James Joyce’s Portrait: A New Reading David Pierce Edward Everett Root http://www.eerpublishing.com/pierce-james-joyce-portrait.html This concise new work shows that James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is as fresh today as it was when first published over a century ago. And why. Its special character lies in its appeal to successive generations of readers, who take from it
» Read more“New Romantics: Performing Ireland and Cosmopolitanism on the Anniversary of Human Rights” July 3-5, 2019 Queen’s University Belfast Deadline for abstracts is the 1st May. New Romantics Call for Papers
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Essays on John McGahern: Assessing a literacy legacy Edited by Derek Hand and Eamon Maher This collection of essays, written by many of the foremost McGahern scholars, provides solid reasons for why the Leitrim writer has assumed canonical status since his premature death in 2006, an event which sparked something akin to a period of national mourning in Ireland. The reason
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Protestant and Irish: The minority’s search for place in independent Ireland A collection of exploratory essays edited by Ian d’Alton and Ida Milne In 1989 Edna Longley remarked that if Catholics were born Irish, Protestants had to ‘work their passage to Irishness’. With eighteen essays by scholars with individual perspectives on Irish Protestant history, this book explores a number of
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All on Show: The circus in Irish literature and culture by Eleanor Lybeck All on Show takes the circus in literature as its theme. The book introduces readers to the obscure history of the circus and travelling entertainment in Ireland while contextualising celebrated works by major writers of the twentieth century including Ó Conaire, Joyce, Yeats, Friel and Heaney. It uses theories
» Read moreAppointment in Irish Literature School of Irish Studies, Faculty of Arts and Science CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY, MONTREAL Deadline: April 15, 2019 The School of Irish Studies at Concordia of University, Montreal, Quebec, invites applications for a Limited-Term Appointment in Irish Literature for the 2019/2020 academic year. The successful applicant will be required to teach several undergraduate courses across a spectrum of
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The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance Editors: Jordan, Eamonn, Weitz, Eric This Handbook offers a multiform sweep of theoretical, historical, practical and personal glimpses into a landscape roughly characterised as contemporary Irish theatre and performance. Bringing together a spectrum of voices and sensibilities in each of its four sections — Histories, Close-ups, Interfaces, and Reflections — it casts its gaze
» Read moreDear colleagues, In my capacity as IASIL Returning Officer, I am pleased to confirm that the recent nomination process for the IASIL Executive has taken place within the period for which it was announced, and in full compliance with the IASIL constitution. The list of nominated members for the period 2019-22 is as follows: Ondřej Pilný –
» Read moreThe IASIL Bibliography, listing work on Irish literature and culture by IASIL members, appears annually in the online edition of the Irish University Review. The new editor of the Bibliography is Dr Chris Cusack. The 2018 Bibliography is now being compiled, and members are invited to submit bibliographic information of work published in 2018 to their local IASIL Bibliography Committee
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The Theatre and Films of Conor McPherson: Conspicuous Communities Eamonn Jordan Methuen Drama/Bloomsbury, 2019 The spellbinding premiere of The Weir at the Royal Court in 1997 was the first of many works to bring Conor McPherson to the attention of the theatre-going public. Acclaimed plays followed, including Shining City, The Seafarer, The Night Alive and Girl from the North Country,
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