Dear Colleagues, Thank you for allowing me to serve you for the past 13 years as Secretary, taking us from a single annual newsletter to non-stop digital communication. As I step down, I salute Clíona Ó Gallchoir, who is taking this important position and will become your first point of contact for the next three years. If you have a
» Read moreDalkey Archive Press have just published two books by and about the late Dermot Healy: Writing the Sky: Observations and Essays on Dermot Healy, edited, with an Introduction, by Neil Murphy & Keith Hopper, and with a Foreword by Neil Jordan (Texas/London/Dublin: Dalkey Archive Press, 2016), 422pp+xxiv: http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/product/writing-the-sky-observations-and-essays-on-dermot-healy/ Dermot Healy, The Collected Plays, edited, with an Introduction, by Keith Hopper
» Read moreBirte Heidemann, Post-Agreement Northern Irish Literature: Lost in a Liminal Space? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) This book uncovers a new genre of ‘post-Agreement literature’, consisting of a body of texts – fiction, poetry and drama – by Northern Irish writers who grew up during the Troubles and published their work in the aftermath of the Good Friday Agreement. In an attempt
» Read moreTwo Masters programmes in the School of English have been granted dedicated Fulbright awards for the 2017/18 academic year. One US student on the MA in Creative Writing and the MA in Irish Writing and Film will qualify for a tuition fee waiver plus a stipend of up to €15,000. The Fulbright Commission of Ireland annually awards grants to Irish
» Read moreUCC wishes to appoint a distinguished writer to the role of College Lecturer in Creative Writing (Fiction/Poetry) (.5 CL). Reporting to the Head of School, the College Lecturer will contribute to the School’s undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, with particular responsibility for teaching and supervision on the MA in Creative writing. Informal enquiries can be made in confidence to Dr Eibhear
» Read moreUniversity College Dublin invites applications for the permanent position of Lecturer/ Assistant Professor in Drama Studies, UCD School of English, Drama and Film, UCD College of Arts and Humanities. The School of English, Drama and Film seeks to appoint a lecturer/assistant professor in Drama Studies. The lecturer/assistant professor will teach in the BA programme in English and Drama / Drama
» Read moreUCD Press has a number of new and forthcoming literary titles that you may be interested in, details of which are below. We are also offering a 20% discount on ALL OUR LITERARY TITLES for a limited time when purchased directly from www.ucdpress.ie. We hope that you find something of interest. Best wishes, UCD Press The Real People of Joyce’s
» Read moreThe ULYSSES TRIALS: BEAUTY AND TRUTH MEET THE LAW By Joseph M. Hassett Joe Hassett combines the skills of trial lawyer and literary scholar to tell as it’s never been told before the story of the clash between James Joyce’s Ulysses and the law of obscenity. In what is probably the most important, least understood episode in the perennial struggle
» Read moreDear Colleagues, As we prepare to convene at University College-Cork for our 2016 conference on “Change,” please remember to review last year’s minutes if you have not already done so and this year’s agenda so that you are prepared for the Association General Meeting. Both are available on our site under Governance. In an effort to be environmentally and economically
» Read moreRaphaël Ingelbien, Irish Cultures of Travel. Writing on the Continent, 1829-1914 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) Irish Cultures of Travel analyses travel texts aimed at the emergent Irish middle classes in the long nineteenth century. Unlike travel writing about Ireland, Irish travel writing about foreign spaces has been under-researched. Drawing on a wide range of neglected material and focusing on selected European
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