“All Will Be Swept Away” Dimensions of Elegy in the Poetry of Paul Muldoon By Wit Pietrzak The book offers the first comprehensive study of Paul Muldoon’s mourning verse. Considering not only the celebrated elegies like “Yarrow,” “Incantata” or “Sillyhow Stride” but also the elegiac impulse as it develops throughout Muldoon’s entire work, All Will Be Swept Away charts a
» Read moreThemed issue of RISE: Review of Irish Studies in Europe “Remapping Irish Literary and Cultural Landscapes in the Mid-Twentieth Century” Co-editors: Yen-Chi Wu and Phyllis Boumans (University of Leuven) Critical narratives surrounding mid-twentieth-century Ireland have shifted from isolation and cultural philistinism to a more subtle understanding of the period as a time in which contraction meets expansion. Eve Patten, in
» Read moreRecent scholarship on Synge by Gregory Castle (2001) Sinéad Garrigan Mattar (2004), Hélène Lecossois (2021) and Seán Hewitt (2021) have all examined how J.M. Synge’s reflections on rapid and uneven modernity in Ireland can be seen as a modernist aesthetic. Most recently of all, Hewitt has argued that ‘Synge’s influence on twentieth-century modernism (and on postmodernism) is yet to be
» Read moreThe Presence of the Past: Problematising Temporalities in Irish Studies 9-10 March 2023, University of Lille, France UPDATE: Confirmed plenary speakers Dr. Zélie Asava (independent scholar) Pr. Máiréad Enright (University of Birmingham) Jesse Jones (visual artist). From Gretta Conroy’s recollection of the song “The Lass of Aughrim” in James Joyce’s short story “The Dead” (1914) to the dialogue of corpses
» Read moreAre you an Irish Studies Postgrad? Or do you supervise an Irish Studies Postgrad? Or are you involved with an Irish Studies Postgrad programme? On Tuesday December 6th we will be championing the research of the vibrant Irish Studies Postgrad community on Twitter – using the hashtag #IASILPostgrad. Share your research, your achievements, your favourite authors, texts, critical readings, and
» Read moreThe editors of the interdisciplinary Australasian Journal of Irish Studies and the Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand are delighted to announce the 2023 ISAANZ Irish Studies Postgraduate Essay prize. The Prize: 1. Publication of the winning essay in the Australasian Journal of Irish Studies, subject to normal academic refereeing 2. A cash prize of AUD$300 3. A year’s membership of Irish Studies Association
» Read moreIn Art, Misuse and Technology: Micheál O’Connell’s ‘System Interference’ John Roberts provides a wide-ranging and compelling analysis of Micheál O’Connell’s artistic deflation and subversion of technical systems. Addressing current debates on digital culture, the posthuman and computational reason, Roberts examines the relationship between the power of the technosystem we use and inhabit on a daily basis and the critical demands
» Read moreFounded in 1993 by Co-Artistic Directors, Gavin Quinn and Aedín Cosgrove, Pan Pan Theatre Company have been at the forefront of theatre and culture in Ireland and internationally for the last thirty years. The Pan Pan Archive, now fully catalogued and available at University of Galway Library Archives, is a leading resource for the study and engagement of the rich history one of
» Read moreCork University Press Sexual/Liberation by Michael G. Cronin launched by Ailbhe Smyth Feminist and Activist Thursday 1 December 2022 at 6pm Illuminations Gallery Iontas Building (North Campus) Maynooth University, Co. Kildare Sexual/Liberation addresses the paradoxes of sexual freedom in contemporary neoliberal Ireland. It invites readers to imagine a revolutionary form of sexual liberation beyond the present objective of achieving equality
» Read moreEFACIS Conference at Queen’s University Belfast, 24-27 August 2023 ‘Unions and Partitions in Ireland’ Call for Papers EFACIS (European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies) travels to Belfast for the first time in 2023, during a pivotal time for Northern Ireland. The ‘Decade of Centenaries’ (2012-22) in the north has demonstrated that public memories of Ireland’s partition and
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