Irish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion, edited. Jarlath Killeen and Christina Morin and Imagining the Irish Child: Discourses of Childhood in Irish Anglican Writing of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by Jarlath Killeen Friday, 24 November 2023, 5:30 – 8pm The School of English will celebrate the publication of Irish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion, edited by Jarlath Killeen (TCD) and Christina Morin (UL) and Imagining the
» Read moreFor over five decades, Evelyn Conlon has revelled in the secret joy of writing and in the power of a well-crafted story. Hers has been a life of literature, travel and of challenging authority, including campaigning for women’s reproductive rights in Ireland and for an end to the death penalty in the US. Reading Rites offers the reader an unflinching
» Read moreJohn Singleton Routledge, 2023 John McGahern (1934–2006) believed that fiction could act as a window on the world. Such windows, however, frame our fields of vision, alter and shape our perspectives. Far from being static, the artist’s perspective must continually evolve. This book provides a literary analysis of John McGahern’s artistic and poetic vision – his ‘ways of looking’, examining
» Read moreThis book on modern and contemporary Irish theatre traces how social, cultural and economic capital are circulated in order to demonstrate complex and often contradictory outlooks on equality/inequality. Individual chapters analyse property ownership and inheritance; wealth acquisition; employment conditions; educational access; intercultural encounters; sexual intimacy and violation; and acts of resistance, protest and solidarity. This book addresses complex intergenerational, intercultural,
» Read moreThe Ogham Stone, the annual literary and arts journal of the University of Limerick, is open for submissions. This year, the journal will be open to all. The theme of The Ogham Stone’s 2024 edition is RECOLLECTION. The theme of RECOLLECTION calls to mind the commemorative purpose of ogham stones historically. Inclusion of ideas associated with recollection, such as reminiscence,
» Read moreThe 2023 issue of Irish Archives: ” Sources and Legacies of the Decade of Centenaries” will be launched by Dr Maurice Manning, Chair of The Expert Advisory Group on Centenary Commemorations, on 10 October at National University of Ireland (NUI), Merrion Square, Dublin 2 at 6pm. Supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media under the Decade of
» Read moreSpecial Issue of LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory Deadline for abstract submissions: Nov 3, 2023 Deadline for paper submissions: May 15, 2024 Guest editors: Christina Morin, Assistant Dean of Research in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland and Ellen Scheible, Professor of English, Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, MA, USA. The friction between the confines
» Read moreLaing, Kathryn and Mary Pierse, eds. George Moore: Spheres of Influence | Liverpool: Liverpool University Press | forthcoming October 2023 This invigorating volume explores the literary worlds inhabited by the pioneering Irish author George Moore (1852–1933). With an eye to Moore’s innovative embrace of visual art, feminism and literary history, and in the spirit of his feisty resistance to ‘orthodoxy’,
» Read moreby ELAINE CALLINAN, MEL FARRELL and THOMAS TORMEY | University College Dublin Press After 11 arduous months, on 24 May 1923, the guns fell silent, and the Irish Civil War finally came to an end. Twelve weeks later, all adults aged 21 or over – regardless of social status or gender – cast their vote in the State’s first general
» Read morePatrick Lonergan | Published online by Cambridge University Press Available to download for free until 1 September 2023 from Cambridge Core – CLICK HERE. Elements in Theatre, Performance and the Political series This Element argues that the climate emergency requires a new approach to the study of theatre history – a suggestion that is developed through an analysis of the
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