New Kaleidoscope III publications! In a second step, academics and representatives of different institutions add their voices on the topic of faith, spirituality and art. Discover the first essays by Tom Inglis, Siobhán Garrigan, Ger Moane and Gladys Ganiel at kaleidoscope3.efacis.eu/reflections

Former and current LCIS members Yen-Chi Wu and Lauren Ottaviani are delighted to share the launch of their special issue of the Irish University Review on “Irish Literature and the Global Marketplace.” It is now available for download via the following link: www.euppublishing.com/toc/iur/curr...

The Irish Itinerary Podcast is back for a new season! The first episode features Wendy Erskine who discusses her novel The Benefactors and talks about the recurring themes in her work, such as family dynamics and the transformative potential of chance encounters. www.efacis.eu/podcast

📣 Call for Papers 📣 The Keough-Naughton Institute is hosting the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS) Midwest and South Regional Conference this fall, Sept. 24-27, at the University of Notre Dame. 👉 Visit go.nd.edu/acis for all the details. 🗓️ Deadline for submissions: June 20

The call for the 2026-2027 LCIS visiting fellows scheme is still open! Read all about it at ghum.kuleuven.be/lcis/lcisvis... ! The deadline for the autumn residency has been extended to 1 August 2026. You can find the full call at ghum.kuleuven.be/lcis/files/v...

A recording of Hedwig Schwall’s Irish Studies lecture on interactionality in contemporary Irish novels is available at m.youtube.com/watch?v=b7c3...

The public is invited to this free symposium on 11-12 June at @uniofgalway.bsky.social. It aims to expand understandings of class in Ireland and bring local conditions into dialogue with global issues and international contexts. 👉 Register and see details here: go.nd.edu/irish-working-class

Discover new essays by Joseph O'Connor, Deirdre Sullivan and Dawn Watson on the Kaleidoscope 3 website today! kaleidoscope3.efacis.eu/publications

🎓 Postdoc Opportunity 🎓 Ph.D. scholars in any area of Irish studies are eligible to apply for our National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. NEH Fellows continue their research while in residence at the Keough-Naughton Institute for up to three years. 👉 Apply here: go.nd.edu/neh-fellowship

REMINDER: This upcoming Wednesday at 8pm, EFACIS will organise its final bookclub of this term, this time centered on Cathy Sweeney’s Breakdown. Those who want to join can find more information via this link: tinyurl.com/4wwavdpm. Hope to see you then!

REMINDER: Join us this evening at 7.30 pm at Irish College Leuven for a screening of Blue Road. We'd love to see many of you there!

Four new Kaleidoscope III texts! Check out the wonderful contributions by Vona Groarke, Cormac Mac Gearailt, Mary Morrissy and William Wall on the Kaleidoscope III website! kaleidoscope3.efacis.eu/publications

Join us on 29 April at 8pm CET for the final EFACIS Book Club session before summer! Cathy Sweeney's novel Breakdown (2023) will be the topic of a discussion led by Muirín Kramer (Queen Mary University of London). More information at www.efacis.eu/content/efac...

Information on the LCIS Visiting Scholars Programme for the 2026-2027 academic year is now available online! The programme is open to all researchers (with phd) working on topics related to the LCIS research areas. More information can be found here: tinyurl.com/mr2fkuhu

New Kaleidoscope III publications! Three new and exciting texts are now available on the Kaleidoscope III website. Anna Burns, Kerri ní Dochartaigh and Billy O'Calaghan offer new perspectives on faith, spirituality and art. kaleidoscope3.efacis.eu/publications

REMINDER: Next week Wednesday EFACIS will host its second book club meeting of this year. Everyone is very welcome to join the discussion on Joseph O’Connor’s My Father’s House (2023), taking place from 8 to 10pm. More information on the (online) event and registration can be found on our website.

We have some new Kaleidoscope III texts for you! Go and read the lovely texts by Lucy Caldwell, Wendy Erskine, David Park and Stephen Sexton on the Kaleidoscope III website. kaleidoscope3.efacis.eu/publications

Applications for our Irish Studies Summer School remain open until March 31. We run June 15-July 3, with a week introducing Northern Ireland, followed by two weeks exploring key themes in Irish history, the language revival and Irish literature. Info at www.qub.ac.uk/Study/intern...

This Friday evening, Irish College Leuven will host its annual St. Patrick's Day festivities!☘️ Everyone who wants to enjoy an evening filled with live music, good food and great company is very welcome to attend. You can still register beforehand by emailing [email protected].

Yesterday, Dr. Jaqueline Bemmer delivered a fascinating and enriching lecture on Old Irish legal manuscripts and the broader history of the (Old) Irish language. Thank you very much to everyone who joined us on this sunny afternoon!

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

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).

Yesterday, Dr. Lindsay Janssen taught the MA students on our Irish Literature course all about nineteenth-century Irish-American periodical culture. We’re very grateful to Dr. Janssen for making the time to contribute her valuable insights to the programme!

Our next seminar on Monday 23 Feb. will be Dr Paddy Gleeson (QUB) speaking on 'Landscapes of kingship: governance, rule and territory in early medieval Ireland'. All welcome in-person / online www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

REMINDER: This upcoming Wednesday, starting at 8pm, we will discuss Colin Barrett’s Wild Houses (2024) as part of the EFACIS book club. More information on the (online) event and on how to register can be found here: tinyurl.com/bdf5h7eh.

Next Monday, Dr. Lindsay Janssen (Radboud University) will give a guest lecture on nineteenth-century Irish-American periodical culture as part of the master’s course in Irish Literature. The lecture will take place at 1:30 pm in MSI 01.28. More information can be found on our website.

Many thanks to Dr. Patrick Doyle for delivering this week’s LCIS lecture on the conception and reform of capitalism by the Catholic Irish diaspora!

REMINDER: The next lecture in the LCIS lecture series will take place next week Wednesday at 5pm at the KADOC Research Centre in Leuven. Those wishing to attend Dr. Patrick Doyle’s lecture on the reception of capitalism by the Catholic Irish diaspora can register via this link: tinyurl.com/4nbtb4kj.

Earlier this week, we had the pleasure of listening to Dr. Heather Laird, who gave a wonderful opening to this year’s LCIS lecture series! Many thanks to everyone who attended!

REMINDER: This Thursday, Dr. Heather Laird (University College Cork) will deliver her lecture on Cathy Sweeney’s Breakdown (2024) and Sara Baume’s Seven Steeples (2022). The event will take place at 4pm in room LETT 00.18 (Erasmushuis). Looking forward to seeing many of you there!

We've got another packed semester of events planned for #BCIrishStudies! You can find more information on these events on our online calendar: www.bc.edu/content/bc-w...

The two upcoming speakers for this year’s LCIS lecture series will be arriving at the Irish College soon! More (practical) information on both speakers and their research can be found on our website: tinyurl.com/5audtm6x. Be minded that for Dr. Patrick Doyle's lecture, preregisteration is required.

REMINDER: During this week’s EFACIS book club, we will discuss Kelly McCaughrain’s Little Bang (2024). More information about the (online) event and on how to register can be found here: tinyurl.com/mpz7at8p. We hope to see many of you there!

Yesterday, Thirthankar Chakraborty concluded this term’s LCIS lecture series with an enthusiastic and insightful presentation on Beckettian themes and the post-Independence Indian novel. We wish him the very best as he completes his forthcoming book on the subject!

REMINDER: This Wednesday is already the last LCIS lecture of this year! Come and join us at 4.30 pm in the Jos Crentenzaal (Erasmushuis) to listen to Thirthankar Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology), who will deliver his lecture on Samuel Beckett and the post-independence Indian novel.

The CFP for the American Conference of Irish Studies' 2026 national meeting in Denver closes on 12 December. More info here: acisweb.org/conferences/...

Thank you very much to Małgorzata Krasnodębska-D’Aughton for presenting yesterday’s LCIS lecture! And thanks to Barbara Baert for bringing along her bright students, all of whom were keen to learn about the transmission of Franciscan iconography between the European continent and Ireland.

REMINDER: This coming Monday, Małgorzata Krasnodębska-D’Aughton (University College Cork) will deliver the next LCIS lecture on Franciscan iconography in Ireland. The event will take place in MSI 02.08 from 2 to 4pm. More information can be found on our website: tinyurl.com/4bjcced5.

The two final speakers for this term’s LCIS lecture series have arrived safe and sound at the Irish College Leuven and will be presenting their research soon! More information on both speakers and their research can be found on our website: tinyurl.com/4z3m8dfb

Join us on Wednesday 17 December for a talk on Kelly McCaughrain's Little Bang (2024), a very witty young adult novel about teenage pregnancy set in Northern Ireland. The session will be introduced by Helen Penet (University of Lille). More information at www.efacis.eu/content/efac...

LCIS is looking forward to attending this week’s (fully booked!) interview with Paul Murray, co-organised by Boektopia and Irish College Leuven: tinyurl.com/mr2z9rwa%F0%...

On November 12th, EFACIS will organise its second book club of this term, this time focusing on Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting (2023). More information on the book club and how to register can be found here: www.efacis.eu/content/efac....

Quick reminder to make sure you get your tickets for our 2025 Seamus Heaney Lecture in good time as previous Heaney Lectures were oversubscribed. 🗓️ 6:00 pm, 13 November 🧭 Paul Brett LT, Yoko Ono Lennon Centre @liverpooluni.bsky.social FREE registration REQUIRED: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1765402248...

A few weeks ago, we had the pleasure of welcoming Professor Jessica Bundschuh in Leuven for an inspiring lecture on the poetics of Northern Irish writer Susannah Dickey and much more. Together with Sharon Marcus, she set a great tone for this term’s LCIS lecture series.

Many thanks to Professor Sharon Marcus for sharing her fascinating research with us during yesterday’s LCIS lecture! Thanks as well to everyone who attended the event and contributed such thoughtful questions✨

REMINDER: Everyone is welcome to join Professor Sharon Marcus (Columbia University) for a lecture on the Bildungsroman in Goethe and Rooney tomorrow at 12 pm in MSI 01.08. More information here: tinyurl.com/52e52e4e.

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BC Irish Studies is inviting applications for visiting summer Burns fellowships in 2026, 2027, & 2028 The application is open to researchers and writers in any discipline pertaining to Irish Studies. Early-career scholars are particularly encouraged to apply apply.interfolio.com/174086

Check out the latest @efacis.bsky.social newsletter for information on our upcoming Roundtable on "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" Register for the online event (Monday 13 October, 6pm Irish Time) here - all are welcome! 🔗👉 us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join the online EFACIS Book Club on 15 October for a discussion of Michael Magee's novel Close to Home (2023)! More information at www.efacis.eu/content/efac...