Author: Deirdre

PhD Scholarship. Cultural Tourism: A Case Study of John McGahern’s Leitrim – TU Dublin

Position Openings and Fellowships, Programmes and Courses, Scholarships and Grants

Eamon Maher, Director of the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies, has been given a TU Dublin Scholarship to recruit a PhD student who will work on the general theme of Cultural Tourism: A Case Study of John McGahern’s Leitrim.   Dr Eugene O’Brien, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick will co-supervise the project with Professor Maher, and their joint expertise on the theory of space/place will undoubtedly prove a big advantage to

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New Book: Joyce without Borders: Circulations, Sciences, Media, and Mortal Flesh

New Publications

Edited by James Ramey and Norman Cheadle University Press of Florida | The Florida James Joyce Series This book addresses James Joyce’s borderlessness and the ways his work crosses or unsettles boundaries of all kinds. The essays in this volume position borderlessness as a major key to understanding Joycean poiesis, opening new doors and new engagements with his work. Contributors begin

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Launch: Law and Literature Book Launches

Book Launch, Events, New Publications

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

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EVENT: Irish Texts Society Seminar

Events

The 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

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CFP: READING IRELAND IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

Call for Papers

The 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

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CFP: IRISH WRITERS OF THE 1930S: THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION

Call for Papers, Other Conferences

International 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)

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CFP: 15th AFIS Conference

Call for Papers, Other Conferences

15th 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,

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CFP: Reworking Folklore in Sound, Stage and Screen

Call for Papers, Other Conferences

The 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,

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Tenure-Track Position in Irish Cultural Geography

Position Openings and Fellowships

Job 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

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CFP: Edited Collection – Irish Writers and the Civil Service

Call for Papers

Jonathan 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

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