New Publication: Colum McCann’s Intertexts

    Cork University Press today publishes Colum McCann’s Intertexts: Books Talk to one Another  by Bertrand Cardin. The intertext is the effective presence of a text in another one. This relation of co-presence between texts is the subject of the present book. The book  focuses on the dialogue McCann’s books establish with other books. It confirms that ‘books talk

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Mapping Ireland’s Cultural Diaspora: Submit your suggestions

Mapping Ireland’s Cultural Diaspora: Invitation to IASIL members to submit suggestions   As part of an upcoming themed edition of the Irish Times Magazine on Ireland’s cultural diaspora, a project to map where in the world Irish writers have set their works is planned. Its intention is to create a searchable online graphic, plotting as many significant works as possible

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Book Launch: Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture

Boston College Ireland has the pleasure of inviting you to the launch of (Anthem Press, Irish Studies Series, series ed. Marjorie Howes, 2016) Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture Edited by Paige Reynolds Professor, College of the Holy Cross and 2013 William B. Neenan Visiting Fellow, BC Ireland with essays by Lucy Collins, Alex Davis, Leah Flack, Anne Fogarty,

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Call for Participants: Research Study

Shane McGarry, a PhD candidate in Digital Humanities at Maynooth University, is seeking participants for an upcoming research study. The study (which comprises both a focus group and individual 1 on 1 interviews) focuses on how users interact with Digital Scholarly Editions such as The Letters of 1916, The Woodman Diary, and Vincent Van Gogh The Letters. Shane is seeking

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New Publication: Irish Women Writers and the Modern Short Story

Elke D’hoker, Irish Women Writers and the Modern Short Story (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)   This book traces the development of the modern short story in the hands of Irish women writers from the 1890s to the present. George Egerton, Somerville and Ross, Elizabeth Bowen, Mary Lavin, Edna O’Brien, Anne Enright and Claire Keegan are only some of the many Irish women

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Special issue of Breac on Children’s Literature

  The fifth issue of Breac, a peer-reviewed, paperless, open access, Irish studies journal, has just been launched at atbreac.nd.edu. This issue, edited by Anne Markey, President of the Irish Society of Children’s Literature, and Aedín Clements, University of Notre Dame, focuses on children’s literature in Ireland and beyond.  In addition to a guide to recent critical writing on Irish

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New Publication: The Contemporary Irish Detective Novel

Recently published – The Contemporary Irish Detective Novel (Palgrave Macmillan), Ed. Elizabeth Mannion Hardback 9781137539397 http://www.palgrave.com/uk/book/9781137539397   Irish detective fiction has enjoyed an international readership for over a decade, appearing on best-seller lists across the globe. But its breadth of hard-boiled and amateur detectives, historical fiction, and police procedurals has remained somewhat marginalized in academic scholarship. Exploring the work of

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New Publication from Cork UP: E. OE. Somerville and Martin Ross. Female Authorship and Literary Collaboration.

Anne Jamison’s new book on female authorship and literary collaboration explores the remarkable literary partnership of one of the most prominent and successful female writing duos at work in the late nineteenth century; Irish authors, Edith Somerville and Martin Ross. Based on extensive and original archival research, this book attempts to reorient traditional thinking about Somerville and Ross’s partnership as

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