New Crops, Old Fields (Re)Imagining Irish Folklore

[private] New Crops, Old Fields (Re)Imagining Irish Folklore From our homes to our houses of government, from our schoolyards to our stadia, from our galleries to our gable walls, folklore is being re-imagined in all aspects of everyday life in Ireland. Today, with globalised, media-centric culture, the folk traditions take on new lives in music, literature, theatre, radio, film and

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French Journal of Irish Studies – Call for Papers

[private] APPEL A CONTRIBUTIONS / CALL FOR PAPERS ETUDES IRLANDAISES French Journal of Irish Studies Spring 2014 issue/Numéro de Printemps 2014 DATE LIMITE POUR SOUMETTRE: 30 juin 2013 / DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: June 30, 2013    English version Etudes Irlandaises is a peer-reviewed journal publishing articles in English and French which explore all aspects of Irish literature, history, culture and arts

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Banned Irish History Book published in English for the first time

[private] Great deeds in Ireland: Richard Stanihursts De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis is the first full translation of the controversial  Latin history of Ireland by the famous Dublin intellectual, Richard Stanihurst – ISBN 978-190900-572-3 €49, £39, Hardback,  234 x 156mm, 544pp, in Latin & English. He wrote it after fleeing Elizabethan London for the Netherlands.De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis was

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