Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street, Dublin 5.30pm, Tuesday November 8, 2022 Adam Hanna & Eugene McNulty, eds, Law and Literature: The Irish Case (Liverpool University Press, 2022) Adam Hanna, Poetry, Politics and the Law in Modern Ireland (Syracuse University Press, 2022) Poetry, Politics, and the Law in Modern Ireland is a richly detailed exploration of how modern Irish poetry has been
» Read moreThe Twenty-Third Annual Irish Texts Society Seminar will take place on Saturday, 5 November, 2022 (beginning at 9.30 a.m.) in University College Cork under the auspices of the combined Departments of Irish. The subject of the seminar will be Oidheadh Chloinne hUisneach ‘The Violent Death of the Children of Uisneach’, ed. C. Mac Giolla Léith Irish Texts Society Main Series, vol. 56 Registration: Please register online
» Read moreThe 6th International Postgraduate Conference in Irish Studies, Prague22–23 September 2023 Centre for Irish Studies, Charles UniversityWebsite: https://irish.ff.cuni.cz/en/Contact: postgradprague@gmail.com The conference will feature a Panel Session on Early Career Research and Career Building with Dr Deirdre Flynn (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick), Dr Petra Johana Poncarová (Charles University) and Prof Ondřej Pilný (Charles University). CALL FOR PAPERSPaper proposals are invited for
» Read moreInternational Conference to be held at the University of Almería (Spain), 16-17 March 2023 Conference website: http://www2.ual.es/sb-st/ The conservative measures implemented by successive governments of the Irish Free State between 1922 and 1940, including the banning of divorce and widespread censorship of printed materials, have projected an image of Ireland in the 1930s as opposed to the contemporaneous (artistic and)
» Read more15th AFIS Conference 25-26 May 2023 University de La Rochelle Call for Papers As a follow-up to the previous AFIS conference in 2021, which had the theme “New Beginnings”, the 15th AFIS conference in 2023 proposes to take the theme of Adventure. Adventure comes from the Latin “adventurus”, which means “about to happen”. Throughout history great upheavals, such as revolutions,
» Read moreThe Creative Arts Research Centre at Dundalk Institute of Technology is pleased to welcome applications to present at a symposium on the theme of reworking in Irish folklore, which will take place in person at the School of Informatics and Creative Arts on Thursday 1 December 2022. The reworking of Irish folklore is a process that surrounds us every day,
» Read moreJob title: Assistant Professor, Irish Cultural GeographyDate posted: October 4, 2022Application deadline: November 1, 2022 Position description The School of Irish Studies invites applications for a tenure-track position in the Geography of Ireland at the rank of Assistant Professor, with a specific focus on Irish Cultural Geography. The candidate will teach general courses in Irish physical geography, geomorphology, and Ordnance Survey analyses, as well
» Read moreJonathan Foster (Stockholm University), Elliott Mills (Trinity College Dublin), and Karl O’Hanlon (Maynooth University) The history of modernism involves a major shift from aristocratic patronage to technocratic administration (Kindley). In this Irish case, the scene of art shifted from the Seven Woods of Coole to counters and desks in bureaucratic Dublin and Belfast. As the writer Richard Power’s widow Nancy
» Read more23-24 June 2023 Hosted by the Centre for Irish Studies, Charles University, Prague Conference venue: Faculty of Arts main building, Náměstí Jana Palacha 2, Prague 1 Keynote speakers John Brannigan (UCD) Deirdre McMahon TBD Irish author, playwright and rebel Brendan Behan was born on the 9th of February 1923. Marking the centenary of his birth, the conference intends to reconsider
» Read moreSaturday 19 November 2022, 9.30 am – 7 pm Trinity Long Room Hub Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is one of Ireland’s foremost poets. A former Ireland Professor of Poetry, she is also a Professor Emerita of Trinity College Dublin, where she taught for many years. In celebration of her body of work and to mark her eightieth birthday, the School of
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