Author: Deirdre

NEW BOOK: The Dark John McGahern – A Critical Edition

IASIL Bibliography, New Publications

Edited by Anna Teekell, Ellen Scheible | Syracuse University Press Bringing John McGahern’s 1965 masterpiece back into print in the United States after years of inaccessibility, this new sixtieth-anniversary critical edition includes an introduction aimed at first-time readers, explanatory footnotes, McGahern’s own glossary, and four scholarly essays aimed at guiding readers through the novel’s famously controversial history. While the text

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CFP: Wunderkammer – Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Forms of Wonder

Call for Papers, Other Conferences, Postgrad

Graduate Conference PhD Course in Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures Roma Tre University December 15-16, 2025 Thaumazein is the verb that, in ancient Greek, indicated the act of wonderment, the very spark of a thought that tended towards knowledge. Plato (Theaetetetus, 155d) and Aristotle (Metaphysics, I, 2, 982b) saw this deeply human capacity as a hypothetical origin of philosophy itself.

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NEW BOOK: Body Politics in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction

IASIL Bibliography, New Publications

Ellen Scheible | Bloomsbury Exploring twentieth- and twenty-first century texts that wrestle with the Irish domestic interior as a sexualized and commodified space, this book provides readings of the power and authority of the feminized body in Ireland. Scheible dissects the ways that ‘the woman-as-symbol’ remains consistent in Irish literary representations of national experience in Irish fiction and shows how

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REGISTRATION: ASLE-UKI Galway conference

Other Conferences

Registration is open for the Biennial Conference for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland (ASLE-UKI), which will be hosted by the University of Galway, 9th,12th-14th August 2025. ASLE-UKI welcomes participation from scholars, readers, and creative practitioners interested in the relationships between literatures, environments and cultures – past, present, or future from anywhere in the

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EVENT: Deirdre Kinahan in Brazil

Book Launch, Events

Deirdre Kinahan, renowned Irish playwright, is set to visit Brazil this month for significant literary events.   Kinahan will attend the launch of the Brazilian Portuguese translation of her play “Knocknashee” (2002), titled “Knocknashee, a colina das fadas”, published by Editora Iluminuras in 2025. The translation is a collaborative effort by Beatriz Kopschitz Bastos and Lúcia K. X. Bastos. A rehearsed

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PRIZES: Submissions Open for NCSA Emerging Scholars Award, Article Prize, and BIPOC Scholars Prize

General News, Scholarships and Grants

Award Submission Deadline July 1, 2025Submissions to the Emerging Scholars Award, the Article Prize, and the BIPOC Scholars Award are due July 1, 2025. Winners will each receive a cash award of $500 to be presented at the Annual NCSA Conference in 2026. Short descriptions are below, but please refer to the links to the NCSA website for complete information

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NEW BOOK: The Routledge Companion to Sally Rooney

New Publications

Edited By Angelos Bollas | Routledge The Routledge Companion to Sally Rooney offers an in-depth examination of one of the most influential contemporary Irish authors, Sally Rooney, offering valuable insights into her writing and its socio-cultural significance. This comprehensive collection brings together contributions from international scholars who explore Rooney’s novels through a range of interdisciplinary lenses, including literary studies, gender theory,

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UPDATED CFP: Textual Intersections: Imagining Religion / Religious Imagining

Call for Papers

All Hallows Campus, Dublin City University, November 7th 2025 Convened by Eugene McNulty (School of English) and   Brad Anderson (School of Theology, Philosophy, and Music) Keynote Speakers:                          Alison Jack (School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh)                         Gail McConnell (School of English, Queen’s University Belfast) Call For Papers: The organisers invite proposals for papers exploring the intersections

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NEW BOOK: Tom Murphy’s Theatre of Everyday Space

New Publications

By Moonyoung Hong | Routledge Studies in Irish Literature By the time of his death in 2018, Tom Murphy was widely recognised as one of Ireland’s most important modern playwrights. Ireland’s experience of rapid modernisation, emigration, and globalisation is vividly captured in his plays, challenging generic notions of space, place, and the nation. In particular, his drama reconfigures Irish theatre’s

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