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Seamus Heaney Lecture Series
The next lecture in the series will be given on Monday, November 17th, when Prof Jim Cummins of the University of Toronto will speak on the theme “All changed? Culture and Identity in Contemporary Ireland”. The venue is St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, Dublin and the time 8pm.
Admission is free and refreshments will be served after [...]
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Prix Goncourt Winner
The 2008 Prix Goncourt, perhaps France’s most prestigious literary prize, has been awarded to the writer and filmmaker Atiqu Rahimi for his novel Syngué sabour. Pierre de Patience.
Rahimi, born in Kabul in 1962, was raised in a “liberal and westernised” family and attended the Franco-Afghan lycée. His father, a judge, and his uncle were imprisoned [...]
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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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Books Crisis in Japan
Experts in Japan say the publishing industry is facing a historic crisis, the Japan Times reports. More than 200 new books are published daily in the country, and the total market for books and magazines surpasses ¥2 trillion. But hundreds of bookstores nationwide shut down every year, and the market has largely been shrinking since [...]
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“It is rare,” writes Yann Plougastel in Le Monde dated tomorrow (August 29th), “for a writer to conform so little to the idea we have of what a writer should look like. With his washed-out blue eyes, broad forehead and tall stature, nimble angler’s hands and legs like a tired cowboy (?), Richard Ford … [...]
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Pankaj Mishra, writing in last Saturday’s (August 23rd) Guardian book review, is reminded while reading obituaries of Solzhenitsyn of remarks by Philip Roth about some of the differences between the situations of writers East and West towards the (provisional and temporary, it now seems) end of the Cold War.
Mishra writes: “Roth summed up the marginality [...]
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The IMRAM Irish language literature festival has just announced its 2008 programme. The theme this year is the islands and seas of Ireland and their place in the artistic imagination.
There is the Gaelic Jazz Project, fusing the ancient and the modern, moving from classic Blasket Island texts to twentieth century poetry; Béal Tuinne, Shaun Davey’s [...]
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