The Department of Drama & Theatre Studies, Mary Immaculate College, UL presents: The “Irish Women Playwrights and Theatremakers” Conference 8-10 June 2017, Room T.1.01 at Mary Immaculate College, UL When the Abbey Theatre announced its 1916 centenary “Waking the Nation” programme, Irish theatre fans and practitioners were rightly outraged that only one of the ten plays being produced was written by a woman. The outcry over that gender-imbalanced programme led numerous Irish women to take to social media and vent…

The tension between realism and experimentation has marked the development of modern Irish literature, being intrinsic to the work of a number of major Irish writers. Often regarded as a father-figure of all experimental writing, James Joyce was attacked by as different commentators as Lukács and Pound for the scope and radicalness of experiment, particularly in Finnegans Wake. However, Joyce himself considered his work to be firmly set in the realist tradition. At a time when he was yet to…

Geographies of Comparison: Ireland / Africa (ACLA 2017, Utrecht, July 6-9, 2017) Ireland was, as Robert Young writes, England’s first and always exceptional colony. But it was far from the only one. Its unique colonial status has yielded productive scholarship addressing its anomalous integration into the colonial world. While this scholarship has resulted in some excellent work on Ireland / India relations and an influential volume on the ‘green and black Atlantic’ that performed a valuable intervention in addressing the…

Ireland’s Writers in the 21st Century  Keynote Speakers Professor Derek Attridge ● Professor Margaret Kelleher ● Professor Gerry Smyth   Guest Writers Marina Carr ● Julian Gough ● Belinda McKeon ● Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill Second Call for Papers (Closing: March 15, 2017) The political, economic, cultural, and artistic histories of Ireland are deeply intertwined with its rich tradition of writing in Irish and English, with generations of writers greatly contributing to broader literary categories like the realist novel, European modernism,…

Influences, Intersections, Interactions 4th International Postgraduate Conference in Irish Studies The 8 - 9 September 2017 Centre for Irish Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Contact e-mail: praguepostgraduate@gmail.com CALL FOR PAPERS Paper proposals are invited for an international conference which aims to bring together postgraduate projects in the area of Irish Studies. Following the success of “The Politics of Irish Writing” (2009), “Boundary Crossings” (2011) and “Tradition and Modernity” (2013),  we wish to continue offering discussion space for graduate students…