Author: Deirdre

Book Launch: Deirdre Madden – New critical perspectives

Book Launch, New Publications

Edited by Anne Fogarty and Marisol Morales-Ladrón DATE: Thursday 20 October at 18:00. VENUE: Long Room Hub in Trinity College The author, Deirdre Madden, has confirmed her attendance. The invited speaker for the event will be expert in Northern Irish Literature Prof. Caroline Magennis (University of Salford). ALL WELCOME Those interested should register on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/launch-of-deirdre-madden-new-critical-essays-tickets-433473620267 Book description: The Irish writer, Deirdre Madden, has written key novels

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Book Launch: Dublin and the Great Irish Famine

Book Launch

UCD Press cordially invites you to the launch of Dublin and the Great Irish Famine edited by Emily Mark-FitzGerald, Ciarán McCabe & Ciarán Reilly DATE:  6.30pm Monday, 17 October 2022VENUE: Kilmainham Gaol, Inchicore Road,Kilmainham, Dublin 8 GUEST SPEAKER: Professor David Dickson, TCDRSVP: ucdpress@ucd.ieALL WELCOME Dublin did not escape the Great Famine: many of its inhabitants experienced acute poverty and illness, while the capital witnessed an influx

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EVENT: The Frances Browne Literary Festival

Events

In light of the tragedy in Cresslough the 2022 Frances Browne Literary Festival has been postponed until further notice. Deepest sympathy is extended to all affected by the tragedy. ********************************************************* Celebrating the life and literary legacy of Frances Browne Ballybofey-Stranorlar Co. Donegal, Ireland 13th to 16th October 2022 Frances Browne is the most important writer ever to emerge from Donegal’s

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New Book: Ireland, Revolution, and the English Modernist Imagination

New Publications

By Prof Eve Patten Oxford University Press This book asks how English authors of the early to mid-twentieth century responded to the nationalist revolution in neighbouring Ireland in their work, and explores this response as an expression of anxieties about, and aspirations within, England itself. Drawing predominantly on novels of this period, but also on letters, travelogues, literary criticism, and

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Exhibition: Don’t anticipate the ending at MOLI

Events

Explore the brand new online exhibition, Don’t anticipate the ending, which documents a series of creative encounters with the archive of Irish playwright Brian Friel. Visitors to the site can explore the connections between Friel’s own fascinating writing process and the contemporary experiments in dance and performance it has helped to inspire. The exhibition is a collaborative, practice-based research project by

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New Book: The Reader’s Joyce: Ulysses, Authorship and the Authority of the Reader

New Publications

By Dr Sophie Corser Edinburgh University Press The Reader’s Joyce engages with core issues of literary studies by rethinking accepted literary, critical, and theoretical notions of the relationships between author, reader, and text. This monograph describes and queries the activity of reading prompted by the intertextuality and narrative of James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922), focusing on in-depth readings of the novel and its interactions

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New Book: Hidden Cargoes by Chris Arthur

New Publications

EastOver Press is proud to announce the upcoming publication of Hidden Cargoes, a collection of essays by award-winning essayist Chris Arthur. The title will be released on October 15, 2022. In Hidden Cargoes, Arthur ranges over subjects as various as a girl’s ear, a vulture’s egg, and the letters in a Scrabble game. Whatever the topic—and Arthur’s interests are wide-ranging, to say the least—these unorthodox

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New Book: Irish Drama and Wars in the Twentieth Century – Wei H. Kao

New Publications

This book delves into how playwrights, whether canonical or less frequently discussed in the academic sphere, have critically and creatively engaged with the Anglo-Irish War, the Irish Civil War, the Easter Rising, the Northern Ireland Troubles and other conflicts. It not only approaches their plays―some of which have not been subject to much study―in relevant historical contexts, but also explores

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Workshop: Decarbonizing Research Methods Workshop – University of Galway

Events

This half-day workshop event will bring together researchers and students in an interdisciplinary event that explores the carbon impact of our research methods and undertakings, and whether we can, as researchers and students, work towards decarbonizing our research methods. As a central part of university operations and processes, research itself should also aim towards net-zero emissions. But how can this

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CFP: Strange Atmospheres: The Seventh International Flann O’Brien Conference

Call for Papers, General News, Other Conferences

The Call for Papers is now open for Strange Atmospheres: The Seventh International Flann O’Brien Conference The Department of English at Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj, with the International Flann O’Brien Society 27–30 June 2023 CONFIRMED SPEAKERS Joseph Brooker (Birkbeck College, University of London)  Flore Coulouma (Université Paris Nanterre) Paul Fagan (Salzburg University) Heather Laird (University College Cork) The conference title, ‘Strange Atmospheres,’

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