Newsletter October 2019

Dear EFACIS members,

Welcome back to our EFACIS-Newsletter, which provides a "reader's digest" of the news on the EFACIS homepage and facebook page. To access a pdf copy of the newsletter, please click here.
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Michael

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De Fréine, Celia

Celia de Fréine writes in many genres in both Irish and English. Born in Newtownards, County Down, she now divides her time between Dublin and Connemara. Awards for her poetry include the Patrick Kavanagh Award and Gradam Litríochta Chló Iar-Chonnacht. To date she has published eight collections, the most recent of which are cuir amach seo dom : riddle me this (Arlen House, 2014), Blood Debts (Scotus Press, 2014) and A lesson in Can’t (Scotus Press, 2014). Her plays have won numerous Oireachtas awards and are performed regularly.

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Donaldson, Moyra

Moyra Donaldson is a poet from Newtownards, Co Down.

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Tenure-track position in the Irish Language and its Cultures at Concordia Universitynn

Tenure-track position in the Irish Language and its Cultures

The School of Irish Studies at Concordia University invites applications for a tenure-track position in the Irish language and its cultures. The ideal candidate will teach courses in Modern Irish at the undergraduate and possibly graduate levels, as well as serve as a supervisor to Masters and PhD students in related fields. They will also be expected to play an integral administrative role in the ongoing development of the School.

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Lynch, Paul

Born in Limerick, Paul Lynch is the author of three internationally acclaimed novels — Red Sky in Morning, published in 2013, finalist for France’s Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book Prize); The Black Snow (2014), winner of the French booksellers’ prize Prix Libr’à Nous for Best Foreign Novel and the inaugural Prix des Lecteurs Privat; and Grace, winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2018 and a finalist for the Walter Scott Prize and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.

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Boland, Faye

Faye Boland's first collection Peripheral examines the experience of the Irish Diaspora (she herself was an Irish emigrant) as well as the 'otherness' of displacement in Irish society.

Of Peripheral poet Eileen Sheehan says: "Boland's poems chart a restless search for home, for purpose. A judicious collection in an era when people feel increasingly disconnected from their own sense of worth."

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McInerney, Lisa

Lisa McInerney’s work has featured in Winter Papers, The Stinging Fly, Granta, The Guardian, Le Monde, The Irish Times, BBC Radio 4 and various anthologies and she's published in 11 languages. Her story 'Navigation' was longlisted for the 2017 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. Her debut novel The Glorious Heresies won the 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and the 2016 Desmond Elliott Prize. Her second novel, The Blood Miracles, won the 2018 RSL Encore Award.

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Wyley, Enda

Enda Wyley was born in Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin, and she holds an M.A in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. She currently lives in Dublin and is an experienced primary teacher and member of Aosdána, the Irish affiliation of artists.

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Wyeth, Adam

Adam Wyeth lives in Dublin and is an award-winning poet, playwright and essayist with five books published.

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O'Brien, Jean

Jean O’Brien has five published collections and two chapbooks, her latest, Fish on a Bicycle, New & Selected (Salmon 2016) was reprinted in 2018.

O’Brien’s work broaches hard subjects without fear or compromise, she deals with illness, mental illness, women’s issues, nature and everything in between. With her directness of approach her poems are often strongly narrative and are always alert to the comic and everyday even when dealing with hard subjects.

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