Author 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
» Read moreMary M. Burke’s Oxford University Press book, Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History, was published in the UK in December 2022 and the US in March 2023. The US release will be launched by Myles Dungan at the national ACIS conference at San José State University, California, which will run from June 7-10, 2023. Race, Politics, and Irish America uses the
» Read moreEdited By Ian Hickey, Ellen Howley 6-8pm May 25th 2023 Belvedere Library DCU St.Patrick’s Campus Dr Tom Walker (TCD) will launch the book RSVPs can be sent to susan.byrne@dcu.ie Click here to order the book Seamus Heaney’s Mythmaking examines Seamus Heaney’s poetic engagement with myth from his earliest work to the posthumous publication of Aeneid Book VI. The essays explore the
» Read moreTramp Press reissue of Juanita Casey’s The Horse Of Selene (2022) with Contributing Editor Mary M. Burke THURSDAY, APR 27 20237:00pm – 8:15pm Glucksman Ireland House, 1 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003 Register here. On a remote island off the West coast of Ireland in the 1970s, young farmer Miceal catches sight of a girl on a beach with long hair
» Read moreBy Mary M Burke Published by Oxford University Press Race, Politics, and Irish America examines the words and lives of Black and white American and Irish-American writers, performers, and politicians – from Andrew Jackson and Frank Yerby, to Grace Kelly and Rihanna – to illuminate centuries of Irish presence in the Americas, from transportees to the seventeenth-century Caribbean, to eighteenth-century Ulster
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