Category: General News

Women on Ireland Research Network Annual Conference: CFP Deadline

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Women on Ireland Research Network Annual Conference Waterford Institute of Technology 1st & 2nd of June 2017 Theme: Women and Irishness Reaching the pinnacle of the 1916-2016 centenary commemorations, questions of gender, women and femininity intersected with the idea of Irishness have never been so pivotal. This symposium aims to bring together current scholarships critiquing female experiences, how women are represented

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Maria Helena Kopschitz Scholarship for MA in Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama, University College Dublin, 2017

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The School of English, Drama and Film, University College Dublin, is pleased to announce the continuation of the Maria Helena Kopschitz Scholarship to enable a Brazilian student to pursue the MA in Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama, University College Dublin.  The scholarship honours the pioneering contribution to Irish studies in Brazil made by Professor Maria Helena Kopschitz. The scholarship entitles the

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Nordic Irish Studies Special Issue. Discourses of Inclusion and Exclusion: Artistic Renderings of Marginal Identities in Ireland

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Nordic Irish Studies Special Issue Discourses of Inclusion and Exclusion: Artistic Renderings of Marginal Identities in Ireland To order a copy, contact Carmen Zamorano Llena at cza@du.se —————————– Special issue. Discourses of Inclusion and Exclusion: Artistic Renderings of Marginal Identities in Ireland Guest editor Pilar Villar-Argáiz Volume 15 Number 1 2016. 193 pages ISNN 1602-124X TABLE OF CONTENTS Pilar Villar-Argáiz

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Journal Special Issue: Recessionary Imaginings: Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland and Contemporary Women’s Writing

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“Recessionary Imaginings: Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland and Contemporary Women’s Writing,” the first of two special issues of LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory is out now, and includes 5 essays: Claire Bracken and Tara Harney-Mahajan, “A Continuum of Irish Women’s Writing: Reflections on the Post-Celtic Tiger Era” Mary Burke, “Claire Kilroy: An Overview and an Interview” Mary McGlynn, “‘no difference between the different kinds of

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New Publication: Ireland and Dysfunction

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Ireland and Dysfunction: Critical Explorations in Literature and Film Editor: Asier Altuna-García de Salazar Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017   ISBN (10): 1-4438-1203-X. ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-1203-0   Book Description This collection of critical essays finds itself at the intersection of cultural, literary and film studies, and explores the various ways in which dysfunction is expressed in Irish studies. Dysfunction can be

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Special Issues of Estudios Irlandeses: Call for Papers

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Call for Papers Special Issue of Estudios Irlandeses New Perspectives on Irish Folklore     Irish folklore has been observed, in its “first life” to use Lauri Honko’s terms, through traditions, customs, narratives, tunes or sayings in various communities. These experiences have been collected and archived, and have since been reused and recycled in other contexts by politicians, poets, visual

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Book Launch: Touchstones: John McGahern’s Classical Style

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Frank Shovlin’s Touchstones: John McGahern’s Classical Style, published by Liverpool University Press, will be launched in the Moore Institute, NUIG on 2 February 2017 at 5.30 pm.   Touchstones examines the ways in which John McGahern became a writer through his reading. This reading, it is shown, was both extensive and intensive, and tended towards immersion in the classics. As

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REMINDER: Association of Franco-Irish Studies CFP Deadline: 27 January 2017

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Call for Papers 12th conference of AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish Studies) Mary Immaculate College, Limerick 19-20 May, 2017 Theme: Patrimoine/Cultural Heritage in France and/or Ireland. France has always been a country which cherishes its writers, artists, musicians and intellectuals. It positively discriminates in favour of its cultural heritage, because it realises the extent to which patrimoine is what attracts such

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International Scholarships: MA in Irish Studies, University College Dublin

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International scholarships offered for MA in Irish Studies at University College Dublin   The UCD School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore is delighted to announce the availability of a number of scholarships to international (non-EU) students to its one-year taught Masters programme in Irish Studies for 2017-18.   The MA in Irish Studies offers a stimulating interdisciplinary programme which

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