October 25, 2023 – October 28, 2023 The Linen Hall Library & Queen’s University Belfast with Ulster University & The Belfast International Arts Festival Time: 09:00 – 17:00 Lay Up Your Ends at 40 – written by Charabanc Theatre Company and Martin Lynch This year marks 40 years since the premiere of Charabanc Theatre Company’s production, Lay Up Your Ends,
» Read moreLCIS, the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies, and Irish College Leuven invites applications for its visitingscholars programme 2024. Researchers working with LCIS’s areas of research who wish to conduct aresearch stay at KU Leuven may want to apply for one of the following two options. Short-term LCIS Visiting Fellows For the year 2024 LCIS will award two non-stipendiary LCIS Visiting
» Read moreEmbracing Change, Navigating Uncertainty: Ireland and New Beginnings Conference: Tuesday 18 – Friday 21 June, 2024 Opening reception: evening of Monday 17 June, 2024 Conference Website #ACIS2024 Call for Papers Ireland in 2024 is experiencing change like never before. Political contexts like Brexit, the Northern Irish situation, economic uncertainty, war in Europe and the climate crisis have all combined to
» Read moreThe 2023 issue of Irish Archives: ” Sources and Legacies of the Decade of Centenaries” will be launched by Dr Maurice Manning, Chair of The Expert Advisory Group on Centenary Commemorations, on 10 October at National University of Ireland (NUI), Merrion Square, Dublin 2 at 6pm. Supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media under the Decade of
» Read moreQueen’s University Belfast | Supervisors Drs Shonagh Hill & Trish McTighe This project examines female creative labour in the theatre industry in Northern Ireland and a tradition of women’s theatre-making since the 1990s. Comprehensive overviews of women’s theatre-making in Northern Ireland are offered by Imelda Foley’s The Girls in the Big Picture: Gender in Contemporary Ulster Theatre (Belfast: The Blackstaff
» Read moreIrish Society for Theatre Research Webinar | October 12 | Online (zoom) Beyond the Barricades: Ireland at the Prague Quadrennial’ – Siobhán O’Gorman in conversation with Liam Doona, Niall Rea, and artists from the student exhibit at PQ23. The Irish Student Exhibition at the Prague Quadrennial was an All-Island approach, with student groups from both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
» Read moreYoung scholars, particularly students engaged in a specific project, are invited to apply for The Friends of the James Joyce Foundation Scholarship 2024 and spend one or two months at the Foundation, making full use of the library facilities and archives as well as exchanging ideas with residents and visiting experts. The scholarships are intended for researchers with a well-advanced
» Read moreSpecial Issue of LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory Deadline for abstract submissions: Nov 3, 2023 Deadline for paper submissions: May 15, 2024 Guest editors: Christina Morin, Assistant Dean of Research in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland and Ellen Scheible, Professor of English, Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, MA, USA. The friction between the confines
» Read moreACROSS THE WATERS14–19 June 2024University of Glasgow For James Joyce, as for many Irishmen and women, Glasgow was the first city he saw beyond his native shores. During the Summer of 1894, Joyce crossed to Scotland from Dublin on a Duke Line steamer with his father. It was also the city where his last book, Finnegans Wake, was printed by the
» Read moreLaing, Kathryn and Mary Pierse, eds. George Moore: Spheres of Influence | Liverpool: Liverpool University Press | forthcoming October 2023 This invigorating volume explores the literary worlds inhabited by the pioneering Irish author George Moore (1852–1933). With an eye to Moore’s innovative embrace of visual art, feminism and literary history, and in the spirit of his feisty resistance to ‘orthodoxy’,
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