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New England Acis, Nov. 12-13, Updated Cfp

www.framingham.edu/2010-neacis New England ACIS Regional Conference, November 12-13, 2010, Framingham State College, Framingham, Massachusetts The Country of the Young: Interpretations of Youth and Childhood in Irish Culture “That is no country for old men,” declared W. B. Yeats in “Sailing to Byzantium,” describing his native land’s fascination with youth and legends of rebirth. Some fifteen years later, Taoiseach Eamon de Valera summoned an idyllic version of Irish childhood when he pledged his commitment to an ideal Ireland of happy maidens, sturdy children, and athletic youths. Such images have been challenged by recent controversy over the experiences of children within Church-sponsored schools, as well as by popular memoirs such as Angela’s Ashes and Are You Somebody? – all of which yield fertile ground for exploration and discussion in this year’s New England ACIS regional conference. Papers are welcome on such topics as historical depictions of childhood, contemporary youth culture, schooling in Ireland, children’s literature, definitions of Irish boyhood and girlhood, memoirs of childhood and adolescence, and images of Ireland as an infant or ancient nation. Our list of plenary speakers includes Dr. James Smith, playwright Damian Gorman, and Maurice Fitzpatrick, writer and co-producer of The Boys of St. Columb’s. Further information can be found on the conference website, www.framingham.edu/2010-neacis. Papers in all Irish Studies disciplines are encouraged, as are all papers on Irish subjects that do not specifically address the conference theme. Graduate students are particularly encouraged to participate. Proposals for panels are welcome. Papers should not exceed 20 minutes in length. Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to Kelly Matthews, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Framingham State College, kmatthews@framingham.edu. The deadline for submission is September 10, 2010. We hope to publish a collection of essays on the conference theme, and encourage each presenter interested in publication to submit an expanded version of his or her conference paper for editorial consideration. The collection editors will be Dr. Kelly Matthews and Dr. John Countryman of Berry College, Georgia. Essays to be considered for publication should be 6000-8000 words in length, double-spaced, in 12-point Times New Roman font. Please include a brief author’s biography which lists affiliations and previous publications. Two hard copies and an electronic attachment of the manuscript should be sent to Dr. Kelly Matthews, Department of English, Framingham State College, 100 State Street, Framingham, MA 01701, kmatthews@framingham.edu, by Friday, November 12, 2010. Framingham State College is located 20 miles west of Boston, with convenient access to the Massachusetts Turnpike (I-90). The Sheraton Tara hotel in Framingham will offer a reduced room rate of $109 per night for conference attendees, and will provide complimentary shuttle service between the hotel and the college. An airport shuttle service is available from Logan Airport in Boston, with reduced rates for those sharing transport.

Queering Ireland 2011 - Coming Out In Contemporary Ireland - Cork

Queering Ireland 2011: Coming Out in Contemporary Ireland An International Interdisciplinary Conference July 25/26th, 2011 University College, Cork CALL FOR PAPERS Despite, or perhaps because of, the continuing growth of Queer Studies, it remains unclear whether the term ‘queer’ contributes to or occludes the continuing struggle for LGBT rights in an Irish context. Given the still considerable obstacles to equality in Irish society, can the Queering Ireland project justifiably focus on queerness as a hermeneutic of disturbance without unwittingly shifting the focus back on to an interrogation of normative heterosexuality? Can the two projects, LGBT rights and Queering Ireland, be conceived together? Should they be held apart? At the final roundtable discussion at Queering Ireland (2009), it was agreed that more work needed to be done on the material struggle for equality and recognition among the LGBT communities in Ireland as a counterweight to the aims of the broader project. To that end, papers are invited that discuss all aspects of that struggle, placing especial emphasis on the obstacles, institutional and otherwise, that continue to discriminate against ‘non-normative’ sexualities in Ireland. What is the significance of the passing of the recent Civil Partnerships Bill, for example, or the coming out of Donal Óg Cusack as an openly gay member of the Gaelic Athletic Association? What are the costs, psychological, financial and otherwise, of coming out in contemporary Ireland? Or of deciding not to? How has the Celtic Tiger contributed to the LGBT struggle, if at all? We welcome papers on these issues as well as on Queering Ireland and the Law, Queer performance and the Irish stage, and on Contemporary popular culture and notions of queerness. Proposals of no more than 500 words (or one page) to be sent to Eibhear Walshe (e.walshe@ucc.ie) and Seán Kennedy (sean.kennedy@smu.ca) by October 31st 2010.

Midwest Acis Website

For information regarding the 2010 Midwest ACIS conference in Grand Rapids, MI, please go to the conference website: http://main.gvsu.edu/acismw/

Association Of Art Historians: Writing Irish Art Histories

31 March – 2 April, University of Warwick . Can Irish archaeology, and by extension, Irish art history, be classified as belonging within the nationalistic tradition? The aim of this session is to consider seminal discourses on Irish art and architectural history as texts located within their social and political context. Irish art history has changed and continues to change, encompassing new critical positions, dialogues and understandings. While past discussions have focused on the histories of art objects, buildings and monuments, this session aims to examine the meta-narrative of art history in Ireland, rooting our exploration in the texts produced – survey texts, journal articles, lectures and debates, monographs, editorials. The late 18th century to the mid- 20th century was a formative period in the discovery and understanding of Irish art, architecture and culture. It was a period in which excavations, publications and research enterprises formed a crucial backdrop to the contemporary understanding of what constitutes ‘Irish’ culture. History writing in Ireland has undergone constant revisions and renewals, from Geoffrey Keating to the revisionism debates of the 1980s. How have cultural histories engaged with these debates? Session themes and issues might include: • the role of the text underpinning the concept of the ‘canon’ • the ‘travelling text’ – texts in Ireland / Irish texts abroad • the acceptance or rejection of the concept of the ‘canon’ • cultural histories and nationalism in Ireland, Europe and the world • texts and regionalism • alternative histories We welcome proposals which address the Irish context and/or comparative studies of similar cultural patterns in other locations. Please send your paper proposal to the session convenor(s) Caroline McGee and Niamh NicGhabhann, University of Dublin, Trinity College, mcgeecm@tcd.ie; nicghanr@tcd.ie by Nov. 8, 2010

Midwest Acis Cfp Deadline Extended To 8/23

ACIS-MIDWEST DEADLINE EXTENDED The deadline for submitting paper proposals to the ACIS-Midwest Conference, to be held 21-23 October on Grand Valley State University’s Pew Campus in downtown Grand Rapids, MI, has been extended to 23 August. To propose a paper for presentation at the conference, please submit a 300-word abstract (double-spaced and titled), omitting all reference to the submitter. Critical panels pre-organized by the participants also are welcome; please submit a 300-word abstract for each paper and note the proposed session title, as well, on each abstract. Both individual and panel proposals should be accompanied by a title page that includes the submitter’s name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, academic affiliation (if applicable), and title of the proposed paper. Submissions may be made electronically to: bullockk@gvsu.edu. Guest speakers for the conference are Dr. Terence Brown, professor emeritus at Trinity College, Dublin; Dr. Róisín Kennedy, lecturer at UCD and formerly Yeats Curator at the National Gallery of Ireland; and Lynne Parker, co-founder and artistic director of Rough Magic Theatre Company, Dublin. Brown’s recent works include Ireland: A Social and Cultural History, 1922-2002, The Life of W.B. Yeats, and Celticism, as well as the forthcoming collection of essays, The Literature of Ireland: Culture and Criticism; Kennedy recently published Masquerade and Spectacle: The Circus and the Travelling Fair in the Work of Jack B. Yeats; Parker has received the Special Tribute in 2009 from the Irish Times Theatre Awards, most recently produced The Importance of Being Earnest with Stockard Channing in the role of Lady Bracknell, and is the niece of Irish playwright Stewart Parker. The Holiday Inn in Downtown Grand Rapids, located just one block from the GVSU Pew Campus, will serve as our conference hotel. Room rates, which include free downtown parking, wifi, and access to all hotel facilities, will be $109; please identify yourself as part of the ACIS-Midwest Conference when seeking reservations, which must be made by 20 September. Conference meetings will take place in the L.V. Eberhard Center and the Richard M. DeVos Center, with dozens of public dining options available within blocks of the campus and hotel. Should you require additional, please feel free to contact either conference co-host, Jim Bell (bellja@gvsu.edu) or Kurt Bullock (bullockk@gvsu.edu).

The Teresa Deevy Project

The Mint Theater Company, a professional company in New York City, launches the Teresa Deevy Project with a projection of "Wife to James Whelan," which was rejected by the Abbey Theatre in the 1930's and ended the playwright's previously very successful relation with the national theater. The Mint Theater mission is discovery of "worthy but neglected" plays, and Deevy's play, previously produced only in pocket theater in Dublin, will be the focus of the company's revival of Deevy's work and examination of her place in modern Irish drama. Activities of the Deevy Project will include other productions, publication of plays, recording of radio works, and related presentations by scholars, many of them members of ACIS. "Wife to James Whelan" performances run from July 29 to September 26, 2010, with an opening on August 23. Mint Theater is at 311 West 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036; tel. 212-315-0231.

Deadline Extended For Acis Mid-atlantic Regional Conference

ACIS Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference October 1-2, 2010 Caspersen Graduate School, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, USA RE-VIEWING IRELAND: Irish Culture in Words, Music and Images. Irish culture is known throughout the world. But what is it that makes Irish culture both distinctive and recognizable? At the beginning of the twenty-first century, is there a consensus on what constitutes Irish culture? This conference will explore, re-view and re-evaluate Irish culture in its multiple manifestations. Suggested topics include: sheela-na-gigs and standing stones; the legacy of Joyce, Wilde, Yeats Shaw and Beckett; from the Clancys to Clannad; art and identity; Riverdancing around the world; political messages in banners and murals; churches and censorship; pubs as purveyors of culture; writers in exile; plays and playwrights; Aran sweaters to Kilkenny Design; depictions of the Troubles; images of Irish women; children’s literature; Ireland through colonial eyes. Professors Christine Kinealy and Bill Rogers Conference Chairs Proposals should be c. 350 words and submitted by 15 August 2010, to: jchurch@drew.edu Contact: Johanna church jchurch@drew.edu

Doctoral Scholarships - Moore Institute For Research In The Humanities, National University Of Ireland, Galway

Two doctoral scholarships are available within the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities, National University of Ireland, Galway. Applications are invited from candidates in subjects related to the literary and cultural history of nineteenth and twentieth century Ireland in comparative and/ or theoretical context. Areas of interest might include, but are not limited to, modernism, literary networks, visual cultures, empire, and/ or the postcolonial in relation to the work of Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett. The successful candidates will work under the supervision of Professor Nicholas Allen and will participate in the Texts, Contexts, Cultures graduate research program in association with the Moore Institute, the Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, and the Graduate School, the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, University College Cork. Applicants should have an excellent record of academic achievement. The Moore Institute is an international research hub in the humanities based in the National University of Ireland, Galway. The University holds major archives in twentieth literature including the papers of John McGahern, Thomas Kilroy, the Druid and Lyric Theatres. Recognition of the Moore Institute?s work includes funding from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the EU Framework programme, the Irish Research Council in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions. For more information on our research and upcoming events see www.nuigalway.ie/mooreinstitute Each Scholarship provides 15,000 Euro per year (exclusive of fees) over a maximum period of 4 years. Scholarships will begin in September 2010. The closing date for applications is 5pm, Monday 5th July 2010. For more information please contact Professor Nicholas Allen nicholas.allen@nuigalway.ie For details of how to apply please contact mooreinstitute@nuigalway.ie

Conference: Ireland And Victims -- Recognition, Reparation, Reconciliation?

An international conference to be held at the University of Rennes 2, Brittany, France, 9-11 September 2010. In a broader perspective, Ireland’s past and collective memories are etched with examples of victims, victimhood, and victimisation: the Famine victims, those who have become martyrs or heroes in both nationalist and unionist narratives of the past, victims of the siege of Derry, the Easter Rising, the battle of the Somme, Bloody Sunday, the Hunger strikes and more recently, those groups left out of the economic boom, and victims of the growing fear of otherness which manifests itself in racism and hate crime. This conference will address this theme through a variety of disciplines, including Conflict and Peace Studies, Victims studies, Law and Human Rights, History, Politics, Comparative Analysis, Sociology, Psychology, Cultural Studies, Migration Studies, Literature, Media and Film Studies, Visual Arts, and Performing Arts. Keynote speakers confirmed to date: Professor Marianne Elliott, O.B.E., F.B.A., Director of the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool; Patricia MacBride, Commissioner for Victims and Survivors, CVSNI; Rita Duffy, visual artist.

Master's In Irish Studies, University Of Rennes

The Celtic studies research group at the University of Rennes now offers a new Master’s in Irish Studies, available to full-time and part-time students, and also to distance learners living in France and abroad. The University of Rennes Irish Studies course has a lot to offer: *A comprehensive range of subjects encompassing the literary, cultural, historical, political, artistic and linguistic aspects of Irish studies. *5 full-time teaching staff (1 Professor and 4 senior lecturers) specializing in different fields of Irish studies, backed up by academics in Celtic studies and the Irish language (classes given by native speakers. See full details below) *The majority of courses are in English *Irish language lessons (beginners and intermediate) *Specialized seminars on research methodology *Regular seminars and workshops with visiting academics from Ireland, the UK, Europe and the US *Small tutorials or seminars *Specialized on-site library *On-line learning suitable for students living elsewhere *Full-time and part-time I or 2 year courses, suitable for mature students *Considerably lower tuition fees than the UK or Ireland

Reposting! Acis Mid-atlantic Regional Conference, 2010

Submission Due By: 2010-07-01 ACIS Affiliated: yes ACIS Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, 2010 RE-VIEWING IRELAND. Irish Culture in Words, Music and Images. Conference dates: 1 and 2 October 2010 Location: Drew University, Madison, NJ Irish culture is known throughout the world. But what is it that makes Irish culture both distinctive and recognizable? At the beginning of the twenty-first century, is there a consensus on what constitutes Irish culture? This conference will explore, re-view and re-evaluate Irish culture in its multiple manifestations. Suggested topics include: sheela-na-gigs and standing stones; the legacy of Joyce, Wilde, Yeats Shaw and Beckett; from the Clancys to Clannad; art and identity; Riverdancing around the world; political messages in banners and murals; churches and censorship; pubs as purveyors of culture; writers in exile; plays and playwrights; Arran sweaters to Kilkenny Design; depictions of the Troubles; images of Irish women; children’s literature; Ireland through colonial eyes. Proposals should be c. 350 words and submitted by 1 July 2010 to: jchurch@drew.edu Professors Christine Kinealy and Bill Rogers. Caspersen Graduate School, Drew University, 36 Madison Ave. Madison, NJ 07885

Extension Of Deadline: [may 24] Call For Papers: Acis-west 2010

American Conference for Irish Studies, Western Region Meeting, 2010: “(Re)Defining Irish-ness in the Contemporary/Post-Modern” – Call for Papers Boise State University; Boise, Idaho (USA) 1-3 October 2010 Conference theme: “(Re)Defining Irish-ness in the Contemporary/Post-Modern” The 2010 western regional meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies will be held on 1-3 October 2010 at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho. Keynote Speaker: Professor Christopher Murray, Emeritus Professor of Drama and Theatre History, School of English, Drama and Film, University College Dublin. Professor Murray’s address is titled, “‘The new thing that has happened, or the old thing that has happened again’: Beckett and the Irish sensibility.” The accomplished poet Trevor Joyce will also provide a reading as part of the conference proceedings. Trevor Joyce is currently the Judith E. Wilson Visiting Poetry Fellow at Cambridge University (2009/10). The announced theme is intended to encourage a broad range of paper topics. Papers are welcome on any Irish Studies topic, including traditional concerns of the discipline and evolving areas of interest in the visual, literary, and interdisciplinary areas. Due date for abstracts for proposed papers: 24 May 2010. Notification of acceptance will be sent by 1 June 2010. Please send your abstract (250 words or fewer) to Jodi Chilson at jodichilson@boisestate.edu. If you have questions or would like additional information, please contact me via e-mail or phone (208-426-3604). Please check our website for updates and additional information: http://aciswest2010.wordpress.com/ A Call for Films and a Call for Applicants for the Emerging Scholar Award are also available on the website. Jodi Chilson Boise State University Graduate College, MS-1110 1910 University Drive Boise, Idaho 83725 USA Contact: Jodi Chilson (jodichilson@boisestate.edu)

Senior Lecturship In English, Dublin

St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, Dublin City University invites applications for the Headship of the English Department Salary: €68,466 - €89,453 Closing date: 1200, noon on Friday, 28th May 2010 It is envisioned that shortlisted candidates will be interviewed in the week commencing 14th June. Application forms and full details in relation to the above posts are available from: www.spd.dcu.ie/vacancies

Forthcoming: The Myth Of Manliness In Irish National Culture

The Myth of Manliness in Irish National Culture, 1880-1922 Joseph Valente This study aims to supply the first contextually precise account of the male gender anxieties and ambivalences haunting the culture of Irish nationalism in the period between the Act of Union and the founding of the Irish Free State. To this end, the focus centers upon the Victorian ethos of manliness or manhood, the specific moral and political logic of which proved crucial to both the translation of British rule into British hegemony and the expression of Irish rebellion as Irish psychomachia. The influential operation of this ideological construct is traced through a wide variety of contexts, including the career of Ireland’s dominant Parliamentary leader, Charles Stewart Parnell, the institutions of Irish Revivalism, the writings of both canonical and subcanonical authors, and major political movements of the time, including suffragism, Sinn Fein, Na Fianna Éireann, and the Volunteers. “This is undoubtedly a pioneering study. It discusses constructions of Irish manhood in one of the most decisive periods of Irish nationalist mobilization with a degree of ingenuity, authority and commitment that is simply unmatched in the field.” --Joe Cleary, author of Outrageous Fortune: Capital and Culture in Modern Ireland “Valente…proceeds to significantly reshape our sense of what the major ideological structures of Irish nationalist culture were during this period. He demonstrates so convincingly that his conception of manliness was absolutely crucial to a wide range of cultural discourses that, by the time I finished I was wondering why no one had seen all this before. But no one had.” ---Marjorie Howes, author of Yeats’s Nations “Joseph Valente’s book on manliness and Irish nationalism is one of the most startlingly illuminating books I have ever read on Irish literature, and I have read many; it is not only historically informed, like much of the finest critical work of the last 15 years, it has also uncovered new historical material and intertwined those discoveries with a sophisticated and original theoretical model about how the ideal of manliness operated in both Victorian England and pre-treaty Ireland.” ---Vicki Mahaffey, author of Reauthorizing Joyce

Call For Papers In 2010 On G. B. Shaw

The International Shaw Society is sponsoring two Shaw Symposiums in 2010, one in Canada (July 23-25) at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, and one in Chicago (October 22-23) with the ShawChicago Theater Co. You are invited to both, as a participant or not. At both there will be performances of two Shaw works. For the "Call for Papers" for the Summer Shaw Symposium, see http://www.shawsociety.org/SummerSymposium-2010.htm. Deadline for both abstracts and ISS Travel Grant applications is April 15, 2010. For the "Call for Papers" for the Chicago Shaw Symposium, see http://www.shawsociety.org/FallSymposium-2010.htm. Deadline for both abstracts and ISS Travel Grant applications is July 1, 2010.

Acis 2010 Conference Accommodations Information

Accommodations Information: Discounted Rates are available at the following hotels for the May 5 - 8, 2010 ACIS Conference. Penn Stater Hotel State College, PA: 800-233-7505. . Rate $119.00 plus 8.2% tax per night (mention ACIS and reserve by April 4, 2010) . rooms are still available Toftrees Golf Resort and Conference Center State College, PA. www.toftrees.com . Rate $89.00 + tax per night (mention ACIS and reserve by April 16, 2010) . 30 rooms available for Thursday; 50 rooms for Friday Holiday Inn Express, . Rate $104.00 + tax per night (mention group code ACI for ACIS and reserve by April 14, 2010) . 90 rooms available . Complimentary Breakfast Hampton Inn and Suites . Rate $104.00 + tax per night (mention group code ACI for ACIS and reserve by April 14, 2010) . 20 rooms available . Complimentary Breakfast Marriott Springhill Suites . Rate $114.00 + tax per night (mention group code ACIS and reserve by April 14, 2010) . 50 rooms available . Complimentary Breakfast Additional information about the last three of these hotels may be found at Williamsburg Square Complex: www.photowebusa.com/shanerhotels/williamsburg The University Park Airport (SCE) serves the State College, PA area and is 2.2 miles from Toftrees Conference Center and about 5 miles from the campus. All hotels listed provide courtesy shuttle services from the airport to the hotel.

Acis Conference Registration Form For May 5 - 8, 2010 Conference

The Conference Registration Form may be accessed by using the click "here" link on the ACIS homepage. The detailed url that you may copy into a web browser follows: http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Summary.aspx?e=eda55b0a-2cb8-49bb-99f4-dda09e9d5ab7. Through April 22nd, the Conference Registration fee will be $150.00. After that date, the Registration Fee will be $175.00. The Graduate Student Registration fee is $85.00. The form includes a secure link for processing credit card payments. Additional Information on Conference housing at five area hotels will be posted to the ACIS website in a separate notice. To reduce the overall fees for the May 2010 ACIS Conference, all day sessions for the ACIS Conference have been shifted to the Toftrees Golf Resort and Conference Center (2.5 miles from the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel). Two evening events will be held at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel. Shuttle service will be provided between the two conference centers. All hotels that will be listed on the Accommodations Announcement provide free shuttles from the airport to the housing accommodations.

New Poetry Anthology

The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press has released "An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry" to coincide with St. Patrick's Day, 2010. Edited by Wes Davis, the anthology contains work by 53 Irish poets, from Padraic Colum to Sinead Morrissey. It includes work of both English- and Irish-language poets, although poems from the Irish have had English put on them by a variety of translators.

Visiting Professor Of Irish Studies, Vienna

The Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria, in co-operation with the Embassy of Ireland in Austria (The Irish Ministry of Foreign Affairs) invites applications for the position of ***VISITING PROFESSOR IN IRISH STUDIES**** (Cultural and Media Studies) tenable from 1 October 2010 until 31 January 2011 (full-time employment, four-month limited contract). The advertised position is associated with the Department of English. The successful candidate is expected to teach courses on Irish Cultural Studies with particular emphasis on the media and on contemporary culture; other possible fields of expertise are globalisation and diaspora studies. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated a broad interdisciplinary conceptualisation of Irish Studies and is expected to make a significant contribution to the promotion of Irish Studies in Vienna. Applicants will have the following qualifications: (a) a PhD and post-doctoral experience at a university or other research institution; (b) a distinguished research and publication record, with an outstanding reputation as an active member in the international academic community; (c) experience in university teaching and willingness and ability to teach at all curricular levels. The teaching load is 8 hours per week. The successful candidate is also expected to give a public lecture on an Irish Studies topic during his/her term of residence. Applications should include a CV, a list of publications, a list of conference papers (including detailed information about invited plenaries at international conferences), a survey of previous academic teaching as well as a statement of teaching philosophy/ interests. All applications (in English) should be submitted by email to the University of Vienna’s Jobcenter (jobcenter@univie.ac.at), quoting reference number 1030. Deadline: 24 March 2010 Reference #: 1030 The University of Vienna is an equal opportunities employer.

11th Annual Chicago Irish Film Festival

Welcome to the 11th Chicago Irish Film Festival, a cinematic celebration of new Irish films, insightful documentaries and the highly anticipated shorts. We were truly delighted at the number of entries we received this year, the most ever, and every effort was made to select a representative collection of films. Beginning its second decade, the CIFF can only applaud and delight in the substantive and expanding film production taking place in Ireland. With the emergence of so many talented and creative filmmakers it comes as no surprise that Irish directors are being honored at this year’s Academy Awards, both films having screened at the 2009 CIFF. Congratulations to Juanita Wilson and James Flynn for “The Door” and Nicky Phelan and Darragh O’Connell for “Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty.” Congratulations, also, to Ken Wardrop and Andrew Freedman (Undressing My Mother) for winning the World Cinema Cinematography Award – Documentary for their first feature film “His & Her” at Sundance 2010. This year’s festival has an event and a film sure to please every type of film enthusiast, US premiers, imaginative animation and all the Irish humor we have come to cherish over the years. We look forward to welcoming back previous festival patrons and to meeting first time attendees and hope all have a most enjoyable time. Home | Program at a Glance | Tickets | Sponsors | About CIFF | Links |Contact Us | Beverly Arts Center Copyright 2009. All Rights Reserved. Chicago Irish Film Festival February 24, 2010 Site Design by KZH Design

New Titles From Irish Academic Press

Members may find these new titles from IAP of interest: Between Shadows: Modern Irish Writing and Culture by John Wilson Foster published by Irish Academic Press http://www.isbs.com/partnumber.asp?cid=&pnid=294496 Music in Irish Cultural History by Gerry Smyth published by Irish Academic Press http://www.isbs.com/partnumber.asp?cid=&pnid=294495 Introduction to Early Irish Literature By Muireann Ní Bhrolcháin published by Four Courts Press http://www.isbs.com/partnumber.asp?cid=&pnid=298356

Call For Papers: Acis-west 2010 Emerging Scholar Award

American Conference for Irish Studies, Western Region Meeting, 2010: “(Re)Defining Irish-ness in the Contemporary/Post-Modern” – Call for Papers for ACIS-West 2010 Emerging Scholar Award Boise State University; Boise, Idaho (USA) 1-3 October 2010 The 2010 western regional meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies will be held on 1-3 October 2010 at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho. The conference organizers are currently seeking submissions for the ACIS-West 2010 Emerging Scholar Award. Submissions should include some aspect of the “(Re)Defining Irish-ness in the Contemporary/Post-Modern,” but the inclusiveness of this theme is open to interpretation. Submissions are open to all Graduate Students, Doctorial Students, and Post-Doctoral Candidates (within 3 years after the award date for a doctoral degree). Award includes registration fee payment for a subsequent ACIS-West conference and publication in Siar: The Journal of the Western Institute of Irish Studies. Due date for abstracts for proposed papers: 15 May 2010. Notification of acceptance will be sent by 1 June 2010. Please send your abstract (250 words or fewer) to Jodi Chilson at jodichilson@boisestate.edu. If you are submitting your abstract and wish to be considered for the ACIS-West 2010 Emerging Scholar Award, please indicate your interest in a cover letter submitted with your abstract. If you have questions or would like additional information, please contact me via e-mail or phone (208-426-3604). Jodi Chilson, Boise State University, Graduate College, MS-1110, 1910 University Drive, Boise, Idaho, 83725, USA. Please check our website for updates and additional information: http://aciswest2010.wordpress.com/ Contact: Jodi Chilson (jodichilson@boisestate.edu)

Acis Mid-atlantic Regional Conference, 2010: Re-viewing Ireland

RE-VIEWING IRELAND. Irish Culture in Words, Music and Images. 1 and 2 October 2010 Caspersen Graduate School, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, USA Irish culture is known throughout the world. But what is it that makes Irish culture both distinctive and recognizable? At the beginning of the twenty-first century, is there a consensus on what constitutes Irish culture? This conference will explore, re-view and re-evaluate Irish culture in its multiple manifestations. Suggested topics include: sheela-na-gigs and standing stones; the legacy of Joyce, Wilde, Yeats Shaw and Beckett; from the Clancys to Clannad; art and identity; Riverdancing around the world; political messages in banners and murals; churches and censorship; pubs as purveyors of culture; writers in exile; plays and playwrights; Arran sweaters to Kilkenny Design; depictions of the Troubles; images of Irish women; children’s literature; Ireland through colonial eyes. Professors Christine Kinealy and Bill Rogers Conference Chairs Proposals should be c. 350 words and submitted by 1 July 2010, to: jchurch@drew.edu

Dictionary Of Irish Biography - The Blog

I'm blogging the monumental Dictionary of Irish Biography and hope to cover the whole thing by the end of 2010. http://irishbiography.blogspot.com

Southern Regional Conference 2010 Program

Please follow either one of these links to access the program for the Southern Regional meeting, which will convene March 4-7, 2010: http://www2.winthrop.edu/english/ or http://www2.winthrop.edu/history/

Symposium:ireland, Modernism & The Fin De Siècle

Symposium:Ireland, Modernism & the fin de siècle University of Limerick & Mary Immaculate College Limerick 16th & 17th April 2010 Plenary Speakers:Prof. Lyn Pykett, University of AberystwythProf. Adrian Frazier, NUI GalwayProf. Joseph Bristow, UCLA In the past fifteen years a lively and growing dynamic has emerged in Irish scholarship which has broadened critical discourse beyond previous somewhat static literary-historical categories, deploying postcolonial, feminist and queer approaches to Irish literature and culture. This troubling of the canon enables us to find new ways of reading canonical work, and to address forms and writers hitherto neglected. This symposium on Ireland, Modernism and the fin de siècle aims to explore one such area, by interrogating the connections and potential incompatibilities between formal and textual experimentation in the work of Irish writers at the fin de siècle, and the subsequent emergence and transnational reach of literary modernism. Programme and further information about the symposium may be found at: www.ul.ie/findesiecle Organisers: Dr. Kathryn Laing, Mary Immaculate College Limerick & Dr. Tina O’Toole, University of Limerick

John H. Daniels Fellowship At The National Sporting Library In Middleburg, Virginia

John H. Daniels Fellowship at the National Sporting Library in Middleburg, Virginia The National Sporting Library, a research institution specializing in horse and field sports, invites applications for research fellowships from university faculty in the humanities and social sciences, museum and library professionals, journalists, and independent scholars. Research disciplines include history, art history, literature, American studies, and area studies. Past projects include the foxhunting novels of Irish authors, Edith Somerville and Martin Ross, the development of foxhounds in 18th-century Britain, women in horse sports, and Early Modern horsemanship manuals. Located 42 miles west of Washington, D.C., the Library holds an extensive collection of over 17,000 books, periodicals, manuscripts, and sporting art. The collection is especially strong in books on foxhunting in Ireland. The collection covers many aspects of equestrian and outdoor sports, including foxhunting, horse racing, dressage, polo, eventing, coaching, shooting, fly fishing and angling. The F. Ambrose Rare Book Room contains over 4,000 rare volumes from the sixteenth through twentieth centuries in several languages. The Library has a permanent art collection of European and American sporting art, and will open the National Sporting Art Museum next door in 2011. The fellowship covers approved projects of 12 months or less, and applicants must demonstrate their need to use specific works in the collections. A monthly stipend, workspace, and complimentary housing (for those outside of the immediate area) are provided. Applications must be postmarked by February 1, 2010. For more information, visit our website at http://www.nsl.org/fellowship.html or contact the Director of Communications and Research at 540-687-6542 x 11 or fellowship@nsl.org.

Irish Studies Search

Director of Irish Studies Program http://www.villanova.edu/artsci/irishstudies/ Villanova University seeks a Director for its Irish Studies Program at the level of advanced assistant professor or higher, beginning in Fall 2010. Academic field is open, but because of the program’s strong ties to Irish literature, candidates should have an excellent knowledge of the Irish literary world. The director will hold an appointment in the appropriate academic department. Candidates should have the appropriate terminal degree or a record of distinguished professional activity, as well as administrative experience and a history of excellent publication and teaching. Along with administration and scholarship, responsibilities include a teaching schedule that depends on qualifications. To apply for the position, and to see a full job description, please go to https://jobs.villanova.edu/. Some elements of the application, including its initial steps, must be done electronically. The deadline for applications is Oct. 12, 2009. In case of questions, please contact Prof. Evan Radcliffe, Chair of Irish Studies Search Committee, English Dept., Villanova University, 800 Lancaster Ave., Villanova, PA 19085-1699, or evan.radcliffe@villanova.edu. Villanova University is a Catholic university sponsored by the Augustinian order. An AA/EEO employer, Villanova seeks a diverse faculty committed to scholarship, service, and especially teaching, who understand, respect, and can contribute to the University’s mission and values.

Cais 2010 In Halifax, Nova Scotia

Ireland and its Discontents Success and Failure in Modern Ireland Canadian Association for Irish Studies/ l’Association canadienne d’études irlandaises Annual Conference, 2010 Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 19-22 May 2010 “Anyone who is failing at one thing,” psychoanalyst Adam Phillips has suggested, “is always succeeding at another.” We invite proposals for papers interrogating the relationship between success and failure in modern and contemporary Ireland, as reflected in its politics, its economic policies, its literature, and its popular culture. The Celtic Tiger is one obvious recent example of a ‘success’ narrative that was intimately linked to a series of failures on the part of Irish society to safeguard its more vulnerable communities. With the recent publication of the “Ryan Report,” to cite another example, it is clear that the success of the Catholic Church in exerting its power over Ireland’s educational and reformatory institutions came at the price of a failure to guarantee the safety and welfare of Ireland’s youth. By the same token, it might be argued that Fianna Fáil’s longtime political success depended on the failure to engage with the ‘National Question,’ i.e., Partition and Northern Ireland. Success and failure, as manifested in language revival policies, in gender-related issues, in the lives of prominent public figures, and the reality and perceptions of the Irish diaspora, including the Irish in Canada, are also topics worthy of consideration. We welcome papers that address other topics and proposals for special panels. Please send proposals including contact information (250 words) by e-mail to: Pádraig Ó Siadhail, D’Arcy McGee Chair of Irish Studies, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3H 3C3 (padraig.osiadhail@smu.ca) by 15 January 2010.

Website For New England Acis Regional Meeting

New additions to the annual meeting of the New England chapter of ACIS! Please consult the updated website: www.maritime.edu/pdf/irishconf.pdf

2010 Acis Conference,

The 2010 national meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies will be held on 5 – 8 May 2010 at the Toftrees Golf Resort Conference Center (with some evening events at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel) in State College, PA. There will be an opening reception on Wednesday evening, May 5th, and concurrent panels will begin on Thursday morning, May 6th. The announced theme is intended to encourage a broad range of paper topics. Papers are welcome on any Irish Studies topic, including traditional concerns of the discipline and evolving areas of interest in the visual, literary, and interdisciplinary areas. We welcome proposals for individual papers, which, if accepted, will be placed within a relevant panel. Proposals for panels are especially welcome, and panels have been proposed on Reassessing Diasporic Studies within Irish Studies and Reassessing Irish Historiography. Additional papers are welcome on such topics as evolving literary and visual arts movements, the culture and literature of Northern Ireland, and other related topics. Plenary speakers confirmed to date are Dean John Harrington (Fordham University) and Dr. James Smith (Boston College). Moya Cannon will be reading from her poetry as a Plenary speaker. U.S carriers offer frequent flights to State College, PA. Further details will be posted as they become available. A conference website is also under development. Due Date for Conference Paper Proposals: Tuesday, 24 November 2009. Please send your 250 word (or less) abstract to Dr. Tramble T. Turner at ttt3@psu.edu. If you have questions or would like additional information, please contact me at 215 868.5848 (mobile), 215 881.7532 (office), or via e-mail at ttt3@psu.edu. Dr. Tramble T. Turner Associate Professor of English Penn State Abington 1600 Woodland Rd. Abington, PA 19001

Acis-west Regional Conference Reminder

A strong program and a lovely venue await your engagement and enjoyment. October 16-18, 2009, Los Gatos, CA Our special low group rate at the Los Gatos Lodge (a short walk to the conference) remains in effect only through August 16, which is quickly approaching. Book directly now. For full conference details see: http://www.tacomacc.edu/academics/facultyinformation/kendallreid/ I look forward to seeing you in Los Gatos. Jim Walsh (co-host)

Academic Symposium On Scots Irish In America 11-12 Sept

Frontiers and Fringes: The Scots Irish in America - Study of the Scots-Irish or Ulster-Scots in America is maturing. Increasingly, scholars and others are adding detail and nuance to the grand narrative of a Great Migration from Ulster into Appalachia. Local and near-forgotten stories are being pieced together and analyzed to create a more complex and complete understanding of one of America’s most important settler groups. We invite you to experience and participate in this exciting movement by attending one or both days of an international symposium, Frontiers and Fringes: The Ulster-Scots Experience in America. Highly affordable ($30 registration fee for both days, $20 for one day), the event takes place on September 11 and 12, 2009, at the Coastal Georgia Center: a conference venue (with plenty of free parking) just steps from the heart of historic Savannah. Co-hosted by the Institute for Ulster-Scots Studies at the University of Ulster and the Center for Irish Studies at Georgia Southern University, our open-to-all symposium features-among other things-presentations on archaeological digs at early Scots-Irish settlements in Maine and Georgia and on unique features of Scots-Irish literature. The symposium also includes a Friday-evening musical concert. Why not plan a Scots-Irish weekend in beautiful Savannah? Check out the full program, plus lodging and other relevant information, on our website: http://tinyurl.com/nqkfls. Contact: Howard Keeley, HKeeley@georgiasouthern.edu; or Marti Lee, MDLee@georgiasouthern.edu.

New Publication - The Making Of British Unionism, 1740-1848

Four Courts Press are delighted to announce the publication of The Making of British Unionism, 1740-1848 Politics, Government and the Anglo-Irish constitutional relationship by Douglas Kanter Between 1740 and 1848, an overwhelming majority of the British ruling class determined that a legislative union with Ireland was preferable to the devolved constitutional framework of the eighteenth century, succeeded in securing the enactment of such a union, and resolved upon an uncompromising defense of the new constitutional arrangement when it became the focus of Catholic nationalist discontent. This book explains how the British ruling class came to support a union with Ireland, and why the British elite insisted upon upholding the union after it became evident that the measure had failed to solve the basic problems of Irish governance. It also explicates the various strategies adopted by successive British governments for maintaining the union in response to the strident, if sporadic, opposition to the constitutional settlement offered by Irish nationalists from 1830 to 1848. This book provides an important reassessment of the British-Irish relationship in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. 320pp; Hardback. ISBN: 978-1-84682-160-8 Retail: $65.00

New Deadline For Abstracts--acis Mid-atlantic

The ACIS Mid-Atlantic regional meeting, to be held Sept. 18th and 19th at Monmouth University, will be accepting abstracts for papers until July 15th. Please refer to the CFP section of the ACIS website for further information.

Visiting Professor In Irish Studies, Vienna

The Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna in co-operation with the Embassy of Ireland in Austria/The Irish Ministry of Foreign Affairs/ invites applications for the position of ***VISITING PROFESSOR IN IRISH STUDIES*** tenable from 1 October 2009 until 31 January 2010 (full-time employment, four-month limited contract, salary range: € 3.375-€4.000 per month). The advertised position is associated with the Department of English. The successful candidate is expected to teach courses mainly in Irish Literature and Irish Cultural Studies; other possible fields of expertise are Irish language and linguistics, media studies, area studies, social and institutional history. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated a broad interdisciplinary conceptualisation of Irish Studies and is expected to make a significant contribution to the promotion of Irish Studies in Vienna. Applicants will have the following qualifications: (a) a PhD and post-doctoral experience at a university or other research institution; (b) a distinguished research and publication record, with an outstanding reputation as an active member in the international academic community; (c) experience in university teaching and willingness and ability to teach at all curricular levels. The teaching load is 8 hours per week. Applications should include a CV, a list of publications, a list of conference papers (including detailed information about invited plenaries at international conferences), a survey of previous academic teaching as well as a statement of teaching philosophy/interests. All applications (in English and preferably as PDF attachments) should reach the Dean of the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna, Univ.Prof. Dr. Franz Römer, Dr. Karl Lueger Ring 1, A-1010 Vienna, Austria, , no later than June 24, 2009, indicating the reference number 8/36-2009. The University of Vienna is an equal opportunities employer.

Fall Conference Acis-west

Registration and Program information for ACIS West 2009 is now available via the link below.

http://www.acisweb.com/static_content/w/ACISWest2009.pdf

Jennifer Johnston At Tcd

Jennifer Johnston at TCD The third annual Trinity Symposium on Contemporary Irish Fiction will be held in TCD in two weeks – on Saturday, 25th April. The subject of this year’s symposium is Jennifer Johnston. This year, a distinguished cast of scholars and fellow writers will be contributing to the event. The event will begin Saturday mid-morning with critical reflections by Gerardine Meaney (UCD) and Heather Ingman (TCD). Lunchtime Saturday, a roundtable discussion of Jennifer Johnston’s work and influence will be chaired by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, and will feature contributions by Hugo Hamilton, Deirdre Madden and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne. Mid-afternoon on Saturday, Jennifer Johnston will be interviewed by Dermot Bolger and will then provide a reading from her forthcoming novel. The event is being held around the corner from TCD, in the old Gas Building on D’Olier Street (the School of Nursing and Midwifery, TCD). As with previous years the event is free and open to all to attend. It is a non-ticketed event, and admission will be granted on a first-come basis. I’d be grateful if you could pass on details to anyone you think might be interested. Final details of the event, including a timetable, will be posted on the Events page of the School of English website over the next few days. If anyone has any questions or queries in the meantime, please feel free to email me (delanep@tcd.ie) Dr Paul Delaney School of English Trinity College Dublin 2 email: delanep@tcd.ie phone: (01) 8963841

The European Avant-garde 1890-1930: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference To Be Held At University College Dublin On September 25th And 26th

CALL FOR PAPERS The European Avant-Garde 1890-1930 An interdisciplinary postgraduate conference to be held at University College Dublin on September 25th and 26th. Supported by the UCD Graduate School in Arts and Celtic Studies. In his seminal 1974 book, Theory of the Avant-Garde, Peter Bürger wrote that the aim of the avant-gardists was to "reintegrate art into the praxis of life". With this statement in mind, we are pleased to announce the call for papers for an interdisciplinary conference examining the European Avant-Garde, during the period 1890-1930. Papers addressing the avant-garde in literature, the visual arts, architecture, theatre and film are all welcome. Speakers may wish to consider, among other issues, -the movements of Futurism, Cubism, Dadaism and Expressionism -specific writers, artists or playwrights within the time period and their relation to avant-garde aesthetics -the interaction of avant-garde movements with politics - the interplay between different avant-garde movements - the avant-garde as an attack on the concept of art as an institution - technology and the avant-garde - the legacy of the avant-garde -the avant-garde at the turn of the century - translating the avant-garde Proposals may come from the disciplines of modern languages (French, Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese), English, art history, film, drama and theatre studies and comparative studies. We invite proposals for twenty-minute papers from postgraduate students. Papers should be in English. Abstracts (maximum 300 words), together with a short biography indicating your academic background and research interests should be emailed to the organizers at the addresses below by June 15th, 2009. Please include your name, academic affiliation, and contact details. Organizers: Selena Daly (selena.daly@ucd.ie) Monica Insinga (monica.insinga@ucdconnect.ie)

The John Mcgahern International Summer School

The John McGahern International Creative Writing Summer School combines the annual John McGahern International Seminar (July 23-25) with a subsequent week (July 26–August 1) of intensive workshops and talks on McGahern’s work and related areas in creative writing. The Summer School will be located within County Leitrim, in the heart of John McGahern country. The teaching faculty will include Professor Denis Sampson; Belinda McKeon, Columbia University; Dr. James Whyte and Dr. Frank Shovlin, Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool. This Summer School is designed for senior and graduate students who have an interest in the study of literature, creative writing, and modern Irish culture and society in relation to the work of John McGahern. Credits: 3 Semester Credits/6 ECTS Credits Further information: Ms. Fiona Dwyer, Summer School Office, NUI Galway. Tel: +353 91 495442 Email: fiona.dwyer@nuigalway.ie www.nuigalway.ie/iss Scholarships available.

International Summer School At National University Of Ireland Galway

Each year, NUI Galway offers a range of Summer Courses with academic credit for international participants in a number of academic areas: •IRISH STUDIES (6 Credits) Representing Ireland - Literature & Film; The Archaeological Heritage of Ireland; Irish History; Gaelic Culture & Literature; Irish Society; Negotiating Identity: Irish Traditional Music & Dance; Introduction to Art in Ireland. •GAELIC LANGUAGE (6 Credits) Beginners; Elementary; Intermediate; Advanced. •CREATIVE WRITING (6 Credits) Reading Ireland; Poetry and Fiction. •THE JOHN MCGAHERN INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL (3 Credits) •COMPARATIVE EDUCATION (6 Graduate Credits) The Education System of Ireland. Further information from : Summer School Office National University of Ireland, Galway Ireland Telephone: 353 91 495442 Fax: 353 91 525051 Email: fiona.dwyer@nuigalway.ie Web Site: www.nuigalway.ie/iss

New Irish Studies Publication: Anáil An Bhéil Bheo: Orality And Modern Irish Culture

Anáil an Bhéil Bheo: Orality and Modern Irish Culture
Editors: John Eastlake, Seán Crosson and Nessa Cronin
Publishers: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009
More information: http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Anail-an-Bheil-Bheo--Orality-and-Modern-Irish-Culture1-4438-0152-6.htm

Ana�il an Bhe�il Bheo brings together a stimulating range of interdisciplinary essays considering the connections between orality and modern Irish culture. From literature to song, folklore to the visual arts, contributors examine not only the connections between oral and textual traditions in Ireland, but also the theoretical concept of “orality� itself and the corresponding significance of oral texts in Irish society. Featuring work by emerging scholars in the fields of history, literature, folklore, music, women’s studies, film and theatre studies and disciplines contributing to Irish Studies, this multifaceted volume also includes contributions from scholars long engaged with issues of orality such as Gearo�id O� Crualaoich and Henry Glassie.

"This ambitious collection greatly widens the customary scope for exploring the intricate connections between literary culture and oral culture in modern Ireland. The editors and contributors-a fruitful mix of senior and younger scholars-collectively make a powerful case for challenging the common dichotomous alignments that would link orality with the Irish language, traditional culture, and rurality, and that would connect print literacy with the English language, modernity, and urbanity."
—Professor James S. Donnelly, Jr., University of Wisconsin-Madison
About the editors:
Nessa Cronin is Lecturer in Irish Studies at the Centre for Irish Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Sea�n Crosson is a Lecturer with the Huston School of Film & Digital Media at National University of Ireland, Galway.
John Eastlake completed his PhD in Irish Studies at the Centre for Irish Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway in 2008, and is currently teaching Irish Studies in Galway.

Conference On Public Disorder

On 4 and 5 September 2009 Mary Immaculate College will host a conference on the history of riots and public disorder in Ireland. This conference will offer a platform to interested academics from all disciplines to explore the history of public collective violence and disorder in Ireland. Papers on acts of public disorder by Irish communities abroad are also welcome. Possible themes include: Electoral violence, faction fights, food riots, gang violence, and police responses to public disorder This list is not exhaustive, and all papers relevant to the general theme of the conference will be considered. Abstracts of 400 words should be sent to Dr. Maura Cronin or Dr. William Sheehan at the following email addresses: Maura.Cronin@mic.ul.ie William.Sheehan@mic.ul.ie The final date for submission of abstracts is 26 June. A selection of papers from this conference will be published by Mercier Press.

Deadline Extension For Proposals For Catholicism And Public Cultures In Ireland, America, France Conference

The proposal deadline for the Catholicism and Public Cultures in Ireland, America, France Conference (June 17-19, 2009) has been extended to March 30th. Paper or panel proposals should be sent as an email attachment to catholicism.publiccultures@iadt.ie The conference web site can be accessed at http://www.iadt.ie/publiccultures/

Ma And Phd Scholarships In Drama Studies

MA and PhD Scholarships in Drama Studies Brian Friel Centre for Theatre Research Queen’s University Belfast Closing Date: 27th March and 29th May Drama Studies at Queen’s is proud to announce that it will offer 2 AHRC awards for Doctoral and Masters study, and 2 bursaries for MA and PhD study commencing in Autumn 2009 at the newly opened Brian Friel Centre for Theatre Research. These awards are the result of Drama's success in the AHRC Block Grant Partnership, and will be supplemented by a further 2 AHRC Awards over the following four years. PhD Awards Drama will offer 1 AHRC Doctoral Award as well as the new Brian Friel Doctoral Scholarship each worth more than £15,000 per year. These include tuition fee waivers (at UK/EU rates) and maintenance grants at AHRC levels. (The Friel doctoral scholarship may be held in part payment by a non-EU student). MA Bursaries Drama Studies will offer 1 AHRC Award as well as the new Michael and Ruth West M.A. Scholarship (fees plus an additional annual maintenance grant of £6350). These bursaries waive tuition fees (at UK/EU rates), and we will have further awards available from 2010. For more information on PhD study, please contact Dr. Mark Phelan at m.phelan@qub.ac.uk For more information on MA study, please contact the convenors of each MA programme: for MA in Irish Theatre and Culture, Dr Mark Phelan m.phelan@qub.ac.uk; for the MA in Drama and Performance Dr. Alyson Campbell a.e.campbell@qub.ac.uk Deadlines for all applications for funding are: 27 March 2009 for AHRC awards; 29 May for the Brian Friel Doctoral Scholarship & the Michael and Ruth West MA Scholarship. For more information on the Drama Studies at Queen’s University, see: http://www.qub.ac.uk/drama For further postgraduate information on funding applications see: http://www.qub.ac.uk/lla For more information on the new Brian Friel Centre for Theatre Research see: http://www.qub.ac.uk/home/TheUniversity/GeneralServices/News/Qtv/NewBrianFrielCentreforTheatreResearch/#d.en.138772 About Drama at Queen’s University In February 2009, the Brian Friel Theatre and the Brian Friel Centre for Theatre Research was opened by Brian Friel, Ireland’s greatest living playwright. The Friel Centre consolidates the reputation of Drama Studies at Queen’s which was acknowledged in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise for producing world-leading and internationally excellent research in Irish theatre, as well as excellence in practice-as-research. The Brian Friel Centre for Theatre Research aims to produce cutting-edge research into contemporary theatre practice and its historical contexts, and to develop international teaching, research and creative arts partnerships. Whilst Drama Studies has a strong research focus on Irish theatre and performance, staff research interests also engage with modern European, American and Australian drama; theatre and conflict; theatre history and historiography; gender and performance; postdramatic theatre; dramaturgy; theatre and geography; queer theory/theatre; theatre and cultural memory; theatre in education. Our vibrant graduate community contributes strongly to Drama's thriving research culture and in the last six months alone we have hosted three major international conferences, colloquia and festivals examining the work of Brian Friel, Stewart Parker and Samuel Beckett. Drama Studies also collaborates with leading arts organizations and theatre companies, such as the Belfast Festival, The Linen Hall Library, The Lyric Theatre, Prime Cut Productions, Tinderbox Theatre Company, Kabosh, and Ransom Productions which have helped us develop a vital professional practice dimension as part of our overall provision. In recent years, distinguished speakers and visiting scholars visitors have included: Simon Callow, Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, Dennis Kennedy, Michael Longley, Thomas Kilroy, Owen McCafferty, Bruce McConnachie, Lynne Parker, Stephen Rea, Christina Reid, Janelle Reinelt, Frances Tomelty, Phillip Zarilli.

Paul Cullen And His World

An international, bi-located conference on Cardinal Paul Cullen (1803-78) will be held between St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, and the Irish College Rome in September/October 2009. Programme details and registration may be found at www.cardinalcullen.com The conference is part of the dissemination process of an IRCHSS funded project to edit and publish the correspondence of Cardinal Cullen. The collaborators are Colin Barr (Ave Maria), Daire Keogh (SPD), and Anne O'Connor (NUIG).

10th Annual (and Maybe Last) Chicago Irish Film Festival

The Chicago Irish Film Festival runs from March 6th until March 11th at the Beverly Art Center. Go to the website for details and film schedule: http://www.chicagoirishfilmfestival.com

Shaw Events In 2009-10

CALL FOR PAPERS: International Shaw Society Meetings & Deadlines for 2009: Special Shaw Session at the Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, December 27-30, 2009. Deadline March 15, 2009. For details, go to www.shawsociety.org/Shaw-at-MLA-2009.htm. Shaw Symposium at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, July 24-26, 2009. Deadline April 15, 2009. For details, go to www.shawsociety.org/Shaw-Symposium-2009.htm. Shaw Conference in Washington, D.C., October 15-18, 2009 Deadline May 1, 2009. See www.shawsociety.org/DC-Shaw-Conference.htm Shaw Sessions at the Comparative Drama Conference in Los Angeles in March, 2010. Deadline November 15, 2009. See link at www.shawsociety.org or, after August, go to www.shawsociety.org/cdc2010.htm. Please direct questions to: Richard F. Dietrich President, International Shaw Society Email dietrich@shawsociety.org or call 813-503-0584 www.shawsociety.org Membership Application for the ISS: www.shawsociety.org/2009-Membership-Form-&-Benefits.htm ISS Grants & Scholarships for Young Scholars http://www.shawsociety.org/ISS-grants.htm

Membership In The International Shaw Society

The International Shaw Society, founded in 2004, has members in 13 countries, and seeks to encourage the study of the work of George Bernard Shaw and the production of his plays. Its membership consists of academics, theater artists, and Shaw enthusiasts, kindred spirits all, who enjoy each other's company at the many conferences, symposiums, and other meetings sponsored by the ISS. The acronym for the International Shaw Society, “ISS,” is especially appropriate to emphasize Shaw’s continuing presence in the contemporary world, if only as a talkative spirit with very relevant things to say, and the suggestion of a hiss on “ISS” evokes Shaw’s portrayal of the serpent in the Garden of Eden (in Back to Methuselah) as a friend to man in encouraging the species to grow and learn, rather than to continue stuck in the old, stagnant, often self-destructive ways. The Shavian voice, urging Homo sapiens to grow up, has never been more needed. Growing up, in fact, is probably what Shaw had in mind when he urged evolving to Homo super. Desperate metaphors for desperate times! Which will always be with us until we do grow up, Shaw seemed to believe. To join, go to www.shawsociety.org and click on the link to "Membership Application and Benefits."

2009 Lawrence J. Mccaffrey Lecture Of Irish American Studies

The 2nd Annual Lawrence J. McCaffrey Lecture of Irish American Studies will take place on Thursday, April 23 2009 at 7pm at St. Ambrose University's Rogalski Center in Davenport, Iowa. It is fitting that St. Ambrose hosts this lecture series honoring Larry McCaffrey, because he is a 1949 alumnus of the university. Last year's inaugural lecture, delivered by Peter Quinn, was one of the highlights of the ACIS National Conference hosted by St. Ambrose. This year's lecture will be given by Dr. Maureen Murphy of Hofstra University, and it is titled "The Irish Servant Girl in America." Maureen Murphy is Professor of Curriculum and Teaching at Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY. She is one of the six senior editors of the forthcoming Dictionary of Irish Biography, the editor of Asenath Nicholson's Ireland's Welcome to the Stranger and Annals of the Famine, Annie O'Donnell's Your Fondest Annie and co-editor, with James MacKillop, of An Irish Literature Reader. She was the Director and lead author of The Great Irish Famine Curriculum for the New York State Education Department. It won the National Council of the Social Studies Project Excellence Award in 2002. Murphy was the historian and selected the texts for the acclaimed Irish Hunger Memorial in Battery Park City. Murphy is a Past-President of the American Conference for Irish Studies and a Past-Chair of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures. In 2006 and 2007, she was the Associate Director of Yeats International Summer School.

J. M. Synge Centenary Symposium: Synge And Edwardian Ireland

"The J. M. Synge Centenary Symposium: Synge and Edwardian Ireland" will be taking place at Trinity College, Dublin on March 26-27, 2009.

Commemorating the 100th anniversary of Synge's death, and exploring his work amidst the particular contexts of Edwardian Ireland, this symposium begins on the evening of Thursday, March 26 with an opening and a keynote address by Terence Brown. The symposium continues on Friday, March 27 with an interdisciplinary set of talks by Nicola Gordon Bowe, Adrian Frazier, Lucy McDiarmid, Anne Fogarty, David Fitzpatrick, and Harry White, and a roundtable featuring Declan Kiberd, W.J. McCormack, Anthony Roche, and Nicholas Grene. We will conclude that evening with a book launch for J.M. Synge, Travelling Ireland: Essays 1898-1908, ed. Nicholas Grene.

There is no registration fee but places are limited so you are strongly encouraged to register in advance by writing to lifoley@tcd.ie

Full details of the program, including times, titles, and panel chairs, can be found at http://syngecentenary.blogspot.com/

For more information, please contact the organizers: bcliff@tcd.ie or ngrene@tcd.ie

Acis / Mla 2009 Cfp

CALL FOR PAPERS

2009 MLA Convention, Philadelphia

Modern Language Association (MLA) / ACIS (American Conference for Irish Studies)

The American Conference for Irish Studies will host two panels at the December 2009 MLA convention in Philadelphia. Please send 200-word abstracts to Ellen Crowell (crowelle@slu.edu) by March 15, 2009. All panelists must be registered MLA members by April 1st, 2009 to be included on the Philadelphia conference program; all panelists must also be registered ACIS members.

Panel 1: NEW IRELAND: RACE AND EMIGRATION IN CONTEMPORARY IRISH ART Papers should address changing representations of race, ancestry, nationality and immigration/emigration in contemporary Irish writing, film, and/or the visual arts. Of particular interest will be papers addressing the 2007 Doyle/Adigun production of a revised Playboy of the Western World, Roddy Doyle’s recent collection The Deportees, and John Carney’s Once (2007).

Panel 2: IRISH TEMPORALITIES This panel will explore how changing representations of time anticipated and responded to the rise of the Irish nation-state. To what extent did the Celtic Twilight underwrite, or disable, the emerging free-state of the early twentieth century? What does the representational rise of the "Celtic Tiger," or Ireland's recent economic resurgence, say about the persistence of popular images of the Irish past, or about their supplantation? We welcome papers on any genre or literary period in keeping with a broad exploration of how conceptions of past, present, and future shape and are shaped by Irish literary endeavors.

SEND 200-WORD PROPOSALS BY MARCH 15, 2009. PRESENTATIONS MAY NOT EXCEED 20 MINUTES.

Questions? Please contact Ellen Crowell, ACIS Literature Representative crowelle@slu.edu

Department of English Saint Louis University St. Louis, MO 63108

Irchss Funded Post-doctoral Research Assistant, Dublin.

The History Department in St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, has advertised for a post-doctoral research assistant to work with Dr Daire Keogh on the preparation of the correspondence of Cardinal Paul Cullen for publication. The partners in this research project are: Daire Keogh , Principal Investigator, Dr Anne O'Connor (Italian, NUIG) and Professor Colin Barr (Ave Maria University) This is a one year appointment and the advertised salary is €31,750 Details may be found at www.spd.dcu.ie/main/administration/human_resources/CurrentJobs.shtml

Adele Dalsimer Prize For A Distinguished Dissertation

The American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS) invites submissions for the ADELE DALSIMER PRIZE FOR A DISTINGUISHED DISSERTATION to be presented at the annual ACIS meeting, held next year the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Any dissertation dated 2008, on any topic related to Irish Studies, is eligible to be considered.

The award carries a $500 cash prize.

Please submit a hard copy or PDF file of the dissertation to each of the prize committee members before February 10, 2009. The winner will be notified in early April.

Committee:

Dr Irene Whelan (chair)
Manhattanville College
Please use home address:
16 Wildwood Road Apt. B9
Hartsdale, New York 10530
E-mail: whelani@mville.edu

Dr Christie Fox
1438 Old Main Hill
Honors Program
Utah State University
Logan UT 84322-1438
E-mail: Christie.Fox@usu.edu

Dr. Moira Casey
Miami University
Please use home address
3305 Spruce Lane
Oxford, OH 45056
E-mail caseyme@muohio.edu

The prize is named for the late Dr. Adele Dalsimer of Boston College, a prominent Irish Studies scholar and active member of the ACIS, who died in 2000.

Previous winners are Alison Dean Harvey, UCLA; Douglas Kanter, Florida Atlantic University; Audrey Scanlan-Teller, University of Delaware; Sarah McKibben, Cornell University; Cara Delay, Brandeis University; Robert Doggett, University of Maryland; and Ben Novick, Oxford University.

The American Conference for Irish Studies is a multidisciplinary scholarly organization with members in the United States, Ireland, Canada, and other countries around the world. For more information, see the ACIS web site at http://www.acisweb.com/index.php

Job Search Canceled

Villanova University has suspended its search for a Director of its Irish Studies Program, but does hope to list the position again in the Fall of 2009.

Yeats International Summer School, Sligo, 26 July-7 August 2009

50th Anniversary W.B. Yeats International Summer School, 26 July-7 August 2009. SEAMUS HEANEY, HELEN VENDLER, EAVAN BOLAND, ROY FOSTER, MICHAEL LONGLEY, DENNIS O'DRISCOLL, JULIE O'CALLAGHAN, SINEAD MORRISSEY, MOYA CANNON, JUSTIN QUINN and many others. Directors: Jonathan Allison and Maureen Murphy. Drama workshop with Sam and Joan McCready. Poetry workship with Sinead Morrissey. Please invite your students and colleagues to the Yeats Summer School, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2009. The school will be officially opened by Helen Vendler at the Hawk's Well Theatre, Sligo, on Sunday 26 July. There will be a poetry workshop with Sinead Morrissey, and poetry readings by Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Eavan Boland, Dennis O’Driscoll, Julie O’Callaghan, Justin Quinn, Moya Cannon, Peter McDonald and others, and as usual a drama workshop led by leading theatre practitioners, Sam and Joan McCready. Scholarships are available for students and academic credit may be arranged in tandem with the student’s college or university. Check the school website for further details and to receive a brochure please write to: Stella Mew, The Yeats Society, Douglas Hyde Bridge, Sligo, Ireland. Web: www.yeats-sligo.com / T: +353 (0)71 42693 / Fax: +353 (0)71 42780 / E: info@yeats-sligo.com, or contact Jonathan Allison, Department of English, University of Kentucky, Lexington KY 40506-0027 / T: 859-269-5024 / Fax 859-323-1072. Lectures in 2009 to include the following: Denis Donoghue (New York University): “Three Presences: Yeats, Eliot, Pound;” Helen Vendler (Harvard University): “Vacillation: the Yeatsian Contraries;” Roy Foster (Hertford College, Oxford): “Yeats and Fascism;” Edna Longley (Queen's University, Belfast), "Yeats's Other Island;" John Kelly (St. John’s College, Oxford):“Inheriting a Philosophy of Life: W.B. Yeats's Debt to his Father;” Peter McDonald (Christ Church, Oxford): "Yeats's Canons;" George Watson (University of Aberdeen): “Yeats, Nationality and Nationalism;” Ronald Schuchard (Emory University): “Yeats’s Early Vision: Lost and Regained, 1903-1917;” Elizabeth Butler Cullingford (University of Texas): "Cuchulain's Only Son;" Bernard O’Donoghue (Wadham College, Oxford): “Yeats, Edward Walsh and the Gathering of Folklore;” Warwick Gould (University of London): “Yeats and Symbolism;” Deirdre Toomey (University of London): “‘Sent out naked on the roads’: Yeats's Phantasmagoria from ‘The Cold Heaven’ to ‘Cuchulain comforted’;”Colbert Kearney (University College Cork), “Yeats and O’Casey in the Abbey Theatre;” Terence Brown (Trinity College Dublin): “Yeats: the Colour of Poetry;” George Bornstein (University of Michigan): “The Winding Stair and Other Poems;” Declan Kiely (Morgan Library, New York): “Yeats and Milton;” David Fitzpatrick (Trinity College Dublin): “Yeats and Sligo;” Meg Harper (Georgia State University), "Cuchulain the American;" Nicholas Allen (NUI Galway), "Observing Jack Yeats;" Anne Margaret Daniel (New School University): "Yeats the Literary Hero;" Maureen Murphy (Hofstra University) [Associate Director]: “Lily and Lolly Yeats: the American Dimension;” Jonathan Allison (University of Kentucky) [Director]: “‘The Old Moon-Phaser’: Yeats, Auden and MacNeice.” Seminars to include the following: Ron Schuchard: "Early Poems: The Wanderings of Oisin, Crossways, and The Rose;" Warwick Gould: "Poetry from The Wind Among the Reeds to Responsibilities (1899-1914);" John Kelly: "Yeats and the Abbey Theatre;" Helen Vendler: "Middle Poems;" Bernard O’Donoghue: "Yeats and Folklore;" Elizabeth Butler Cullingford: "Yeats and Sex;" Jonathan Allison: "Yeats and Sligo;" Peter McDonald, "Yeats and Poetic Form;" Terence Brown: "Yeats as Public Poet;" Declan Kiely: "Yeats’s Plays;" Maureen Murphy: "The Faces of Irish Folklore;" George Bornstein: "The Tower, The Winding Stair and the Material Text;" Meg Harper: "Yeats and the Occult;" Helen Vendler: "Late Poems."

Annual Acis / Ijjf Mla Reception

ACIS and the International James Joyce Foundation will co-host a reception at this year's MLA convention in San Francisco. We hope you will join us!

What: ACIS / IJJF annual reception

When: Saturday Dec. 27, 7-9pm

Where: San Francisco Hilton -- Sara van den Berg's suite; call from reception desk for room number.

For more information please contact:

Ellen Crowell ACIS Literature Representative crowelle@slu.edu

Anne Fogarty Vice President, IJJF anne.fogarty@ucd.ie

Acis Southern Conference: Extended Deadline For Proposals

IRELAND ON THE MOVE The 2009 Southern Regional ACIS Conference Hosted by the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga March 20-22, 2009 Conference webpage: http://tinyurl.com/5h5rj2 We are pleased to announced an extension in the deadline for submissions. The new deadline is December 15, 2008. Proposals for papers that address the theme "Ireland on the Move" should be sent to: Professor Thomas C. Ware Department of English 2703 615 McCallie Avenue University of Tennessee-Chattanooga Chattanooga, TN 37403-2598 Proposals should be around 250 words. Papers should be no more than 10 pages (20 minutes). The conference site is the Holiday Inn-Chattanooga Choo-Choo, 1400 Market St., Chattanooga,TN 37402 For further information, please contact Thomas Ware Thomas-Ware@utc.edu Tel 423-425-4602 or 4238 Fax 423-425-2282

Press Release: Bestselling Slanguage Back For 3rd Edition

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 12th 2008

Irish Bestseller Slanguage returns in updated 3rd Edition
AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW IMMEDIATELY

Bernard Share's Slanguage:A Dictionary of Irish Slang and colloquial English in Ireland the critically acclaimed book on the slang of Ireland, is finally available again in the updated 3rd Edition. With upwards of 500 new entries and an almost equal number of additions to existing headwords, this third edition of Slanguage offers a clear challenge to those who argue that there is little to distinguish Hiberno-English as an idiom in its own right.

Drawing on a rich heritage of Irish, English, Ulster Scots, Shelta, Hindustani, Swahili and many other linguistic resources, Hiberno-English has retained both its inventiveness and its vigour in a country which now plays host to some 167 languages, suggesting that Ireland will continue to make new words for old in the spirit of its own highly distinctive idiom.

From the reviews of previous editions

'This is worth its weight in gold-dust, for at last we have a proper, and often improper, dictionary of Irish slang.'
Hugh Leonard, Sunday Independent

'Joyce would have loved it.'
John Boland, The Times (London)

'The book can take its place on the shelf beside the great Eric Partridge himself and there is no greater tribute.'
Sean McMahon, Irish Independent

'Slanguage is an exceptionally well researched work of reference.'
John Slevin, RTE Guide

'Much of the book is a joy to read.'
Brian Griffin, International Journal of Lexicography

'This is quite simply an outstandingly brilliant piece of Sherlock-Holmesing, characterized by both authenticity and wit.'
Aubrey Malone, Books Ireland

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Vacancies At Concordia University, Montreal

Concordia University in Montreal invites applications for its prestigious new Johnson Chair in Quebec and Canadian Irish Studies, as well as a position in Irish and/or Irish Diaspora History. Deadline: November 17, 2008. For further details, check the website: http://cdnirish.concordia.ca/.

Book About The Profession That May Be Of Interest To Members.

I edited a collection of essays written by foreign language and English professors who have built careers at teaching-intensive colleges. See more at: http://www.mla.org/store/CID22/PID345 _Academic Cultures: Professional Preparation and the Teaching Life_ Editor(s): Sean P. Murphy Pages: ix & 247 pp. Published: August 2008 ISBN: 9781603290012 (paperback) ISBN: 9781603290005 (hardcover) For better or for worse, the goal of securing tenure-track assistant professorships frames the graduate school experience for most students. Yet what the graduate experience boasts in scholarly training it lacks in institutional training—that is, in guiding future faculty members to see and experience positively the wide variety of prospective professional identities rooted in assorted academic cultures. Academic Cultures: Professional Preparation and the Teaching Life gives voice to diversity in postsecondary education, a strength of the system rather than a problem to redress. Contributors, whether they work at a private high school or a public comprehensive university, an open-access institution or a religiously affiliated college, disclose to readers the details and outcomes of their cross-sector transitions. Their accounts show how faculty members from a range of institutions have built rewarding professional lives based on the traditional components of the professoriat—teaching, service, and scholarship. Contributors Douglas Scott Berman Nancy J. Brown Jo Ann Buck Ginny Carney Robert Chierico Ellen Cohen Stephen da Silva Lynnell Edwards Heidi Estrem Fabiola Fernández Salek MacGregor Frank Deborah Gill Ann E. Green Aeron Haynie James W. Jones Mark C. Long Adrielle Mitchell Evelyne Norris Anne Pasero Carol Rutz Victoria N. Salmon Virginia Shen

Book Announcement: Capitalising On Culture, Competing On Difference

Capitalising on Culture, Competing on Difference: Innovation and Revival in a Globalising Ireland, by Finbarr Bradley and James J. Kennelly, was recently published by Blackhall Publishing in Dublin. This book comes at a timely moment as the recessing economy raises serious questions about how Ireland might sustain the success it’s built up over two decades of economic growth, and the type of society it wishes to be. Bradley and Kennelly argue passionately that now, more than ever, with the erosion of geographic, cultural, and political borders, many critical success factors remain rooted in place and identity – the “local” matters more than ever! Ireland’s stock of inimitable resources – culture, traditions, the Irish language, sense of national identity – can lead to innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship, and to Ireland’s competitive advantage in a global context. Paperback, available through www.blackhallpublishing.com

Official Distributor Of Irish Published Books

For all colleges and stores interested in Irish published books: The James Trading Group is the official US supplier of Gill & MacMillan & The O'Brien Press titles. Gill & MacMillan is Ireland’s leading publisher of college, further education, school and general books, while The O'Brien Press is Ireland's leading general publisher of both adult and children's books.

Many of our history titles are on curriculum's throughout Ireland and the US. We supply a great selection of books that are ideal for Irish Studies courses, from history, literature, and also Irish language courses. We also offer generous discounts to colleges and bookstores.

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Queering Ireland: An International Inter-disciplinary Conference

Queering Ireland: An international inter-disciplinary conference Saint Mary’s University Halifax, Canada 18-20 September 2009 Writing in 1931, Daniel Corkery declared that “the normal and the national are synonymous in literary criticism.” Yet this potent collocation of the normal and the national in Irish life need not be confined to the realm of Irish letters. An enduring preoccupation with normalcy and nationality has long been evident in all spheres of Irish life, and continues to resonate today. Queer studies is uniquely placed to interrogate how these concerns have been imbricated in Irish culture since, as Michael Warner has remarked, queer theory is predicated on “a thoroughgoing resistance to regimes of the normal.” Recent cultural production in Ireland has already shown a persistent and compelling interest in queerness, but what are the implications of this resistance to the normal for an understanding of how bodies, sexualities and desires have been imagined, constructed, and represented in Irish culture? What potential does queering Ireland had in charting new directions in queer theory and queer approaches to culture in general? What is specific about queerness in the queer Ireland project? Papers are invited addressing Ireland’s regimes of the normal and the national in all disciplines including law, medicine, economics, literature, art history, film and media studies, sociology, history, political science and religious studies. Proposals should not be confined to the modern period only, and we are especially interested in papers that address the contemporary and historical Irish-speaking world. Queering Ireland is meant to address the queer Irish experiences across periods and cultural genres and fields as well as queering what is presented as the “normal” Irish experience. Possible topics might include: The queer body politic/The queer political body Global Irish capitalism and gay identity Historicizing Irish queerness Gay, lesbian, bi- and trans-sexual Irish culture Queer(ing) Irish literature Filming Irish Queerness/Queering Irish film The queer Irish body in medical, religious and legal discourse Mother Ireland and Queer Culture Normalcy and nation Queering the Straight Proposals not exceeding 500-words (or one single-spaced page) should be sent electronically, with name, complete mailing address, e-mail, phone and fax numbers, to Sean.Kennedy@smu.ca and Goran.Stanivukovic@smu.ca by 16 January 2009.

Mid-atlantic Acis Regional Conference Oct. 10/11 Website

We have set up a basic website hosted at the conference venue, LaGuardia Community College. To see a brief schedule, registration information, and information about traveling to LaGuardia, please follow the link, or cut/paste the address below. http://faculty.laguardia.edu/kmonteith/ Many thanks! Ken Monteith

John H. Daniels Fellowship

The National Sporting Library is seeking applicants for the John H. Daniels Fellowship for 2009. The Library is a center for research in horse and field sports located just 42 miles west of Washington, D.C. Its book, art, manuscript, periodical and archival collections cover equestrian sports, angling, shooting, and other field sports from the 16th century to the present. The Library also has a permanent collection of primarily British and American sporting art, and plans to open the Museum of Sporting Art at Vine Hill in 2010. The Fellowship will provide financial assistance and housing to recipients. Researchers are asked to submit an application, proposing a research project to be conducted at the Library. Researchers must demonstrate in their proposals what collections and books they will consult. Application instructions and a brochure can be found on the Library’s website, www.nsl.org/fellowship.html, or by contacting Elizabeth Tobey, Director of Communications and Research, at fellowship@nsl.org or 540-687-6542 x 11.The application deadline is February 1, 2009. Successful applicants will be notified by the end of March.

Cais 2009, Call For Papers

Calgary, Alberta (June 4-7) Mount Royal College INTO THE WEST The 2009 Canadian Association for Irish Studies is holding it annual conference and AGM from June 4-7, 2009 at Mount Royal College in Calgary, Alberta. Conference organizers are calling for 20-minute contributions on any aspect connected with or suggested by the title of the conference. Keynote speakers: Ann Saddlemyer and others TBA. Topics may include but are not limited to: frontiers, boundaries, edges, peripheries of geographic and psychological landscapes; westward migrations; urban vs. rural dynamics; globalization and dominance of the west; wild characters and rough social structures; Celtic cowboys and cowgirls; westerns; geography and history of food cultures; the idealization of the west; tourism and commodification of the west; east and west tensions and possibilities; out of the East; into which west? Please send a 200-250 word abstract no later than December 30, 2008 to simonjolivet@yahoo.com Please paste the abstract into the body of the e-mail and please be sure to include your full name, contact information, and academic affiliation (if any). Abstracts will be assessed by a conference committee.

Neacis 2008: Marvels And Monuments

The 2008 meeting of the New England Region of the American Conference for Irish Studies will take place at Boston University (College of General Studies) on Saturday, November 8th, 2008. Please contact Meg Tyler (mtyler@bu.edu) with any questions. Visit our website: http://www.bu.edu/cgs/neacis2008.html

Acis Elections In 2009 – Call For Nominations

The nominations committee is now seeking nominations for candidates to serve on the ACIS Executive Committee for a two-year term, 2009-2011. The next round of elections for the ACIS executive will take place in January 2009.

The regular two-year election process determines the next vice president (and incoming president), the six discipline representatives (History, Literature, Social Science, Irish Language, Celtic Studies, and Arts), and the graduate student representative. Five representatives elected by their respective regions and three appointed officers complete the executive.

The executive invites all members of ACIS to participate in this process, and urges members to consider serving as officers.

Nominations can be made to any committee member; the committee will request further information and prepare a slate of candidates in December. Nominations are confidential; you may nominate yourself.

Nominations must be received by December 1, 2009. Please send your nominations to any or all of the members of the committee: James Rogers, chair (jrogers@stthomas.edu), Helen Lojek (hlojek@boisestate.edu), and Andrew Auge (Andrew.Auge@loras.edu).

Search: Director Of The Irish Studies Program

Villanova University seeks a Director for its Irish Studies Program (http://www.villanova.edu/artsci/irishstudies/), at the rank of associate or full professor, beginning Fall 2009. Academic field is open, but because of the program’s strong ties to Irish literature, candidates should have an excellent knowledge of the Irish literary world. The director will hold an appointment in the appropriate academic department. Candidates should have the appropriate terminal degree or a record of distinguished professional activity, as well as administrative experience and a history of excellent publication and teaching. Along with administration and scholarship, responsibilities include teaching four courses per year. A full description of the position is available at http://www.villanova.edu/artsci/irishstudies/faculty/director/irish_director.htm. Initial appointment as director is for five years and is renewable. Send letter of application, vita, and recent writing sample, as well as at least three letters of reference, to Prof. Evan Radcliffe, Chair of Irish Studies Search Committee, English Dept., Villanova University, 800 Lancaster Ave., Villanova, PA 19085-1699, by Oct. 6, 2008; review of applications will begin on Oct. 6 and continue until the position is filled. Applications will be acknowledged by letter. Villanova University is a Catholic university sponsored by the Augustinian order. An AA/EEO employer, Villanova seeks a diverse faculty committed to scholarship, service, and especially teaching, who understand, respect, and can contribute to the University’s mission and values.

Irish Language Courses At Cuny, And Eimear Ni Cheallaigh - Cuny Fulbright Flta For 2008-9

Still energized by a recent visit of Minister Eamon O Cuiv, the CUNY Institute for Irish-American Studies is currently registering students for the Fall 2008 Irish language program which is offered completely on-line. Courses can be taken for undergraduate credit or adult education. -For the complete beginner, Dr. Thomas Ihde will be teaching Elementary Irish I with his new book, Colloquial Irish. -Continuing elementary level students can study a choice of two courses with Elaine Ni Bhraonain who is well known for her work with CUNY, the Irish Arts Center, and the Irish Echo. -Those who want to brush up their grammar can take Intermediate Irish Grammar with Eimear Ni Cheallaigh who will be with us for the academic year from Connemara as a Fulbright FLTA. -For the advanced students, Ailbhe Ni Ghearbhuigh from Kerry will be leading us in an Introduction to the Irish Short Story through Irish. Classes begin 27 August 2008. Register now. Adult education courses are only $270. E-mail Thomas Ihde at thomas.ihde@lehman.cuny.edu for more information or visit our website: http://www.lehman.edu/lehman/irishamericanstudies/

Jobs In English At St Patrick's College, Dublin City University

Applications are invited from suitably qualified staff for the following vacancies which are advertised in the Irish Independent today, 17th July and will be advertised in the Irish Times on Friday 18th July: Assistant Lecturer/Lecturer English Department - Permanent post Assistant Lecturer/Lecturer English Department - One year contract post Please note that full details in relation to these positions are located the College website - www.spd.dcu.ie/vacancies Further details and application forms may also be obtained from: Mary Donnelly, HR Manager ext. 2023 Regards Mary Donnelly Human Resources Manager S Patrick's College Drumcondra Dublin 9

New Book: Mary P.corcoran And Perry Share (eds) Belongings: Shaping Identity In Modern Ireland (2008).

Mary P. Corcoran and Perry Share (eds) Belongings. Dublin: IPA, 2008 The contributors to this volume deal with the theme of belonging - how it evolves, manifests itself, is shaped and challenged - across a range of contexts in contemporary Ireland. Belongings invites the reader to contemplate recent developments in Irish society through a sociological lens which focuses on events and issues relevant to the years 2005 and 2006. The book provides trenchant sociological insights into such diverse topics as the Michael Neary case, the Miss China Ireland pageant, Paddy Power’s provocative advertisements and the Jumbo Breakfast Roll. It re-visits events such as the 2006 commemoration of the 1916 Rising, the opening of the Dundrum Town Centre and the Irish Ferries dispute. Issues such as apartment- living, new planned communities, the busyness of everyday life, the attraction of self-help books, and the fervour of “Munster mania” are examined in a fresh and engaging way. Published by Institute of Public Administration, Dublin. Also in this series: Uncertain Ireland (2006); Place and non place (2004); Ireland Unbound (2002); Memories of the Present (2000); Encounters with Modern Ireland (1998) . All inquiries to www.ipa.ie.

University College Dublin Podcast Series In Irish Studies

The inaugural UCDscholarcast series will address the disciplinary field of Irish Studies and is entitled, "The Art of Popular Culture: From The Meeting of the Waters to Riverdance." More info is available at UCDscholarcast

Phd Scholarship: 18th Century/irish Studies At University Of Limerick

Research topic: Enlightenment, peripheries and the transmission of ideas: The Magazine of Magazines (Limerick: Andrew Welsh, 1751-1769). The scholarship arises as a result of the University of Limerick's participation in the Irish Social Sciences Platform (ISSP) which brings together expertise from eight Irish institutional partners and 19 academic disciplines to create a truly all-island, interdisciplinary platform for social science research. ISSP has been granted €16.5m as part of the Programme for Research in Third-Level Institutions (PRTLI), Cycle 4. The project will explore the transmission of ideas between continental Europe, Britain and the west of Ireland via this periodical. A number of approaches are possible: for example, a candidate with a good knowledge of French or German might choose to investigate the place of literature emanating from these language areas in the publication. Further details on the topic are available from the Supervisors: Professor Geraldine Sheridan, Eighteenth Century Research Group, Department of Languages and Cultural Studies Tel. + 353 (0)61 202282 Email: Geraldine.Sheridan@ul.ie and Dr. Michael Griffin, Eighteenth Century Research Group, Department of Languages and Cultural Studies Tel. + 353 (0)61 213170 Email: michael.j.griffin@ul.ie This scholarship is worth approximately €17,500 per annum, and also covers university fees. It is tenable for four years, subject to satisfactory progress. The closing date for applications is 6 June 2008. Further details on the application process are available from: Niamh O’Sullivan, Institute for the Study of Knowledge in Society, University of Limerick, Ireland. Tel: +353-61-202945 Email: niamh.osullivan@ul.ie

Irish Studies Review Special Subscription Offer For Acis Members

ACIS members can subscribe to the journal Irish Studies Review for the reduced rate of $79.00 ($20.00 off the regular subscription price). Order at the special rate by filling in the form (click on the link below) and submitting it online or by mail to: James Gottfried, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, OX14 4RN, UK. Special rate applies to individual purchasers only. Please quote promotional code YN01701W. Offer ends 31/12/2008.

Ella Young, Irish Mystic And Rebel - By Rose Murphy

Rose Murphy's book -- Ella Young, Irish Mystic and Rebel: From Literary Dublin to the American West -- was recently published by The Liffey Press in Dublin. Ella Young (1867-1956), an Irish storyteller of Celtic heroes and magic curses, had a fascinating, overlooked life story. She guarded weapons under floorboards for Dublin rebels in the 1920s, argued with W. B. Yeats, lectured to overflow crowds at the University of California in Berkeley, and talked to spirits in the windswept dunes of California's Pacific Coast. The book traces her ever-westerly journey from Dublin to the West of Ireland to America's East Coast to California. It highlights her insider's view of iconic figures and cultural movements in two countries. Paperback, available through Dufour Editions.

50 Doctorial Research Fellowships In Humanities And Social Sciences, Nui Galway

Fellowships may be held across the following range of disciplines: Archaeology, Classics, Education, English, Economics, Film & Digital Media, French, Gaeilge, Geography, German, Health Promotion, History, Irish Studies, Italian, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science &Sociology, Psychology, Spanish, Women’s Studies.

Acis Now Accepting Credit Cards Through Paypal

You can now Join ACIS or Renew your Membership online using any major credit card. The process is simple and secure. Just visit The ACIS Membership Page for more information

Irish Theatre And The World Stage - The 2008 Synge Summer School

Irish Theatre and the World Stage: the 2008 Synge Summer School 29 June - 5 July 2008 Rathdrum, Co Wicklow http://www.syngesummerschool.org/ The programme for the 2008 Synge Summer School has now been announced. Highlights include: * Lectures, seminars and workshops on many Irish dramatists: Brian Friel, Stewart Parker, Marina Carr, Conor McPherson – and, of course, JM Synge. Faculty includes: John P. Harrington, Emilie Pine, Ondrej Pilny, Ros Dixon, Nicholas Grene, Shaun Richards, Mark Phelan, Patrick Lonergan, Melissa Sihra, and Mary Luckhurst. * A reading by award-winning writer Sebastian Barry, author of The Steward of Christendom, The Pride of Parnell Street and A Long Long Way; * A talk by Bisi Adigun, who will discuss the updated version of The Playboy of the Western World which he and Roddy Doyle wrote for production at the Abbey Theatre in 2007; and * A lively social programme, including a visit to the Abbey Theatre and a tour of Synge Country in County Wicklow. Applications for this year's School are now being accepted. Visit the Synge Summer School website for more

Chicago Irish Film Festival

The 9th Chicago Irish Film Festival (February 29-March 5) celebrates new and old Irish films and the talented filmmakers whose visions and dedication to their art bring them to life. Over the last eight years the festival has challenged its audience to think outside the box in regards to Irish cinema and the Celtic Tiger that has roared across the EU and America. This year, the festival is delighted to be screening the US premiere of "Garage", Lenny Abrahamson’s ("Adam & Paul") new film about a misfit and a rural Ireland that is fading away. Bob Quinn’s groundbreaking film "Poitin" (1977), the first Irish language film, presents an Ireland the "quiet man" never visited and many Irish would like to forget ever existed. The festival is showcasing two Midwest premieres this year, "The Front Line", directed by David Gleeson, and "Dot. Com" directed by Luis Galvao Teles and written by Chicago native Suzanne Nagle. The taut thriller "The Front Line" deals with issues of asylum, racism and the vulnerability of refugees, regardless of their origins or destination. "Dot.Com", a delightful collaboration with Portugal, is a light-hearted story about the generation gap, the Internet and multinational corporations. As in years past the festival will also present a wonderfully eclectic line-up of shorts and documentaries.

Neh Institute On Yeats In Ireland

An NEH sponsored Institute for College and University Teachers entitled "W.B. Yeats: A Reassessment" will be offered this summer, from July 7th to July 30th. The primary venue will be the National University of Ireland, Galway with the last week at the Yeats Summer School in Sligo. Faculty will include Terence Brown, Ann Saddlemyer, Margaret Mills Harper, Brian Arkins, Daniel Albright, William O'Donnell, and James Pethica. ACIS member Edward O'Shea of SUNY-Oswego will direct the Institute. Stipend is $3000 for the four weeks of the Institute Full information, including application details, is available at: www.yeatsinstitute.com Application deadline is March 03, 2008.

Discussion Group On Anglo-irish Literature, Mla 2007

Friday, 28 December 314. Interacting with Ireland 3:30–4:45 p.m., Columbus Hall H, Hyatt Regency Chicago Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Anglo-Irish Literature 1. “Where the Bodies Are Buried: Heaney’s Bog Poems and the Countries of the Mind,” Michael Valdez Moses, Duke Univ. 2. “The Liminal Cosmopolitan: Local, Global, and Postcolonial Perspectives,” Magdalena Kay, Univ. of Victoria 3. “And the Irish Would Not Maintain the Dikes: Irish Poets in the Netherlands,” Deirdre McCloskey, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago

Cfp Deadline Extended To 7 December 2007 For Southern Acis (6-8 March 2008)

IRELAND: ASSENT AND DISSENT To avoid clashing with the CFP deadline for the National ACIS Conference, the SOUTHERN ACIS CONFERENCE—to be held in Savannah, GA, on 6-8 March 2008—is extending the deadline for proposals for panels and papers. The new deadline is 7 December 2007. Leave snow and ice behind and join us in sunny, historic Savannah in early March! We especially encourage submissions that advance the conference theme, "Ireland: Assent and Dissent." Three world-class keynote speakers and a lively, invigorating program are in store! Please submit your 150-word proposal electronically via the CFP page on conference website: http://ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/ACIS.html On 17 June 1904, Molly Bloom reminisced, "yes I said yes I will Yes." Around eighty years later Ian Paisley protested, "Ulster Says No," a partial echo of "No Surrender" (the cry during the late-seventeenth-century Siege of Londonderry). Assertions of "yes" and "no"—and acts of assent and dissent—play prominently in Irish experience: past and present; at home and abroad. Possible areas for consideration include, but are by no means limited to: dissenting religious and political traditions within Ireland and its diaspora; Theobald Wolfe Tone's ideal of "unit[ing] Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter under the common name of Irishmen"; endorsement and dissension in Irish literature, film-making, art, and historiography; yes/no referenda on such issues as divorce, abortion, the Good Friday Agreement, and citizenship rights; "sea" and "ní hea" in Irish-language writing and politics; shifts from "no" to "yes" in Unionist and Republican rhetoric; the reality or myth of "No Irish Need Apply"; Irish assent vis-à-vis economic, political, cultural, and military facets of Europeanization and globalization; suspension of the GAA's ban on foreign games; Irish utopias or "no-places."

Keough-naughton Fellowship In Irish Studies

National Endowment for the Humanities Keough-Naughton Fellowship in Irish Studies With the support of a National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant, the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame invites applications for its faculty fellowship program. The NEH Keough-Naughton Fellowship will enable an outstanding scholar to continue his or her research while in residence in the Keough-Naughton Institute during the academic year 2008-2009. The Fellowship is open to scholars in any area of Irish Studies. The stipend is $40,000. The NEH Keough-Naughton Fellow will participate in a periodic faculty seminar and present a paper on his or her research during the year. Apart from the seminar, the Fellow’s only obligation will be to pursue his or her research. The Fellow will be provided an office in the Keough-Naughton Institute and will be integrated into the Institute’s life, with full library privileges and access to the Institute’s research tools. Applicants should submit a double-spaced narrative of no more than five pages describing their proposed research, indicating how it builds on existing scholarship, and suggesting how it will benefit from broader interdisciplinary studies. Applicants should also submit a curriculum vitae and arrange for three letters of reference to be sent to the Keough-Naughton Institute by 2 January 2008. Announcement of the successful candidate will be made in March 2008. Please send applications to this address: NEH Keough-Naughton Fellowships Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies 422 Flanner Hall University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 46556

Fulbright Award In Irish Literary And Cultural Studies 2008-2009

The Fulbright Programme is celebrating its 50th Anniversary in Ireland in 2007 and is accepting applications for the Fulbright Award in Irish Literary and Cultural Studies. This award is co-sponsored by the Department of Foreign Affairs in conjunction with the Western Institute of Irish Studies and will be hosted by the University of California-Berkeley English Department during the 2008-2009 academic year. The successful candidate will receive a stipend of €15,000 made available from the Fulbright Commission and a further $10,000 from the University of California, Berkeley.

The UC-Berkeley English Department is home to some of the finest English scholars and students in the United States. The Department encourages the appreciation and analysis of English literature, and, more broadly, of the relations between literary work and other modes of human endeavor. The Department has a strong tradition of work in Irish literary studies. Recent faculty in the field have included Thomas Flanagan, Robert Tracy and David Lloyd. See http://english.berkeley.edu/ for further information.

The Scholar will be required to teach a graduate seminar and give a public lecture presenting the research accomplished during the award period. The lecture may be taped and distributed via the Western Institute of Irish Studies http://www.wiisonline.org

The Scholar must commit to a placement of at least five months. The options are either:

• the Fall semester (late August through early December) 2008 or
• the Spring semester (January through early May) 2009.

Irish Literary and Culture Studies applicants should have a Ph.D. in a relevant discipline and be able to demonstrate a record of scholarly achievement in Irish literary and cultural studies of any period from the eighteenth century to the present.

They must comply with the following citizenship criteria:

• Irish citizens who are resident on the island of Ireland.
• EU citizens who are ordinarily resident in Ireland. A person is deemed to be ordinarily resident in the State if s/he has been living here for the past three consecutive years.
• Irish citizens who are ordinarily resident in other EU member states and who are not eligible to apply for a Fulbright award in their country of residence.

Ineligibility Factor
US citizens and holders of US immigrant visas (green cards), or applicants for same, are not eligible to apply. Applications will be accepted from candidates who have applied for a non-immigrant (lottery) visa. However, the award of a Fulbright scholarship would preclude a candidate form pursuing such an application.

Please contact The Fulbright Commission for the complete Terms & Conditions / Application form for this award.

'francis Stuart: Artist And Outcast' New Biography Of Controversial Irish Writer

_____________________________________________________________________ 'Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast' by Kevin Kiely ISBN 1-905785-25-9 ISBN 978-1-905785-25-4 Publisher: David Givens, Director The Liffey Press, Dublin 5. Ireland. info@theliffeypress.com Kiely's biography is based on vast research sources, not least a twenty-three year friendship with Francis Stuart (1902-2000) author of 'Black List, Section H' and 24 other novels. Stuart's life remains controversial because of his broadcasts for Hitler's Third Reich which blacklisted him after the Second World War. His marriage to Iseult Gonne, former lover of Ezra Pound and daugher of W.B. Yeats's beloved Maud Gonne, entangled Stuart in the Yeats-Gonne circle which he ultimately rejected along with the Irish Academy of Letters and the writers of the Celtic Twilight. In a life that spanned the 20th century, Stuart challenged the work of Irish writers including Joyce while evolving his unique vision in exile, prison and isolation which relegated him to the position of underground artist who endured and emerged. Yeats conceeded to admit, 'he will become our great writer'. Controversies surrounded Stuart's latter years: with the Abbey Theatre over his play 'Who Fears To Speak', within Aosdana over his election to the honour of Saoi, and he took a libel action which proved successful against the 'Irish Times' on being accused of being anti-Semitic by Kevin Myers in the 1990s.

Acis Grants Application Deadline: October 1st

Under the new guidelines (adopted at the Executive meeting in April), applications for ACIS Grants are now considered twice yearly rather than on a rolling basis. The official deadline for the current application round is October 1st. Because not all prospective applicants may be aware of the new procedure, the Executive will consider late applications (this time only) provided they are submitted by October 15.

Midwest Acis Web Page/hotel Deadline 9/25

The web page for the Midwest ACIS meeting, Voices and Visions, is now available: http://cas.umkc.edu/english/Midwest%20ACIS/ To get the conference hotel rate of $89, the hotel must be booked by September 25. After that date the rate is likely to be $129. The Conference hotel is the Holiday Inn on the Plaza, located at 45th and Main (a five minute walk from the Nelson-Atkins Museum, a fifteen-minute walk from UMKC). The hotel offers shuttle service (but on a first-come basis; no reservations), free parking, free wifi, and double, triple, or quad bookings. Please call the hotel at 816-753-7400 to avail of the conference rate and specify the American Conference for Irish Studies. (Bookings on the web cannot take advantage of this rate.) A provisional program will be available September 20.

Race & Immigration In The New Ireland October 14-17, 2007

Ireland has undergone profound changes in the last decade, not simply by reversing a long history of emigration, but also by attracting hundreds of thousands of new immigrants, many of these from Eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia. The arrival of over 207,000 Poles alone in the last decade is changing the face of the Irish nation and the Irish Catholic Church. The world accepted the Irish. Will the Irish accept the world? That is the question the Notre Dame Keough-Naughton Institute conference on “Race and Immigration in the New Ireland” will address. The conference will open with a keynote address on campus in Washington Hall Sunday evening, October 14th, by Mary Robinson, the former President of Ireland and U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights. President Robinson’s speech will also help the University of Notre Dame celebrate the 25th anniversary of its Center for Social Concerns. The conference panels Monday through Wednesday will focus on “The Demographics of the New Ireland,” “Race,” “Legality and Rights,” “Work and Labor,” “The Experience of Women,” “The Linguistic Challenge of Multi-Cultural Ireland,” “Social Integration,” on “What Ireland can learn from North-American and European Experience,” on relations “North and South,” and “Religion in the New Ireland.” The conference will close with a keynote address by Notre Dame Keough Family Professor of Irish Studies, Luke Gibbons. Among the distinguished participants, the conference speakers include John Haskins, the Senior Civil Servant responsible for Irish immigration policy; David Begg, the General Secretary of The Irish Congress of Trade Unions; Donncha O’Connell, the Dean of National University at Galway Law School; Salome Mbugua, the National Director of AkiDwA, the Irish African Women’s Association; Anna Lo, Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly and the first East Asian elected to a European parliament; Steve Garner of the University of Western England; Matthew Frye Jacobson of Yale University; Ali Selim, Secretary of the Islamic Cultural Centre of Ireland; Isabela Grawbowski-Lusinski of the University of Warsaw; journalist Patsy McGarry; Anaele Diala Iroh of the Dublin Institute of Technology; Philip Watt of the National Consultative Committee on Racism and Interculturalism; Ronit Lentin and Pádraig Ó Riagáin of Trinity College-Dublin; Mike Cronin of Boston College; Niamh Hourigan of University College Cork; Mary Corcoran of National University at Maynooth; Carmen Frese of University College, Dublin; Abel Ugba of the University of East London; and, along with Jorge Bustamante and Tony Messina of Notre Dame. The conference will also host performances of The Kings of The Kilburn High Road by Arambe Productions, a theatre company that affords members of Ireland’s African communities the unique opportunity to express themselves through the arts. Pre-conference activties include a Saturday Scholar Lecture by Luke Gibbons in the Snite Museum on Saturday, October 13th at noon, and screenings of the films In America and Once in the Marie DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts. More information can be found at http://irishstudies.nd.edu/ri.htm Participants are welcome to register for the conference on line at https://marketplace.nd.edu/cce/

2007 Mid-atlantic Regional Conference

The website for the 2007 Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, to be held at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York on October 26-27, 2007, is now available. It can be accessed at: www.lemoyne.edu/acis The conference theme is "Associating Ireland." We are pleased to announce that the conference speakers are Professor Alvin Jackson, University of Edinburgh, and Professor Kathryn Conrad, University of Kansas. The website provides directions, registration and hotel information, the conference schedule, and conference abstracts. For additional information, please contact Kate Costello-Sullivan at sullivkp@lemoyne.edu.

Position In Irish History

Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Department of History History of Nineteenth-Century Ireland Concordia University’s Department of History invites applications for one tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the History of Nineteenth-Century Ireland. The Department welcomes applications from all candidates; we are particularly interested in candidates who can advance our established research strengths in one, or more, of the following areas: cultural history; transnational and international history; genocide and human rights; the history of gender and sexuality; and public history. The successful candidates should have a PhD and active research agenda, proven abilities to teach successfully at the undergraduate level, and a willingness to teach and supervise graduate students. In addition to actively participating in the life of the History Department, the successful candidate will be expected to assist in developing Concordia’s Canadian-Irish Studies Program. The deadline for applications is 1 November 2007. Applications should include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, research statement, writing sample, statement of teaching philosophy, and evidence of teaching effectiveness including course evaluations. Candidates should arrange to have three letters of reference forwarded immediately on their behalf to the following address: Dr. Shannon McSheffrey, Professor and Chair, Department of History, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montreal, QC, Canada, H3G 1M8. (514) 848 2424 (ext. 2414). For further information, contact histjobs@alcor.concordia.ca or see http://history.concordia.ca. Subject to budgetary approval, we anticipate filling this position for July 1, 2008. Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the positions are filled. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority. Concordia University is committed to employment equity.

Acis Southern Regional Conference: March 6-8, 2008; Coastal Georgia Center, Savannah

The Center for Irish Studies at Georgia Southern University hosts the 2008 Southern Regional Conference at the Coastal Georgia Center in the historic district of Savannah, GA, on 6-8 March. CONFERENCE THEME Ireland: Assent and Dissent KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Prof. Mick Maloney of New York University; Prof. Lucy McDiarmid of Villanova University; Prof. Alister McReynolds of the Institute of Ulster Scots Studies, University of Ulster. The official CFP and electronic proposal and registration forms are on the conference website, where you'll also find further details about the event and location, travel, and hotel data: http://ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/ACIS.html

White Post-graduate Fellowships In Irish Art History At Trinity College Dublin

Following a generous benefaction from Tony and Clare White, applications are invited for post-graduate research fellowships in triarc - Irish Art Research Centre in the History of Art Deparment, School of Histories and Humanities. The research theme is Art and Migration. The fellowship is for up to two years for M.Litt., or three years for PhD, subject to annual review of academic progress. The scholarship will be offered subject to acceptance on the post-graduate register by the Dean of Graduate Studies. The successful candidate(s) may choose to register and begin in either October 2007 or April 2008. Up to two fellowships will be offered for the forthcoming academic year, depending on the standard of applicants. The overall theme of Art and Migration embraces a wide range of periods and topics. It includes migration as a subject in visual art, or the impact of migration within, into or from Ireland by producers or patrons of art, as well as movement of ideas. All types of visual art – painting, sculpture, architecture, new media, and so on, are relevant for analysis. An applicant’s proposal will outline a focused topic that comes within the ambit of the overall concept. The proposal should indicate any interdisciplinary aspects and should also include a suggestion for a symposium. Applicants will ideally have discussed their research proposal with a member of staff in triarc/History of Art Department, and obtained their agreement in principle to supervise them should they be successful. Please consult the History of Art (www.tcd.ie/History_of_Art/) and Irish Art Research Centre (www.triarc.ie) websites for information about the Centre, and the History of Art Department, and for research interests of staff. The studentship comprises a maintenance grant of €15,000 per annum, plus waiver of College fees (up to a limit of €6,000 for EU and €12,000 for non-EU). Applicants should have a good honours (at least 2.1 or equivalent) primary degree and/or masters (taught or research) degree, ideally in Art History, but cognate disciplines will be considered. While the research will be relevant to Ireland, a prior qualification in Irish-related subjects is not mandatory, though may be an advantage. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply by submitting: • A post-graduate research proposal (maximum 1,500 words) • A full curriculum vitae • A statement of your research interests, explaining why you want to undertake an M.Litt or PhD and what you expect to gain from it (maximum two pages) • Two references, at least one of which should be an academic reference. Please send applications to: Dr. Yvonne Scott, Director, Triarc – Irish Art Research Centre, History of Art Department, Trinity College, Dublin 2. Applications may be sent electronically to: scotty@tcd.ie

Acis National Conference, April 16-19 2008, St. Ambrose University, Davenport, Iowa

CONFERENCE THEME: The Global Irish: Conflict, Coexistence, and Community PLENARY EVENTS: • The first annual Lawrence J. McCaffrey Lecture on Irish-American Studies presented by Peter Quinn, author of Looking for Jimmy and Banished Children of Eve • A poetry reading by Louis de Paor, NUI Galway and by three Co. Munster poets: Paddy Bushe, John Sexton, and Eileen Sheehan • Margaret Mills Harper, Georgia State University, on Yeats • Kevin Rockett, Trinity College, Dublin, on Irish film • Elizabeth Malcolm, University of Melbourne, on violence and gender in Ireland SPECIAL EVENTS: • Concerts by bohola and Joe McShane • Viewing of “Pavee Lackeen” • A historical tour of the Rock Island Arsenal • Mississippi River cruise on the Celebration Belle LOCATION INFORMATION: Davenport is one of the Iowa-Illinois Quad Cities, a busy transportation and agricultural center known for the tremendous natural beauty of the Mississippi River, a vibrant city life, great restaurants, and reasonable hotel rates. Several national and regional carriers serve the Quad City International Airport in Moline, IL, which is less than 15 minutes from the conference hotel. You can also take an airport shuttle from O'Hare Airport to the Quad Cities via Act II Transportation. www.sau.edu/acis DyeRyanD@sau.edu

John H. Daniels Fellowship At The National Sporting Library In Middleburg, Virginia

Deadline: September 30, 2007 The National Sporting Library, a research institution specializing in horse and field sports, invites applications for research fellowships from university faculty in the humanities and social sciences, museum professionals, journalists, and independent scholars. Located 42 miles west of Washington, D.C., the Library holds an extensive collection of over 16,000 books, periodicals, manuscripts, and sporting art. The collection covers many aspects of equestrian and outdoor sports, particularly in Ireland, Great Britain, and the United States, including foxhunting, horse racing, polo, dressage, eventing, coaching, shooting, and angling. Among the collections are books and manuscripts of Irish novelists Edith Somerville and Martin Ross, authors of The Irish R.M. and other popular foxhunting books. The F. Ambrose Rare Book Room contains over 4,000 rare volumes from the sixteenth through twentieth centuries in several languages. The fellowship covers approved projects of up to twelve months in duration, and applicants must demonstrate their need to use specific works in the collections. A monthly stipend, workspace, and complimentary housing (for those outside of the immediate area) are provided. For more information, visit our website or contact Elizabeth Tobey, Fellowship Coordinator, 540-687-6542 x 25 or fellowship@nsl.org.

Western Regional Conference

Call for Papers: American Conference for Irish Studies/West, to be held in Tacoma Washington, October 5-7, 2007 Theme: From Emain Macha to St. Andrews: Finding the Intersection of Reconciliation and Traditions. The 23rd meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies/West, will be hosted by Tacoma Community College. Proposals for 20 minute papers are invited on any topic of interest to Irish Studies. Papers addressing conflict, resolution and traditions within the Irish experience (from the perspective of history, art, economics, science, literature, sociology, political science or gender studies) are particularly welcome. Presenters must be members of the American Conference for Irish Studies (www.acisweb.com). Send abstracts of no more than 300 words to: Kendall Reid Wanamaker Library Building 7 Tacoma Community College 6501 South 19th Street Tacoma WA 98466-6100 Or by email to kreid@tacomacc.edu. Deadline: June 30, 2007. The conference hotel is the Silver Cloud Inn http://www.scinns.com/13home.htm. Reservations before September 5 may be made at the ACIS/TCC conference rate $129.00 for either King or Queen Queen rooms. All sessions will take place on the Tacoma Community College main campus. http://www.tacomacc.edu/campuslocations/maincampus.aspx

Acis Annual Meeting

Over the past four weeks, the 2007 ACIS Annual Meeting website has been updated daily. If you have not yet registered for the conference, please do so now. Please note that participants should be aware of a number of additional activities have been noted on the "detailed schedule" including a pre-conference tour of the Irish apartment of the Tenement Museum, a book launch Friday afternoon, readings at the Irish Arts Center as well as other Friday evening options, and a pre-dinner tour of the South Street Seaport Museum's Irish-American boxing exhibit. For the pre-conference tour, please e-mail your interest to irish.conference@lehman.cuny.edu . That event is limited to 30. Check the "detailed schedule" now for phone numbers and websites for Friday night events. We look forward to welcoming you to New York.

Midwest Acis 2007 Meeting In Kansas City

Voices and Visions: Ireland Across Disciplines Midwest ACIS Conference: 18-20 October 2007 University of Missouri-Kansas City The American Conference for Irish Studies invites you to attend the thirty-first annual Midwest ACIS meeting centered on the theme Voices and Visions: Ireland Across Disciplines. This conference hopes to cross disciplinary lines to explore interactions among art, history, music, literature, cinema, and culture in Ireland from earliest times to the present. Plenary Speakers: Sighle Bhreathnach-Lynch, Curator of Irish Art, National Gallery of Art and author of Ireland?s Art / Ireland?s History: Representing Ireland (1845-Present) (2007), and of numerous articles on art and its role in Irish national identity. Pat Collins, director of over thirteen documentaries including the award winning John McGahern: A Private World (2005), Frank O?Connor: A Lonely Voice (2004), Tory Island (2003), Talking to the Dead (2000), and most recently a documentary on the Irish language poet Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill. Harry White, Professor of Music at University College Dublin and author of The Keeper?s Recital (1998), The Progress of Music in Ireland (2005) and Music and the Irish Literary Imagination (forthcoming). The conference welcomes papers on any aspect of Irish studies from new or present ACIS members. Please propose twenty-minute papers in 250-300 word abstracts in .pdf or .doc format to Joan Dean, at deanj@umkc.edu by August 1, 2007. Include your name, institutional affiliation, and contact information in that document, as well as in the body of your email. (To join ACIS, see http://www.acisweb.com/members.php?type=join) The University of Missouri-Kansas City, host to this year?s Midwest meeting, is in the heart of Kansas City. The conference will begin with a plenary lecture at the Nelson-Atkins Museum at 6 p.m. on Thursday, October 18 and conclude on Saturday evening, October 20 with a performance by the Elders. ?You know you know the way to Kansas City.? -Van Morrison

Irish Art History Masters At Trinity College Dublin

M.PHIL. IN IRISH ART HISTORY This full-time one-year taught Masters degree was developed in response to growing international interest in Irish art and consequent demand for research and educational opportunities in the discipline. Presented by triarc - the Irish Art Research Centre in the History of Art Department - the programme comprises a range of courses designed to explore traditions and innovations in Irish painting, sculpture, architecture and other visual media in their national and international context, and in relation to other disciplines. The course is assessed through coursework assignments and a dissertation. Students will also be introduced to selected technical skills relevant to the art historian in the digital age. In exploring a visual culture that spans several millennia, the exceptional examples of Irish art and architecture - on campus (like the Book of Kells) and within easy walking distance of Trinity College (such as the National Gallery of Ireland and National Museum of Ireland), as well as elsewhere in the country - provide an invaluable resource enabling unmatched opportunities for the first hand study of Irish art. Applicants should have a good honours degree in a cognate discipline. Deadline for application is 30th April 2007. For information, please consult: www.triarc.ie or contact the course co-ordinator Dr. Yvonne Scott, scotty@tcd.ie, tel: 353 1 896 2480.

? The Internationalization Of Irish Drama, 1975-2005 - Three Doctoral Fellowships

Positions available (3) for Doctoral Researchers at Trinity College Dublin and the National University of Ireland, Galway (2007-2010) This project will establish an inter-institutional Research Team to explore the internationalization of Irish drama since 1975. The Research Team will locate the development of Irish theatrical culture during this period in a comparative international context, with a major focus on Ireland?s changing relationships with the wider world. Three doctoral fellowships will be available: Doctoral Researcher 1: ?The interaction of national and international theatre in the Dublin Theatre Festival, 1975-2005?. (Moore Institute, NUI Galway). Doctoral Researcher 2 . ?Druid Theatre, Regionalization, and Internationalization in Irish Culture, 1975-2005?. (Moore Institute, NUI Galway) Doctoral Researcher 3 : ?The Abbey Theatre on International Stages, 1975-2005?. ( School of English, Trinity College Dublin). Each doctoral researcher will be provided with a stipend of ?12,700 annually for three years, subject to terms and conditions. PhD tuition fees for three years will be paid by the project. Further Information For further information, please contact the project organisers: Professor Nicholas Grene, : ngrene@tcd.ie. and Dr Patrick Lonergan = patrick.lonergan@nuigalway.ie

Chicago Irish Film Festival, March 2-7, 2007

The festival welcomes actor Gerard McSorley for Friday night's opening reception and showing of "Middletown". The American Conference for Irish Studies is again a sponsor for this year's Chicago Irish Film Festival, a program of the Beverly Art Center on the southside of Chicago, http://www.beverlyartcenter.org . Many new Irish films, both full-length and short, will be featured. As part of the festival, on Saturday afternoon, ACIS Vice-President Dr. Jos? Lanters will discuss two films featuring Travellers, "Pavee Lackeen" and "No Resting Place", following the showings. On Sunday afternoon, Dr. Michael Patrick Gillespie will lead the audience in a discussion of the classic "Irish and Proud of It", followed by Dr. Andrew Kincaid?s discussion of the new Irish film "A Fallow Land". Check the website below for further information about the screenings. Student discount tickets are available.

Call For Papers "the New Irish"

The Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, in the Department of Humanities, Dundalk Institute of Technology, is pleased to announce its third annual conference. The theme of the conference is ?The New Irish?. Over the past decade, Ireland has changed from a country of emigration to a country of immigration, the booming economy and burgeoning self-confidence becoming the new trademarks of Irish society. The Irish Constitution has (officially) opened up Irish identity to members of Irish diaspora all over the world and acknowledged the presence of an opposing tradition in Northern Ireland. Economic opportunity and democratic stability have attracted large scale immigration, consisting both of returning members of the Irish diaspora and those with no former connection to Ireland, with profound implications for the cultural composition of Irish society. The debate around, and results of, the seminal 2004 citizenship referendum signalled an underlying unease about immigration ? even in the midst of unprecedented material prosperity. What effects are these momentous changes having on concepts and definitions of Irishness? Is there a willingness on the part of Irish society to open itself up to and engage with the opportunities offered by immigration? What role does the Irish diaspora have to play in reshaping and developing narratives of Irish identity? How are young Irish people ? the Pope?s Children, unscarred by economic deprivation and the threat of enforced emigration ? grappling with the challenges of formulating identity in an increasingly globalized world? In short, the questions facing Irish society and its leaders is this: Who are the ?New Irish?? This conference hopes to open a dialogue on the identity and the representation of the ?New Irish?. We welcome contributions from the fields of literature, literary theory, cultural studies, linguistics, film, media, visual arts, theatre, music, archaeology, history, geography, politics, economics, social policy, sociology and community studies.

Mphil At Trinity College, Dublin In Ethnic And Racial Studies

MPHIL IN ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES ?This course is quite simply outstanding and an international leader in the field? ? Prof Les Back, Goldsmith College London (external examiner). Applications are invited for the MPhil in Ethnic and Racial Studies. This full time one-year taught programme, the only one of its kind in Ireland, consists of two core courses and seven one-term courses plus a dissertation which is submitted in September. It attracts a diverse body of international, Irish and EU students. Applicants should have a good primary degree in the social sciences or have a social science component in their primary degree; in exceptional cases applicants with relevant experience may be considered. The programme is ideally suited to public and voluntary sector workers. Graduates are well placed in key social policy and research positions in Ireland and abroad. Deadline for application is 30 April 2007. For information please consult http://www.ethnicracialstudies.net/, or contact the course coordinator, Dr Ronit Lentin, rlentin@tcd.ie, tel. 353 1 8962766.

Lectureship In Irish Traditional Music At Queen's University Belfast

Martin Dowling has recently been appointed Lecturer in Irish Traditional Music in the School of Music and Sonic Arts in Queen?s University Belfast (www.music.qub.ack.uk). The appointment represents an important development in a School that has highly regarded programmes in musicology, composition, and performance and is home to the world-class centre for music technology, the Sonic Arts Research Centre (www.sarc.qub.ac.uk). The appointment comes just as Dr Dowling completed post-doctoral research projects on the history and sociology of Irish traditional music in University College Dublin. In the coming year he will be offering courses on the history and musicology of Irish traditional music, and over the course of the next three years he will be developing courses in ethnomusicology, performance, and an MA in Irish Traditional Music. You can read more about the programme here (www.mu.qub.ac.uk/Staff/AcademicStaff). Queen?s University is now a great place to study Irish traditional music, whether as part of a Batchelor in Music degree or Bachelor of Arts degree in conjunction with other subjects. In the heart of Belfast, students will find one of the liveliest traditional music scenes in Ireland, with a vigorous session culture and inspiring festivals. The library at Queen?s holds a rich and growing store of resources, including the papers on the important collector Edward Bunting and one of the world?s largest collections of Thomas Moore?s published musical works. All this is in a school where composition, performance, musicology, and music technology are pursued in one the campus?s oldest and most charming buildings and in the state-of-the-art Sonic Arts Research Centre. If you or anyone you know who is interested in traditional Irish music at Queen?s University Belfast, please contact m.dowling@qub.ac.uk

Visiting Fulbright Irish Scholar, Notre Dame

Fulbright Visiting Scholars in the Irish Language at the University of Notre Dame For the 2007 ? 2008 academic year, the Fulbright Commission is introducing a Fulbright Visiting Scholar Award in the Irish Language at the University of Notre Dame (Indiana). This award is being made possible due to the generous support of the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs and the University of Notre Dame. This award supports recent initiatives by the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs to promote the Irish Language in the United States. Applications are invited from established academics and, or professionals with a proven proficiency in the Irish language and the teaching and research experience desired by the host institution. At the University of Notre Dame (Indiana), the scholar will be based in the Department of Irish Language and Literature and focus on modern/contemporary literature. The teaching load for the academic year is two courses per term/semester. The exact nature of the grant activity and responsibilities will be negotiated and agreed between the successful candidate and the host institution. Each scholar will receive a maximum grant of ?70,000 and accident and emergency insurance for the full academic year paid in 2 instalments by the Fulbright Commission in Dublin. Notre Dame will provide the scholar with an office and full administrative support, in addition to on-campus accommodation and one round trip ticket to/from Chicago. Guidelines for Applicants and the Application Form are available on the Fulbright Commission?s website www.fulbright.ie or may be requested by email from info@fulbright.ie CLOSING DATE FOR RECEIPT OF COMPLETED APPLICATIONS IS 17h00 FRIDAY 9TH FEBRUARY 2007. No late applications will be considered. For further information please contact: Marianne Doyle, Administrator, The Fulbright Commission, Brooklawn House, Crampton Avenue, Shelbourne Road, Dublin 4, Ireland Email: info@fulbright.ie Tel: +353-1-6607670 Fax: +353-1-6607668 Website: www.fulbright.ie.

Norton Critical Editions: Modern Irish Drama

The Norton Critical Edition volume Modern Irish Drama was published in 1991 and has been widely used since as a resource in the teaching and study of contemporary Irish theater. In 15 years, the literature of theater in Ireland, the practice of Irish theater, and its cultural context have all changed significantly. In order to maintain a volume best suited for the purposes of readers and teachers, W. W. Norton is planning a new and updated edition of Modern Irish Drama. As before, its contents will be designed to represent the literature of Irish Theater of the 20th century with a combination of primary texts, secondary resources, and critical resources. To help design the volume that will be best suited to your needs, please provide information at the web site used by Norton for this specific volume by March 1: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=294703130228

Acis Southern Regional 2007 Conference Details

To find out more about the ACIS Southern Regional 2007 Conference, which will be held at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC, on March 8-10, please follow this link: http://faculty.winthrop.edu/nearym/irish/ACIS.htm

M L A Conference A C I S / Joyce Party

The ACIS and the Joyce Society will host a reception at the MLA in Philadelphi this year, on Friday, 29 December. from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. In the suite of Joseph Lennon Residence Inn by Marriott One East Penn Square Tel: 215-557-0005. Hosted by Margot Norris and Joseph Lennon

A C I S At The M L A, Philadelphia, 2006

The ACIS will host 2 panels at the MLA (Modern Language Association) conference in Philadelphia, December 2006. Thursday, 28 December 336. Gender and Minor Literature in the Irish Literary Revival 7:15?8:30 p.m., 310, Philadelphia Marriott Program arranged by the American Conference for Irish Studies Presiding: Daniel Eugene Tobin, Emerson Coll. 1. ?Gendering the Revival: Minor Realism in the Fin de Si?cle Irish Novel,? Alison D. Harvey, Univ. of California, Los Angeles 2. ?Minor Literature Comes of Age: The Childhood State(s) in Lady Gregory?s Drama,? Kathryn A. Stelmach, Pitzer Coll. 3. ?Masculinity, Self-Improvement, and Irish Revivalism,? Gregory R. Castle, Arizona State Univ., Tempe Saturday, 30 December 720. Irish Writers, Foreign Audiences 12:00 noon?1:15 p.m., 406, Philadelphia Marriott Program arranged by the American Conference for Irish Studies Presiding: Kristine Ann Byron, Michigan State Univ. 1. ?Putting Words in Molly?s Mouth: Joyce?s ?Penelope? in French,? Kim Allen Gleed, Binghamton Univ., State Univ. of New York 2. ??Life Just Is like That?: Martin McDonagh and the Formation of Estonian Identity,? Kersti Tarien Powell, Wake Forest Univ. 3. ?Irish Film, at Home and Abroad,? Christy L. Burns, Coll. of William and Mary Please email Joseph Lennon for abstracts: joseph.lennon@manhattan.edu

Acis Book Prizes For 2006

Information about the 2006 ACIS Book Prizes is available on the ACIS website. Click on "Prizes" and go to "Prize Guidelines" for all the details about rules, deadlines, and committees.

"the Wind That Shakes The Barley" At The Aha

ACIS members attending the American Historical Association meeting in Atlanta may want to mark their calendars for a session cosponsored by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Association, entitled "Radical Historians and Radical Movies: Making Ken Loach's "The Wind that Shakes the Barley." The session will feature a screening of this acclaimed film about the Irish War of Independence and Civil War, as well as a panel discussion. It will take place on Saturday, January 6, from 6:00 pm-9:00 pm, in the Westin, Atlanta Ballrooms B&C. The panel discussion will be chaired by Eliza Jane Reilly of Franklin and Marshall College and co-chair of the Radical History Review's Editorial Collective, and featuring Donal O'Drisceoil of University College, Cork, who served as historical advisor to Loach in the making of the film; Van Gosse of Franklin and Marshall College and member of the RHR Editorial Collective; and Conor McGrady, artist and also a member of the RHR Editorial Collective. For further information, contact Tim McMahon, History Representative, at timothy.g.mcmahon@marquette.edu.

"fighting Irishmen: A Celebration Of The Celtic Warrior"

On Saturday, April 21 at 6:00PM delegates and guests of The 45th Annual Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies are welcome to a private tour of "Fighting Irishmen: A Celebration of the Celtic Warrior" at the South Street Seaport Museum. The exhibition, provides access to a unique history of Irish-America's contribution to the sport of boxing and features stories of many notable prizefighters including Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney. The exhibition is presented in the historic Seaport district by the Irish Arts Center (with Honorary Chair, Academy Award nominee Liam Neeson) in partnership with the South Street Seaport Museum. The South Street Seaport Museum is located at 12 Fulton Street, New York, NY 10038. for more information see www.southstreetseaportmuseum.org Note: This free event will take place across the street from the restaurant where the annual ACIS banquet will take place at 7:00PM.

National Acis Meeting Update

The deadline has now passed for submission of proposals for ACIS 2007 (National ACIS Meeting). The General Conference Committee was delighted with the excellent response. All those who e-mailed a proposal should have received confirmation by now that it was received. The proposals are currently in the hands of the Conference Program Committee. Since we expect the conference to sell out, we would encourage all interested to register as soon as possible. See http://www.lehman.edu/cunyiias . Lastly, as of November 27, 2006, rooms remain available at our recommended hotels. See the above website for hotel contact information. It should be noted that our block of rooms at the Comfort Inn have all been taken by ACIS members. Please carefully check the prices at all recommended hotels. It appears that the prices remain the same at LaQuinta, Red Roof, Hotel Stanford, and Hotel Grand Union. Additional available rooms at the Comfort Inn that are not in the ACIS block will be given to participants at a 10% discount if you mention CUNY/ACIS (ask for Tony). However, this price is still considerably higher than LaQuinta, Red Roof, Hotel Stanford, and Hotel Grand Union. See you in April -- The Staff of the CUNY Institute for Irish-American Studies

Southern Regional Meeting: A Correction

The ACIS Southern Regional Meeting for 2007 will be held at Winthrop University from March 8-10, 2007. The conference host is Marguerite Quintelli-Neary (nearym@winthrop.edu). Selected Conference papers will be published in forthcoming issues of Working Papers in Irish Studies, published by Winthrop University. Featured conference speakers will include Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill and Fintan O'Toole. In the recent Newsletter, the Irish in the Atlantic World Conference was misidentified as a second Southern ACIS Regional Conference: it is an Irish Studies conference that is taking place in the South; however, it is not the Southern Regional. The Southern Regional is being hosted by Winthrop University.

Position Opening

Chaired Professor of Post-1945 Literatures written in English University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of English and Comparative Literature http://english.unc.edu/ The Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications from senior scholars for the Peter G. Phialas Professorship in any Post-1945 Literatures written in English. We seek a distinguished scholar with a proven record and ongoing commitment to excellence in publication and teaching. Applications and at least 4 letters of recommendation should be sent by January 15, 2007 to Professor James Thompson, Chair Department of English and Comparative Literature 200 Greenlaw Hall, CB# 3520 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3520 We will interview finalists on campus. uthomp@email.unc.edu.

Position Opening

Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Literature and Theory University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of English and Comparative Literature http://english.unc.edu/ The Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applicants for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in postcolonial literature and theory. We seek a scholar and teacher of outstanding promise; responsibilities include teaching undergraduate and graduate courses and scholarly productivity in the area of specialization. Candidates with Ph.D. are preferred. Applications, including at least 4 letters of recommendation and a writing sample should be sent to Professor James Thompson, Chair Department of English and Comparative Literature 200 Greenlaw Hall, CB# 3520 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3520 Deadline for consideration of applications is December 1, 2006. We will interview candidates at the Philadelphia MLA meeting in December. James Thompson, Professor of English and Chair, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 27599-3520; Phone 919 962 6872; Fax 919 962 3520; uthomp@email.unc.edu.

Job Opening At Southern Illinois University

Assistant or Associate Professor of Irish and Irish Immigration Studies

The English Department at Southern Illinois University Carbondale seeks applicants for a full-time, tenure-track position at the rank of either Assistant or Associate Professor with expertise in the literature and culture of Ireland and Irish immigration. At the level of Assistant Professor, applicants must have the Ph.D. in English before the date of appointment; if all requirements have not been completed, a one-year term appointment at the rank of Instructor may be offered. Applicants who seek an appointment at the Associate level must have, in addition to a completed Ph.D. in English, a record of scholarly research and evidence of relevant teaching experience. Principal responsibilities will include teaching undergraduate and graduate level courses, maintaining a successful research record in the area of expertise, and serving on departmental, college, and/or university committees.

Send letter of application and current curriculum vitae to Professor Charles Fanning, Irish Studies Search, Department of English, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 1000 Faner Drive, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, Mail Code 4503. Postmark deadline for applications is November 1, 2006, or until the position is filled. Appointment will begin August 16, 2007.

SIUC is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer that strives to enhance its ability to develop a diverse faculty and staff and to increase its potential to serve a diverse student population.

http://www.siu.edu/departments/english.

Please Note: The English department position in Irish studies at Southern Illinois requires expertise in ANY area of Irish literary studies. Irish immigration studies is one possible area, but not a necessary expertise for this hire. I'm sorry for any misunderstanding. If in doubt, please apply!

Charles Fanning
Professor of English and History and Distinguished Scholar
Director of Irish and Irish Immigration Studies
Southern Illinois University Carbondale

A Senior Appointment (job Opening) In Irish Studies

The University of North Florida seeks to hire as DIRECTOR OF IRISH STUDIES a Professor or Associate Professor of English, appointment to begin August 2007. Requirements: Ph.D. in English or Comparative Literature; a specialty within the field of Irish literature; broad knowledge of Irish literature and culture; a record of outstanding teaching and scholarship; organizational and entrepreneurial skills. Expertise in additional, especially contiguous, areas of study welcome. Two-two teaching schedule. Salary: competitive, negotiable. To apply, complete a one-page online application at http://www.unfjobs.org (position #335000) and provide by mail a letter of application, a current CV and three letters of recommendation. Postmark deadline for applications: October 30, 2006. Nominations/applications/inquiries to: Richard Bizot, Chair Irish Studies Search Committee Department of English University of North Florida 4567 St. Johns Bluff Road, South Jacksonville, FL 32224-2645 U.S.A. For further information contact Richard Bizot at rbizot@unf.edu. UNF is an Equal Opportuity/Equal Access/Affirmative Action Institution.

American Premiere Of Mccartney's Play "heritage"

The University of Central Oklahoma Department of Theatre, Dance & Media Arts will be staging the North American premiere of Irish playwright Nicola McCartney`s "Heritage" at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 21 through Sept. 23, and at 2 p.m. Sept. 24 in UCO?s Mitchell Hall Theater. This play is directed by ACIS Member Charlotte Headrick of Oregon State University.

Update On Acis 2007

The 45th Annual Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies will be hosted by the CUNY Institute for Irish-American Studies from April 18-21, 2007 at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. Posters with the call for papers were handed out last year in St. Louis. At the beginning of the summer, the call and information concerning hotels were mailed to all ACIS members. The deadline for the CFP is November 15, 2006. The CFP can be found at www.acisweb.com and www.lehman.edu/cunyiias . The theme of the conference is "Ireland and the Americas." Highlights from the conference include plenaries by Elizabeth Cullingford, Kevin Kenny, Mick Moloney, and Kenneth Nilsen. Wednesday evening will feature a reception hosted by the Irish Consulate. Thursday evening participants will be treated to a performance of traditional Irish-American music organized by the Ph.D. Program in Ethnomusicology at the Graduate Center. Saturday evening we will close the conference with a banquet at the Harbour Lights Restaurant on Pier 17, South Street Seaport. Frank McCourt will be the dinner speaker. We remind those planning to attend to make their hotel reservations as soon as possible directly with the selected hotels. Any questions can be directed to cunyiias@lehman.cuny.edu or by calling 718-960-6722.

Cfp For Working Papers In Irish Studies

Working Papers in Irish Studies is now accepting papers for the 2007 volume. The theme for this new collection of essays is Irish Selections: Recognizing Irish Achievements in Literature, the Arts, and Social Sciences. The deadline for submissions is March 31, 2007. Contributors may send three hard copies and a disk or CD to the following address: Marguerite Quintelli-Neary,Editor Working Papers in Irish Studies English Dept., Bancroft 250 Winthrop University Rock Hill, SC 29733

Fellowship In Franco-irish Studies

Due to a successful application for funding, another postgraduate Fellowship has become available at the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies.

The topic to be examined for a research Masters (with the possibility of transfer to PhD register) is the following: "The Impact of Secularism on Catholic practise in France and Ireland." The successful candidate will receive a monthly tax free stipend of 985 Euro for 24 months (36, if transferred to PhD register) and should have at least a 2:1 Honours primary degree in a suitable discipline. A good working knowledge of French is essential. Interested parties can send a CV and a covering letter before the 31st of August 2006 to:

Dr. Eamon Maher, Director
National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies
ITT Dublin
Tallaght
Dublin 24
E-Mail: eamon.maher@ittdublin.ie
Phone: + 353 (0)1 4042871
http://www.it-tallaght.ie/humanities/research/eamonmaher/

Acis Grant Form Now Online

The application form for ACIS grants is now available via the ACIS web site. Links to information about the grants and to the form itself can be found under the main "About," "Members," and "Resources" menus.

Association For Franco Irish Studies

Following on the organisation of 2 successful conferences in ITT Dublin and University College Cork by the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies (http://www.it-tallaght.ie/humanities/languages/francoirishstudies/) it is considered timely that we establish an Association for Franco-Irish Studies (AFIS). Dr John McDonagh, currently Treasurer of IASIL, has kindly agreed to act as Treasurer for this group which you are cordially invited to join. Details are provided in the attachment or by clicking on the link: http://www.it-tallaght.ie/humanities/languages/francoirishstudies/afismember ship/ Those of you wishing to avail of Paypal should send Dr McDonagh an e-mail (john.mcdonagh@mic.ul.ie) stating the amount you want to pay and then it will be automatically debited to your account. All other queries can be addressed to me. We look forward to a healthy response and a vibrant association.

Late Notice: Druidsynge At Guthrie In Minneapolis And Lincoln Center

DruidSynge 2006 From Inis Me?in to Minneapolis & Manhattan In what is sure to be one of the most anticipated theatrical offerings in North America this year, the Guthrie Theatre Minneapolis ( 27th June - 1st July) and the Lincoln Center Festival New York (10th - 23rd July) will present Ireland's acclaimed Druid Theatre Company in DruidSynge, an epic traversal of the complete plays of John Millington Synge in a single day. Directed by Garry Hynes, Druid Theatre's Artistic Director, and featuring a company of 19 actors, DruidSynge was hailed by The Irish Times as "one of the greatest achievements in the history of Irish theatre." Hynes was the first woman ever to win a Tony Award as Best Director, for Druid's 1998 Broadway production of playwright Martin McDonagh's The Beauty Queen of Leenane. First presented in Galway in 2005, DruidSynge has been acclaimed by critics on both sides of the Atlantic; The New York Times described DruidSynge as "breathtaking," while The Scotsman termed it "a colossal achievement... wonderful... the beauty, energy and complexity are formidable." Among the ensemble of distinguished actors is Marie Mullen, familiar to New York audiences for her Tony Award-winning performance in The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Druid's first production on Broadway. Though perhaps best known as the author of The Playboy of the Western World, widely recognized as a masterwork of world drama, Synge wrote a total of six plays exploring aspects of the Irish experience in the late 19th century and is one of his homeland's greatest and most influential playwrights. The Druid Theatre Company is one of the world's foremost interpreters of Synge and has staged individual productions of his work that are considered definitive. In Lincoln Center Festival, DruidSynge will present all six plays in one day, with the cycle beginning at 2:00 p.m. with Riders to the Sea, The Tinker's Wedding, The Well of the Saints and The Shadow of the Glen. Following a dinner break (of approximately 80 minutes), the cycle will resume at 7:00 p.m. with The Playboy of the Western World and Deirdre of the Sorrows. The performance ends at approximately 10:30 p.m. Tickets for DruidSynge will be sold for the complete, all-day cycle only; tickets will not be available for individual plays in the event. At Guthrie, DruidSynge may be enjoyed either as one-day event as above or as a series of double-bills on consecutive evenings - Riders to the Sea/ Deirdre of the Sorrows; The Tinker's Wedding/ The Well of the Saints and The Shadow of the Glen/The Playboy of the Western World commencing at 7.30pm and concluding no later than 7.30pm. DruidSynge premiered at the 2005 Galway Arts Festival, opening at the city's Town Hall Theatre, followed by performances in Dublin and at the Edinburgh International Festival before concluding its 2005 run with a week of performances on the Aran island of Inis Meain in a range of locations including a unique open-air setting at Dun Chonchur (a large circular walled fortress). Individual plays in the DruidSynge cycle have also been presented by the Druid company in theaters located where the plays are set as well as on each of the three Aran Islands, whose landscape and community are synonymous with Synge. Lincoln Center Festival Director Nigel Redden described DruidSynge as 'one of THE highlights of the 2006 Festival and a most eagerly anticipated event'. Guthrie Artistic Director Joe Dowling said 'it is indeed a thrill to bring this celebrated work to the Guthrie. I'm quite proud that Guthrie is offering this stunning work from my native country to America for the first time'. For more information on DruidSynge please check out www.druidsynge.com Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis 27th June - 1st July 2006 www.guthrietheater.org DruidSynge at the Lincoln Center Festival, New York 10th - 23rd July 2006

Acis2007 National Meeting Website

The next Annual General Meeting of ACIS, April 18-21, 2007, will be hosted by the CUNY Institute for Irish-American Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. The Call for Papers and hotel information is now available on-line at http://www.lehman.edu/cunyiias/ (click on the ACIS2007 photo). While the deadline for proposals is not until November 15, 2006, members are encouraged to make hotel reservations now while accommodations exist within walking distance and at a reasonable price. This information is also currently being mailed to members via USPS. The

Extended Deadline, Transnationalism In Irish Women's Fiction

CFP: ?Gibraltar as a Girl?: Cosmopolitanism and Transnationalism in Irish Women's Fiction We are seeking articles for a collection focusing on transnational content and context in modern Irish and Anglo-Irish fiction by women. Studies of Irish women's fiction published over the past decade have done important work by exploring the various relationships between gender and nationalism that Irish women have addressed in their fictional narratives. Extending and revising this significant body of scholarship, this collection will consider the ways in which issues of internationalism, cosmopolitanism, and transnationalism inform, enrich, and complicate fiction by Irish women. It will thus also address how traditional (and implicitly male-centered) rubrics of Irish nationalism and transnationalism have obscured or misinterpreted these contributions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ?Transnational literature that recuperates cosmopolitan Irish identities formerly subsumed by nationalist paradigms ?Studies of how and where women?s texts have challenged standard alignments of cosmopolitan or exilic mobility and modern or postmodern poetics ?Domestic spaces traversed by national and international figures, communities, and interests ?Texts that negotiate the interplay of transnational and Irish national identities ?Texts that explore the interplay of gender and transnational issues ?Globalization and Romance: remapping the gendering of form ?Travel writing/writing travel: Irish women on the move While canonical figures such as Elizabeth Bowen are of particular interest, we are open to studies of any modern Irish or Anglo-Irish women authors. Inquiries regarding this collection can be forwarded to the co-editors by email: Kate Costello-Sullivan, Le Moyne College, sullivkp@lemoyne.edu or Nels C. Pearson, Tennessee State University, npearson@tnstate.edu Editors request the submission of completed manuscripts (18-25 pp), in duplicate, by August 15, 2006 to: Dr. Kate Costello-Sullivan Assistant Professor, English Dept. Director, Irish Lit Program Le Moyne College 1419 Salt Springs Road Syracuse, NY 13214

Irish Language Courses In Galway And On-line

The Institute for Irish-American Studies of the City University of New York continues to offer innovative ways to study the Irish language. Late Registration for the Summer Study Abroad program in Connemara, Ireland, ends June 15. Elementary Irish One and Two (6 credits or audit) in An Cheathr? Rua/Carraroe will run from July 21 to August 18. Early Registration for the CUNY-IIAS Fall 2006 on-line Elementary Irish One class with Elaine N? Bhraon?in is currently underway. Last fall, 26 students registered for this class from throughout the United States. Elementary Irish Three will also be offered in the fall. Elementary Irish Two will be offered in Spring 2007. As a result of a generous grant from the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, CUNY-IIAS will also begin offering intermediate level courses in 2007 and literature courses in 2008 through the medium of Irish. Visit www.lehman.edu/cunyiias/ for more information. You can also e-mail cunyiias@lehman.cuny.edu or call 718-960-5531 for more information on this year's programs. All classes can be taken for college credit or as adult education.

Joyce In Austin 2007

JOYCE IN AUSTIN June 13-17, 2007 The 2007 North American Joyce Conference Endorsed by the International James Joyce Foundation The University of Texas at Austin: The Department of English The College of Liberal Arts The Harry Ransom Center The University Co-op Society To honor the lifetime achievement of Tom Staley, the 2007 Joyce Conference will be hosted by the English Department of The University of Texas at Austin. The event will feature plenary presentations and readings by Vicki Mahaffey, Paul Muldoon, Tom Staley, and Sean Walsh; a round-table discussion with all the plenary speakers; academic panels on Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Bowen, Tom Stoppard, contemporary Irish poetry, and such other Joyce-related topics as film, the Harry Ransom Center, music, race, Shakespeare, ?the wake of the Wake,? and gender; a performance of Stoppard?s Travesties by the Austin Shakespeare Festival; Joycean music and film; an exhibit of Joyce and Stoppard holdings at the Harry Ransom Center; a boat cruise on Town Lake. We welcome proposals and abstracts for both additional panels and individual papers, and especially encourage submissions of work linked in some way to the Harry Ransom Center holdings. Please send inquiries concerning the conference, requests to be added to the mailing list, and proposals for papers and panels to: Alan Friedman, friedman@uts.cc.utexas.edu OR Charles Rossman, rossman@mail.utexas.edu The University of Texas Department of English 1 University Station B5000 Austin, TX 787812 We anticipate publishing sets of carefully selected conference papers in special issues of both TSLL and JJQ.

Rss Feeds For News And Cfps Now Available

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Ma In Contemporary Migration And Diaspora Studies

MA in Contemporary Migration and Diaspora Studies University College Cork The MA in Contemporary Migration and Diaspora Studies is an exciting new, inter-disciplinary taught programme addressing all aspects of migration, integration and diaspora studies in Ireland. The programme will aim to: * equip students with a thorough knowledge of the major theoretical and empirical issues in migration and diaspora studies today * equip students with an understanding of the significance of migration and diaspora debates for Irish and European society today, with reference to policy and legal perspectives, geographical and social science debates, diaspora and Irish identity, new communities, and a range of specific applied issues in connection with rights, identities, citizenship, status and welfare * train students in a range of specific skills-based social science research methodologies * enable students to deploy these skills by means of a dissertation using a range of theoretical, empirical, policy and action research perspectives Multi-disciplinary Teaching Staff Piaras Mac ?inr? (Programme Co-ordinator) Dr. Jim Mac Laughlin, Dr. Caitr?ona N? Laoire, Dr. Naomi Bushin, Dr. Allen White, Prof. Patrick O'Flanagan, Prof. W. Smyth, Dr. Denis Linehan (Department of Geography) Dr. Siobh?n Mullally (Faculty of Law) Dr. Angela Veale (Dept. of Applied Psychology) Visiting academic, NGO and Government speakers COURSE CONTENT Core Modules: Introduction to Migration and Diaspora Studies Research Methods and Sources in Migration and Diaspora Studies Case Studies and Current Issues in Migration and Diaspora Studies Dissertation (15,000 words) Electives Modules (2 to be taken): Immigration and Asylum Law Historical Geographies and Sociologies of Irish Migration Work Placement in NGO or other migration-related agency Duration: 1 year full-time APPLICATIONS and FURTHER INFORMATION Eligibility: A 2H2 degree in a relevant discipline (Applied Social Studies, Applied Psychology, History, Geography, Law, Politics, Sociology, or cognate disciplines e.g. Anthropology) or such other qualifications as may be deemed suitable by the Head of Department/Chair of Board of Studies, following consultation with the Departmental Graduate Studies Committee or Board of Studies. In exceptional cases and especially where an applicant has direct experience in a relevant voluntary or statutory capacity, an application will be considered from an individual without a relevant undergraduate degree. All applications must also be approved by the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences. How to apply? See http://www.ucc.ie/en/cke72/ for full details Closing Date for applications: 30 June 2006 For further information contact: Course Coordinator Piaras Mac ?inr? Department of Geography, University College Cork, Western Road, Cork Telephone 00353 21 4902889; Email: p.maceinri@ucc.ie

Doctoral Teaching Fellowships In English, Nui Galway

The Department of English at NUI Galway is offering up to six DOCTORAL TEACHING FELLOWSHIPS to the amount of EUR12,700 per annum for three years, subject to satisfactory progress. Details on the Department, the fellowships and the application procedure are available at the below site:

Postgraduate Fellowship

A second postgraduate Fellowship has become available in the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies (http://www.it-tallaght.ie/humanities/languages/francoirishstudies/ ) to work on the following theme: "John Broderick (1924-1989): Irish Writer in the French Tradition". A monthly stipend of ?740 will be payable for the 24 months the project lasts, plus ?2000 towards travelling expenses. Interested parties should have at lease a 2:1 Primary Honours Degree in the area of Irish Studies and/or French. A good working knowledge of French will be essential. A notice will be posted in the national media in the near future. Any queries should be addressed to: Dr. Eamon Maher, Director, National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies, ITT Dublin, Tallaght, Dublin 24 E-Mail: eamon.maher@ittdublin.ie Phone: + 353 (0)1 4042871

4 May 2006: Tom Phelan On Ireland's Forgotten Soldiers

East Meadow Public Library 1886 Front Street East Meadow, NY presents Tom Phelan "Forgotten Heroes: Ireland's World War I Soldiers" Thursday, May 4, 2006, 12:30 pm Tom Phelan discusses Ireland's World War I soldiers and reads from his latest novel, The Canal Bridge, which tells the tale of two Irish stretcher-bearers serving in the British army during the Great War. On one level, the book deals with the lives of young men caught up in the war, and the lovers and families they leave behind. On another level, it questions why Ireland's World War I veterans do not occupy an honored place in the pantheon of Irish heroes. The Irish Independent calls The Canal Bridge "another First World War masterpiece" and an "ambitious, accomplished and deeply moving contribution to Ireland's formidable corpus of fiction about the Great War." The Irish Emigrant says The Canal Bridge is a "masterful story" that "must be ranked among the more successful of the novels dealing with the First World War.? Books Ireland, the magazine of the Irish publishing industry, notes that Phelan has written a "powerful and deeply affecting novel." And Kevin Myers, columnist for the Irish Times, has described the book as "hauntingly beautiful.? Tom Phelan, whose works have been published in four countries and three languages, is also the author of the novels IN THE SEASON OF THE DAISIES, ISCARIOT, and DERRYCLONEY. He has written for the journal of the American Irish Historical Society and for NEWSDAY. His opinion piece, "Ireland's Lost Heroes," appeared in NEWSDAY in November 2005. Phelan has addressed audiences at scores of cultural, educational, and civic organizations in the U.S., Ireland, and England, including the Irish Writers Centre in Dublin, NYU Ireland House, the American Irish Historical Society, the American Conference for Irish Studies, and the American Association of University Women. In June, he will give a talk at the Irish Connections Festival in Canton, Massachusetts, and in July, he will take part in the West Cork Literary Festival in Bantry, Cork, Ireland. Born and raised on a farm in County Laois in the Irish midlands, Tom Phelan has also lived in England. He now makes his home on Long Island. For further information, please go to www.tomphelan.net. ###

Unique Irish Embroidery On Exhibit In Garden City, Ny

Award-winning Irish artisan Ann O'Brien's "A Unique Irish Embroidery: Mountmellick Work," an exhibit sponsored by the Irish Cultural Society, will hang in the art gallery of the Garden City Public Library, 60 Seventh Street, Garden City, NY, from March 1 - 30, 2006. Ann O?Brien, a resident of Mountmellick, County Laois, in the Irish midlands, is an expert in the unique type of embroidery known as Mountmellick Work, which builds on a tradition and craft developed over 150 years ago. This embroidery is the only form from the 19th century that can claim to be entirely Irish in origin and design. The craft was developed in the 1830s to provide a source of income for local women affected by the decline in the weaving industry. Mountmellick Work is a dimensional white-on-white embroidery done in white knitting cotton on a heavy white cotton satin jean. Motifs include a variety of natural floral designs, usually fairly large in scale, and pieces are often finished with buttonholed and fringed edges. Ann O'Brien initially learned about Mountmellick Work from her mother and the Presentation nuns who taught her in primary school. But for the most part, she is self-taught, searching for old pieces of this embroidery, researching old needlework books and patterns, and developing new designs that take the craft into the 21st century. Although many of Ann O'Brien?s designs are based on the flora found in the countryside around Mountmellick--including fuschia, lilies, blackberries, ferns, forget-me-nots, honeysuckle, and marguerites--her work is also influenced by world events. Her award-winning piece, ?Out of the Ashes,? which shows a phoenix arising from the ashes of September 11, marks a new era for Mountmellick Work. **On Tuesday, March 14, at 8 p.m., Ann O'Brien will speak about Mountmellick Work at the monthly meeting of the Irish Cultural Society, held in the Garden City Library. All are welcome. *** Note: You can read more about Mountmellick Work and see samples at www.mda-mdasi.com/heritagemuseum-page9935

Acis Conference Info Online

Detailed information about the National Meeting in St. Louis, including the conference program, is now available online.

IMPORTANT UPDATE:

The conference hotel?the Sheraton Clayton Plaza?is now fully booked. The following hotels have vacancies. Many of these are located at the St. Louis International Airport, approximately six miles from the conference hotel. We will provide morning and evening round-trip transportation from these hotels to the conference.

The following hotels had rooms available as of 8 March 2006

Holiday Inn St. Louis Airport - 314-427-4700 - As of 3/9/06 holding 10 Rooms @ $85.00 - Ask for ACIS GROUP RATE
Drury Inn St. Louis Airport - 1-800-378-7946
Pear Tree Inn St. Louis Airport ? 1-800-378-7946
Comfort Inn St. Louis Airport ? 314-427-7600
St. Louis Airport Hilton ? 314-426-5500

We will try to update this list as we learn of additional hotels.

Irish Theatrical Diaspora Conference

IRISH THEATRICAL DIASPORA CONFERENCE meets at Glucksman Ireland House, NYU on April 27-28, 2006. Presentations Thursday afternoon and all day Friday, with keynote speaker Mick Moloney, on ?Harrigan and Hart: Irish America and the Birth of the American Musical,? on Thursday, April 27, at 7:00pm. All events are free and open to the public. After successful annual meetings in Dublin and London, the third annual Irish Theatrical Diaspora conference meets at NYU with the topic of ?Irish Theater in America? in a spring of highly-publicized productions of Irish plays in New York. Organized by John P. Harrington, speakers include Christopher Berchild, Joan Fitzpatrick Dean, Claire Gleitman, Nicholas Grene, Peter Kuch, Patrick Lonergan, Lucy McDiarmid, Christina Mahony, and Maureen Murphy. Additional information and updates can be found at: Irish Theatrical Diaspora (www.itd.tcd.ie)

Chicago Irish Film Festival--march 3-8, 2006

The American Conference for Irish Studies is a sponsor for this year's Chicago Irish Film Festival, a program of the Beverly Art Center on the southside of Chicago (http://www.beverlyartcenter.org) As part of the festival, on Saturday afternoon, ACIS President Eamonn Wall, Vice-President Jos? Lanters, and Arts Representative Joan Fitzpatrick Dean will participate in a Film Forum discussion with the audience. See the website below for further information about the screenings. There are more confirmed films listed under the news link, including, for example, Martin McDonagh's Six Shooter. Contact M.A. Ryan for information about attending the festival.

Launch Of Making The Irish American

NYU Press and Glucksman Ireland House proudly launch Making the Irish American: History and Heritage of the Irish in the United States, edited by Prof. Joe Lee and Prof. Marion R. Casey. This substantial volume offers a feast of twenty-nine perspectives on the vital, endlessly fascinating story of the Irish in America. Combining original research with reprints of classic works, these essays offer a truly rich understanding of the Irish immigrant impact on America and America's impact on the Irish immigrant. Please visit the NYU Press website for details of how to order the volume at http://www.nyupress.org/product_info.php?products_id=3806

Trip To Ireland

The CUNY Institute for Irish-American Studies will once again sponsor a graduate level history course which will include lectures and tours to Ireland during spring recess 2006. Participants are welcome to take the course for graduate credit or just audit the course. For more information on Prof. Martin Burke's course, see http://www.lehman.edu/cunyiias/irihis.html . To see a half-hour documentary on last year's tour and lectures to Ireland, visit http://www.cuny.tv/series/studybest/index.lasso and click on show "Season Five, #3."

Southern Acis Feb 23-25, 2006

The Southern Regional ACIS conference will be held February 23-25, 2006 at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. Speakers include Eavan Boland (Feb 23), Margot Backus (Feb 24), and poets Vona Groarke and Conor O'Callaghan (Feb 25). Please see website for additional information and registration.

Spring Newsletter Deadline

The deadline for all material for the spring newsletter will be February 15. Electronic submissionsa re rpefered to: bill.mulligan@murraystate.edu.

Job At Unc Chapel Hill

The Department of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications from senior scholars for the Peter G. Phialas Professorship in Twentieth-Century British and/or American Literature. We seek a distinguished scholar with a proven record in teaching excellence, with an on-going commitment to a range of teaching. The field of specialization is open, but we especially invite scholars working in transatlantic, postcolonial, Anglophone diasporic, or American ethnic literatures to apply

Job At University Of Oregon

The University of Oregon English Department is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor in the field of Modern Irish Literature. We welcome in particular candidates whose scholarship engages issues of empire, colonialism, ethnicity, or race. We are interested in candidates who have research programs that complement those of an active, diverse, and interdisciplinary faculty, and who can teach graduate and undergraduate courses in the field. Minimum requirements: Ph.D. in English or related field in hand by time of appointment strongly preferred. Salary for this position is competitive. To learn more about the English Department, see http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~engl/

Third Annual Irish Studies Conference

The University of Sunderland. Third Annual Irish Studies Conference (incorporating the inaugural North East of England Celtic Studies Symposium) 11-13 November 2005 The Word, The Icon and The Ritual [ii] - Lands of Saints and Scholars University of Sunderland's Sir Tom Cowie Campus at Saint Peter's Keynote speakers include: Professor Luke Gibbons - University of Notre Dame Professor Robert Welch - University of Ulster Professor Michael O'Neill - University of Durham Professor Kevin Barry, NUI Galway Professor John Davies - University of Wales Ailbhe Smyth - University College Dublin This event, which combines an academic conference with a celebration of Irish culture, will include a book launch of the proceedings from former conferences, poetry readings by Ciaran Carson, Bernard O'Donoghue and Catherine Byron, exhibition dancing and a conference ceilidh. With thanks to the Irish Embassy, London, and the British Academy for their support. Beidh f?ilte romhat ag aon tam Contact: Dr Alison O'Malley-Younger - alison.younger@sunderland.ac.uk

Reopened Call For Papers

REOPENED Call for Papers "IRELAND AND MEMORY" MID-ATLANTIC REGIONAL AMERICAN CONFERENCE FOR IRISH STUDIES ANNUAL MEETING November 11th and 12th, 2005 Caspersen School of Graduate Studies Drew University Madison, New Jersey Several scholars have had to withdraw from the conference so we have space available to accommodate a few additional presentations. We encourage you to submit a proposal by Sept. 30 in order to be considered. The original CFP is below. Scholars have been writing about Ireland and memory from perspectives as diverse as those of Declan Kiberd and Roy Foster. The recent spate of commemorations and the battles over the preservation of Ireland's historical sites have heightened the attention paid to this most critical of issues. Clearly, the way in which Ireland and its culture are remembered both from within and without is contested space. This conference seeks to explore the many and varied "memories of Ireland" that constitute the current discourse about the past and future of Ireland. The conference committee is interested in a broad selection of submissions pertaining to all aspects of this question. The conference committee seeks submissions that will explore the diversity of memory and commemoration in Ireland past and present. The memories to be considered might encompass: ** *Immigrant memory* * Emigrant memory* * Commemoration* * Literary memory* * Role of tradition* * Historical preservation and presentation * * High, middle, and popular cultural memory * * Memory and Politics* While traditional literary and historical approaches are welcome, we hope as well to encourage papers and panels drawing on other academic disciplines, whether cultural studies, anthropology, art history, economics, sociology, political science, or linguistics. Interdisciplinary and comparative work is especially sought. * *Please submit proposals of up to 500 words along with a short (2 page) scholarly biography to the Conference Committee, care of Bill Rogers, fax: 973-408-3040. Proposals should be faxed, mailed or emailed by SEPTEMBER 30, 2005. Email proposals should use only Microsoft Word attachments or include the abstract and CV in the main body of the email text.

Call For Papers

Working Papers in Irish Studies is accepting papers for the 2006 volume. The theme will be Irish Appropriations and Misappropriations: Using Ireland in non-Irish literary, historical, political, and artistic contexts. Writers are advised to send three hard copies and a Word-compatible disk in the format of the discipline to the following address: Marguerite Quintelli-Neary Working Papers in Irish Studies English Dept., Bancroft 250 Winthrop University Rock Hill, SC 29733

Acis West 2005 Preliminary Program

The Preliminary Conference Program is available as a dowloadable PDF file via the link below. Additional information will also be found at http://www.oregonstate.edu/dept/theatre

New Title From Pickering & Chatto, Famine And Disease In Ireland

This is a five-volume edition edited by L A Clarkson and E Margaret Crawford (both of Queen?s University, Belfast). We anticipate that this edition will be of use to all historians of Ireland, as it gathers together rare historical material with new editorial matter to examine the relationship between famine, starvation and disease in a specifically Irish context. The first volume in this facsimile collection includes a reprint of the complete ?Table of Deaths?, part of the Census of Ireland for the year 1851. Including vital socioeconomic statistics, at its heart lies Sir William Wilde?s ?Table of Cosmical Phenomena, Epizootics, Epiphitics, Famines and Pestilences in Ireland?. The second volume contains reprints of Trevelyan?s The Irish Crisis (1848) and excerpts from the Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science (1849). Volumes 3 and 4 contain the complete text and statistics of Barker and Cheyne?s account of epidemic fevers in early nineteenth-century Ireland. Volume 5 rounds up the edition with descriptions of socioeconomic and medical conditions in Ireland in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, including rare texts by Jonathan Swift, John Rutty and William Harty. All documents are accompanied by a headnote and full textual annotation. There is also an extensive bibliography and a scholarly introduction which discusses the place of famine studies in Irish historiography. More information can be found at: www.pickeringchatto.co.uk/famine .

Acis West 2005 Registration Form

The Registration form for the 2005 Regional Meeting in Corvallis, OR can be downloaded via the link below. In addition to hotels noted on the registration form, conference participants may stay in dormitories at the University of Oregon for $22.50 a night, less if they bring their own sheets.

Sword Against The Sea (yeats Cuchulain Plays) Performed In Sligo

SummerStage, the professional repertory theatre company associated with Indiana State University, will be touring the world premiere production of Sword Against the Sea--an adaptation of Yeats' Cuchulain plays by Arthur Feinsod and directed by Sam McCready (former artistic director of the Lyric Theatre in Belfast)--to Sligo to be performed at the Hawk's Well Theatre on 6 August. The show also features Irish actor Ciaran McCauley of Blue Raincoat fame. This is a beautifully adapted, designed, directed, and performed production that excited audiences in Indiana with its bold production values. Our production, produced in cooperation with The Yeats Society (The Yeats International Summer School) and IT Sligo, will be performing only once in Ireland, at the Hawk's Well Theatre in Sligo on Saturday, 6 August at 8pm. More information can be found at: http://www.yeats-sligo.com/html/summer/readings.html and http://www.hawkswell.com/html/events.html and production shots can be viewed at: http://www.indstate.edu/theatre/summerstage05images.htm Chris Berchild Resident Dramaturg--SummerStage Assistant Professor of Theatre Indiana State University Department of Theatre thberch@isugw.indstate.edu

Two Paid Internship Positions

CUNY Institute for Irish-American Studies Interns (to begin September 1, 2005) Two Interns (College Assistants) Position Description: The position will require individuals to work on the Publishing in Irish America Project: 1820-1922. The part-time (20 hours per week) individuals will be responsible for scanning and converting brittle materials into digital images and text that will be mounted on the web for the public to read and research. Responsibilities include inventorying and evaluating books received from cooperating libraries, preparing books for scanning, scanning and converting the image to text, and archiving the digital materials. The Institute, located at Lehman College, has a lab with an OpticBook 3600 book scanner and a BookEye A2 Image Access book scanner. Interns will be trained on how to handle brittle books, operate scanners, and use associated software. Qualifications: Applicants should be majoring in comparative literature, computer science, English, history, Irish, linguistics, or a related field. Graduate students are preferred, but undergraduate students' applications will be considered. The individuals must have strong interpersonal and organizational skills. Positions are being offered pending expected funding. To apply, please send a cover letter and r?sum? to Prof. Thomas Ihde, Director, Institute for Irish-American Studies, Lehman College, CUNY, 250 Bedford Park Blvd. West, Bronx, NY 10468 or e-mail cunyiias@lehman.cuny.edu. Your cover letter should state your availability and two references. We will begin evaluating r?sum?s starting August 15, 2005.

Funded M.a. Opportunities

Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates to work on the following theme: "The French Connection: The Impact of Flaubert, Proust and Camus on the Fictions of John McGahern." This opening comes about as a result of funding awarded under the Strand I Postgraduate Programme to the National Centre of Franco-Irish Studies in IT Tallaght. The successful candidate will have her/his fees and registration covered and will receive a trainee allowance of 900 Euro a month for the 24 months it will take to complete the research. Applicants should ideally have a 2:1 Honours Degree or better in English (Irish Studies) and French (or at least demonstrate a competence in the latter). This opening will be advertised also in the national media during the month of August. Interested parties should submit a CV to: Dr. Eamon Maher, Director, National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies IT Tallaght E-mail: Eamon.maher@it-tallaght.ie Phone: 01-6287345 Mobile: 087-9846116

Distance Education Courses From Cunyiias

The CUNY Institute for Irish-American Studies is now taking registrations for its three distance education courses for Fall 2005. A graduate 3 credit course on Teaching about the Great Irish Famine intended for high school social studies teachers will be taught on-line with an in-person three-day weekend (Columbus Day Weekend) in New York City (Fitzpatrick Hotel). The instructor will be Prof. Maureen Murphy. The weekend will include visits to local sites commemorating the Great Famine. The course can be audited if desired. Twenty-four high school teachers and auditors from several states registered for our spring Great Irish Famine course lead by Prof. Martin Burke. Two undergraduate courses will also be offered. Elementary Irish I will be taught on-line by Ms. Elaine N? Bhraon?in and Elementary Irish III will be taught be Prof. Thomas Ihde. This is the fourth year that Lehman College offers Irish on-line and students have come from throughout North America and Europe as well in the past. The language courses includes lessons, discussions, audio files, audio tapes, video tapes, and optional conference phone calls.

2005-2006 Grants For Documenting Endangered Languages - An Interagency Partnership

Receipt Deadline: September 15, 2005 (for projects beginning in April 2006) Applicants may submit only one proposal per prospective project investigator at this deadline. Documenting Endangered Languages is a multi-year funding partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the support of projects to develop and advance knowledge concerning endangered human languages. The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History will participate in the partnership as a research host, a non-funding role. Funding will support fieldwork and other activities relevant to recording, documenting, and archiving endangered languages, including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples, and databases. Funding will be available in the form of one- to three-year project grants as well as fellowships for up to twelve months. At least half the available funding will be awarded to projects involving fieldwork. Awards are anticipated to include 12 Fellowships of $40,000 (for 9 ? 12 months) or $24,000 (for six to eight months) and up to 10 Standard and Continuing Grants ranging from $12,000 to $150,000 per year for one to three years. For Fellowship Grants: U.S. citizens are eligible to apply. Foreign nationals who have been living in the United States or its jurisdictions for at least the three years prior to the proposal deadline are also eligible to apply for fellowships. For Standard and Continuing Grants: Academic institutions and non-profit, non-academic organizations located in the United States are eligible. For-profit organizations are not eligible to apply to this program. However, personnel in for-profit organizations may participate as co-investigators. Application materials and instructions are available at: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05590/nsf05590.htm For more information, please contact: ? Joan Maling, Linguistics Program Director, Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences, Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, 995 N, telephone: (703) 292-8046, fax: (703) 292-9068, email: jmaling@nsf.gov ? Anna M. Kerttula, Arctic Social Sciences Program Director, Office of the Director, Office of Polar Programs, 755 S, telephone: (703) 292-7432, fax: (703) 292-9082, email: akerttul@nsf.gov ? Helen Aguera, Senior Program Officer, Preservation & Access, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20506, USA, telephone: (202) 606-8573, email: haguera@neh.gov

Irish History Position At Villanova University

Tenure-track, entry-level position, starting August 2006. PhD required by 9/1/06. 3-2 teaching load, including undergraduate and Master?s level electives in area of specialization. Specialty open but ability to teach early modern and modern history of Ireland, and introductory themes in world history (pre-modern or modern), required. Send application letter, graduate transcript, cv, three letters of recommendation, dissertation prospectus or abstract, and one article- or chapter-length writing sample to Dr. Lawrence Little, Chairperson, Irish History Search Committee, Department of History, Villanova University, Villanova, PA 19085-1699. Villanova is a Roman Catholic university sponsored by the Augustinian Order. An AA/EO employer, Villanova seeks a diverse faculty committed to scholarship, service, and especially teaching, who understand, respect, and can contribute to the University?s mission and values. Application postmark deadline: September 23, 2005.

The John Hewitt International Summer School 25 ? 30 July 2005

Every July in Northern Ireland a unique cross community and cross border cultural event takes place. It has nothing to do with dividing communities but instead encourages people to get to know each other and to enjoy a shared heritage of arts, culture and free discussion. It is known as the John Hewitt International Summer School.

The John Hewitt Summer School is an internationally renowned festival of literature and the arts, held in honour of Northern Irish poet, John Hewitt. It attracts up to 400 individuals, including many distinguished writers, artists, Government officials and individuals from all over Ireland, Britain, Europe and the United States. This year there will be over 25 distinct, though linked, cultural events taking place, including creative writing workshops, poetry study, discussion and readings, open debate, music, drama, film and visual arts. The 200International Summer School will again take place in Armagh at the Market Place Theatre. Contributors will include Hugh Orde, Chief Constable of the PSNI, Gillian Slovo, Pat Loughrey, Head of Regions (BBC), Terence Brown and Kevin Wheelan.

Attendance for the week costs $250. The Armagh Market Place Theatre box office (028 3752 1821) will assist with bookings and the Armagh Tourist Bureau (028 3752 1800) will assist with finding accommodation.

Postgraduate Research Studentship

UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER Postgraduate Research Studentship at the Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages A research studentship, attached to the Chair of Comparative Ethnology and Folk Life (Prof. Ullrich Kockel), is available at the University?s Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages. Applications are invited from UK, European Union and overseas students. Applicants must have or expect to obtain in summer 2005 the minimum of an upper second class honours degree (or equivalent) including an appropriate discipline, such as European ethnology, cultural/social anthropology, folkloristics, or cultural studies, and should be able to demonstrate skills and experience in field and/or archival work at or above the level expected of a good final year dissertation in the respective subject area. Successful candidates will enrol in September 2005, on a full-time programme of research studies leading to the award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The studentship will comprise fees and an annual stipend of ?12,000 and will be awarded for a period of up to three years subject to satisfactory progress. The studentship is tenable in the Faculty of Arts at the Magee Campus. The closing date for receipt of completed applications is 17th June 2005 Interviews will be held in early July 2005 Applicants should submit a completed research application form together with a research proposal on no more than two sides of A4, outlining their initial research questions, sources, and methodology. Proposals should address one or more of the following themes; comparative projects will be particularly welcome: --cultural encounters in the context of historical and contemporary migrations within the British Isles, and between the British Isles, Europe and North America --religious heritages in Ireland, and among the Irish Diaspora --heritage, tradition and identity in border regions and other ethnic frontiers --sustainable development of communities, localities and regions, involving heritage/traditions as resources --economy as culture, including informal economy relationships --alternative lifestyles, including the cultural impact of ?countercultural? immigrants --history of ideas in Irish and European ethnology Application materials are available at http://www.ulster.ac.uk/research/rps/forms/rs1.pdf and completed applications should be returned to: Hazel Campbell Research Office, University of Ulster, Cromore Road, Coleraine, BT52 1SA For a preliminary discussion of their project, applicants may contact Professor Kockel via e-mail (g.thornton@ulster.ac.uk).

New Journal: An Sionnach

CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY PRESS is proud to announce the launch of a new journal dedicated to all aspects of contemporary Irish Studies. An Sionnach: A Journal of Literature, Culture, and the Arts will publish serious articles, creative work, and reviews that will promote active discussion and provide in-depth analysis of developments in Irish Studies in the United States, Ireland, and Europe since 1958. Beginning with the Spring 2005 issue, this twice yearly, peer-reviewed journal will be the first journal devoted entirely to the critical enquiry of contemporary Irish Studies and the research and articulation of its rapidly shifting nature. SUBMISSIONS: The editors are currently accepting submissions and inquiries for our Fall 2005 issue.Two copies of your submission should be prepared according to either the Chicago Manual of Style or the MLA Style Sheet, double spaced, with your name appearing on a separate cover sheet so as to aid in the blind review process, and sent to: Dr. David Gardiner / Editor / An Sionnach: A Journal of Literature, Culture, and the Arts/Creighton University / Omaha, NE 68178/ USA.

46th W.b. Yeats International Summer School, Sligo

Sunday 31 July - Friday 12 August , 2005

Paul Muldoon And Postmodern Poetry

A conference in the School of English, University of Leeds, Friday 16th ? Saturday 17th September, 2005. The conference will bring together a number of distinguished scholars to explore and investigate the poetry of Paul Muldoon. Speakers include Fran Brearton, Richard Brown, Matt Campbell, Catriona Clutterbuck, Neil Corcoran, Alex Davies, John Goodby, Ed Larrissy, John Haffenden, Hugh Haughton, Tim Kendall, Shane Murphy, Tom Paulin, and Stephen Regan. Paul Muldoon will be giving a reading on Saturday evening. Registration is ?50 (?30 concessions) for both days, and ?25 (?15 concessions) for one day. For more information please contact Dr Katy Mullin, School of English University of Leeds Leeds LS2 1JT k.e.mullin@leeds.ac.uk

Promoting Irish Studies

The field of Irish Studies still remains underrepresented in American colleges and universities. Few fellowships, grants, academic positions, and courses are made available to those professionals and students who wish to pursue or expand their interests in the field. An organization is being formed to promote Irish Studies as a beneficial addition to American college and university programs. Three foundation missions are: 1. To encourage the expansion and inclusion of Irish subject courses and/or departments in colleges and universities across the United States. 2. To develop and promote Irish Studies as a relevant and vibrant field which can contribute valuable material to other interdisciplinary programs. 3. To ensure that institutions have sufficient Irish subject resources for student's to engage in successful research. The assistance of the Irish Studies community is requested. Contact Dr. Andrea Martin for further information, BlackThistle@celticweb.com.

H-james-joyce: H-net Network On James Joyce Scholarship

H-James-Joyce is a public forum where students of Joyce may discuss interesting and relevant issues pertaining to Joyce's writings, life, idiosyncracies, as well as those critical evaluations of Joyce's works. Although in many instances "the Joyce industry", as it is often and unfortunately called, seems limited to academic specialists, this network is intended for a much more expanded and inclusive body, underscoring that no one can truly be a Joyce expert. To join h-James Joyce, click on the following link and follow the instructions: http://www.h-net.org/~jjoyce/

James Joyce Summer School

The University College Dublin James Joyce Summer School takes place 3-15 July 2005 in Newman House, St Stephen's Green, Dublin. The School runs for a fortnight and features a daily programme of lectures and seminars on the multiple facets of Joyce's work. The social programme at the School includes theatre trips, walking tours of Joyce's Dublin, visits to exhibitions, and concerts. Speakers at the School include Anne Fogarty, Kevin Dettmar, Jed Deppman, Fritz Senn, Tracey Teets Schwarze, John Paul Riquelme, Mary King, T.P. Dolan, May Martin, Terence Killeen, Serenella Zanotti, Luke Gibbons, Stacey Herbert, Luca Crispi, Daragh O'Connell, Cormac O'Grada, Tekla Mecsnober, Valerie Benejam, Tim O'Neill and Vicki Mahaffey. For further details contact: Dr Anne Fogarty (Director), School of English, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland. Phone: +353-1-7168159. Email: anne.fogarty@ucd.ie

American Premiere Of Elizabeth Kuti's, Treehouses

TREEHOUSES will play April 7-9 & 14-16 at 7:30 pm, and April 17 at 2:00 pm in the Lab Theatre. All donations and ticket proceeds from the matinee performance on April 17 will benefit the Holocaust Memorial Week. The University Theatre Box Office is open W-F, noon-5:00 pm in the Main Box Office, Withycombe Hall. On evenings of performance, the Lab Box Office (East Entrance of Withycombe Hall) will open at 6:30 pm and at 1:00 pm for the Sunday matinee. No reserved seating ? general seating tickets may be purchased in advance.

Positions Available: Women In Modern Irish Culture Project

1 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, full time, 2 years
1 Research Assistantship (Irish Language), part-time

Postdoctoral Researcher: The successful candidiate will have a PhD in the field of Irish Women?s Writing or a related topic, the ability to carry out research independently and to utilise databases. They will also have excellent communication and organisational skills and some experience in the area of conference/seminar organisation. Experience of detailed archival research, good computer skills and of work on a funded research project are also desirable. A research interest in nineteenth and/or twentieth century poetry would be an advantage.

Research Assistant: The successful candidiate will have a first class or high 2.1 M.A in Irish or English Literature with a strong research interest in the field of Irish Women?s Writing. They will have demonstrated an ability to carry out research independently and to utilise databases. A research interest in bilingual writers and/or issues of translation would be an advantage.

Closing Date for Receipt of Applications MARCH 16TH 2005 For more information, please contact Dr Gerardine Meaney at gerardine.meaney@ucd.ie

The Women in Modern Irish Culture project has been generously funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board Resource Enhancement Scheme. The project will be run jointly by Dr Maria Luddy of the History Department, University of Warwick and Dr Gerardine Meaney of the English Department, University College Dublin. The project will employ two post-doctoral research fellows, one based in Warwick, the other in Dublin. An additional researcher will deal with Irish language material. Both Fellows will be expected to spend considerable time researching in archives around Ireland and the United Kingdom. The exploration of Irish women?s literary past is hampered by a lack of information on who exactly these women writers were and what they wrote. In creating a detailed bibliographical database on Irish women writers, the Women in Modern Irish Culture project will, for the first time, provide the detailed factual knowledge necessary to allow further research into the significance of women?s contribution to Irish culture. The project will utilise, amongst other sources, the recent availability of archival directories from the Women?s History Project (www.nationalarchives.ie/wh) and the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, vols. 4 and 5, Irish Women?s Writings and Traditions (Cork/New York 2002). In essence the project will create a new electronic database that will provide information on over 1,200 Irish women writers. It will include Irish women writers working in the Irish and English languages, writing in all genres for the period 1800-2000. The database (which will be created by IT services at Warwick University) will be completely searchable and include information on subjects such as author?s date of birth, date of death, pseudonyms, published work, editions of work, publications in magazines, journals, pamphlets, etc., archival sources regarding the authors? manuscripts, and secondary sources used in the compilation of the database. Through seminars, workshops and an international conference the work of the project will be brought to a broad audience of scholars and researchers.

New Publication: Peacemaker: The Life And Work Of Eric Gallagher

Peacemaker tells the story of one of the most remarkable Christian ministers of the 20th century. Eric Gallagher was born in Belfast and all through his ministry he was known for his concern for social justice and his efforts to build bridges of communication between Catholics and Protestants. In 1971 he was the first to suggest in public the idea of power sharing as a possible solution to the problem of governing the divided Northern Ireland community. In the same year he had a meeting with the IRA leaders, followed by further involvement throughout the 1970s.

The Ninth Annual Trieste Joyce School.

26 June - 2 July 2005 University of Trieste Trieste Joyce School, Dipartimento di Letterature Straniere, Comparatistica eStudi Culturali, Universit? di Trieste, Androna Campo Marzio, 10 - 34123 Trieste Director: Renzo S. Crivelli Vice Director: John McCourt Email: mccourt@units.it Fax: --39040 5584382 Speakers include: Silvia Albertazzi (Universit? di Bologna) Frank Corcoran (Staatliche Hochschule f?r Musik & darstellende Kunst, Hamburg) Ron Ewart (Zurich James Joyce Foundation) Ruth Frehner (Zurich James Joyce Foundation) Luke Gibbons (University of Notre Dame) Michael Patrick Gillespie (Marquette) Michael Groden (University of Western Ontario) Sean Latham (University of Tulsa) Geert Lernout (Antwerp Joyce Centre) Vicki Mahaffey (University of Pennsylvania) Francesco Marroni (Universit? di Pescara), John McCourt (University of Trieste) Bernard O'Donoghue (Oxford University) Erik Schneider (Trieste Joyce Museum) Fritz Senn (Zurich James Joyce Foundation) Ferenc Takacs (ELTE Univeristy, Budapest) Christine van Boheemen-Saaf (Universiteit van Amsterdam). A variety of full and partial scholarships available for students. 2-3 morning lectures. 5 Afternoon seminars including special "Making Manuscripts Speak" seminar on genetic approaches to Joyce (led by Geert Lernout and Michael Groden) plus busy social programme. Further information will be available on our website from 1 March.

Commemorative Poster

There is a new poster available for purchase which commemorates National Irish-American Heritage Month. You can view it at: http://www.hmsdc.com/ (scroll half down the page). The website also contains contact and ordering information

Digitization Of Heritage Languages Symposium

The Digitization of Heritage Languages Symposium will be held by CUNY Institute for Irish-American on Feb. 25, 2005, from 9:30AM - 3:30PM in Room 141, Carman Hall, Lehman College, Bronx, New York. The focus of the day will be on the preservation of texts produced in fonts not easily recognized by current software programs. Projects to preserve and increase access will be discussed. One of these regards the CELT project at UCC. Peter Flynn, manager of the UCC Research and Academic Electronic Publishing Unit will report on how texts published in the Gaelic Font were captured and manipulated so that scholars could electronically search the texts. Other projects to be reported on include Cornell University's Icelandic Sagas and the University of Pittsburgh's Chinese Collection. Registration for the symposium is $15. Lunch included. Phone 718-960-6722. This symposium is funded by the Institute in addition to mini-grants from the Mirrer Grant to CUNY Council on Foreign Language Study and the American Conference for Irish Studies. Special thanks to Lehman College and the CUNY Asian-American / Asian Research Institute.

Cuny Iias Spring Wednesday Evening Lectures

Niall O?Leary, Mary McGlynn, ?na N? Bhroim?il, Joe Lee, Christine Kinealy, James Mullin, Adrian Flannelly, and Cormac ? Gr?da are among the speakers to be hosted this spring as part of the CUNY Institute for Irish-American Studies Wednesday Evening Lectures. For more information regarding the speakers, topics to be addressed, and venues, please visit the website below. We will also continue our Tuesday night Irish language conversation circle meetings at Lehman and Queens Colleges. For more information visit our website or phone 718-960-6722.

Thomas Moore Hypermedia Archive

IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES PROJECT GRANTS THE THOMAS MOORE HYPERMEDIA ARCHIVE Positions available (2) for Doctoral Researchers at the National University of Ireland, Galway (2005-2008) This project is funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. It is seeking to recruit two researchers, each to undertake research leading to the award of a PhD degree under the supervision of the Project Director. Assigned research tasks must begin in September 2005, and be completed by September 2008. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE THOMAS MOORE HYPERMEDIA ARCHIVE PROJECT The aim of this project is to collect the complete poetical, musical and prose works of Thomas Moore (1779-1852) in the form of an electronic hypermedia archive, publishable in a pilot form on the World Wide Web at the end of three years. The archive will be similar in design to existing projects such as the Walt Whitman Archive (www.whitmanarchive.org) or the William Blake Archive (www.blakearchive.org). Like a scholarly printed edition, the archive will establish reliable texts and annotation based on principles of sound scholarly editing, but unlike a print edition it will also provide a rich network of interconnected electronic materials: texts of the poetry and prose, digital music files that reproduce the musical accompaniments to Moore?s songs, image files of manuscripts and of illustrations that were published in various editions, portraits of Moore, commentary on Moore?s work and life, and a bibliography of Moore?s work and secondary criticism. Users of the archive will be able to gain rapid access to elements of Moore?s work at different levels of specificity. Full texts, particular lines or individual words can be easily retrieved according the needs of the student or scholar, and powerful searches and concordances can be conducted of a sort effectively impossible in the case of print editions. Visual and aural material hitherto difficult to access can be made easily available to users from almost anywhere in the world. Such research would enable closer study of Moore?s sources, influences and relationships to other writers, and would be a valuable teaching tool. The use of hypermedia is particularly appropriate for the editing of Moore?s work, since a large part of his achievement and appeal lies in the performative, musical and oral dimensions of his work, all of which can be more effectively reproduced through the use of hypermedia than through printed media alone. Such an archive represents a type of ongoing edition, easily modified and updated. At the same time, readers, scholars and libraries will continue to need reliable and annotated printed versions of Moore?s texts, and for this reason, the materials assembled for the Thomas Moore Archive will be used eventually to produce printed scholarly editions of Moore?s work. There is at present no complete scholarly edition of Moore?s work, in spite of the fact that Moore was a major figure within European romanticism, and the most popular and influential Irish poet of the nineteenth-century. He was admired internationally as a poet, biographer, translator, satirist, musician, singer, orientalist and polemicist. His Irish Melodies had a profound impact on the Irish, English and American public, are still a vital part of the English-speaking popular song tradition. Moore was a close friend and confidant of Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Robert Emmet, John Murray, Lord John Russell, Sir Walter Scott and other notable political and literary figures. His Irish Melodies have been popular for nearly two centuries, and his long ?Eastern? poem Lalla Rookh (1817) was an international bestseller and a major contribution to European orientalism. Beethoven and Berlioz admired Moore?s songs and wrote musical arrangements for them, while Moore?s cultural nationalism inspired like-minded writers in many countries, including France, Poland, Italy, Germany, Russia and Hungary. Moore?s works were frequently reprinted in Britain, France and the US throughout the nineteenth century. The corpus of Moore?s manuscript material is large, and scattered in various libraries and archives. Among his published works are over a thousand poems, three biographies, polemical prose works, a history of Ireland and a number of periodical reviews. Much of the work of the project during the three years of funding will involve locating, transcribing and digitising this material. The Project Director has responsibility for managing the project, making major editorial decisions, and undertaking digitisation and editing tasks. The project will also recruit two Doctoral Researchers for three years, who will undertake bibliographical and historical research, critically edit a selection of texts, and construct pilot hypermedia archives. The project will be hosted at the Centre for the Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change in NUI, Galway. DESCRIPTION OF TASKS FOR DOCTORAL RESEARCHERS Doctoral Researcher 1: The poetical works of Thomas Moore: a bibliographical study and pilot hypermedia edition. The researcher will undertake the following tasks, the results of which will be submitted for the award of PhD: ? researching and compiling a complete bibliography of Thomas Moore?s poetical works, including songs and music; ? researching and writing a 20,000-word essay on the textual history and reception of Moore?s poetry; ? creating a pilot hypermedia archive of edited poems, songs, music, illustrations, commentary and bibliographical resources. Doctoral Researcher 2: The prose works of Thomas Moore: a bibliographical study and pilot hypermedia edition. The researcher will undertake the following tasks, the results of which will be submitted for the award of PhD: ? researching and compiling a complete bibliography of Thomas Moore?s prose, including fiction, political writings and essays; ? editing a selection of Moore?s uncollected letters; ? researching and writing a 20,000-word essay on the textual history and reception of Moore?s prose writings; ? creating a pilot hypermedia archive of edited prose texts, with illustrations, commentary and bibliographical resources. QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED A minimum of a Second Class Honours, Grade 1 primary degree (3.75 GPA) in a relevant field. A Master's degree or other postgraduate qualification is desirable. Proven expertise in at least two of the following areas is desirable for both positions: Bibliographical studies Critical editing Romanticism Nineteenth-century Irish culture Use of electronic mark-up languages Digitisation of texts Web-authoring and design Some musical knowledge would also be an advantage in the case of Doctoral Researcher 1. FUNDING Each doctoral researcher will be provided with a stipend of ?12,700 annually for three years, subject to terms and conditions. PhD tuition fees for three years will be paid by the project. Research facilities will be provided by the Centre for the Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change, NUI, Galway. Doctoral researchers will be expected to participate in and contribute to the activities of the Centre during the course of their funding. APPLICATION To apply for one of the positions, please send an academic CV detailing your qualifications to the Project Director before 1 April 2005, including the names of two academic referees. An interview may form part of the assessment process. For further information or discussion contact the Project Director: Dr Sean Ryder Department of English National University of Ireland, Galway Tel. +353-(0)91-493009 email sean.ryder@nuigalway.ie

Canadian Irish Studies Programme, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Canadian Irish Studies programme, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada The Centre for Canadian Irish Studies at Concordia University in Montreal is pleased to announce that Sean Farrell, Northern Illinois University, has been appointed to the position of Annual O'Brien Visiting Scholar for Fall 2005. Professor Farrell will teach two courses in the History Department - The Making of the Irish Diaspora and The History of Northern Ireland. In the past year, as a result of increased community support, the annual amount for scholarships for students in Irish Studies has now reached $15,000. For further details, phone 514 848-8711 or email at cdnirish@alcor.concordia.ca or visit the Centre's website at http://artsandscience.concordia.ca/irish .

Special Book Deal For Acis Members

The Shamrock and the Lily: The New York Irish and the Creation of a Transatlantic Identity, 1845-1921 by Mary Kelly Paperback ? 280 pages ? 0-8204-74533 The Shamrock and the Lily illuminates a set of remarkable transatlantic connections dominated by the road to Ireland's independence, in an absorbing study of a people driven from a troubled past toward freedom for themselves and for those they left behind. ACIS members can purchase this book for $25, a $5 discount! Call 1-800-770-LANG and let us know you are an ACIS member! Visit www.peterlangusa.com

Acis/west 2005

The 21st annual meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies will be held at Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, October 14-16, 2005. The conference theme is Women of Some Importance. Proposals for conference presentations on any aspect of Irish Studies are invited. ACIS/West is an interdisciplinary organization, interested in perspectives offered by linguistics, sociology, history, art, science, music, literature, theatre, politics,etc. Papers on women in Irish arts and society are particularly welcome. Proposals by graduate students and emerging scholars are encouraged. Proposals(250 words)for 15 minute presentations may be sent electronically or in hard copy. Deadline: June 10, 2005. Send proposals to Charlotte Headrick University Theatre Withycombe Hall Oregon State University Corvallis OR 97331 cheadrick@oregonstate.edu Conference Hotel: Hilton Garden Inn (2500 SW Western Blvd. 541-752-5000). Book by Sept. 14 for conference rate of $84. Just over a mile from University Theatre (about a 20 minute walk). Sponsored in part by the Consul General of Ireland (San Francisco) and by the Oregon State University Center for the Humanities, The University Theatre, Department of Speech/Communication, and College of Liberal Arts.

Ronald Bryden Scholarships & Iss Travel Grants

The Shaw Festival and the International Shaw Society are offering scholarships/grants to young scholars to attend the Second Annual Shaw Symposium at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, from July 19 to July 31, 2005. The ISS will offer travel grants to cover receipted travel expenses (up to $500), while the Shaw Festival will offer two Ronald Bryden Scholarships to cover the costs of symposium registration, theatre tickets, accommodation, and meals. These scholarships commemorate the late Ronald Bryden (1927-2004), long-time Literary Adviser to The Shaw and a founding member of the ISS. ELIGIBILITY: Any student registered at a recognized degree-granting institution may apply. Also eligible are college graduates under the age of 40 who are either independent or underemployed scholars. Preference will be given to applicants who are also submitting a proposal for a paper to be given at the 2005 Shaw Symposium. Application, additional guidelines for proposals and information about the symposium may be found at the website. Grant applications due April 15, 2005.

Free Frank O'connor Books

FREE COPIES of a new book on Frank O'Connor are available to any academic library requesting one.? Please ask acquisitions librarians to send a request, including mailing address?of the?library to which the book should be sent,?to englishrce@aol.com for a complimentary copy of the following title: ? Title: Frank O'Connor's "Ghosts" : a pluralist approach : a tribute to Ireland's master story-teller in honor of the centenary of his birth and incorporating diverse responses to the story by students of Auburn University Montgomery / Robert C. Evans, compiler and general editor ; Deborah Cosier ... [et al.], editorial team. Call Number: PR6029.D58 G434 2003 Contents: Introduction -- "Ghosts" by Frank O'Connor -- Literary theories: a quick sketch -- A note about format and procedures -- Frank O'Connor's "Ghosts": a close reading. Subject(s): O'Connor, Frank, 1903-1966. Ghosts. O'Connor, Frank, 1903-1966 --Criticism and interpretation. Publisher: Montgomery, Ala. : Court Street Press, c2003. Description: 113 p. ; 22 cm. Notes: "Multiple perspectives by students of Auburn University Montgomery." --cover.

Mlitt In Irish And Scottish Studies

The Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies (RIISS) recently celebrated its fifth anniversary and to mark this occasion is offering at least five scholarships and bursaries for suitably qualified candidates to pursue interdisciplinary research and graduate training on the history, literatures, languages and cultures of the two countries. Graduate students accepted into this programme may focus on either Irish or Scottish Studies, or both. The Institute offers a taught MLitt programme that addresses the specific research interests of individual students while educating them about resources outside their proposed area of interest, thus helping them to conceptualise their scholarship and set it within a wider, historical, literary, linguistic or ethnological framework. Further information at www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/mlitt or from Dr Shane Murphy (MLitt Programme Co-ordinator), email: sam@abdn.ac.uk

Acis 2005 Conference

"Ireland Beyond Borders" hopes to explore new conceptions of Ireland, Irishness, and Irish Studies that challenge the boundaries that politics, the academy, and culture have set for them. The theme is intentionally open-ended to comprise such topics as globalization, partition, the Internet age, gender and sexuality, critical race theory, popular culture, music, dance, the visual arts, contemporary literature, the Irish language, and Irish studies as an academic discipline; however, that list is not intended to be prescriptive or exclusive. Note that participants must be members of the American Conference for Irish Studies. Visit www.acisweb.com to become a member. We are no longer accepting submissions for the conference at this time. A tentative schedule will be posted at this site later in the semester.

Career Opportunity In Irish-american Studies

The following position in the CUNY Institute for Irish-American Studies has been officially announced: Program Coordinator (Assistant to Higher Education Officer). Please see the following URL for the complete posting - http://portal.cuny.edu/cms/id/cuny/documents/jobposting/009769.htm#P-11_0 Lehman College/CUNY is an EEO/AA/ADA/IRCA Employer.

'ireland In The Renaissance?: An Interdisciplinary Conference

January 8, 2005 Helen Roe Theatre, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 63 Merrion Square, Dublin. Free and Open to the Public. Information: Michael Potterton (michael@discoveryprogramme.ie) and/or Thomas Herron (therron@hsc.edu PART I: ARCHAEOLOGY, HISTORY AND MATERIAL CULTURE SESSION 1: Ulster: Joseph McLaughlin: ?The Making of a Spenserian Network of Forts/Manors in Early 17th-Century Ulster?; Valerie McGowan-Doyle: ?Attainting Shane O'Neill: Sir Henry Sidney's New Ireland? SESSION 2: Kilkenny: Paul Cockerham: ?Renaissance Ideals in Irish Funeral Monuments?; Colm Lennon: ?Pedagogy and Reform: Peter White?s Influence on Irish Scholarship in the Renaissance? SESSION 3: The Archaeology of Sidney and Spenser: Sharon Weadick: ?Fortified Houses of the 16th and 17th Centuries: Their Design and Place in Time?; John Bradley: ?The Sidney Stones: A Galling Experience for the Gael?; Eric Klingelh?fer: ?Edmund Spenser at Kilcolman: The Archaeological Evidence? SESSION 4: Cartography: Nessa Cronin: ?Desocialising Native Space: Renaissance Maps of the West of Ireland?; Jane Ruffino: ?Plantation and Performance: Maps, Landscape and Social Identity in Renaissance Ireland?; Thomas Herron: ?Richard Bartlett?s Ulster Maps: A Reconsideration? PART II: LITERATURE AND CEREMONY SESSION 5: Bardic Poetry and Shakespearean Drama: Salvador Ryan: ?A Scriptural Stethoscope: The Pulse of Preachers and Poets in Late Medieval Ireland?; Stephen O?Neill: ?1599: Drama, Nation and the Burden of War? SESSION 6: Neo-Latinity: Jason Harris: "The Idea of ?Nation? in Irish Renaissance Latin"; David Caulfield: "O'Sullivan Beare and the Scotic Debate" SESSION 7: Seventeenth-Century Narratives: Jean Bocharova: ?The ?Barbarous Dispossessors? of Milton?s History of Britain?; Dougal Shaw: ?Restoration Through Ritual in Ireland: The Celebrations of 1661?; Naomi McAreavey: ??Besieged ?Englishness?: Women Writing During the Irish Rebellion of 1641?

Deadline For Proposals Extended For Acis 2005

Due to the number of requests for extra time, we have extended the deadline for submission of proposals for the 2005 ACIS annual general meeting to Monday, October 26th. If time permits we also hope to post a list of panels that are still seeking participants on the conference website.

Irish Studies Symposium, Nsu, Ft. Lauderdale - 2/5/05

Entitled ?Troubling Images: Dramatic and Visual Representations of the Northern Ireland Conflict and Peace Process,? the speakers will include several ACIS members, notably Joan Fitzpatrick Dean on ?Recent Northern Irish Theatre: The Uses of History?; Charlotte Headrick on ?Images of the Troubles: The Healing Vision of the Women?; and Trischa Goodnow on ?The Troubles Written on the Walls: The Murals of Northern Ireland.? In addition, there will be staged readings of scenes from several Northern Irish plays directed by Mark Duncan, Theatre Professor at NSU, and a talk by Yvonne Murphy of the Linen Hall Library, Belfast, on Troubled Images: Posters and Images of the Northern Ireland Conflict, which will be on display concurrently in the NSU Library.

Theatre Symposium: The Ulster Literary Theatre And Its Legacy

22-23 October 2004 Drama Department, Queen's University Belfast This year commemorates the centenaries of both the Ulster Literary Theatre (ULT) and the Abbey Theatre, and although the ULT was launched two weeks before the opening of the Abbey in 1904, its output and impact has been neglected by scholars and practitioners alike. Consequently, in a year replete with Irish cultural centenaries, QUB's Drama Department and the Linen Hall Library's Theatre and Performing Arts Archive will host a one-day symposium with speakers from throughout the UK and Ireland giving papers on the ULT, its historical context and cultural legacy, in the new Theatre Building at Queen's. Following the symposium there will be a number of staged readings of ULT material, followed by a production of George Shiels' Bedmates In terms of the broad schedule/structure of the symposium, the opening keynote lecture, 'Northern Revivals: Cultural Nationalism and Political Identity in Ulster 1900-1920', will be delivered by Dr Richard Kirkland in the Linen Hall Library on Friday 22nd October. This will be followed by a wine reception and the opening of a commemorative exhibition celebrating the Ulster Literary Theatre's work. On Saturday 23rd October, the symposium will move to the Drama Department's new Theatre Building, (formerly the old Queen's Film Theatre site, behind University Square), where it will inaugurate the opening of the new Theatre. Saturday's symposium will also feature a second keynote lecture by Lionel Pilkington entitled, 'Stormont and the Politics of Theatre in Northern Ireland in the Post-War Period'. This will be followed by dinner and later that evening there will be performances of Thompson in Tir-na-nOg and George Shiels' Bedmates in the new theatre.

Job At Suny Buffalo

Job Opening: Assistant or Associate Professor of Irish Literature and Culture Tenure-track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor in Irish literature and culture, to start Fall, 2005. Candidates must demonstrate an ability to teach solid and innovative undergraduate literature courses. Candidates must also bring fresh perspectives to the study of Irish literature as demonstrated by a record of writing and teaching interests appropriate to seminars in a large M.A./Ph.D. program. Teaching load (2/2), salary, benefits, and privileges competitive with other Research I-AAU universities. Please submit letter of application and CV to Professor James Holstun, Chair of the Search Committee, Department of English, University at Buffalo, 306 Clemens Hall, Buffalo, New York, 14260-4610, by November 15, 2004. All applications will be acknowledged. Please visit the Department website at http://www.english.buffalo.edu//. The University at Buffalo is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Recruiter. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.

James Joyce's Ulysses "blooms" Around The World!

After a ten year odyssey, Dublin film director Sean Walsh, has finally realised his dream of bringing James Joyce's Ulysses to the screen. The film "Bloom", stars Stephen Rea, Angeline Ball, Hugh O'Conor and Patrick Bergin and has been heralded by academics and non-academics around the world. Information on the film is available at the film's official web site and screenings are available on campus or at your local art-house cinema by contacting Sinead Hanna at info@ulysses.ie

American Conference For Irish Studies Annual General Meeting, April 13-17, 2005

The University of Notre Dame is proud to host the ACIS Annual General Meeting April 13-17, 2005. The call for papers is now posted at the Keough Institute for Irish Studies website and at acisweb.com; hard copy will soon be mailed out to ACIS members.

Cuny Iias Open House And Fall Events

The CUNY Institute for Irish-American Studies has planned a full schedule of events for the fall. If you will be in New York City at some point, all are welcome to attend the free events. A September 8th 2-3:30pm and 7-8:30pm Open House at the Institute at Lehman College in the Bronx will feature refreshments and music by Bernadette Fee, Mary Courtney, and Jimmy Coen. Lectures for the fall will be held on Wednesday nights from 7-8:30PM including Matthew Jockers at Lehman on 9/22, Maureen Murphy at Lehman on 10/27, Margaret Mulrooney at Graduate Center on 11/3, Susan Schreibman at Queens College on 11/10, Mary McGlynn and Guests for a film series and discussion at Baruch College on 11/17, and David Barnwell at Lehman on 12/1. There will also be an Irish language conversation circle meeting at Lehman on Tuesday nights for advanced beginners to fluent speakers in the Carman Hall Caf? on 9/14, 10/19, 11/23, & 12/14. Lastly, the Graduate Center Public Program will be hosting Mary Robinson on 9/21 at 6PM. For more information on CUNY IIAS events, e-mail, check the website, or phone 718-960-6722.

Connolly Appointed To A Chaired Professorship At Boston College

April 21, 2004 Chestnut Hill, MA?FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thomas E. Hachey, University Professor of History and Executive Director of the Center for Irish Programs, announced today that S?amus Connolly has been named the Sullivan Artist in Residence in Irish Music, an endowed position established through the generosity of G. Craig and Maureen Sullivan of San Francisco, California. Effective on June 1, 2004, the appointment extends through the academic year 2008-2009. Craig Sullivan, a 1964 Carroll School of Management graduate who majored in Accounting, has enjoyed a truly distinguished career and recently retired as Chairman of the Clorox Company. He previously held executive positions with Proctor & Gamble and American Express. S?amus Connolly is a ten-time Irish national fiddle champion and producer of the internationally acclaimed Gaelic Roots festivals over the past decade at Boston College. The President, Reverend William P. Leahy, S.J., the Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dr. John Neuhauser, and the Executive Director of the Center, Tom Hachey, all praised Connolly?s work in expanding and enhancing the Irish Music Program at Boston College. A dedicated teacher, respected scholar and accomplished musician he is an appropriate and deserving recipient of this award. Upon request, Craig and Maureen agreed that their professorship could be assigned to an Artist in Residence position for five years in order to enable the University to acknowledge and support Connolly?s valued contribution. The future designation of this endowed position may next endow a professorship in Irish Studies but this is a determination which will not be made for several more years. What the Sullivan Artist in Irish Music makes clear, however, is Boston College?s continued commitment to support a quality program in the field of Irish music as was promised at the conclusion of the Gaelic Roots festivals.

Acis Liverpool Information

The Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool now has a web site created for our conference. There is a program posted, though that will certainly be adjusted as plans become more finalized. The site also has registration materials, including credit card payment, and housing options including on campus and off. You can find the site at: http://www.liv.ac.uk/irish/acis.htm ACIS members wishing to register for the Liverpool conference should first ensure that thier ACIS membership is up to date, by logging into the "member's only" section of the ACIS web site and checking thier membership status.

North American Victorian Studies Assoc. Essay Prize

The North American Victorian Studies Association is pleased to announce the annual Donald Gray Prize for best essay published in the field of Victorian Studies. Named after Donald J. Gray, Culbertson Professor Emeritus in the English Department of Indiana University, the prize carries with it an award of $1000. It will be awarded to essays that appeared in print in journals from the previous calendar year, on any topic related to the study of Victorian Britain. (The prize is limited to journal essays; those published in essay collections are not eligible.) Anyone, regardless of NAVSA membership status, is free to nominate an essay that appeared in print between January 1, 2002 and December 31, 2003. Nominations will also be solicited from the Advisory Board of NAVSA and the prize committee judges; self-nominated essays are equally welcome. Authors may be from any country and of any institutional standing. We encourage you to nominate any especially worthy essay(s) you may know of that appeared in print in the last calendar year. To nominate an essay, please submit four copies of the essay to the Executive Secretary of NAVSA at the following address: Melissa V. Gregory Department of English Mail Stop 925 University of Toledo Toledo, Ohio 43620 Nominated essays must be postmarked by 13 May 2004. Further information about the Donald Gray prize may be found at http://www.sla.purdue.edu/academic/engl/navsa/Newsletters/2003Fall/

Cuny Irish Language Week 2004

Irish Language Week (3/10-3/17) will be celebrated with a series of lectures on CUNY campuses. Lehman College will host a lecture entitled "Irish Language Textbooks Published in NYC and Boston between 1873-1904" by Prof. Thomas Ihde on Wednesday, March 10, 2004 in Carman Hall Room B36 from 2:00PM to 3:00PM. Baruch College will feature Dr. S?amus Blake, radio host of WFUV's M?le F?ilte. He will speak on the topic of "The Growing Popularity of Irish Language Singers and Music Groups" on Thursday, March 11, 2004, in the Skylight Room (Room 306) at 17 Lexington Avenue from 12:30PM to 1:30PM. Prof. Clare Carroll will speak on Monday, March 15, 2004 from noon to 1:00PM on the topic of "Literature in the Irish Language." Her talk will take place at Queens College in the President's Conference Room #2 of Rosenthal Library. It is recommended to phone the CUNY Institute for Irish American Studies to reserve a seat for the free lectures and check for updated information at 718-960-6722 or visit http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/irishamericanstudies/ for more information. Prior to Irish Language Week there will also be an Irish Traditional Music Concert featuring Ann Marie Acosta, Matthew Mancuso, and Deirdre Connolly at Queens College in the LeFrak Concert Hall on March 8, 2004 from noon to 1PM. It is not necessary to call for reservations for the concert which is free and open to the public.

2004 Acis/west Special Convention Award, In Honor Of Don Jordan

At the 2003 ACIS/West convention, Don Jordan was as conspicuous by his absence as he had been by his fine organizing presence the year before. A founding member of ACIS/West and long an important inspiration for its work, Don died shortly after the 2003 convention, and he is sorely missed. This year, in honor of Don's long and talented contributions to Irish Studies, ACIS/West will offer a special $300.00 convention award for the best paper presented by an emerging scholar. Eligible presenters include those currently in graduate programs and those who have finished their graduate degrees within the past five years but have not yet begun work in a tenure-track position. All people who wish to have their papers considered for the Don Jordan award should submit them to conference organizers by September 20. Papers should be sent to the following address: Susan Smallwood Herold, Chairperson University of Northern Colorado Department of Visual Arts Campus Box 30 Greeley, Colorado 80639 1-970-351-2340 Copies of completed papers should be identical to the work presented (no longer and no shorter) and should include appropriate documentation. If the presentations include power point, slide, overhead, or other illustrations, the submitted papers should include printouts of those elements. Papers must be presented to be considered, and they must observe the convention guidelines about time. A cover sheet should list the author's name, address, phone, and email address. The cover sheet should also indicate the author's current status as graduate student or non-tenure track scholar whose graduate work was completed within the past five years. (Indicate the year the PhD was obtained.) The award will be announced at the convention banqu

Joyce's Ireland Conference

Joyce's Ireland: A Celebration of the Bloomsday Centenary in Lawrence, Kansas, June 11-17. Call for papers deadline for conference (June 11-12) has been extended to March 20. Queries to Prof. Kathryn Conrad (e-mail below) or to conference e-mail at JoycesIreland@hotmail.com

New Publication From Scoil Ghaeilge Ghear?id T?ib?n

Scoil Ghaeilge Ghear?id T?ib?n has published its attempt to reconstruct the lost Celtic creation myth based on Gabh?il Cheasrach from the Book of the Invasions and using comparison to surviving Indo-European creation myths. A summary of the core research can be found in Irish at A summary of the School's methodology and the resulting reconstruction can be found in Irish and English at . Comments from ACIS members in Irish or English are welcome and can be sent to Aireacha@scoilgaeilge.org

Glucksman Ireland House Nyu Listserve

Those who subscribe to this service hosted by NYU will receive one weekly announcement of upcoming events during the semester and will be privy to events and news that may not be on our printed calendar. Please note that this is an announcement-only forum and subscribers may not reply to the email messages they receive from the Listserve. However, subscribers are welcome to contact Ireland House by email at any time using the following address: ireland.house@nyu.edu Members may easily suspend receipt of messages during vacation periods or unsubscribe completely at any time. Directions for doing so are included in the Welcome message you receive when you confirm your subscription. To join the Listserve, please take one of the following steps: Send a blank email to join-ireland-house@forums.nyu.edu or Go to our website www.nyu.edu/pages/irelandhouse and select the Join Listserve link The email address provided will be used only for communication of Glucksman Ireland House events and news

National University Of Ireland 56th International Summer School

30th JUNE ? 16th July Performing Ireland, Representing Ireland Irish art, culture, history through the ages The 2004 UCD International Summer School continues the tradition, established more than half a century ago, of exploring aspects of Irish life, culture and history, with guidance from the university?s internationally-renowned faculty members. This year?s programme celebrates two major centenaries in Irish cultural history ? Bloomsday and the opening of the Abbey Theatre ? with an exploration of Ireland and Irishness as performed and represented through the ages. Historians, artists, and literary and cultural critics, will prize open the visual arts, music, literature, architecture and theatre to reveal the complexities of ?Irishness?, north and south, ancient and modern. Artist-led workshops will be a feature of the programme. In keeping with long-established Summer School practice, the programme will also include substantial debate on the development of modern Ireland, on modern Irish politics, and on Ireland?s place within the modern world, a series of field-trips to places of cultural and historical interest in Ireland, and introductory Irish-speaking classes. COURSE FEE: ?695* COURSE FEE AND SELF-CATERING CAMPUS ACCOMMODATION: ?1095* *?60 reduction for students; a small number of scholarships is also available For brochure please contact: INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL, UCD, NEWMAN HOUSE, 86 ST STEPHEN?S GREEN DUBLIN 2 Tel: +353-1-4752004 Fax: +353-1-7167211

John Kelleher

John V. Kelleher By BETHANY PRANGE Published: Monday, Jan. 05 2004 Expert in Irish studies Professor emeritus at Harvard John V. Kelleher, a professor emeritus at Harvard University, was an instrumental figure in the field of Irish studies. "John was the most universally admired person in our shared field of Irish studies," said Blanche Touhill, retired chancellor of the University of Missouri at St. Louis. "His gift to UM-St. Louis of 700 books from his personal library of Irish history exemplified his thoughtfulness." Mr. Kelleher died Thursday (Jan. 1, 2004) of complications from pneumonia at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. He was 87 and lived in Clayton. Mr. Kelleher was born in Lawrence, Mass. He first began to learn the Irish language from his grandmother, who, like all his grandparents, had emigrated from Ireland in the mid-19th century. In the Depression, Mr. Kelleher served in the National Guard and worked as a roofer and carpenter to earn money for college. He graduated with honors from Dartmouth College with a bachelor's degree in English in 1939. The following year, he was accepted into the Society of Fellows at Harvard University, where he studied the Irish language and gave his first lectures on Irish literature at age 26. Later in his life, he was awarded an honorary master's degree in English from Harvard and two honorary doctorates from University College Dublin and the National University of Ireland in Cork. Mr. Kelleher served in military intelligence at the Pentagon during World War II and was assigned to the Korean Desk. While teaching modern Irish history and literature at Harvard, Mr. Kelleher earned a reputation as a tough teacher who didn't tolerate foolish or lazy behavior. His intense love of Irish studies, however, kept his students intrigued. A noted scholar on the works of James Joyce and William Butler Yeats, Mr. Kelleher was one of the first in academia to consider Irish studies as a discipline separate from the study of English and history. Colleagues have credited him with introducing the works of Joyce and Yeats to American readers. He even consulted on the movie version of Joyce's "The Dead" and had a small speaking role in "Ulysses." Mr. Kelleher retired as professor emeritus at Harvard in 1986. Mr. Kelleher and his wife, Helen C. Kelleher, moved to St. Louis in 1991 to be near their daughters. In St. Louis, Mr. Kelleher supported and encouraged academic institutions that were developing Irish studies programs. He donated thousands of books to libraries at UMSL and SIUC. His wife died in 1991. A memorial Mass for Mr. Kelleher will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Tuesday at St. Joseph Catholic Church, 106 North Meramec Avenue, Clayton. Among his survivors are four daughters, Brigid McCauley and Nora Stuhl, both of University City, Margaret Oates of St. Louis and Anne Fisher of North Attleboro, Mass.; two sisters, Barbara Slack and Dorothea Buckley, both of Richmond, Va.; eight grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Memorial contributions may be made to The Mercantile Library, c/o Office of the Chancellor, UMSL, 401 Woods Hall, 8001 Natural Bridge Road, St. Louis, Mo. 63121.

Death Of John Kelleher

John Kelleher died on January 1st from flu complications. John's courses at Harvard were in many respects the beginning of academic Irish Studies in the US and he played a critical role in the formation of ACIS.

Death Of Tom Connolly

Actor/director Tom Connolly died at seventy Dec. 30, 2003. He originated the role of Ned in the first Broadway production of Brian Friel's Philiadelphia Here I Come! (1964) and he directed two plays by former ACIS member Robert Hogan. He appeared as an actor in the original Broadway production of Tom Paulin's The Riot Act; he directed and starred in the first American production of Brian Friel's The Enemy With (1988). Tom had numerous tv and movie roles, including Death Wish and The Verdict. During his lifetime, he was noted for directing more staged readings of Anglo-Irish playrights than any other person in America.--Kevin T. McEneaney

Merriman Summer And Winter Schools

Merriman Summer and Winter Schools

University Of Limerick Summer School

Summer School in Irish Studies

New Web Site Active

The ACIS web site went "dynamic" for the new year. ACIS members can now log in to add announcements, CFPs, and to update their Member Profile. In the coming months, additional features will be added to allow for such things as e-voting in ACIS elections