Hi all, we've made the decision to officially relocate to BlueSky. This account will remain here as an archive of past IUR activity, but we will now be active here: https://t.co/arW6XzO5P6
Hope to see you there!
Laura O'Connor interprets Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill's 1998 'Dried Merfolk' sequence as a speculative psychoethnography, tracing the merfolk's repression of ancestral migration as a covert analogy for contemporary Irish culture's haunting by the trauma of Victorian Anglicisation
O'Connor contends that the emblematic phantom fishtail at the peripety of sea-person legend unlocks the disparate yet interdependent intertextual backstory-building essential for understanding the historical trauma interred within 'Dried Merfolk'
LATEST ISSUE📣Cora Crampton's article explores the collaboration between W. B. Yeats & Frank O'Connor in the translation of Irish language poetry in the 1930s, examining the nature & extent of their partnership
The focus is on 3 Irish poems, 2 composed by Aogán Ó Rathaille (c.1670-1726). Crampton's comparative analysis demonstrates that O'Connor & Yeats shaped transparent translations, mediating the 'kick' & 'excitement' of the original verse across time & language in their new poems
LATEST ISSUE📢Iria Seijas-Pérez analyses an underexplored feature of Irish Young Adult literature, its depiction of multiculturalism. Taking 2 novels by Adiba Jaigirdar as its impetus, Seijas-Pérez's article traces representations of Muslim youth culture in contemporary Ireland
This articles argues that 'The Henna Wars' (2020) & 'Hani & Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating' (2021) focalise the experiences of 2 queer Muslim girls, demonstrating how sexuality, religion, race & ethnicity intersect & inform their identities in a predominantly white, Catholic Ireland
📢The first deadline for IASIL 2025 is fast approaching!
⏰⏰Nov 27th! ⏰⏰
On-site accommodation opening in December!
21-25 July 2025
Technology and Ireland
University of Galway
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📣LATEST ISSUE📣See IASIL's Postgraduate & Early Career Researcher Roundtable: Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in Irish Studies, with contributions by Tapasya Narang, Sandrine Uwase Ndahiro, Victor Pacheco, Taylor Follett & J. Javier Torres-Fernández
https://t.co/UgGK8PUrlq
📢Our newest issue is now out📢 We have a range of articles on the work of Harry Clifton, Emily Lawless, Paul Muldoon, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill & Seamus Heaney - alongside topics like parental grief, poetics of allusion, & sexuality & religion in YA fiction
📢Keep tuned for posts spotlighting some of the amazing work in this issue, including IASIL's Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Roundtable: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Irish Studies, with an introduction by Rosanne Gallenne & concluding remarks by Deirdre Flynn📢
happy to announce that you can now find my newest article in the most recent issue of @IrishUniReview where i explore the intersections between queerness and religion in Adiba Jaigirdar’s YA fiction 📖📚 thank you to the editors for the opportunity ✨
🔗: https://t.co/bR3eLWtMIn
My contribution to the IASIL Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Roundtable just got published in Irish University Review! I want to thank @deirdre_flynn and Luci Collins for putting this wonderful piece together
https://t.co/8ErEkIXV5n