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PRIZE: 2024 Reimagining Ireland Book Prize

General News, New Publications

Peter Lang is delighted to announce the 2024 Reimagining Ireland Book Prize. We invite scholars in any area of Irish Studies to submit proposals for single-author books to be evaluated by a distinguished editorial board. Please submit your proposal to  a.mason@peterlang.com or series editor Eamon Maher at  Eamon.Maher@TUDublin.ie by 30 September 2024. Your proposal should consist of an abstract (including chapter synopses), a sample chapter (5,000 to 10,000 words in

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CFP: Nineteenth Century Studies Association: “Fusions of Culture, Time, and Space,” 46th Annual Conference

Call for Papers

New Orleans, Louisiana    March 27-31, 2025 Proposal Deadline: September 30, 2024 Website:  https://ncsaweb.net/2025-conference-information/ If America were a melting pot, New Orleans would be its capital. Even before the United States gained control of the city with the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, New Orleans had been usurped from indigenous peoples and changed hands several times between the French and Spanish. This amalgamation

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POETRY LAUNCH: ‘Quarter Life Crisis’ the Debut Poetry Collection of Spoken Word Poet Lauran McNamara

Book Launch

Revival Press is thrilled to announce, fresh off her performance at this year’s Glastonbury and Electric Picnic Festivals, the launch of spoken word poet and academic Lauren McNamara’s ‘Quarter Life Crisis’ — her debut collection of poems. The launch event will take place: Thursday, August 29, 2024, at 6:00 PM The Belltable, 69 O’Connell St., Limerick. Prof Eugene O’Brien of

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PHD SCHOLARSHOP: Cécile Parrish Memorial Scholarship at Monash University

Postgrad, Scholarships and Grants

Monash Literary Studies invites applicants for the Cécile Parrish Memorial Scholarship, which offers a PhD scholarship with stipend and financial support for research-related travel. We would be delighted to receive proposals in Irish Studies. Details below: Cécile Parrish Memorial Scholarship (3 Positions) Job No.: 667962 Location: Clayton campus Employment Type: Full-time Duration: 3.5-year fixed-term appointment Remuneration: The successful applicant will receive a Research Living Allowance, at current

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NEW BOOK: Transcultural Insights into Contemporary Irish Literature and Society

New Publications

Edited By María Amor Barros-del Río (2024, Routledge). OPEN ACCESS Transcultural Insights into Contemporary Irish Literature and Society examines the transcultural patterns that have been enriching Irish literature since the twentieth century and engages with the ongoing dialogue between contemporary Irish literature and society. Driven by the growing interest in transcultural studies in the humanities, this volume provides an insightful

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CFP: James Joyce and Networks of Transnationality

Call for Papers

Joyce Studies Annual Special Cluster The transnational turn in modernist studies has helped generate important scholarly works— Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community (Jessica Berman, Cambridge UP, 2001),  Geomodernisms: Race, Modernism, Modernity (edited by Laura Doyle and Laura Winkiel, Indiana UP, 2005), Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation (Rebecca Walkowitz, Columbia UP, 2006), The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms (edited by Mark Wollaeger and Matt Eatough, Oxford

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JOB: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow – PATHOS Project

Position Openings and Fellowships, Postgrad

48 Month, full time, fixed term post Mary Immaculate College wishes to appoint a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to work on Pathologies of Violence: Inscriptions of Global Conflict in Irish Literature, 1922-present (PATHOS), funded by an SFI-IRC Pathways Grant, led by Dr Ailbhe McDaid (PI). The Fellow will work alongside and under the direction of the PI on a full-time basis

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New Book: Contemporary Irish Theatre: Histories and Theories by Charlotte McIvor and Ian R. Walsh

New Publications

This open access book is a new survey of theatre practices in Ireland from 1957 to the present. Part I: Histories, situates the theatrical activity of twentieth and twenty-first century Ireland within its social and political contexts, identifies key practitioners, landmark productions, institutions, festivals, and seminal revivals. Part II: Theories, offers five key theoretical frameworks – nation, language, body, space

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NEW BOOK: The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose

New Publications

Edited By Ian Hickey, Eugene O’Brien | Routledge Studies in Irish Literature The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose is the first collection of essays solely focused on examining the Nobel prize winning poet’s prose. The collection offers ten different perspectives on this body of work which vary from sustained thematic analyses on poetic form, the construction of identity,

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CFP: Spaces, Places and Psychogeographies of Ireland

Call for Papers, Other Conferences

VIII FORUM OF NÚCLEO DE ESTUDOS IRLANDESES AT UFSCSpaces, Places and Psychogeographies of Ireland5th-6th November 2024Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis Campus Guest speakers: Dr Paul Delaney (Trinity College Dublin); Dr Deirdre Flynn (Mary Immaculate College); Northern-Irish writer Lucy Caldwell. Spaces change over time. They may change due to climatic disasters, war, gentrification, or economic crises or booms, to name

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