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry Barely eighteen years old, Willie Dunne leaves Dublin in 1914 to fight for the Allied cause, largely unaware of the growing political and religious tensions festering back home. A Long Long Way evokes the camaraderie of Willie's regiment, the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, but also the cruelty and sadness of war, and the divided loyalties that tore at many Irish soldiers. Tracing their experiences through the course of the war, the narrative vividly dramatises the events of the Easter Rising within Ireland, and explores how such a seminal political moment came to affect those boys who were fighting for the King of England on foreign fields.
The novel also charts Willie's coming of age, his leaving behind of his sweetheart Gretta, and the effect the war has on his relationship with his father, a member of the Dublin Military Police and fervent loyalist. Running throughout is the question of how such young men came to be fighting in a war, and how they struggled with the events that raged around them.
Visit www.themanbookerprize.com New Tom Murphy play for Royal Court, London Full details - http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/whatson01.asp?play=407 Tom Murphy's latest play, ALICE TRILOGY, will play at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs from 10 November - 10 December 2005. The play is directed by Ian Rickson. The publicity information reads as follows:
Tom Murphy propels us into the mind of his heroine Alice, played by Juliet Stevenson, in this vivid and heightened play. Design:
Jeremy Herbert Michael
Davitt, 1950-2005 The
2005 Dublin Writers Festival Two of the most highly celebrated writers of the last year Ronan Bennett and Rachel Seiffert will be one of the highlights of the programme. Booker shortlisted Seiffert won many accolades for her debut novel, The Dark Room, and has recently published her collection of short stories Field Study. Bennett has written various screenplays and prose that have all been highly critically regarded. His novel, Havoc, in its Third Year, was longlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2004 and was recently named Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year. Novelist, playwright and poet Sebastian Barry will be reading at the Festival, alongside playwright, poet, screenwriter and editor Dermot Bolger. Barry has found huge success with plays such as The Steward of Christendom, and notoriety with works such as Hinterland. His most recent novel A Long, Long Way was published this year. Fellow Dubliner Dermot Bolger has been a major force at the cutting edge of Irish writing since his school days when he founded the Raven Press. He has won numerous literary awards and his latest novel is The Family on Paradise Pier. Due to the success of last year's Late Night Tales the Festival is bringing three fresh young Irish voices to the Project to read into the wee hours of Saturday morning. Dubliner Claire Kilroy published her first novel, All Summer, in 2003 and has received an Arts Council Literature Award and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Nick Laird published his first collection of poetry, To A Fault, earlier this year and his first novel Utterly Monkey will be published shortly before the Festival. Chris Binchy¹s bittersweet debut novel, The Very Man, was published in 2002 and followed up with People Like Us in 2004. The Festival, now in its seventh year, is an initiative of Dublin City Council and is supported by the Arts Council. The atmosphere of the Festival is relaxed and friendly and all events take place within walking distance of each other in the centre of the city. All are welcome to join this exploration of literature, culture and Irishness! The Festival is a chance to see new and established writers in an informal setting with events being held in Project, Film Base, or The Gate, with many events being free. See www.dublinwritersfestival.com for more information. NEW
IRISH STUDIES JOURNAL Dorothy
Cross The exhibition will be on display through July 12, 2005. The exhibition—the first to make the publicly acclaimed site-specific work by one of Ireland’s most outstanding contemporary artists available to an expanded audience and to permanently document Cross’s work in that genre in a catalogue—will be on display April 14-July 12, 2005. “This exhibition is the brainchild of [Boston College English Department] Professor Robin Lydenberg, a renowned literary critic and cultural theorist, who has been studying the site-specific art of Dorothy Cross, one of Ireland’s most celebrated contemporary artists, for several years,” said McMullen Museum Director and Professor of Art History Nancy Netzer. “In the accompanying catalogue, she has written an inspired scholarly analysis of this ephemeral work. The McMullen audience will have the unique opportunity to examine the entire scope of Cross’s site-specific art at a single location.” Download a more detailed description of the exhibition in word format.
New Irish Film Database It is related to a research project but contains a searchable database for all. Our thanks to Brian McIlroy for calling this to our attention. Stewart
Parker Trust Awards for Irish Playwrighting, 2004 This year the Stewart Parker Trust New Playwright Bursary has been awarded to Gerald Murphy, who wrote Take Me Away produced by Rough Magic Theatre Company. The BBC Northern Ireland Radio Drama Award was awarded to Mark Doherty for Trad produced by Galway Arts Festival. The BBC Northern Ireland Irish Language Drama Award was awarded to Darach Mac Con Iomaire. A native of Dublin, Darach has acted in a number of dramas including: Guí ar mo Shon by Gearóid Mac Donnchadha, An Deoir Bheannaithe by Cóilín Ó hIarnáin, An Trial by Mairéad Ní Ghráda, Banríon Álainn Líonáin by Martin McDonagh, Ag Claí na Muice Duibhe by Vincent Woods and An Phortráid by Dara Ó Confhaola. He also acted for two years in Ros na Rún in the part of Harry Lyons. Previous winners of the Stewart Parker award include Enda Walsh, Patrick McCabe, Vincent Woods, Eugene O'Brien, and many others. The
Irish Book Review The inaugural issue (Summer 2005) will be published on June 5. A single issue will cost €6.50 and a one-year subscription will cost €25.00 (includes VAT and postageand packing). Website www.irishbookreview.com For more information, contact David Givens, Publisher, or Brian Langan, Managing Editor, at The Irish Book Review, Ashbrook House, 10 Main Street, Raheny, Dublin 5. Email: info@irishbookreview.com. bealtaine
2005: Celebrating Creativity in Older Age Exciting and wide ranging literary events will form one of the highlights of the programme. Elaine Feinstein, prize-winning poet, novelist and biographer, will read and take part in a public interview in Dublin. One of the best loved figures of contemporary Irish society, Michéal ¹Muircheartaigh, revered for his unique style of broadcasting, will be reading from his best-selling autobiography From Dun Síon to Croke Park. The literary line up also boasts the participation of Jennifer Johnston, and various activities of the Bealtaine Writers Group.The Cape Clear Project ³Bóithrín na Smaointe² - will involve actor and storyteller Nuala Hayes documenting the memories, stories, anecdotes and beliefs of the older generation of the magical island of Cape Clear. Other story telling events across the country will include participation from Susie Minto. The programme also includes traditional music and visual arts events. The lives and work of two of Ireland's finest visual artists, Tony O'Malley and Patrick Scott, are celebrated in Bealtaine through the medium of film. Places Apart (dir Muiris MacConghail) about Tony O'Malley, and Patrick Scott Golden Boy (dir Sé Merry Doyle). Further information on the festival is available on the Bealtaine Festival line locall 1890 21 21 21 or on Age & Opportunity's web site www.olderinireland.ie. Spanish
Association of Irish Studies Launches Online Journal Centre
for Franco-Irish Studies To
act as a conduit for research into the historical, literary, spiritual,
cultural and other links between France and Ireland. Thomas
Davis lectures on Irish Drama
ROUGH
MAGIC Announces Ambitious Spring Programme The Company’s production of TAKE ME AWAY by Gerald Murphy will transfer to the Bush Theatre, London, one of the UK’s most prestigious new writing houses. Take Me Away was first presented in Dublin in February 2004 as part of the new writing season ‘Rough Magic in Rep’. The play subsequently received a Fringe First Award and attracted rave reviews during its run at the Traverse Theatre as part of this year’s Edinburgh Festival. Featuring the original cast, Take Me Away will run at the Bush Theatre for four weeks from February 8th – March 5th. Rough Magic’s production of the musical comedy IMPROBABLE FREQUENCY by Arthur Riordan and Bell Helicopter will transfer to the Abbey theatre from early March for a six week run. Improbable Frequency played to packed houses at the O’Reilly Theatre during this year’s Dublin Theatre Festival and Lynne Parker’s exuberant production received rave reviews and standing ovations. Rough Magic has now been invited to re-stage Improbable Frequency at the Abbey; the first time the company has performed its work on the main stage of the National Theatre. From February 17th to March 5th the company will present a major new production of THE LIFE OF GALILEO by Bertolt Brecht at Project Arts Centre. This great modern classic tells the remarkable story of the famous scientist’s life, but more importantly it is an examination of the truth and how it can be manipulated and distorted for political reasons. The play will be directed by Lynne Parker, with set design by Alan Farquharson, costumes by Kathy Strachan and lighting by Rupert Murray. Rough Magic will present Howard Brenton’s translation of The Life of Galileo, whose play, Bloody Poetry, was presented by the company in 1986. Rough Magic will be presenting a series of talks and discussions around the play in association with the Institute of physics in Ireland. Rough Magic will also present IN THE LAST OF THE LIGHT (working title) by Elizabeth Kuti at Project Arts Centre from April 6th to 23rd. Set in Dublin in the late 1840s, this new play uses the ‘silent’ Quaker meeting as a theatrical framework to examine what happens when a good woman turns her philanthropic attentions from tragedies closer to home to the Anti-Slavery Movement in the USA. With an obvious contemporary resonance, the play is an examination of personal and religious responsibility and asks how we should live in an increasingly prosperous but compromised society. In The Last of the Light will be directed by Rough Magic’s Artistic Director, Lynne Parker. The play was commissioned by Rough Magic following the successful 1999 production of The Whisperers; Frances Sheridan’s incomplete play ‘A Trip to Bath’ as finished by Elizabeth Kuti. The remainder of Rough Magic’s programme for 2005 will be announced later in the year. Further
Information www.rough-magic.com
DATABASE
LAUNCH: British Fiction, 1800-1829 Brian
Friel Play to Open in 2005 Friel's last full-length original play was Give My Your Answer, Do, which appeared at the Abbey Theatre in 1997. Since that time, he has produced a number of adaptations and short works at the Gate, including Uncle Vanya (1998), The Yalta Game (2001), Afterplay (2002), and Performances (2003). Friel's plays are published by Gallery Press. New
McGuinness Play for Royal Shakespeare Company
Yeats
and His Contemporaries - Online Course The
Abbey Theatre - Funding and Staffing Crisis RTE TV News - http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/0902/6news/6news56_7.smil - explains the background to the problem, and interviews Abbey MD Brian Jackson and critic Fintan O'Toole (real player required to view pictures - go to http://www.real.com) Actor Alan Stanford talks to RTE radio's Five Seven Live- http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/0902/57live/57live7b.smil (real player required to hear sound recording- go to http://www.real.com) The Irish Theatre Magazine online newsletter provides an overview of the crises that have affected the Abbey during 2004, and discusses the success of John McColgan's production of the Shaughran http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/newsletter/newsletter.htm Bruce Arnold of the Irish Independent suggests that the problem arises due to a triple crisis of "management, including funding", artistic direction, and confidence. http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=36&si=1244072&issue_id=11373 (free site but registration required) A news report from The Irish Independent provides an overview of the financial difficulties: "The Old Lady Says Go": http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=1244174&issue_id=11373 More extensive reporting is available on the Irish Times website, but registration and payment are required to access. The Abbey Theatre's programme for the remainder of 2004 includes a number of productions in the Dublin Theatre Festival. From November, the McColgan production of The Shaughran will be revived for 12 weeks, pending a US Tour. Thus, the production that will be on the stage of the Abbey on 27 December 2004 will be a play by Dion Boucicault. The Peacock is expected to go dark after the Dublin Theatre Festival. A leaked email by Abbey Artistic Director Ben Barnes intensified the crisis in mid-September. As of mid-November 2004, no clear decision about the future of the Abbey has been made. A search for a successor to Barnes, whose contract expires in 2005, is underway. The Abbey Theatre website - http://www.abbeytheatre.ie
2003
Irish Play of the Year Published The
Hiberno-English Website Poetry Competition The competition will be judged by the broadcaster Myles Dungan, the novelist Éilis Ní Dhuibhne and the writer James McCabe. To find out about the competition and how to make submissions please click here. JOYCE'S
ULYSSES HITS THE BIG SCREEN Bloom opens in cinemas in Dublin, Cork and Galway on Friday 16 April before continuing around Ireland. Further
information from: Stoney Road Films 01-677 6681 e-mail: stoneyroadfilms@iolfree.ie Kavanagh
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