Archive for September, 2008
The inaugural An Foras Feasa SeathrúnCéitinn/Geoffrey Keating lecture will be given by Professor Joep Leerssen of the University of Amsterdam at Castletown House, Celbridge at 5 pm on Tuesday, 23rd September. The lecture is entitled “Historical Consciousness, Cultural Memory, Irish Literature”. Prof Leerssen recently received the NWO/Spinoza Prize for his innovative contributions to imagology and [...]
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Amy Friedlander, director of programmes at the American Council on Library and Information Resources, will give a free lecture entitled “Digits and Dreams: Scholarship and Computing in the Age of Abundance” on Tuesday, September 23rd at 4 pm at the Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin.
The talk gives an account of recent changes in [...]
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Academic Opportunities
Anyone working in Ireland or Britain on eighteenth century Ireland whose
research could benefit from a week or two examining materials in North
American collections is invited to consider applying for the Irish-American
Research Travel Fellowship set up by the late AC Elias Jr in the
early 1990s. The fellowship is administered by the American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, which [...]
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Ciaran Carson Celebration
The journal An Sionnach is inviting submissions for a special issue on Ciaran Carson.
Critical readings and responses to Carson’s poetry, prose, and translations are sought (2,500-5,000 words). The deadline is October 17th, 2008. Previously published material will be considered.
Based at Creighton University Press and distributed by the University of
Nebraska Press, An Sionnach publishes scholarly articles, [...]
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