🔥Out Now! The 3rd article in our open-access Humanities special issue "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing"🔥
“Sex Is an Accident: Heterosexual Celibacy in the Political Writings of Eva Gore-Booth" by Prof Sonja Tiernan
Read it here: www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/15...
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THIS SATURDAY! Join multi-award-winning poet Cormac Mac Gearailt to learn how to write and perform spoken word poetry in Irish.
This workshop is for people writing in Irish, for anyone who wants to learn about the art of spoken word poetry🎤
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Join the March PhD Writing Session and Lunch Break on this Friday! There will be some focused writing time and some time for a casual chat on Friday 6/3 from 10 am CET till 1.30 pm CET.
Register via us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
We will be sending out a new EFACIS newsletter next week. If you would like to include your Irish Studies news, please email efaciscoord@efacis.eu.
We are delighted to announce the publication of a new article and an interview in our non-themed issue, RISE 8.1!
''Understanding Bernarda': Veronica Coburn's unpublished version of La Casa de Bernarda Alba', by María del Mar González Chacón
Find the issue at risejournal.eu/index.php/ri...
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New Kaleidoscope 3 publications!
Four new texts are now available on the Kaleidoscope 3 website. Discover four poems on the topic of faith, spirituality and art, written by poets John F. Deane, James Harpur, Paula Meehan and Sinéad Morrissey!
kaleidoscope3.efacis.eu/publications
Don't forget to send in your abstracts!
Join us on 25 March at 8pm CET for a discussion on Joseph O'Connor's My Father's House (2023)!
More information at www.efacis.eu/content/efac....
Exciting news. I’m heading across the pond for some book events. Check out these fantastic #FewAndFarBetween events in Scotland and England. All welcome.
(Nb will not be appearing at EIBF every night, thought I’m not, in essence, opposed to this idea. Just waiting to confirm the date)
Take a look at the first two contributions on the Kaleidoscope 3 website! kaleidoscope3.efacis.eu.
Kaleidoscope 3 explores views on Faith, Spirituality and Art. Read more about it at kaleidoscope3.efacis.eu/content/iris....
New texts will be published on Monday 2 March.
On 2 March, Dr. Jaqueline Bemmer, a Marie S. Curie fellow in the Research Group Medieval History, will deliver this term’s next LCIS lecture, titled “Old Irish Language History and Textual Transmission.” All are welcome to listen to Dr. Bemmer from 4 to 5.30 pm in room LETT. 01.52 (Erasmushuis).
Deadline for abstracts for RISE issue 9.2 is this Friday!
Join us tomorrow for the first EFACIS Book Club of 2026!
The third Kaleidoscope instalment, which explores views on Faith, Spirituality and Art, is now live!
Discover the wonderful stories 'Salty Wives' by Jan Carson and 'Priest' by Tim MacGabhann, at kaleidoscope3.efacis.eu
Keep an eye on the EFACIS channels for future Kaleidoscope publications!
Irish Itinerary poster
EFACIS Centres of Irish Studies can now send in their applications for the 2026-2027 Irish Itinerary! We welcome all proposals for tours taking place between September 2026 and July 2027!
Further details can be found in the full call for applications: www.efacis.eu/sites/defaul...
🎇Job Klaxon!!🎇 Assistant Lectureship in Medieval Irish and Celtic Studies at Maynooth University (12-month contract). Application deadline 22 March 2026. Come work with us in the Department of Early Irish @ceilteachomn.bsky.social!
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On the first Irish Itinerary of 2026, Mary O'Donnell visited the Universities of Granada and Almería in Spain.
Many thanks to Mary O'Donnell, the local organisers and our sponsor, Culture Ireland, for making these events possible!
More events coming up in May! www.efacis.eu/itinerary-ev...
Join the EFACIS PhD representatives for a chat and some focused writing time this Friday!
Our next seminar is on Mon. 9 Feb. - Niall Whelehan will speak about ‘Radicalism, colonialism and the life of an Irish doctor in Argentina at the fin de siècle’. All welcome www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
Don't forget to register for the February EFACIS Book Club session!
Call for Papers
Review of Irish Studies in Europe 9.2
A themed issue on Vona Groarke
Editors: Charles Ivan Armstrong and Daniela Theinová
Deadline for abstracts: 27 February 2026
www.efacis.eu/sites/defaul...
Join the first PhD Writing Session and Lunch Break of 2026 on 6 February! There will be some focused writing time and some time for a casual chat on Friday 6/2 from 10 am CET till 1.30 pm CET.
Register via us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
On Monday 2 Feb. Ciara McAllister will be speaking about ‘A class apart: Representing the “Troubles” and the working class’ - all welcome in-person or online www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
Residency for two emerging writers to explore the feminist archive at Nottingham Women's Library.
Details in link.
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We are delighted to share our programme of seminars for Lent Term 2026, beginning on Tuesday 3rd February 🍃
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Read an interview with the author! www.upress.virginia.edu/author-corne...
The first Irish Itinerary events of 2026 are just around the corner! Next week, author Mary O'Donnell visits Granada and Almería.
Stay up to date on Itinerary events at www.efacis.eu/itinerary-ev...
REMINDER: The deadline to apply for the Global Irish Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship is Feb. 27.
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BOOK LAUNCH: Irish Digital Cultures - Identity, Contexts, Space
Tuesday, Jan 27, 2026 | 5pm - 7pm | Royal Irish Academy
RSVP HERE: forms.office.com/e/qAF8CGt7sk
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