9th EFACIS PhD Seminar in Irish Studies

The 9th EFACIS PhD Seminar in Irish Studies will take place from 24 to 28 August and is organised by the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies in collaboration with EFACIS and the Irish College Leuven. Confirmed plenary speakers are Anne Dolan (Trinity College Dublin), Patrick Lonergan (University of Galway), Emilie Pine (University College Dublin) and Sinéad Sturgeon (Queen's University Belfast). 

Deadline for applications is 31 January 2026. 

EFACIS Roundtable Discussions

You can now find the recording of the 13th EFACIS Roundtable Discussion on the EFACIS YouTube channel. This Roundtable took the form of 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. 

You can find the recording and the full programme on our EFACIS Roundtable Discussions page.

EFACIS Book Club

The EFACIS book club aims to introduce readers to highlights of Irish literature, both past and present. All meetings of the EFACIS book club will take place online, via zoom. Readings and discussions are in English. We usually meet on Wednesdays between 8 pm and 10 pm (CET). During our 2-hour sessions, the work is briefly introduced and contextualized by an expert and then discussed by the participants of the session. Sometimes authors join the book club meetings in the second half.  Have a look at the EFACIS Book Club page for this year's reading list!

Summer Writing Retreat for PhD students and early-career researchers

The EFACIS PhD Representatives are pleased to announce that they plan to organize a summer writing retreat at the Irish College in Leuven, Belgium, from 11 to 15 August 2025. Follow the link below for more information and to register. Deadline for registration is 31 July 2025.

EFACIS Activities 2024-2025

Summary of the Regional EFACIS Reports 2024-2025 by EFACIS LEUVEN

Click below to find the individual regional EFACIS reports. 

Anne Enright

The European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS), warmly invites you to participate in this new international translation project. Building on the past successes of Yeats Reborn (2015), Translating Banville (2018), and our involvement in the Aistriu project with N.U.I Galway, the fourth instalment of Literature as Translation will focus on one of the most critically acclaimed contemporary Irish writers, Anne Enright.

(c) photo courtesy of Erik Derycke

Kaleidoscope 2

The EFACIS Kaleidoscope Series engages with writers and artists from the island of Ireland about topical interests. While Kaleidoscope 1 collected fiction authors’ observations about the act of writing fiction Kaleidoscope 2 asks Irish authors what Europe means to them. Over 40 authors and artists describe their experience of Europe and how the EU has changed Ireland. Publication in instalments from March to June 2021on http://kaleidoscope2.efacis.eu/