It is with pleasure that we announce the latest publication by AEDEI member José Francisco Fernández, as co-editor of a special issue in the journal “Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui”. Warm congratulations, José Francisco, on this important academic achievement. Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui A Bilingual Review.…
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.
2017 International Yeats Society Conference
October 20-22, 2017
New York City
Hosted and sponsored by:
The New School University * Fordham University * New York University/Glucksman Ireland House * Williams College
The conference includes keynote addresses by Maureen Murphy (Professor Emerita, Hofstra University), and Christopher Cahill (Director, American Irish Historical Society and Director, McCabe Fellowship Exchange Program, John Jay College of Criminal Justice), as well as a reading by the Irish poet Joan McBreen.
Thmes and topics:
1917:
The Wild Swans at Coole; At The Hawk’s Well; The Cat and the Moon; Yeats’s marriage to Georgie Hyde-Lees/the automatic writing; the acquisition of Thoor Ballylee; Yeats in the wake of the Rising
Yeats in America:
The U.S.A. lecture tours; Yeats’s American publications; Yeats and the Yeats family in New York
