Book Launch 23 November 6 PM Trinity Long Room Hub Aidan Beatty Masculinities and Power in Irish Nationalism, 1884-1938 Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 978-1-137-44099-0 This book is a comparative study of masculinity and white racial identity in Irish nationalism and Zionism. It analyses how both national movements sought to refute widespread anti-Irish or anti-Jewish
» Read moreASECS’s A. C. Elias Irish-American Research Travel Fellowship, with a $2500 award, supports “documentary scholarship on Ireland in the period between the Treaty of Limerick (1691) and the Act of Union (1800), by enabling North American-based scholars to travel to Ireland and Irish-based scholars to travel to North America for furthering their research.” Original research on any aspect of 18C
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II International Seminar in Irish Studies University of Granada, Spain, 12-16 December 2016. Keynote speakers include the Laureate poet Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and the singer-performer Mary McPartlan, as part of the Irish Itinerary, a European cultural initiative run by EFACIS. More information can be found in the homepage: http://grados.ugr.es/ingleses/ SEGUNDAS JORNADAS DE
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Ireland’s Allies America and the 1916 Easter Rising Edited by Miriam Nyhan Grey Foreword by J. J. Lee KEY SELLING POINTS: A unique study of America’s role in Ireland’s 1916 revolutionary period. Contributors are historians from both sides of the Atlantic, giving the volume a range of different perspectives. Illustrated with compelling images of the period.
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Forthcoming from Syracuse University Press: Political Acts: Women in Northern Irish Theatre, 1921–2012 Fiona Coffey Hardcover $65.00L | 978-0-8156-3490-4 | 2016 Paper $29.95s | 978-0-8156-3475-1 | 2016 “The definitive account of women in the Irish theatre of the North from Alice Milligan through Shannon Yee…. The politics of violence in Northern Ireland and the innovation of women artists
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France and Ireland Meet: George Moore and Others AFIS (the Association for Franco Irish Studies) will host a special one-day conference on 2 December 2016. The outline programme appears below. Venue: Mc Cann Hall, Chatham Row, off Grafton Street, Dublin. This historic hall is now part of the DIT College of Music and AFIS gratefully acknowledges the gracious
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The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Volume 4. 1966-1989 Edited by George Craig, University of Sussex Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Emory University, Atlanta Dan Gunn, The American University of Paris Lois More Overbeck, Emory University, Atlanta ISBN: 9780521867962 Hardback: £29.99 / $49.99 The fourth and final volume of the Cambridge edition of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, covers the final
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Irish Studies at the University of Otago MA and PhD scholarships Students interested in reading for an MA (one year) or a PhD (three years) by thesis on a topic that researches significant issues relating either singly or jointly to the following: Irish Literature Irish History Irish Theatre Irish Film Irish Politics are invited to apply for an Eamon Cleary Post
» Read moreInstitutions & Ireland: Public Cultures 27 October 2016 Trinity Long Room Hub, Arts and Humanities Research Institute The organisers of the Institutions and Ireland series would like to invite you to attend our final conference, Institutions & Ireland: Public Cultures, in Trinity’s Long Room Hub on Thursday 27th October. The conference will feature a keynote by Geraldine Higgins entitled ‘Locating Irish
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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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