Episode 45 of the Irish Itinerary Podcast today from EFACIS has been released. You can find it on https://www.efacis.eu/podcast or on Spotify, Apple Podcasts etc. In his conversation with Helen Cullen, Gavin McCrea discusses Irishness and how writing has been important in the process of going away from and coming to terms with Ireland. McCrea also talks about creating a voice for women without
» Read moreNEXT EVENT: Tuesday 21 November from 1-2 pm CET. Click here EFACIS would like to invite you to the PhD Lunch Break. Aimed specifically at PhD students, they offer you an opportunity to meet fellow graduate students, share your research, discover new opportunities in academia or simply discuss every-day or long-term concerns you may have as PhD students. The event
» Read moreLCIS, the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies, and Irish College Leuven invites applications for its visitingscholars programme 2024. Researchers working with LCIS’s areas of research who wish to conduct aresearch stay at KU Leuven may want to apply for one of the following two options. Short-term LCIS Visiting Fellows For the year 2024 LCIS will award two non-stipendiary LCIS Visiting
» Read moreThe EFACIS book club aims to introduce readers to highlights of Irish literature, both past and present. In our book club sessions we predominantly focus on contemporary fiction (mostly books that were published in the past 2-3 years) and sometimes include works from the twentieth or earlier centuries that are relevant for contemporary Ireland, but have remained under the academic
» Read moreThe next PhD Lunch Break will take place on 28 September at 1 pm CET via zoom. Introduced by EFACIS PhD representatives, Marie Gemrichová and Zoë Van Cauwenberg, the PhD Lunch Break offers an opportunity for graduate students in Irish studies to meet and talk to their peers. The meeting is informal and aims to give students a space to discuss everyday as well
» Read moreIrish Itinerary Podcast Episode 43 – Click HERE In his conversation with Nathalie Lamprecht, Alan Gilsenan discusses his documentary film The Laughing Boy (2022), which tries to uncover how the song The Laughing Boy, written by a young Brendan Behan and later used in his play The Hostage, travelled via Paris to Greece and there became an anthem of defiance for the Greek left.
» Read moreRISE 6.1 Irish Sexual Liberation and Its Literatures, Part 2. A Long Time Coming, edited by Robert Brazeau and Laura Sydora Now available on the RISE website: https://risejournal.eu/index.php/rise/index RISE 6.1 is the second of a two-volume themed issue dedicated to the study of sexual liberation and its literatures in Ireland in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries that extends the line of scholarly
» Read moreApril Episode now available – Nicky Gogan and Paul Rowley in conversation with Kate Huber In their conversation with Kate Huber, Paul Rowley and Nicky Gogan talk about their documentaries Seaview (2008), Build Something Modern (2011) and The Red Tree (2018). They discuss their journey into filmmaking and how they met; Seaview’s experimental style, which challenges the aesthetics of documentaries while foregrounding the asylum seekers’ experiences; the
» Read moreThe next EFACIS PhD Lunch Break takes place on Thursday 4 May from 1 to 2 pm CET. Any (post)graduate student in Irish Studies who wants to join the zoom session can send an e-mail to Marie Gemrichová at mgemrichova@gmail.com. You can also find the event on https://fb.me/e/y2chCdTV EFACIS: The PhD Lunch Break is aimed specifically at PhD students, where PhDs have
» Read moreThe next EFACIS Book Club (and last of this academic year) will be on Wednesday 26 April at 8pm CET. https://www.efacis.eu/content/efacis-book-club They will be discussing Mary Costello’s The China Factory (2012) and this session will be introduced by Margaret Bonass Madden. Those interested in joining please email Sien Deltour: efaciscoord@efacis.eu EFACIS Book Club are also looking for book suggestions for future EFACIS Book Club sessions
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