Date: 9-11 October 2023. Venue: Universidade de Ouro Preto (Minas Gerais, Brasil) The year of 2023 marks the centenary of the Nobel prize in literature being awarded to W. B. Yeats, the first of four Irish writers that have been recognised by the Swedish Academy thus far, with George Bernard Shaw following Yeats closely in 1925 (received 1926), Samuel Beckett
» Read moreThemed issue of RISE: Review of Irish Studies in Europe “Remapping Irish Literary and Cultural Landscapes in the Mid-Twentieth Century” Co-editors: Yen-Chi Wu and Phyllis Boumans (University of Leuven) Critical narratives surrounding mid-twentieth-century Ireland have shifted from isolation and cultural philistinism to a more subtle understanding of the period as a time in which contraction meets expansion. Eve Patten, in
» Read moreThe Call for Papers is now open for Strange Atmospheres: The Seventh International Flann O’Brien Conference The Department of English at Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj, with the International Flann O’Brien Society 27–30 June 2023 CONFIRMED SPEAKERS Joseph Brooker (Birkbeck College, University of London) Flore Coulouma (Université Paris Nanterre) Paul Fagan (Salzburg University) Heather Laird (University College Cork) The conference title, ‘Strange Atmospheres,’
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