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Irish Fleadh – Cáceres 2017
The 14th edition of the Cáceres Irish Fleadh will take place this year from the 26-29 October. The Craic Addicts will open the festival on Thursday evening in the Plaza de Santa Maria. The Asturian group Tuenda will play on Friday night, followed by some great seisiúní in the bars. There will be a workshop on Saturday morning from 11.00-14.00, and the fun will continue with a concert by the Inishfree Céilí Band at 14.00 and more music in several…
Find out more »Creative Connexions – Sitges
Creative Connexions will hold its Irish Catalan Arts Festival from 26-29 October, in Sitges. The exciting line-up of music, art, dance, poetry and theatre once again this year will offer great entertainment for all ages. The hugely successful Irish dancing group, ProdiJIG, is just one of the many acts performing this year!
Find out more »Irish Prisons: Perspectives on the History and Representation of Irish Forms of Containment
Upcoming conference on "Irish Prisons: Perspectives on the History and Representation of Irish Forms of Containment" which will take place on October 26 and 27, 2017, in The Crumlin Road Gaol, Belfast. Final programme here.
Find out more »CFP: The Minerva Press and the Romantic-era literary marketplace
This call for papers for a forthcoming issue of Romantic Textualities may be of interest to those working on Irish literature in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Papers will be published in a special issue of Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840 (Spring 2019), guest edited by Elizabeth Neiman and Tina Morin. This special issue of Romantic Textualities focuses on a re-assessment and re-valuation of the publication and dissemination practices of William Lane’s London-based Minerva Press. Officially established in 1790, Minerva…
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Journal Estudios Irlandeses: Call For Papers Issue Nº 13
Estudios Irlandeses invites authors to submit contributions —in either English or Spanish— that engage in a critical and original way with aspects of Irish literature, history, arts and the media, for its Issue Nº 13, to be published in March 2018. Submissions should be sent via email to contributions@estudiosirlandeses.org not later than November 1st 2017.
Find out more »Ireland in Space – American Conference for Irish Studies Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference
Ireland in Space American Conference for Irish Studies Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference (Georgetown University, Washington DC, November 3-4, 2017) Contact email: ACISMidAtlantic2017@georgetown.edu Organisers: Irene Jillson, Gerard Mannion, Cóilín Parsons While the ‘spatial turn’ has long since been appropriated as a central aspect of the social sciences and the humanities, the interdisciplinary field of Irish Studies has, arguably, yet to explore fully the prospects of engaging with questions and methodologies of space and spatiality. From the ‘distant reading’ of Franco Moretti to Lefebvre’s…
Find out more »Irish film The Journey in cinemas
Irish film The Journey will start showing in cinemas around Spain on 3 November. This film, starring Colm Meaney and Timothy Spall, examines the relationship between Martin McGuinness and Ian Paisley. Check out listings locally.
Find out more »CFP ABEI Journal. Irish studies: Research in progress
The next issue of ABEI Journal will focus on research in progress (or just concluded/ or recent work) on Irish Studies. The idea is to make the ongoing projects known to the academic community to map the state of Irish research at present. You are invited to contact the members of your association willing to take part in this venture. A contribution of around four pages (2500-3000 words), would contain reflections about the researchers project. It is hoped that the publication…
Find out more »The World of Swift; Swift and his World. A Celebratory Conference
The Irish Studies Research Centre, the Institute of English Studies, and Spechel (The Society for the Popularisation of English Culture and of Hungarian Culture in the English Language Medium) are organizing a conference dedicated to the 350th anniversary of the birth of Jonathan Swift. The conference will be held on 24-25 November 2017, at the University of Pécs. In 2017, we also celebrate the 650th anniversary of Hungary’s first university, founded in Pécs in 1367, which we honour with this professional event, too. Thematic…
Find out more »CFP: “Crossing Borders: Contemporary Anglophone Theatre in Europe” Conference. Paris, October 11-12, 2018
Organised by Paris 13, Lyon 2, University Grenoble-Alpes, RADAC Call for Papers The privileged position enjoyed by contemporary Anglophone theatre goes unquestioned. Since the end of the Second World War its creativity, inventiveness and originality have brought it to prominence throughout Europe. Writers such as Samuel Beckett, Edward Bond, Harold Pinter or Sarah Kane, whose voices are so distinctive that critics find it hard to classify them, have left their mark; plays that critics and scholars have categorised as representative…
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