Since the emergence of periodical studies as a distinct discipline some decades ago, the importance of literary magazines in shaping and influencing literary culture has often been demonstrated. Magazines have come to be recognised as test-tubes, taste-makers and nurseries for new, burgeoning talent. They have allowed scholars to map networks of influence and literary coteries, to trace forgotten writers and
» Read moreThe University at Buffalo Libraries is pleased to announce the following opportunities for 2022-23 Special Collections Fellowships: I. Dr. John Bishop Memorial Visiting Scholar Fund (1) II. UB Humanities Institute: James Joyce Fellowship (3) and Charles D. Abbott Library Fellowship (1) I. Dr. John Bishop Memorial Visiting Scholar Fund (1) Established by Dr. Joseph Valente, UB Distinguished Professor, Department of English, the
» Read moreHailed in the Irish Times as a ‘great Irish novelist’, Neil Jordan is, in the words of Fintan O’Toole, ‘a peculiarly emblematic figure of cultural change’. Yet, extraordinarily, such critical acclaim has come about without detailed scholarly engagement with Jordan’s most sustained interrogation of Ireland and notions of Irishness: his fiction. Neil Jordan: Works for the page fills this gap
» Read moreEoin MacNeill (1867-1945) was a founding figure in the Gaelic League, the Irish Volunteers, and the government of Ireland. As Professor of Early (including Mediaeval) History at University College Dublin was also one of the foremost Irish historians of his generation. As a professor, a politician, and the leader of a paramilitary organisation, MacNeill fused scholarship and activism into a
» Read moreGreat Famine Voices New York State shares the stories of Irish-American New Yorkers and the descendants of Famine Emigrants from the Irish American Heritage Museum in Albany, the Irish Cultural Center of the Mohawk Valley in Utica, the Erie Canal Museum, Le Moyne College in Syracuse, and the Buffalo Irish Center. Featured guests recall how their ancestors left Ireland during
» Read more*Veuillez trouver le programme scientifique et culturel d’une conférence qu’EROSS organise avec FRINGE, Queer Urban Nights. La conference et le reste de cet email sont en anglais.* The full research and cultural programme of our EROSS/FRINGE (Universidad de Alcala, Spain) conference Queer Urban Nights is available online. Just a reminder that this is an in-person event with one online panel. Date: 27/28 may 2022
» Read moreThis volume takes inspiration from Professor Catherine Shannon’s scholarship on Modern Irish and Irish American history and her advocacy for peace in Northern Ireland and features original research by distinguished scholars and social-justice activists on both sides of the Atlantic. The essays illuminate the historical relationship between Ireland and North America over past centuries. They offer new readings of the
» Read moreEighteenth-Century Ireland Society/An Cumann Éire San Ochtú Céad Déag 2022 Annual Conference University College Cork 17-18 June 2022 Plenary Speakers Dr Neil Buttimer (Emeritus, Department of Modern Irish, University College, Cork (UCC)) Dr Gillian O’Brien (Reader in Modern Irish History, Liverpool John Moores University) Prof David O’Shaughnessy (School of English and Creative Arts, NUI Galway) Call for Papers The 2022
» Read moreViolence, Gender, Masculinities and Abuse: Research Reflections Aisling Callan, Dublin City University Dr Melissa Corbally, Trinity College Dublin Aisling Callan is a PhD candidate at Dublin City University. Her interest in LGBTQ issues motivates her to facilitate the unfolding of stories of intimate partner violence as told by gay and bisexual men. She is currently the lead on a qualitative narrative
» Read moreGlobal Perspectives in Irish Literary Studies: New Series – Call for Proposals Global Perspectives in Irish Literary Studies will publish monographs and edited collections exploring exciting new critical paths and interventions within Irish studies by showcasing global, comparative and transnational viewpoints on Irish literature and culture. It will feature established and emerging scholars working on cutting-edge investigations that shed new
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