past events

5th EFACIS Roundtable Discussion

The Irish Language and Literature in Europe

WHEN: Thursday, 13 January 2022, 6pm (Irish Time) / 7pm (CET)

WHERE: online via zoom

 

Programme

Opening remarks by Katharina Rennhak (EFACIS President, University of Wuppertal)
and Radvan Markus (Charles University, Prague)

 

Chair: Éadaoin Ní Mhuircheartaigh (DCU)

 

Historical Views

Mícheál Mac Craith (NUI Galway): The Irish Language in Rome

Pádraig Ó Liatháin (DCU): Continental Europe in Irish-Language Literature(1600-1800)

 

Irish-Language Literature in Translation

Daniela Theinová (Charles University, Prague): Czech Translations of Irish-Language Poetry

Radvan Markus (Charles University, Prague): Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Cré na Cille and World Literature

Micheál Ó Conghaile (Cló Iar-Chonnacht): Translations of Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Cré na Cille

 

Europe in Modern Irish-Language Literature

Rióna Ní Fhrighil (NUI Galway): Máire Mhac an tSaoi and Europe

Brian Ó Conchubhair (University of Notre Dame): Russian Influence on Irish-Language Literature

Máirín Nic Eoin (RIE): The International Turn in Irish-Language Literature Studies; the Introduction of the Book of Essays Ar an Imeall i Lár an Domhain

Open Discussion

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EFACIS Roundtable Discussions 
presents

Launch of Review of Irish Studies in Europe 4.2

'Wrapping Our Heads Around Copies of This Book':
To Medbh McGuckian at Seventy

16 December 2021, 6 pm GMT/ 7 pm CET

 

 

 

                                                               

Programme

Opening Remarks:
Katharina Rennhak (EFACIS President, University of Wuppertal)
and Seán Crosson (General Editor of RISE, NUI Galway)

Launch of Review of Irish Studies in Europe 4.2
‘Wrapping Our Heads Around Copies of This Book’: To Medbh McGuckian at Seventy

Featuring a poetry reading by and a discussion with Medbh McGuckian

Presentations by:
 Jessica Bundschuh (University of Stuttgart)
Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem (Kingsborough-CUNY)
Eric Falci (University of California, Berkeley)
Fanni Fekete-Nagy ( Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
Jefferson Holdridge (Wake Forest University, North Carolina)
Mary O’Malley-Madec (Villanova University, Ireland)

Reading and Discussion:

Medbh McGuckian

Chair:
Daniela Theinová (issue editor, Charles University, Prague)

Open Discussion

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3rd EFACIS Roundtable Discussion

The Irish English Network (IrEN)

(14 October 2021, 7 pm CET)

 

Programme

Opening Remarks by Katharina Rennhak (EFACIS President, University of Wuppertal)

Gerardine Meaney (UCD),
The Irish English Network: An Introduction

Raymond Hickey (University of Duisburg-Essen),
The Development of the Field

Anne Barron (Leuphana University Lüneburg),
Irish English, the Irish English Network & Irish Studies

Current Research in Irish English
with contributions by
Carolina Amador-Moreno (University of Bergen),
Anne Barron (Leuphana University Lüneburg),
Karen Corrigan (Newcastle University),
Raymond Hickey (University of Duisburg-Essen),
Bettina Migge (UCD),
Elaine Vaughan (University of Limerick)

Open Discussion