Founded in February 2024, WAÉIRE is an academic platform for Irish Sudies made up of a team of teachers, researchers and students from various universities in Western Andalusia, including the University of Córdoba, the University of Huelva, the University Pablo de Olavide (Seville) and the University of Sevilla.
Mary Costello was born in Galway and is the author of four books.
Her short story collection, The China Factory (2012), was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award and the Irish Book Awards. Her first novel, Academy Street (2014), won the Irish Novel of the Year Award and the Irish Book of the Year in 2014. It was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, the Costa First Novel Prize, the EU Prize for Literature among others, and has been translated into many languages.
On Wednesday 12 June at 5 p.m., you are welcome at the Irish College Leuven for a reading and Q&A with two exciting Irish writers: Lisa McInerney and Eimear Ryan. Lisa McInerney is a novelist and literary editor, best known for a trilogy of novels that started with The Glorious Heresies, which won the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2016. Eimear Ryan is the author of the novel Holding her Breath and the memoir The Grass Ceiling. On Being a Woman in Sport. She is also a founding editor of Banshee press & magazine.
Kerri ní Dochartaigh is a mother, writer and grower. Her work currently explores ideas of emergency, interconnectedness and ecologies of care. Her first book, Thin Places, was published by Canongate in Spring 2021, for which she was awarded the Butler Literary Award 2022, highly commended for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing 2021, and shortlisted for the Ireland Francophonie Ambassador's Literary Award in 2024. It was longlisted for the Prix Nicolas Bouvier.
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