AEDEI - Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses

22/10/2026

Dear AEDEI members,

We would like to share with you a message from our colleague Dr. María Teresa Caneda Cabrera regarding an online lecture organised by the Interuniversity Doctoral Programme IDAES and Irish Studies at University of Vigo that will take place next Wednesday, October 28, at 16h: “Ecocriticism and Irish Literary Studies” Eoin Flannery (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick)

Connection details:
Link https://campusremotouvigo.gal/access/public/meeting/153201071
Password (acceso estudantado): Home2024
*This online lecture can also be followed from Sala de Grados (FFT)

05/10/2026

Dear AEDEI members,

We are very happy to share with you the CFP for the upcoming EFACIS Conference: “Transforming and Re-fashioning Ireland”, that will take place 27-30 July 2027 at the University of Lodz. The organisers invite papers which engage with multidisciplinary areas of textual and artistic production, political and social theory, historical and economic analysis, or anthropological, ecological and archaeological research.

Abstracts for 20-minute presentations or panels / roundtables can be sent to [email protected]. Paper proposals should be no more than 250 words, and panel proposals no more than 500 words.

Deadline for submissions: 10 January 2027.

You can find all the information here: https://www.iasil.org/2026/10/cfp-transforming-and-re-fashioning-ireland/

25/09/2026

Dear AEDEI members,
Our dear colleague, Dr María Gaviña Costero, has shared with us information about the event ‘Ballybeg Goes Global: A Celebration of Brian Friel’, which will be held at the National Library of Ireland in Dublin on Friday, 2 October, in honour of the playwright Brian Friel, and in which she will be participating.

You can find all the information about the event here:

A Celebration of Brian Friel

16/09/2026

Dear AEDEI members,

We are pleased to announce that the Cáceres Irish Fleadh will take place from 17 to 20 September. In case you are interested, you can find the full programme here: https://www.irishfleadh.com/

13/09/2026

Dear AEDEI members,

We are pleased to announce the publication of a new book written by our colleague Dr. Rui Carvalho Homem. It is titled “Irish Poetry and the Visual Arts: Transactions in Contemporary Poetics” and published by Liverpool University Press. You can find more details about the publication here: https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781805960119

We send our warmest congratulations for this new achievement!

12/09/2026

Dear AEDEI members,

We are very happy to share with you that the second edition of the CULTUR_ALH Festival of Arts, Literature and Humanities, which will be celebrated in Granada from 21 to 27 September, will feature the conversation “En busca de la frase perfecta” with the prestigious Irish author John Banville on 27 September at 21:00 at the Carmen de los Mártires, interviewed by our colleague Dr. Pilar Villar Argáiz. Attendance is free but it requires in-advance booking. If you are interested in attending this event, you can contact Pilar.

You can also find the full programme here: https://culturalh.org

02/09/2026

Dear AEDEI members,

We would like to share with you the CfP for the upcoming IASIL 2027 International Conference “Children of the Nation” | University of Otago, Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka (New Zealand) | 28 June – 2 July 2027.

The conference builds on a new interest in engagements with the child in Irish writing, most notably the special issue on ‘Children and the Youth in Ireland’ in Études Irlandaises, but the conference organisers also encourage speakers to think beyond direct representations of childhood to reflect on the concept of birth, youth, and the nation figuratively. For more information, you can visit the IASIL website: https://www.iasil.org/2026/08/conference-2027-university-of-otago-otakou-whakaihu-waka-28-june-2-july-2027/

02/09/2026

Dear AEDEI members,

We are back from the summer holidays and we are very happy to share new publications from our members that we hope are of interest to you:

The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Literature and Periodical Culture (Edinburgh University Press), edited by Elke D’hoker and Phyllis Boumans. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinburgh-companion-to-irish-literature-and-periodical-culture.html

The John McGahern Companion (Peter Lang), edited by Eamon Maher, Derek Hand, Kathleen Costello-Sullivan and Barry Houlihan. https://www.peterlang.com/document/1683115 #

The Political Dimension of Myles na gCopaleen’s Cruiskeen Lawn (Palgrave), by Germán Asensio Peral. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-18798-7

06/08/2026

Dear AEDEI members,

We are very happy to share that different AEDEI members have contributed to the publication Companion to the Contemporary Irish Novel (Syracuse University Press), edited by Kathleen Costello-Sullivan, Derek Hand, and Neil Murphy.

Since the 1980s, Ireland has gone through a profound social, demographic, and religious disruption, the impact of which has been seen across recent fiction from Irish writers. This volume traces this cultural shift and its impact by examining how modern novels have reckoned with a new conception of Irishness. Bringing together thirty scholars from across the field, Companion to the Contemporary Irish Novel offers a complete contextualized reading to study vital changes in Irish national and cultural identity. For more information: https://press.syr.edu/supressbooks/10061/companion-to-the-contemporary-irish-novel/

Congratulations to both authors and contributors!

30/07/2026

Dear AEDEI members,

We are delighted to share that the latest special issue of Estudios Irlandeses, edited by Dr. Verónica Membrive and Dr. Lili Zách, is now out: A Tale of Two Identities: Irish Images of Europe from Independence to Integration.

You can read it here: https://www.estudiosirlandeses.org/issue/issue-21-2/

Congrats to the editors and contributors!

(cc) Creative Commons 4.0 for articles published in Estudios Irlandeses. By virtue of their appearance in this open access journal, articles are free to use, with proper attribution, in educational and other non-commercial settings. | ISSN: 1699-311X | compost | web design