Dear colleagues, In my capacity as IASIL Returning Officer, I am pleased to confirm that the recent nomination process for the IASIL Executive is now complete. The list of duly nominated members for the period 2025-28 is as follows: Christina Morin – Chairperson Deirdre Flynn – Secretary Ailbhe McDaid – Treasurer Michelle Witen – Returning Officer Marisol Morales Ladrón –
» Read more2 months, Part-Time (16 hours per week) Applications are invited for a temporary part-time post of a UCD Post-doctoral Research Fellow Level 1 within UCD School of English, Drama & Film. The successful candidate will work on the Research Ireland Discover funded project “Miasma: Trust, Data and Public Health” under the direction of Professor Gerardine Meaney. This is an interdisciplinary
» Read moreSenior Assistant Librarian or Associate Librarian The Special Collections unit of the University at Buffalo (UB) Libraries seeks dynamic and collaborative applicants for the position of James Joyce Curator in the Poetry Collection. Founded in 1935, the Poetry Collection is the library of record for 20th- and 21st-century Anglophone poetry and houses the UB James Joyce Collection, the world’s largest and most comprehensive collection of
» Read moreThe latest issue is now fully available on the RISE website. Up until the 1990s, the concept of Irish literature appeared to be fairly unanimous. Literary texts considered to be typically Irish were predominantly concerned with the Irish socio-political context, critically reflecting the history and conditions of Irish identity formation: the struggle for independence and its aftermath, the family, the church and
» Read moreNTU Singapore ● 4 – 5 October 2025 Reconfigurations 2025 seeks to explore the innovative and dynamic achievements of contemporary arts and to extend the critical discourses on their significance in our time. The central theme of the Conference is the intermedial, that is, the interconnectedness and interaction of different art forms across aesthetic and cultural boundaries, and the invigorating
» Read moreLindsay Janssen Indiana University Press Long recognized as Ireland’s greatest demographic disaster in recent history, the Great Famine of 1845–1851 has shaped Irish identities around the world. From the monuments erected to commemorate its victims to the political rhetoric involving it to the novels, poems, songs, and films that it continues to inspire, the Famine remains a crucial part of
» Read moreThe latest issue of the Irish Itinerary Podcast, Episode 58 is out now. In her conversation with Helen Penet, Louise O’Neill discusses her novel Idol (2022) and lifts the veil on two forthcoming books. She talks about the unreliability of memory; how #MeToo has changed our understanding of consent; wellness and faith; the gendered nature of the online world; the importance of
» Read moreWebinar hosted by the Irish Society for Theatre research Thu 27 Mar 2025 14:00 – 15:15 GMT Speakers: Dr. Lisa FitzPatrick Dr. Indu Jain Reportedly, in the US, research projects into women’s healthcare and research with ‘woman’ or ‘gender’ as keywords are being postponed or halted, with potentially devastating effects. This stagnation not only threatens advancements in understanding women’s health issues but may also herald catastrophic implications
» Read moreThe latest issue of Estudios Irlandeses, which features twelve articles, two “Tributes”, two interviews, as well as the usual sections on publications and academic events of interest to scholars working in Irish Studies is now online. The contents of Issue 20 can be accessed via the following link: https://www.estudiosirlandeses.org. The Call for Papers for issue 21 of the journal, to be published in March 2026, is now open. Please note
» Read moreCanadian Association for Irish Studies 2025 Annual Meeting St. Michael’s College and York University, Toronto, June 11-13 2025 Française Gaeilge Boundaries can be thought of in relation to the political, the historical, the artistic, the topographical, the cultural, the ecological, and so on. But even within these categories, boundaries exist at multiple scales: a national border is a political boundary,
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