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.
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.
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.
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