NEW ISSUE: Review of Irish Studies in Europe Issue 8.1 

The second non-themed issue of the Review of Irish Studies in Europe (RISE) journal is out now. As with previous non-themed issue (5.2), this issue will evolve in the coming months to feature additional articles between now and the publication of the next issue 8.2 in Autumn/Winter 2025, rather than following the conventional print format of publishing an issue only when a

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NEW EPISODE: Irish Itinerary Podcast 

Episode 60 of the Irish Itinerary Podcast is now online. In their conversation with Tim Groenland, Emily Cooper and Dean Fee discuss the origins of their literary journal, The Pig’s Back, designed as a Donegal-based journal with an international bent. They talk about creating not only an issue, but a beautiful object that stays in people’s minds; blurring fiction and non-fiction; bringing the many

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PODCAST: Victoria Kennefick in conversation with Lucy Collins

In her conversation with Lucy Collins, Victoria Kennefick discusses her most recent poetry collection Egg/Shell (2024). She talks about the changes in her creative practice occasioned by events in her life and how these have produced a collection that defies containment; how writing poetry has helped her to capture the immediacy of these difficult experiences and to process them over time. She

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CFP: 2025 EFACIS Conference in Åbo / Turku, Finland: ‘Attending to Ireland’

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies Conference Åbo / Turku, Finland, 8–11 May 2025:  In an ever bustling, ever hurrying world, the concept of “attention” has become increasingly important. As Jonathan Crary observed in Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture, the “contemporary experience […] requires that we effectively cancel out or exclude from consciousness much

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CFP: Voices from the Margins: Ireland Seen and Unseen

The 7th International Postgraduate Conference in Irish Studies, Prague 19–20 September 2025 Centre for Irish Studies, Charles University Contact: postgradprague@gmail.com Keynote event: The conference will feature a Panel Session on Early Career Research and Career Building with Dr Georgina Nugent (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, University of Vienna), Dr James Little (University of Cyprus), and Prof. Ondřej Pilný (Charles University). Questions and

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SEMINAR: VIII International Seminar on Halloween

EFACIS Irish Itinerary 2024: Posthuman Intersections in Irish Literatures 28 Oct 2024 – 29 Oct 2024 We are pleased to announce that the program for the “VIII International Seminar on Halloween (EFACIS Irish Itinerary 2024): Posthuman Intersections in Irish Literatures” is now available. The Seminar will take place on 28-29 October 2024 at the University of La Rioja (EFACIS Centre of

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PUBLICATION: RISE 7.1 Remapping Irish Literary and Cultural Landscapes in the Mid-Twentieth Century 

The new issue of RISE is now available on the RISE platform | Click here to read This themed issue of RISE seeks to remap the Irish literary and cultural landscapes in the middle decades of the twentieth century. It defines this period as from the 1930s to the 1970s — roughly coinciding with the conservative years of ‘de Valera’s

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EVENT: EFACIS Book Club

May 8, from 8 to 10pm CET, on zoom Elaine Feeney – How to Build a Boat (2023) Introduction by Prof. Katharina Rennhak (Bergische Universität Wuppertal) The EFACIS book club aims to introduce readers to highlights of Irish literature, both past and present. The book club sessions predominantly focus on contemporary fiction (and, indeed, mostly books that were published in the past 2-3 years) or discuss

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