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
» Read more23-24 June 2023 Hosted by the Centre for Irish Studies, Charles University, Prague Conference venue: Faculty of Arts main building, Náměstí Jana Palacha 2, Prague 1 Keynote speakers John Brannigan (UCD) Deirdre McMahon TBD Irish author, playwright and rebel Brendan Behan was born on the 9th of February 1923. Marking the centenary of his birth, the conference intends to reconsider
» Read moreSaturday 19 November 2022, 9.30 am – 7 pm Trinity Long Room Hub Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is one of Ireland’s foremost poets. A former Ireland Professor of Poetry, she is also a Professor Emerita of Trinity College Dublin, where she taught for many years. In celebration of her body of work and to mark her eightieth birthday, the School of
» Read moreEdited 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
» Read moreUCD 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
» Read moreIn 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
» Read moreBy 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
» Read moreExplore 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
» Read moreBy 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
» Read moreEastOver 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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