EVENT: Early Career Research Seminar in Irish Studies

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

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BOOKCLUB: EFACIS November & December

The 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

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GUEST LECTURE: J.M. Synge in Context

                                                         GUEST LECTURE SERIES IN IRISH STUDIES Department of English University of Klagenfurt October 31, 2024/ 11.45-13.15/ N.1.44                             Title of talk: “J.M. Synge in Context” Guest speaker: Prof. Dr. Ondřej Pilný, Charles University, Prague This lecture will offer a survey of the work of John Millington Synge, a principal playwright associated with the Irish Literary Revival, discussing the controversial

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LECTURE: Theorising Beckett’s Influence on 21st Century Fiction.

Dr Paul Stewart “the end is in the beginning and yet you go on”  Theorising Beckett’s Influence on 21st Century Fiction. Venue: Department of English Studies, Conference Room University of Cyprus 9 Klimentos Str. (2nd floor, Eliades Building), 1061 Nicosia Zoom link: https://ucy.zoom.us/j/68544333476?pwd=vjOPCVRqZmZmD1qAk8f7rLnvvv2cfE.1 Wednesday, 9 October 2024 @ 16:00 Beckett’s fiction has most often been considered as a literary end point. For example, for Pascale

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EVENT: Poetry Beyond the Page

The first event in the new Poetry Beyond the Page series took place on September 26, 2024. The Series features conversations with poets about their creative processes, their life trajectories, and many other conversations around poetic creation, translations and transculturations, belongings linked to the Irish tradition and beyond, as well as recitations of original texts accompanied by their translations into

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SEMINAR: VIII International Seminar on Halloween

EFACIS Irish Itinerary 2024: Posthuman Intersections in Irish Literatures 28 Oct 2024 – 29 Oct 2024 We are pleased to announce that the program for the “VIII International Seminar on Halloween (EFACIS Irish Itinerary 2024): Posthuman Intersections in Irish Literatures” is now available. The Seminar will take place on 28-29 October 2024 at the University of La Rioja (EFACIS Centre of

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EVENT: Greek Tragedy in Ireland: A Blueprint for Cyprus?

by Dr Dimitris Kentrotis-Zinelis Leiden University Wednesday, September 25, in person and on zoom Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus Abstract: Although at first glance Cyprus and Ireland may seem culturally and geographically remote, the two islands exhibit some intriguing political parallels. Specifically, the Troubles in Northern Ireland (1968–1998) encompassed many of the complexities familiar to Cyprus: partition, questions

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SEMINAR: Professor David Throsby

Seminar with Professor David Throsby: Monday 10 June 2024 12-1pm, Studio 1, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, University of Galway David Throsby is Distinguished Professor of Economics at Macquarie University. He holds a Master’s degree from the University of Sydney and a PhD from the London School of Economics. He is internationally recognised for his research and writing

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NEI LECTURE: Stage Sets and “theatrical nationhood” in the Irish Literary Revival

NEI Digital Lecture Stage Sets and “theatrical nationhood” in the Irish Literary Revival Professor Shaun Richards (Staffordshire University) Chair: Beatriz Kopschitz Bastos (PPGI-NEI-UFSC) 28th May 2pm Brazil 6pm Ireland Live on PPGI UFSC YouTube Channel NEI Digital Lectures aim to discuss aspects of the annual themes explored by Núcleo de Estudos Irlandeses (NEI) at UFSC. 2024 is dedicated to the

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PUBLICATION: RISE 7.1 Remapping Irish Literary and Cultural Landscapes in the Mid-Twentieth Century 

The new issue of RISE is now available on the RISE platform | Click here to read This themed issue of RISE seeks to remap the Irish literary and cultural landscapes in the middle decades of the twentieth century. It defines this period as from the 1930s to the 1970s — roughly coinciding with the conservative years of ‘de Valera’s

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