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...

Exciting list of speakers presenting in our Environmental History Research Seminar this term. If you happen to be in Dublin, come along. We'll meet on Mondays at 1 PM in the Trinity Long Room Hub #envhist Thanks to @tlrhub.bsky.social for hosting us! @historytcd.bsky.social 👇

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...

📣 📣 The CFP for IASIL 2026 is now LIVE! 📣 📣 Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU) Budapest – 6-10 July 2026 Translating Ireland The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday, November 28, 2025. #IrishStudies #Translation #IrishLiterature Full CFP: www.iasil.org/2025/09/conf... Pls share

Join us online on 13/10 for an open workshop on Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing, a forthcoming open-access special issue of Humanities that re-examines the role of unmarried women in Irish movements and literature. Find a full programme and registration link at www.efacis.eu/content/efac...

Join the PhD Representatives for an online Writing Session and/or PhD Lunch Break this Friday (5/9)! The Writing session starts at 10 am CET, but you can join at any time. Register via us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

My book is available to pre-order! upress.virginia.edu/title/10163/ I am so grateful to all the folks who have listened to me talk about this project over the last ten years at conferences, seminars, & beyond 🙏 @asle-us.bsky.social @asleuki.bsky.social @efacis.bsky.social @ndirishstudies.bsky.social

One month left to apply for our travel fund! Are you doing research in #earlymodern #bookhistory or print culture? The Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library and Plantin-Moretus Museum offer a Nottebohm Fellowship. Apply before Oct. 1st! Details: consciencebibliotheek.be/en/fellowshi...

There is still time to send us your Irish Studies news! @sofeir.bsky.social @aedei.bsky.social @bairishstudies.bsky.social

We will be sending out a new EFACIS newsletter in September. If you would like to include your Irish Studies news, please email [email protected].

There is still some time to register for the EFACIS Summer Writing Retreat. Deadline is 31 July!

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS – The International Yeats Society is still accepting submissions for its upcoming 2025 conference in Dublin. For full details and submission guidelines, please visit our website: internationalyeatssociety.org/conferences/...

Registration for the EFACIS Summer Writing Retreat for early career researchers from 11 to 15 August 2025 at the Irish College Leuven is now open! Find all the information about rates and registration on the EFACIS website (www.efacis.eu/content/summ...). #irishstudies #PhDlife #academicwriting

Join the PhD Representatives for an online Writing Session and/or PhD Lunch Break! The Writing session starts at 10 am CET, but you can join at any time. Register via us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Review of Irish Studies in Europe 8.1, edited by Seán Crosson, is now available at risejournal.eu/index.php/ri... ! This is the second non-themed RISE issue which will evolve in the coming months to feature additional articles between now and the publication of our next issue 8.2.

Don't forget to catch up on episode 60 of the Irish Itinerary Podcast! In this episode, Emily Cooper and Dean Fee discuss their literary journal The Pig's Back; the design process; the blurring of fiction and non-fiction; the Journals Fleadh and much more. www.efacis.eu/podcast

CFP: James Joyce in Relation: Gender, Labour, Legacy, a special issue of Feminist Modernist Studies, guest edited by Ronan Crowley & myself. Please take a look at the CFP and send your proposals our way. Proposals from non-Joyceans are ESPECIALLY welcome: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

@hfxgov.bsky.social @novascotiamuseum.bsky.social @dalhistory.bsky.social @smuarts.bsky.social @icuf.bsky.social @crimeanwar.bsky.social If you are around Halifax on Wed 25 June, be sure to drop into the Central Library for my talk, as part of the RNSHS lecture series. Full details attached.

There is still some time to fill in the survey about the EFACIS summer writing retreat for PhD students and early-career researchers!

In May, Catherine Dunne and Claire Kilroy attended the 2025 AEDEI Conference in Huelva for the final events on the 2024-25 Irish Itinerary. Thank you to the local organisers, the artists and Culture Ireland for bringing the various itineraries in 2024-2025 to life! www.efacis.eu/irish-itiner...

The EFACIS PhD representatives are pleased to announce a summer writing retreat for PhD students and early-career researchers at the Irish College Leuven. If you are interested in joining, please fill out the survey at the link below before 13/6! More information at www.efacis.eu/content/summ....

Thanks again to everyone who supported our academic programme in #IrishStudies this year. You can find recordings of most of our events on our YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@QUBIrishStu...

Join the EFACIS PhD Representatives for an online writing session and/or casual lunch break this Friday (6 June) at 10 am CET. All PhD students in Irish Studies are very welcome to join via us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... More information at fb.me/e/jgOA7tywl

Poet in Residence at the University of Surrey, closing date for applications 16th June www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

Episode 60 of the Irish Itinerary Podcast is now online! Emily Cooper and Dean Fee, the editors of The Pig's Back, talk to Tim Groenland about editing the magazine, literary journals in Ireland, cover designs and much more. Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or at www.efacis.eu/podcast.

EFACIS recently enjoyed a wonderful conference in Finland, warmly hosted by Anthony Johnson, Jason Finch, and their colleagues at Åbo Akademi University and the University of Turku. A new EFACIS board was voted in at the AGM, details of which are available here: www.efacis.eu/content/efac...

For the last events on the 2024-2025 Irish Itinerary, writers Catherine Dunne and Claire Kilroy are travelling to Huelva to speak at the 23rd AEDEI conference! www.efacis.eu/itinerary-ev... aedeiconference2025.es

We have come to the end of the @efacis.bsky.social conference in Turku. Lovely city and amazing event, it's always great to see and know scholars from all the continent (and beyond) meeting to discuss about their research. Can't wait for the next one happening in Łódź (Poland) See all of you soon!

So many great papers at NAES/EFACIS conference 2025 this week incl today’s paper given by Drs Joan O’Sullivan & Tamami Shimada on Irish-English linguistics. Important & fascinating research! @efacis.bsky.social. @yglb.bsky.social

@elkedhoker.bsky.social had a really interesting presentation Mary Lavin's uncollected short stories in periodicals, want to go read some of them now!

Fascinating keynote by @fionafarr.bsky.social on using data to analyse Irish English language in English language teaching. #NAES-EFACISConference2025 @efacis.bsky.social

"Attending to Ireland" and here we are! Great inaugural day here in Turku for the first day of the 2025 @efacis.bsky.social conference! I had the opportunity to present my paper on the Home Rule crisis and British Press focusing on early paramilitarism (it could become an article, let's see!)

Excellent panel on ‘Forgotten Women’s Voices’ from Dr Geraldine Brassil & Dr Tara Giddens, at the opening of the NAES- EFACIS 2025 conference in Turku today. Looking forward to the next few days! @taragiddens.bsky.social @efacis.bsky.social @elkedhoker.bsky.social

En route home from the Czech Republic. I had such a brilliant time with the students in Liberec. Thanks so much for making these opportunities available @efacis.bsky.social

Join the EFACIS PhD Representatives for an online writing session and/or casual PhD lunch break on Friday 2 May at 10am CET! Register via us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We have a few more Irish Itinerary events for you in April. Writer Jan Carson visits the Technical University in Liberec this week! More upcoming Irish Itinerary events at www.efacis.eu/itinerary-ev...

@ssnci.bsky.social New Perspectives on Conflict and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century is out on 28 July 2025! Order a copy for yourself, your class or your library via www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... #SSNCI #IrishStudies #conflict

Episode 59 of the EFACIS Irish Itinerary Podcast is now online! Listen to Dave Robb and Christoph Reinfandt talking about protest songs, the GDR and Northern Ireland and Robb's translation of Gerhard Gundermann's protest songs. www.efacis.eu/podcast

All welcome to the Dublin launch of After the Train: Irishwomen United and a Network of Change! 🗓️ Wednesday 30 April 2025 6.30pm at Chapters Bookstore (@chaptersbookstore.bsky.social) With guest speaker Margaret Ward (@marg50.bsky.social) 🔗 Preorder After the Train at bit.ly/after-the-train

Join us for the EFACIS Book Club tomorrow! We will be discussing Clair Wills' Missing Persons, or My Grandmother's Secrets (2024). More info on how to join at www.efacis.eu/content/efac...

Check out episode 58 of the Irish Itinerary Podcast to hear writer Louise O'Neill's take on wellness culture, the unreliability of memory, online culture, and much more! Find all episodes at www.efacis.eu/podcast

Join the EFACIS PhD Representatives for an online writing session and/or casual PhD lunch break on Friday 4 April at 10am CET! Register via us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Our next #IrishStudies seminar on Mon. 7 April will be Rob Savage (Boston College) on ‘The death of an informer, London, 1974’. This event is in-person only. #NorthernIreland #Troubles www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

The Irish Itinerary in Belgium has just finished and we are already looking forward to new Irish Itinerary events in Prague and Vienna with William Keohane! For all upcoming Irish Itinerary events, please visit www.efacis.eu/itinerary-ev...

Poet and novelist Nick Laird, chair of creative writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast, will deliver the 2025 Seamus Heaney Memorial Lecture on Monday, March 24. Reception to follow. ▶️ go.nd.edu/nicklaird @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social

Our #IrishStudies Seminar on Monday 24 March will be given by Dr Frank Rynne (Paris) on The Most Wanted tourist, the Invincible Frank Byrne in France, 1883' - all welcome (in-person or online) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/irish-stud... #IrishHistory

Don't forget to register for the EFACIS Book Club next Wednesday!

Very excited to announce that the brilliant William Keohane will be visiting Prague and Vienna as part of the @efacis.bsky.social Irish Itinerary Event Series. If you're in Vienna on April 2nd, make sure to come by!

⏰⏰⏰IASIL 2025 ⏰⏰⏰ CFP Closing MARCH 19 University of Galway: Technology and Ireland 21-25 July #IrishStudies #AcademicSky Full cfp here: www.iasil.org/conference-2...

The recording of the online launch of Review of Irish Studies in Europe 7.2 New Voices and New Directions in Twenty-First-Century Irish Writing is now available on the EFACIS YouTube Channel! youtu.be/vAIwIQUGC0s?...