News from the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

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Every semester, many of our EUF students go abroad to Ireland to study or work. We’ve decided to feature their adventures every month!

Our first feature is Lotta Schoer!

#IrishStudies #StudyAbroadinIreland

📣Introducing…🥁🥁 “Folklore Friday” at the EUF Centre for Irish Studies!!!

At least one Friday every month, we will spotlight a legendary figure or story from Irish Folklore. This month, we’re featuring Cailleach Bhéarra! 😍 #folklorefriday #irishfolklore #IrishStudies

Anthologisation and Irish Short Fiction: Magnitudes of Telling Those familiar with short fiction often recognise the distinctive excellence of Irish writers among their international peers. Studying the Irish short story entails engaging with a genre “often haile...

For all Irish studies scholars and short fiction lovers: Delaney’s new book is definitely worth your attention!

www.estudiosirlandeses.org/reviews/anth...

#IrishStudies
#ShortFiction
#IrishLiterature

Are you ready?? The St Patrick’s Day Pub Quiz is TOMORROW! 

🗓️ March 17

⏰ 19:00
📍 McMelson Old English Pub (Norderhofenden 10)

Gather your team and get ready to compete! 🍀🇮🇪📚🏆

#StPaddysDay #PubQuiz #IrishStudies

Symposium: Peasant Movements and Land Agitation in Modern Ireland

On Sat 11 April we will be hosting, in association with @irishhistorians.bsky.social, a day symposium on 'Peasant Movements and Land Agitation in Modern Ireland'. This is a free event, open to all in-person or online via Teams. More info at www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris... #IrishStudies

Saint Patrick’s Day and the Rise of the Global Irish Diaspora A lecture by Cian T. McMahon: Saint Patrick's Day and the Rise of the Global Irish Diaspora Over the past three hundred years, Saint Patrick's Day has evolved from a religious holiday on a windswept island in the North Atlantic Ocean to an annual festival celebrated by millions of people worldwide. The anniversary's global popularity has gone hand in hand with the growth of the Irish diaspora, which is now estimated at approximately 70 million people worldwide, including over 30 million in the United States alone. Many like to say that "everybody is Irish" on Saint Patrick's Day. But how did this come to pass? How can a better understanding of the bourgeois hierarchy teach us something about the tangled relationships between migration and identity in modern human history? Cian T. McMahon uses stories of Saint Patrick's Day celebrations in specific times and places as signposts to a new history of the Irish diaspora. Cian T. McMahon is Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the author of a forthcoming global history of Saint Patrick's Day. His previous books include The Global Dimensions of Irish Identity: Race, Nation, and the Popular Press, 1840-1880 (2015), The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine (2021), and the Routledge History of Irish America, which is co-edited with Kathleen P. Costello-Sullivan in 2024. A free Irish-themed buffet luncheon will be provided during the lecture. This event is free and open to the public; no registration is required. Paid parking is available in the Commonwealth Avenue Garage. For more information, parking advice, and mobility assistance, please contact Caroline Pace: 617-552-3282 | caroline.pace@bc.edu This event is sponsored by Irish Studies and Boston College Libraries

I am so excited (and grateful) to deliver the #SaintPatricksDay lecture at @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social next Tuesday March 17 at 12pm in BC’s O’Neill Library. Would love to see any colleagues from @iehs.bsky.social or #IrishStudies who live/work in the area!

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This year's Irish Studies schedule is here: #IrishStudies #SummerSchool #Belfast

This year, to celebrate St Patrick’s Day, the EUF Centre for Irish Studies has teamed up with the FSV-Englisch and McMelson Old English Pub to host a St Patrick’s Day Pub Quiz!!

Gather your team members and come join us on March 17 at 7pm, at McMelson’s!

#StPaddysDay #PubQuiz #IrishStudies

News from the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

Did you know that IASIL.ORG has a regular newsletter?

If you want to sign up dm me and I'll add you to the list.

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A photo of the cover of “Eva Gore-Booth: Irish Poet, Rebel and Reformer” by Sonja Tiernan.

A photo of two shelves of my books by or about Eva Gore-Booth.

Some (very) good news on a day that more than needs it: this gem just in the door and safely home among friends. Congratulations, @sonjatiernan.bsky.social ! #EvaGoreBooth #IrishStudies

After many years of service to #IHSA Executive Committee 1950ihsa.jimdosite.com our wonderful colleague & Chair has stepped down. Wishing @sarahannebuckley.bsky.social our sincere thanks 4 encouraging & supporting next gen #Irish #historians #skystorians. We will miss you! #IrishStudies #Speirgorm

🗣️In My Own Words
Our new, occasional series of podcasts giving political leaders the chance to speak candidly about what shapes their politics and how they lead.
First up: Jon Burrows, the new leader of the Ulster Unionist Party
▶️ youtu.be/y5qbk8BmkGA
#IrishStudies

#AcademicSky #IrishStudies #SkyStorians

Congratulations to Professor Alvin Jackson, announced as first Childers Professor of Irish History @camhistory.bsky.social.
Great news for #IrishStudies in Britain!

ECR double header with Mikelyn Rochford (University of York) and Paddy Brennan (University of Liverpool)

Near London on 19 February? The @ies-sas.bsky.social #IrishStudies Seminar ECR double header will feature our PhD Paddy Brennan on "Food Consumption and Self-Starvation in the Works of Edna O'Brien" as well as Mikelyn Rochford @york.ac.uk.
FREE registration required: ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Irish History Student Association Conference takes place @maynoothuniversity.ie 28 Feb. Details 1950ihsa.jimdosite.com/conferences/ always a great place for peer support and meet #NextGen #IrishHistory students #Skystorians #IrishStudies #IHSA

The Elucidation of Complications - a portal to Finnegans Wake scholarship

Happy Birthday, Joyce! Here’s a new Finnegans Wake website I've developed with Research Computing at St Andrews: research.st-andrews.ac.uk/elucidationo...

@starcnet.bsky.social @standrewsenglish.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @bairishstudies.bsky.social #JamesJoyce #IrishStudies

Very happy to receive a hard copy of my little book. I'm putting this in the New Yorker section of my shelf 😊💚 #IrishStudies

Great initiative by our neighbours @livunipress.bsky.social
Free issues from their journals, including "Eighteenth-Century Ireland" and "Studia Hibernica", which should be of interest to #IrishStudies #AcademicSky
Overview of all the free issues: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/pages/free-i...

#IrishStudies PhDs!
Join our friends @efacis.bsky.social for their first monthly Writing Session and/or Lunch Break of 2026.
Details 👇

Happy Publication Day! 🎉 This little book is out in the world today. Parts of it are Open Access, thanks to a small publication grant from Taiwan's research council. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...
Happy reading! #IrishStudies #NewYorker

Any #irishstudies people here?

Chuffed to see my article on #jazz and agricultural #modernism in #PatrickKavanagh's "The Great Hunger" in the latest Irish University Review. I must say a big thanks to the IUR editor, @lcollins232.bsky.social, for her patience during a very tricky summer period as well. #IrishStudies #IrishPoetry

The Institute of Irish Studies is delighted to support the @liverpooluni.bsky.social Humanitarian PG Scholarship programme with a scholarship for a scholar from Gaza intending to study for a MRes in #IrishStudies.
Full details at www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
#academicsky #EduSky #HigherEd

A final 2025 feature from the EUF Centre for Irish Studies in honour of the season! See the two posts below for some fun facts about Irish Christmas/December traditions! :) #irishstudies #culture #christmas #traditions

#AcademicSky does anyone have access to a chapter from Transnationalism in Irish Literature and Culture

Chapter 13 - Irish Fiction, Small Presses, and the World-System
By Matthew Eatough

That they could send me?

#IrishStudies

Holding the book "Seekers of Wonder" by Elena Emma Sottilotta in front of a wall overgrown with ivy

"Seekers of Wonder" by @elenasottilotta.bsky.social pioneers the comparison of women's roles in Italian & #IrishFolklore & #FairyTales 1870-1920 collected / written by #WomenWriters Laura Gonzenbach, Grazia Deledda #JaneWilde & #AugustaGregory

#IrishLiterature #IrishStudies #Folklore

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