Radboud University Irish Studies

Radboud University Nijmegen Irish Studies Group. Focusing mainly on the #GreatFamine, the #Gate Theatre, and #regionalism. Tweets mostly by @FearfulJoycuit

[Embassy of Ireland in The Netherlands @IrelandinNL]

Congratulations to @Ruud_v_d_B on publishing his excellent study of Dublin's Gate Theatre.

Radboud University's Irish Studies Centre in Nijmegen is a leading source of detailed scholarship on 🇮🇪's literature and culture. Go raibh maith agaibh!

Info: https://t.co/dnMzbQTc4x

[Radboud University Irish Studies @IrishStudiesRU]

In her wonderful new article in the latest issue of @eire_ire, our member @LindsayBJanssen writes about representations of the Famine in periodical fiction. https://t.co/N4kYu4xJnT

[Radboud University Irish Studies @IrishStudiesRU]

Out now, and available open access: @m_corporaal's new article on Irish local colour fiction, which discusses a range of fin-de-siècle Irish writers, including Jane Barlow and Katharine Tynan. @IrishStudiesRev @IWWNetwork https://t.co/yzI1JILW0E

[Kevin Kelly @KellyinDelhi]

To all Irish students in 🇳🇱 please read & share!

If you are thinking of returning to 🇮🇪 you should make arrangements to go home now 👇🏻👇🏻

@dfatirl @IrelandinNL @denhaaggaa @HollandLadies @MaastrichtU @univgroningen @UniLeidenNews @UvA_Amsterdam @MaastrichtGaels @IrishStudiesRU

[Dr Ellen Howley @LN_howley]

In a week where motivation has been low, this has helped to remind me why I enjoy academic work. My article on Seamus Heaney and the sea has just been published in @IrishStudiesRev
#irishpoetry #bluehumanities #irishstudies2020
https://t.co/N5K9Jm7yov

[Radboud University Irish Studies @IrishStudiesRU]

The chair of our research group, @m_corporaal, has just become the very first full professor of Irish Literature in the Netherlands! This further cements our position as a continental hub for Irish Studies. @RU_Letteren @Radboud_Uni https://t.co/zNupZlYPsR

[Embassy of Ireland in The Netherlands @IrelandinNL]

Are you a long term (1 year minimum) Irish student in The Netherlands? 🇮🇪

Then come and celebrate the start of 2020 at the Embassy’s informal student reception on 29 January! 🎉

Register here! ⬇️
https://t.co/0Gzn5gBFYS

[Radboud University Irish Studies @IrishStudiesRU]

This was such fun!

[Embassy of Ireland in The Netherlands @IrelandinNL]

With #12TweetsOfChristmas we look back at the highlights of a successful year for @IrelandinNL, one month at a time!

In January, we saw the first screening of 'Black 47 in The Netherlands, organised together with @IrishStudiesRU and @radboudreflects. #Black47Film

[Radboud University Irish Studies @IrishStudiesRU]

Come do a PhD with our fabulous leader!

[Embassy of Ireland in The Netherlands @IrelandinNL]

Today is #YeatsDay - do you have a favourite WB Yeats poem? ☘️

If you do, record yourself reading the poem and upload it to Twitter tagging @GlobalIrish & @IrelandinNL.

Looking forward to hearing our Yeatsians in The Netherlands! 📖 @kevinthehague @irishclubN @IrishStudiesRU

[Radboud University Irish Studies @IrishStudiesRU]

So who’s ready for some SPECTACULAR news? INIFS chair @m_corporaal, with co-PIs @LotteJensen14 and @IngriddeZwarte, has been awarded a major grant by @NWONieuws to research European famines with a range of international partners. #Famine

[Stage Irish: Irish Studies in Europe 10 @ISE10StageIrish]

We are thrilled to award Sophie van Os (Radboud University Nijmegen) a Werner Huber Bursary for her STAGE IRISH #EFACIS2019 paper "‘The Wind Through the Broken Windows’: Representations of Imperial Decline in 'The Byrnes of Glengoulah', 'Sally Cavanagh', and 'In Re Garland'"!🏅🎉

[Radboud University Irish Studies @IrishStudiesRU]

To be launched at @acisboston! @m_corporaal @OonaFrawley @emilymfg

[British Association for Irish Studies (BAIS) @BAIrishStudies]

Publication: Marguérite Corporaal, Oona Frawley, Emily Mark-FitzGerald, eds. 'The Great Irish Famine: Visual and Material Culture' (LUP)

https://t.co/OTSGEyR3jZ... https://t.co/OTSGEyR3jZ

[dr carmel mcnamara @carmymac]

@FearfulJoycuit @StPatricksAms @FearfulJoycuit & just to prove you weren’t drinking the Guinness all the time, here’s my fave pic of you n pearse the bar!

[dcf @journeymanhisto]

A difficult thing about teaching a history of the British Empire is just how deep the students’ default support for that empire is

[St. Patrick's Festival Amsterdam @StPatricksAms]

Time to book your spots at our #StPatricksFestival which will have its base at @PodiumSplendor in the heart of #Amsterdam on the 15, 16 & 17 March! For details and tickets visit: https://t.co/heMtju38kK / #dutchirish #irishculture #music #ceili #talks #film #cuisine #familyevents

[Radboud University Irish Studies @IrishStudiesRU]

And now for some SPECTACULAR news: our chair @m_corporaal has just been awarded a €1.5m @NWO_SSH Vici grant for her new project on #regionalism and #transnational identities @Radboud_Uni https://t.co/kSmTQbmcr8

[Radboud University Irish Studies @IrishStudiesRU]

Please help!