2pm Wednesday 6th November 2024 Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, 4 Distillery Road, School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, University of Galway & on Zoom We are delighted to welcome Ms Constanza Rapa from the Université Grenoble Alpes who will speak on her PhD research project, ‘Belonging with the (Non)Human Other: (Non)Human worlds in Transcultural Literature’, and also
» Read moreThe EFACIS book club aims to introduce readers to highlights of Irish literature, both past and present. In our book club sessions we predominantly focus on contemporary fiction (and, indeed, mostly books that were published in the past 2-3 years) or discuss works from the twentieth or earlier centuries that are relevant for contemporary Ireland, but have remained under the academic and/or public
» Read moreIn her conversation with Lucy Collins, Victoria Kennefick discusses her most recent poetry collection Egg/Shell (2024). She talks about the changes in her creative practice occasioned by events in her life and how these have produced a collection that defies containment; how writing poetry has helped her to capture the immediacy of these difficult experiences and to process them over time. She
» Read moreApril Episode now available – Nicky Gogan and Paul Rowley in conversation with Kate Huber In their conversation with Kate Huber, Paul Rowley and Nicky Gogan talk about their documentaries Seaview (2008), Build Something Modern (2011) and The Red Tree (2018). They discuss their journey into filmmaking and how they met; Seaview’s experimental style, which challenges the aesthetics of documentaries while foregrounding the asylum seekers’ experiences; the
» Read moreThe next EFACIS Book Club (and last of this academic year) will be on Wednesday 26 April at 8pm CET. https://www.efacis.eu/content/efacis-book-club They will be discussing Mary Costello’s The China Factory (2012) and this session will be introduced by Margaret Bonass Madden. Those interested in joining please email Sien Deltour: efaciscoord@efacis.eu EFACIS Book Club are also looking for book suggestions for future EFACIS Book Club sessions
» Read moreThe 41st Irish Itinerary Podcast episode from EFACIS has just been released. In her conversation with Auxiliadora Pérez-Vides, Catherine Dunne discusses how stories have the power to change the minds of people; how she wants her characters to speak for themselves and how she allows them to inhabit her while writing. She also talks about her novel A Name for Himself (1998);
» Read more22 February 2023 8-10 pm CET Louise Kennedy – Trespasses (2022) Introduction by Prof. Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) The author will join at 8 pm. EFACIS book club takes place online, via zoom. Readings and discussions are in English. We usually meet on Wednesdays between 8 pm and 10 pm (CET). During our 2-hour sessions, the work is briefly introduced and contextualized by
» Read more9th EFACIS Roundtable Discussion Irish and Irish English linguistics: interfaces and synergies Organised by the Irish English Network 15 February 2023, 6 pm GMT/ 7 pm CET Please register here for this online Roundtable Discussion! Programme Opening Remarks: Katharina Rennhak (EFACIS President, University of Wuppertal) Chairs: Anne Barron (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg) Carolina Amador-Moreno (University of Bergen) Participants: Aidan Doyle (University College Cork) Ray
» Read moreThe Johnson Chair in Québec and Canadian Irish Studies, funded by the Canadian Irish Studies Foundation, Dr. Jane G. V. McGaughey, Associate Professor of Irish Diaspora Studies at Concordia University’s School of Irish Studies is launching a new #IrishStudies podcast. With the aim of sharing her research to a broad audience beyond students and academics, Dr. McGaughey will be launching the
» Read moreNew Book: The New Irish Studies, edited by Paige Reynolds (Cambridge UP, 2020). The New Irish Studies demonstrates how diverse critical approaches enable a richer understanding of contemporary Irish writing and culture. The early decades of the twenty-first century in Ireland and Northern Ireland have seen an astonishing rate of change, one that reflects the common understanding of the contemporary
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