Deirdre Kinahan, renowned Irish playwright, is set to visit Brazil this month for significant literary events. Kinahan will attend the launch of the Brazilian Portuguese translation of her play “Knocknashee” (2002), titled “Knocknashee, a colina das fadas”, published by Editora Iluminuras in 2025. The translation is a collaborative effort by Beatriz Kopschitz Bastos and Lúcia K. X. Bastos. A rehearsed
» Read moreEdited by Seán Kennedy, Joseph Valente | Edinburgh University Press The first edited collection dedicated to the historical specifics of Irish shame Shame has haunted Ireland since the inception of Irishness itself. As such, it has come to seem an ineluctable modality of Irish life. In fact, the contours of Irish shame have evolved over time, shifting with alterations in
» Read moreby Miriam Haughton | Cambridge University Press 6-8PM Thursday 8 May, Dublin Port Guest Speaker: Catriona Crowe Louise Lowe is a theatre and performance director, writer, choreographer, dramaturge, and, more recently, a television director and short film writer/director, working in Ireland and internationally. She is the Co-Artistic Director of ANU Productions, established with Owen Boss in Dublin in 2009. Lowe
» Read moreLaunch of Review of Irish Studies in Europe 7.2 New Voices and New Directions in Twenty-First-Century Irish Writing 19 December 2024, 6 pm GMT/ 7 pm CET on Zoom Register here for the Launch of RISE 7.2! Programme Opening Remarks: Seán Crosson (General Editor of RISE, University of Galway) Launch of Review of Irish Studies in Europe 7.2 Presentations: by the contributors
» Read moreVicki Mahaffey Published by: Bucknell University Press Part of James Joyce’s genius was his ability to find the poetry in everyday life. For Joyce, even a simple object like a table becomes magical, “a board that was of the birchwood of Finlandy and it was upheld by four dwarfmen of that country but they durst not move more for enchantment.”
» Read moreTU Dublin Aungier St on 17th October at 6.30pm RSVP HERE Dr. Eamon Maher is one of Ireland’s most esteemed scholars, and the book we are launching—”Getting the Words Right”—has been written in his honour as a tribute to his immense contribution to academia, knowledge creation, and intellectual inquiry. The collection includes essays by distinguished academic colleagues who celebrate Eamon’s
» Read moreRevival 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
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