Author: Cliona O'Gallchoir

New Publication: Standish O’Grady’s Cuculain: A Critical Edition

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Standish O’Grady’s Cuculain: A Critical Edition Standish O’Grady Edited by Gregory Castle and Patrick Bixby Hardcover $65.00L    978-0-8156-3491-1 Paper $29.95s      978-0-8156-3477-5 Ebook                   978-0-8156-5389-9   “An immensely useful and long-needed critical resource which combines an edition of Standish O’Grady’s influential writings on the heroic figure of Cuculain with an excellent scholarly apparatus.” —Margaret Kelleher, chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and

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Book Launch: Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture

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Boston College Ireland has the pleasure of inviting you to the launch of (Anthem Press, Irish Studies Series, series ed. Marjorie Howes, 2016) Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture Edited by Paige Reynolds Professor, College of the Holy Cross and 2013 William B. Neenan Visiting Fellow, BC Ireland with essays by Lucy Collins, Alex Davis, Leah Flack, Anne Fogarty,

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CFP: Women on Ireland Research Network Annual Conference

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Women on Ireland Research Network Annual Conference Call for Papers  Waterford Institute of Technology 1st & 2nd of June 2017 Theme: Women and Irishness   Reaching the pinnacle of the 1916-2016 centenary commemorations, questions of gender, women and femininity intersected with the idea of Irishness have never been so pivotal. This symposium aims to bring together current scholarships critiquing female

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CFP: The Irish and the London Stage

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Please note the cfp for the conference on ‘The Irish and the London Stage: Identity, Culture, and Politics, 1680-1830’ to be held at Trinity College Dublin, 17-18 February 2017 is closing on 30 September. Keynote speakers: Professor Helen Burke (Florida State) and Professor Felicity Nussbaum (UCLA) Further details here:https://londonirishtheatreblog.wordpress.com/

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CFP: Geographies of Comparison: Ireland / Africa

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Geographies of Comparison: Ireland / Africa (ACLA 2017, Utrecht, July 6-9, 2017)) Deadline for submissions: September 23, 2016 Full name / name of organization: Cóilín Parsons Contact email: coilin.parsons@georgetown.edu  Ireland was, as Robert Young writes, England’s first and always exceptional colony. But it was far from the only one. Its unique colonial status has yielded productive scholarship addressing its anomalous

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Call for Participants: Research Study

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Shane McGarry, a PhD candidate in Digital Humanities at Maynooth University, is seeking participants for an upcoming research study. The study (which comprises both a focus group and individual 1 on 1 interviews) focuses on how users interact with Digital Scholarly Editions such as The Letters of 1916, The Woodman Diary, and Vincent Van Gogh The Letters. Shane is seeking

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New Publication: Irish Women Writers and the Modern Short Story

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Elke D’hoker, Irish Women Writers and the Modern Short Story (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)   This book traces the development of the modern short story in the hands of Irish women writers from the 1890s to the present. George Egerton, Somerville and Ross, Elizabeth Bowen, Mary Lavin, Edna O’Brien, Anne Enright and Claire Keegan are only some of the many Irish women

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Special issue of Breac on Children’s Literature

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  The fifth issue of Breac, a peer-reviewed, paperless, open access, Irish studies journal, has just been launched at atbreac.nd.edu. This issue, edited by Anne Markey, President of the Irish Society of Children’s Literature, and Aedín Clements, University of Notre Dame, focuses on children’s literature in Ireland and beyond.  In addition to a guide to recent critical writing on Irish

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New Publication: The Contemporary Irish Detective Novel

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Recently published – The Contemporary Irish Detective Novel (Palgrave Macmillan), Ed. Elizabeth Mannion Hardback 9781137539397 http://www.palgrave.com/uk/book/9781137539397   Irish detective fiction has enjoyed an international readership for over a decade, appearing on best-seller lists across the globe. But its breadth of hard-boiled and amateur detectives, historical fiction, and police procedurals has remained somewhat marginalized in academic scholarship. Exploring the work of

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Call for Papers – Institutions and Ireland: Public Cultures

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27 October 2016 Trinity Long Room Hub, Arts and Humanities Research Institute   The special outlay on commemoration in 2016 notwithstanding, the latest cuts in public spending on arts, heritage, and culture in Ireland are symptomatic of governments that do not value Irish culture. The recent reduction and redistribution of both of the ministerial departments overseeing Culture and Arts on

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