Irish Women Writers Symposium at Fordham University

04/06/2024

It's a great honor to be hosting the book launch for Emily Bloom's new memoir "I Cannot Control Everything Forever" at Fordham University's Lincoln Center campus on Tuesday April 30 at 6:00 PM. Emily Bloom will be in conversation with writer Lauren Goldenberg. Please join us for a reading, discussion, and celebration of this exceptional new memoir about motherhood, technology, and the books, art, and communities that sustain us as we make complex decisions. Sponsored by Fordham University's Institute of Irish Studies and Irish Women Writers Symposium.
RSVP required. Please register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScHwlJH3FMX483ftamdLe_5ZKzSyXLaI4jSv_A9FPt10vhgSA/viewform

More about the book:
"I Cannot Control Everything Forever" is Emily Bloom’s journey towards and through motherhood, a path that has become, for the average woman, laden with data and medical technology. Emily faces decisions regarding genetic testing and diagnosis, technologies that offer the illusion of certainty but carry the weight of hard decisions. Her desire to know more thrusts her back into the history of science, as she traces the discoveries that impacted the modern state of pregnancy and motherhood. With the birth of their daughter, who is diagnosed with congenital deafness and later, Type 1 diabetes, Emily and her husband find their life centered around medical data, devices, and doctor’s visits, but also made richer and fuller by parenting an exceptional child.

As Emily learns, technology and data do not reduce the labor of caretaking. These things often fall, as the pandemic starkly revealed, on mothers. Trying to find a way out of the loneliness and individualism of 21st century parenthood, Emily finds joy in reaching outwards, towards art and literature–such as the maternal messiness of Louise Bourgeois or Greek myths about the power of fate–as well as the collective sustenance of friends and community.

With lyrical and enchanting prose, I Cannot Control Everything Forever is an inspired meditation on art, science, and motherhood."

06/04/2021

Congratulations to Anakana Schofield! https://www.rte.ie/culture/2021/0602/1225703-anakana-schofield-award/?fbclid=IwAR3EKd-BSzeEQzjxU9qu7qlFT0r1QC1zpWYkjZTUCbh0oAVO4K_aHLVrAag

Irish author Anakana Schofield has won the 2021 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award for her book Bina.

06/02/2021

https://www.irishecho.com/2021/06/the-women-who-made-ulysses/?fbclid=IwAR1R2wzE6PoAOFr9OMwcXEDABUwQthAF6BDvmOXvCir3C1MC681vGfVuWqk

James Joyce, Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier at the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris.   By Peter McDermott Intrigue, betrayal, suspense and mystery. These are some of the elements...

05/13/2021

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Gender, Performance, and Authorship at the Abbey Theatre argues for a reconsideration of authorship at the Abbey Theatre. The actresses who performed the key roles at the Abbey contributed original ideas, language, stage directions, and revisions to the theatre's most renowned performances and texts...

03/19/2021

Spreading the word about these great free events at the Irish Arts Center for Irish Language Day.

Our 2021 celebration of the Irish language explores its connection to land, sea, and sky through a mix of literature, music, media, and conversation. This year’s program also features the Irish writer, documentary-maker, and world-traveller Manchán Mangan in a discussion about how ideas of ecolog...

03/11/2021

Please join us on St. Patrick's Day for a discussion of collaborative writing in Irish Studies!

03/04/2021

There are still a few days to submit abstracts for our annual Transnational Print Culture Conference organized by Cathal Pratt.
Fordham University’s
Institute of Irish Studies
&
Global Studies Consortium
4th Transnational Print Culture Conference
April 1st, 2021
Fordham University’s Institute of Irish Studies and Global Studies invite paper proposals for a one-day, multi-disciplinary print culture conference. Previous papers have covered Irish military doctrine, depictions of minorities in Irish newspapers, 18th century print circulation, Irish language teaching, and more. Papers do not require an Irish focus, and comparative approaches are encouraged. Established scholars and newcomers are welcome. We are committed to providing a space for new scholars and research interests that cross disciplines.
This year’s conference will be entirely digital, free, and open to the public. All presenters will record their essays beforehand, to be made available for classroom incorporation and asynchronous viewing. The synchronous component of the conference will cover guided Q/A with other panelists and students, as well as several interviews. For more information please contact conference organizer Cathal Pratt at [email protected].
Belinda McKeon (Rutgers University), keynote speaker and author of Solace (2011) and Tender (2015), will be presenting on how distance and difference played out in a diaspora under lockdown. McKeon is an award-winning author and editor, and professor of creative writing.
All papers should be 10-20 minutes in length. Abstracts between 250-500 words should be submitted to: [email protected] by March 5th, 2021.

09/15/2020

This Wednesday at 12:30EST, check out the American launch of Irish Literature in Transition with Marjorie Howes and Claire Connolly in conversation with Kelly Sullivan.

Wednesday September 16th, 12:30pm EST/5:30pm GMT Join this online event to celebrate the American launch of the Cambridge University Press six-volume essay series Irish Literature in Transition (2020), a new and dynamic account of Ireland’s literary history over 300 years. Speakers will include P...

08/17/2020

https://www.drb.ie/blog/writers-and-artists/2020/08/15/likeability?fbclid=IwAR3e9MA7lw0zY86mGABo0Kl8UH-PzYUlHHiPBPh0sGc1oiL3TR4o5reA_VQ

The aim of the Dublin Review of Books is the publication of clear and informative essays on recently published books. Read articles from our Blog now.

06/15/2020

A new set of essays about reading Sally Rooney:

Post45 is a collective of scholars working on American literature and culture since 1945. The group was founded in 2006 and has met annually since to discuss new work in the field.