On 2 December at 5 pm, the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies organises the book launch of The Writer’s Torch. Reading Stories from The Bell, edited by Phyllis Boumans, Elke D’hoker and Declan Meade. Irish authors Sean O’Reilly and Nicole Flattery will read from their work for this collection. The Irish Ambassador to Belgium, Kevin Conmy, will introduce the evening and host the reception.
On Thursday 17 November, the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies welcomes two of Ireland’s most celebrated authors: Anne Enright who won the Booker Prize with The Gathering in 2007 and received the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature in 2018; and Lucy Caldwell, author of These Days and winner of the Rooney Prize and the BBC National Short Story Award.
On Wednesday 19 October at 8 pm CET, Mary O’Donnell and Jaki McCarrick will be interviewed by the poet Siobhán Campbell. Mary O'Donnell and Jaki McCarrick are writers in residence in the Irish College Leuven for the month of October. Their trip is sponsored by the Irish Itinerary and the residency is organized by the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies.
The Center of Irish Studies in Cáceres is a research-based center established at the University of Extremadura whose members are scholars specializing in Irish linguistic, literary, and cultural subjects such as Irish English (socio)linguistics and pragmatics, perceptual dialectology, fiction and the portrayal of Irish English voice and identity, gender studies and gender representation in fiction, Irish English historical linguistics, and emigrant letters, among other areas.
Oisín Kearney is a writer and director for stage and screen.
His one-man play, "My Left Nut", co-wrote with Michael Patrick and produced as part of "Show in a Bag" programme, was nominated for the Best Show Under One Houre at the Dublin Fringe Awards and won a Summerhall Lustrum Award at the Edinburgh Fringe. Kearney and Patrick also adapted the play into a 3x30' television series for BBC Three. Their second play, "The Alternative" won the Fishamble's A Play for Ireland initiative.
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