Revival Press is thrilled to announce, fresh off her performance at this year’s Glastonbury and Electric Picnic Festivals, the launch of spoken word poet and academic Lauren McNamara’s ‘Quarter Life Crisis’ — her debut collection of poems. The launch event will take place: Thursday, August 29, 2024, at 6:00 PM The Belltable, 69 O’Connell St., Limerick. Prof Eugene O’Brien of
» Read moreThe editors of the Irish University Review invite you to the launch of the latest special issue, on the work of Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, which will take place at the Museum of Literature Ireland on Wednesday 12 June at 6pm. We are delighted to celebrate this publication and Éilís’s remarkable publication career, spanning 50 years to date. Please register your attendance at this link (we would appreciate an early reply for
» Read moreby Joseph M. Hassett | Lilliput Press This handsome volume presents more than twenty images of book covers, poems and other works that reflect Sligo’s presence in the work of W.B. Yeats and his family. Thoughtful reflections accompany the images, many of which are of first editions found in the ‘Yeats in Sligo’ collection at the Yeats Society. They invite
» Read moreHarpy – A Manifesto for Childfree Women – Icon Books Book Launch May 9th, 2024 International Anthony Burgess Foundation3 Cambridge Street Manchester M1 5BY United Kingdom Come join writer and academic Caroline Magennis in conversation with Claire Lynch (author of Small, Professor at Brunel University) to celebrate the launch of her book Harpy: A Manifesto for Childfree Women (Icon Books, 2023). In this
» Read moreAuthor Darragh Gannon will be in Conversation with Professor Roy Foster, talking about his new bookConflict, Diaspora, and Empire: Irish Nationalism in Britain, 1912–1922 Wed 29 November – Wed 29 November 2023 Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith | Doors 6.30pm, Starts 7.00pm Tickets: £7, Series Ticket £25 CLICK HERE The actions of Irish nationalists in Britain are often characterised as a
» Read moreIrish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion, edited. Jarlath Killeen and Christina Morin and Imagining the Irish Child: Discourses of Childhood in Irish Anglican Writing of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by Jarlath Killeen Friday, 24 November 2023, 5:30 – 8pm The School of English will celebrate the publication of Irish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion, edited by Jarlath Killeen (TCD) and Christina Morin (UL) and Imagining the
» Read moreFor over five decades, Evelyn Conlon has revelled in the secret joy of writing and in the power of a well-crafted story. Hers has been a life of literature, travel and of challenging authority, including campaigning for women’s reproductive rights in Ireland and for an end to the death penalty in the US. Reading Rites offers the reader an unflinching
» Read moreThe 2023 issue of Irish Archives: ” Sources and Legacies of the Decade of Centenaries” will be launched by Dr Maurice Manning, Chair of The Expert Advisory Group on Centenary Commemorations, on 10 October at National University of Ireland (NUI), Merrion Square, Dublin 2 at 6pm. Supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media under the Decade of
» Read moreThe James Joyce Centre is delighted to invite you to the launch of Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms by Richard Barlow. Fri, 14 Jul 2023 18:30 IST James Joyce Centre 35 North Great George’s Street D01 WK44 Dublin 1 The book examines the various ways Irish and Scottish literatures have influenced each other from the 1760s to
» Read moreCork University Press cordially invite you to attend the launch of Reading Gender and Space Edited by Anne Fogarty and Tina O’Toole | Thursday 29 June 2023 at 5pm | University College Cork An essay collection celebrating the influential publications and teaching of Patricia Coughlan by former students, colleagues and academic friends Launched by Professor Claire Connolly Professor of Modern
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