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NISN NEWSLETTER

November 2017

‘Dear members and friends of the Nordic Irish Studies Network,

I hope that you are all having a productive autumn term. Please find below a short report on 2017 events and information regarding a number of relevant activities relating to Irish Studies which will be taking place during the coming months in the Nordic countries. There is, once again, a lot to look forward to, including the forthcoming NISN conference in May 2018!

1. NISN past events

1.1 Events in Denmark

CISA, Aarhus University – CISA Spring Seminar Series 2017:

  • Ireland and the Politics of Memory, 1 March – including two talks:
    • ‘Remembering the Easter Rising and the End of Empire’ by Sara Dybris McQuaid, Associate professor and director of the Centre for Irish Studies
    • Con. & Eva: Revolutionary Sisters by Laura McAtackney, Associate Professor in Sustainable Heritage Management at Aarhus University
    • Irish Cinema – Movie night, 22 March – Talk on Irish Cinema by Stephen Joyce, Associate Professor at Aarhus University, followed by the screening of the film Calvary
    • The Northern Ireland Troubles in Britain, 28 March – Professor of historical cultural studies, Graham Dawson from Brighton University came to Aarhus University to talk about his book The Northern Ireland Troubles in Britain.
    • Ireland and the EU, 5 April – two talks:
      • “Brexit and Northern Ireland: New dynamics in old conflicts?”, by Sara Dybris McQuaid, Associate professor and director of the Centre for Irish Studies.
      • “The Anglo-Danish-Irish Judicial Connection: Mackenzie Stuart, Sørensen, and Ó Dálaigh, and the Early Days at the Court of Justice of the European Communities”​ by Graham Butler, Assistant Professor of Law, Aarhus University
      • Irish Politics and Political Performance, 10 May – two talks:
        • “Greek Tragedy and the Troubles”, by Isabelle Torrance, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies
        • “Non-programmatic Politics in Times of Crisis: The Case of Ireland”, by Isabel Kusche, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies

CISA, Aarhus University – Autumn events

  • 12 October – 22 November – Series of Irish films, including Brooklyn, Sing Street, In Bruges, ‘71, Hunger and Intermission. All screenings preceded by/will precede a presentation by Stephen Joyce on Irish Film and themes including emigration, Irish Music.
  • Ireland, Northern Ireland and Brexit, 24 October – Centre for Irish Studies alongside DUS U35 arranged a talk by Dr Katy Hayward (Queens University Belfast) and Rasmus Nørlem (DEO) at the Christiansborg in Copenhagen moderated by Sara McQuaid director of the Centre for Irish Studies. Funding for this event was provided by the Irish Embassy Copenhagen and the Department for Foreign Affairs Ireland.
  •  Con and Eva Exhibition, 27 October – early December – the exhibition titled Con and Eva will be exhibited at The Women’s Museum (Kvindemuseet), Aarhus. The exhibition was originally created by a collaboration between staff at The Public Records Office Northern Ireland (PRONI), Manchester School of Art, University College Dublin (UCD) and Aarhus University. We marked this opening with a Symposium at The Women’s Museum, led by Laura McAtackney (Aarhus University) and Stephen Scarth (PRONI). The exhibition was brought to Denmark by the CISA courtesy of a Department of Foreign Affairs Ireland grant.

1.2 Events in Norway

  • 16th International Symposium of Societas Celtologica Nordica – this was held on 31 August – 2 September and organised by Dr. Cathinka Dahl Hambro at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. The event gathered 40 scholars from Ireland, the Nordic countries, Europe and the USA. The Irish Ambassador to Norway, H.E. Karl Gardener, opened the event and hosted the reception. The programme covered a wide range of topics in language and literature, mainly with a medieval focus. The next SCN symposium is likely to take place in Uppsala in 2019.

1.3 Events in Finland

  • Irish festival of Oulu – The festival was held on 4-8th October 2017 and offered a wide range of events and cultural activities, including not only music by such renowned Irish bands as Altan and Dervish, but also the performance of Irish story-teller Eamonn Keenan. For further information on the Festival, please check the following link: http://www.irkku.fi/?lang=en.

1.4 Events in Sweden

  • 29-30 September 2017. Eimear McBride, Mike McCormack, Sara Baume and Rob Doyle met students and teachers at the Department of Languages and Literatures, Gothenburg University.
  • Göteborg Book Fair, 28 September-1 October 2017 – Eimear McBride, Mike McCormack, Sara Baume, Rob Doyle, and Sally Rooney presented their work in a session moderated by Dr. Britta Olinder. At other sessions, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Louis de Paor, Liam Ó Muirthile and Merlin Holland read from and discussed their work.

 

2. NISN AND NIS ANNOUNCEMENTS

2.1 NISN conference, University of Agder, Norway, 3-4 May 2018 (abstracts: 15 December 2018)

The 10th Biennial Conference of the Nordic Irish Studies Network, NISN, entitled “Irreconcilable Differences? Peace and Conflict in Irish Literature, Culture, and Politics” will be held by University of Agder, Kristiansaand, Norway. Prof. Charles Ivan Armstrong is the conference organiser, together with members of the Organising Committee, including Dr. Jan Erik Mustad.

Please submit abstracts and queries by December 15, 2017, to the following email address: Charles.Armstrong@uia.no

For the CFP, please see addendum at the end of this newsletter.

2.2 NISN book project – update

The Editors are delighted to announce that the NISN book project Ireland and the North edited by Fionna Barber, Heidi Hansson and Sara Dybris McQuaid will now be published by Peter Lang in summer 2018. They are aiming for July, which means it will be available for the IASIL conference at Nijmegen. The book’s twelve essays are drawn from a range of disciplines and provide a range of different perspectives on the relationship between Ireland and the Nordic countries –it’s already attracted a considerable degree of interest!

2.3 Nordic Irish Studies journal

  • The 2017 regular issue of Nordic Irish Studies (vol. 16) will be coming out at the end of December. As usual, all paid-up NISN members will be receiving a copy of this issue in due course.
  • In 2018 Nordic Irish Studies will be publishing a special issue on the theme of “Women and Ageing in Irish Literature and Culture”. This will be guest-edited by Dr. Maggie O’Neill and Dr. Michaela Schrage-Früh, both from the University of Limerick, Ireland.

Nordic Irish Studies – CFP for 2018, regular issue (deadline: 31 March 2018)

Submissions on any aspect within the field of Irish Studies are welcomed for the 2018 regular issue of the peer-reviewed journal Nordic Irish Studies. The journal is listed in MLA, JSTOR, EBSCO-Host databases and in the European Research Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences, ERIH PLUS. Submissions should be anonymous and accompanied with an abstract, five key words, as well as a separate file containing the author(s)’ information (author(s)’ full name(s), affiliation, contact information, and a short biographical description of approximately 150 words). Submissions should be made electronically to Carmen Zamorano Llena (cza@du.se) for articles on literature, and to Billy Gray (bgr@du.se) for articles on politics, history, sociology and cultural studies. The deadline for submissions for the 2018 issue is 31st March 2018. Submissions are accepted all year round. For further information on submissions, please check the following link: http://www.nordicirishstudies.org/

 

2.4 Other events in Sweden

  • Gothenburg University, end of November-beginning of December 2017 – Professor Michael Parker’s first visit as guest researcher is planned for the end of November to the beginning of December with a longer one for the spring. At one of the first seminars he is to present his second soon forthcoming book on Seamus Heaney.

All the best,

Carmen Zamorano Llena, NISN chair

NISN NEWSLETTER

February 2017

Dear members and friends of the Nordic Irish Studies Network,

I hope that you have all had a great start of the spring term. Please find below a short report on 2016 events and information regarding a number of relevant activities relating to Irish Studies which will be taking place during the coming months in the Nordic countries. There is, once again, a lot to look forward to.

NISN past events

Nordic Circuit of the Irish Itinerary, Gothenburg – October 2016

This was the fourth time that Gothenburg University hosted the Irish Itinerary, a co-operation between about twenty universities all over Europe, allowing us to see and hear Irish writers and artists of different kinds. Previously we have been visited by people like Anne Enright, Deirdre Madden and Vona Groarke.

This time, on October 6, Sarah Clancy read her provocative social criticism in poetry slam fashion, capturing the audience, mainly of students eager to ask questions, while Paul O’Hanrahan and Mick Greer, Balloonatics Theatre Company, acted out Joyce’s story “Counterparts” and scenes from the Wandering Rocks chapter in Ulysses, an invaluable introduction to these literary works.

Our heartfelt thanks are due to EFACIS and Culture Ireland.

Other events in Denmark

CISA, Aarhus University:

  • Professor Cahal McLaughlin, Queens University Belfast, gave a lecture on the Prisons Memory Archive and held a workshop at the Women’s Museum in Aarhus (4 April 2016)
  • Reading and interview with Irish author Donal Ryan, in collaboration with Authors in Aarhus (20 April 2016).
  • Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, Trinity College Dublin, gave a lecture entitled “The 1916 revolutions: Contexts and Consequences” (28 April 2016).
  • Screening of documentary 1916, with the support of the Irish Embassy (4 May 2016)
  • “Brexit and Nationalisms in the British Isles” (13 October 2016). This stand-alone lecture has been commissioned for a five-part series for Folkeuniversitetet in the Spring of 2017 called “Rule, Britannia! Storbritannien før og efter Brexit”.

Other events in Norway

  • Talk at the literature house (“Litteraturhuset”) of Oslo, by the Norwegian historian Bjørn Godøy, based on his book Dobbeltspill: kjærlighet og forræderi i skyggen av første verdenskrig (2016) (2 October 2016).
  • Event entitled “Meeting Casement” at the Grand Hotel in Oslo, hosted by the Irish Ambassador in Norway. This was introduced by the director of the Norwegian National Human Rights Institution, Petter Fredrik Wille, and featured a talk by Bjørn Godøy, a dramatic presentation by the actor Declan Gorman, and a showing of Alan Phelan’s short film “Our Kind”. (3 November 2016).
  • Event titled “Roger Casement and His Links to Norway” at the literature house (“Litteraturhuset”) of Bergen. This again featured a lecture by the historian Bjørn Godøy and Alan Phelan’s film “Our Kind”, but also a performance of the play “Casement: British Consul – Humanitarian – Irish Revolutionary” (written by Christabelle Peters and Bartholomew Ryan). (4 November 2016).
  • The documentary Atlantic (directed by Risteard Ó Domhnaill), shot in Ireland, Norway and Newfoundland, was screened at the Tromsø film festival in January and received a positive response. The Bergen Irish Society is also planning to organise a screening in spring 2017 (details yet to be released). More information on the documentary can be found at https://theatlanticstream.com/.

Other events in Finland

  • Irish festival of Oulu – The festival was held on 5-9th October 2016 and offered a wide range of events and cultural activities, including not only music by the renowned Irish traditional music band Danú, but also screening of films, the performance of Sonya Kelly’s play How to Keep an Alien by Rough Magic Theatre Company, and a poetry reading by poet Mary O’Malley. For further information on the Festival, please check the following link: http://www.irkku.fi/index.php.

NISN AND NIS ANNOUNCEMENTS

Nordic Irish Studies – publication of special issue, vol. 15, issue 1 (2016). On “Discourses of Inclusion and Exclusion: Artistic Renderings of Marginal Identities in Ireland”, guest edited by Dr. Pilar Villar-Argáiz.

It includes the following:

Pilar Villar-Argáiz

Introduction. Discourses of Inclusion and Exclusion: Artistic Renderings of Marginal Identities in Ireland

Gender and Marginality

Auxiliadora Pérez Vides

Magdalene Otherness and Ethical Turns in Stephen Frears’s Philomena

Marisol Morales-Ladrón

Mary Morrissy’s The Rising of Bella Casey, or How Women Have Been Written Out of History

María Gaviña Costero

When Heroes Become Heroines: Brian Friel Re-Makes History

Beatriz Rubio Martínez

Trauma and (Re)Construction of the Past in Deirdre Madden’s Time Present, Time Past

Juan F. Elices

Othering Women in Contemporary Irish Dystopia: The Case of Louise O’Neill’s Only Ever Yours

Dissidents, Apolitical Subjects and Social Misfits

Britta Olinder

Inclusion and Marginalisation: John Hewitt as an Ulster Protestant in Opposition

Stephanie Schwerter

Titanic Town and Good Vibrations: Cinematographic Representations of Belfast from the Margins 

Hedwig Schwall

Marginal(ising) Mothers and Transitional Objects in William Trevor’s Cheating at Canasta

M. Isabel Seguro Gómez

Disabling Mainstreamised Representations of Irishness in Martin McDonagh’s Leenane Trilogy

Marginalities in Exile

John Braidwood

Dreary Eden: Post-War Ireland and the Irish Experience of English Exile

Pilar Villar-Argáiz

‘Humanising the lived experiences of migrants’: An Interview with Alan Grossman and Áine O’Brien

Nordic Irish Studies – publication of regular issue, vol. 15, issue 2 (2016) 

It includes the following contributions:

Literature

Heaney’s Journey into the Self: Towards a Dantean Light (Daniela Panzera)

‘How to assert but not confront?’: An Analysis of Mary O’Donnell’s Where They Lie from the Perspective of Pluralistic Trauma Theory and Transculturalism (José Manuel Estévez Saá)

Derek Mahon’s Latin Adaptions (Ahmed Badrideen)

Paying the Devil His Due: Alcoholism and the Faustian Bargain in Claire Kilroy’s Novels (Molly E. Ferguson)

Questioning Women’s Lives: Famine, Migration and Memory in Evelyn Conlon’s Not the Same Sky (Melania Terrazas Gallego)

Politics, History, Sociology, Cultural Studies

Deterritorialising Irish Cinema (Patrick Brodie)

Exploring the Representation of Women as Social Actors in a Corpus from the Irish Press at the End of the Celtic Tiger Period (María Dolores Martínez Lirola)

Border Crossings and Road Cratering by British Troops in the Aftermath of Internment without Trial and Its Effects on the Republic of Ireland (Jan Freytag)

Myles na gCopaleen’s Cruiskeen Lawn and the Politics of Revival (Germán Asensio Peral)

 

Reviews

This section includes book reviews on the following texts: Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece by Iain Ross (Cambridge University Press, 2015), The Vikings in Ireland and Beyond: Before and After the Battle of Clontarf (Four Courts Press, 2015), The Global Dimensions of Irish Identity: Race, Nation and the Popular Press, 1840-1880 (University of North Carolina Press, 2015), George Moore’s Paris and His Ongoing French Connection (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2015), Unfolding Landscapes: Tim Robinson, Culture and Environment (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015), Seamus Heaney as Aesthetic Thinker: A Study of the Prose (Syracuse University Press, 2016).

Nordic Irish Studies – CFP for 2017, regular issue (deadline: 31 March 2017)

Submissions on any aspect within the field of Irish Studies are welcome for the 2017 regular issue of the peer-reviewed journal Nordic Irish Studies. The journal is listed in MLA, JSTOR, EBSCO-Host databases and in the European Research Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences, ERIH PLUS. Submissions should be anonymous and accompanied with an abstract, five key words, as well as a separate file containing the author(s)’ information (author(s)’ full name(s), affiliation, contact information, and a short biographical description of approximately 150 words). Submissions should be made electronically to Carmen Zamorano Llena (cza@du.se) for articles on literature, and to Billy Gray (bgr@du.se) for articles on politics, history, sociology and cultural studies. The deadline for submissions is 31st March 2017. For further information on submissions, please check the following link: http://www.nordicirishstudies.org/

Nordic Irish Studies – special issue in 2017

A special issue on the theme of “Women and Ageing in Irish Literature and Culture” will be published in 2017. This will be guest-edited by Dr. Maggie O’Neill and Dr. Michaela Schrage-Früh, both from the University of Limerick, Ireland. This special issue is expected to appear by the end of September 2017.

NISN book project – update

The book project Ireland and the North, edited by Fionna Barber, Heidi Hansson and Sara Dybris McQuaid, is well under way. The collection will be divided into three sections, focusing on material culture, political culture and print culture, with contributors from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden as well as from Ireland. Contributions cover the entire history of Nordic-Irish relations, from before the Viking Age until today, as well as the engagement with northernness as an idea and a specific political phenomenon within Ireland itself.

The Peter Lang series Re-Imagining Ireland has expressed a keen interest in this collection and the editors are at present preparing a book proposal.

NISN conference – University of Agder, Norway (Spring 2018)

As many of you already know, the NISN conference that was planned for October 2016 in Oulu, Finland, was cancelled due to the organiser’s health reasons. Fortunately, John is already back to work and actively contributing to Irish activities in the North, including the assistant editorship of Nordic Irish Studies.

We are also pleased to announce that the 10th Biannual Conference of the Nordic Irish Studies Network will be held at the University of Agder, Norway, in spring 2018. We would like to thank Prof. Charley Armstrong and his colleagues for assuming the organization of this event. Further information will follow soon.

All the best,

Carmen Zamorano Llena, NISN chair

 

NISN NEWSLETTER

February 2016

Dear members and friends of the Nordic Irish Studies Network,

I hope that you have all had a great start of the spring term. Please find below a short report on past events and information regarding a number of relevant activities relating to Irish Studies which will be taking place during the coming months in the Nordic countries. There is, once again, a lot to look forward to.

NISN PAST EVENTS

Nordic Circuit of the Irish Itinerary, Gothenburg, Aarhus, Kristiansand and Bergen – September 2015

In Gothenburg the Irish Itinerary was combined with the celebration of the 150 years since the birth of W. B. Yeats. Thus, the event began with Professor Margaret Harper from the University of Limerick giving a talk on Yeats and particularly on A Vision, her new edition of which was published a few days later in Dublin. This was followed by a brief account of Yeats’s significance in Sweden and Thomas Sjösvärd discussing his translation of The Tower. Both sessions were followed by many questions and interesting answers. In addition to reading her own poetry, Vona Groarke analysed and commented on a selection of poems by Yeats, both presentations evoking lively discussions. As in the other Nordic venues of the Irish Itinerary, Steafán Hanvey presented his multimedia performance of life in Northern Ireland.

The whole programme attracted teachers, students and an interested general public, the latter supported by notices in the largest daily paper. The success was enhanced by the visit of the new Irish ambassador, who travelled down from Stockholm. The part of the project focusing on Yeats was financially supported by the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities.

In Aarhus Vona Groarke read from her most recent collection X, and Steafán Hanvey again performed his piece Look Behind You! which addresses the conflict in Northern Ireland.

In Norway, the Irish Itinerary took place at the University of Agder in Kristiansand and at the University of Bergen in mid-September. Vona Groarke read her poetry and Steafán Hanvey performed “Look Behind You!” at the University of Agder Library and the Kristiansand Public Library, and at Ad Fontes café and restaurant in Bergen.

Other events in Denmark

CISA, Aarhus University: Two lectures by Stephen Hopkins, Leicester University: ‘The Irish Republican Movement and Contested Memories of the 1980-81 Hunger Strikes’, on 26th November, and ‘Memoir-writing and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland: New Labour and the Politics of Self-Justification’ on 27th November.

Other activities organised by the Irish Embassy in Denmark

  • Seminar to celebrate the 150th anniversary of W. B. Yeats with Mark Leslie, Creative Director of Martello Media who designed ‘The Life and Works of WB Yeats’ at the National Library of Ireland. Nordatlantens Brygge, 2nd December.
  • Exhibition ‘New Architecture of Ireland’ at the KDAK Library,19th October

Other events in Sweden

DUCIS, Dalarna University: During the Autumn Term 2015, Irish poet and playwright Maria McManus collaborated with the Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies by running a poetry workshop with literature students on the master’s programmes. Maria was at the time a writer-in-residence at the Yeats International Residency, at Litteraturcentrum in Tranås, which was part of the worldwide 150th celebrations of the birth of the Irish poet and Nobel Laureate William Butler Yeats.

NISN AND NIS ANNOUNCEMENTS

Nordic Irish Studies – publication of vol. 14 (2015)

The latest issue of Nordic Irish Studies came out just before Christmas 2015. It includes the following:

Literature

  • ‘Transnationalism and Transculturality in Twenty-First-Century Irish Novels’ (Margarita Estévez Saá)
  • ‘Ireland on the Waves: Colum McCann’s TransAtlantic as Intergenerational Female Immram’ (Miriam Mara and Andrew Mara)
  • ‘Pregnancy and Abjection in James Joyce’s “The Dead”’ (Barry Ryan)
  • ‘The Evidential Artist: A Conversation with John Banville’ (Aurora Piñeiro)

Politics, History, Sociology, Cultural Studies

  • ‘Representing Post-Conflict Space: Belfast, Cape Town and Cruel Optimism in The Good Man’ (Fiona McCann)
  • ‘“God the father and Joseph the carpenter”: Faith and Fatherhood in Bruce Beresford’s Evelyn’ (Lisa McGonigle)
  • ‘“Hiberniores ipsis hibernis”: The Book of Fermoy as Text-Carrier of Anglo-Irish Identity?’ (Cathinka Dahl Hambro)
  • ‘Martin Glynn’s Newspaper Editorials: Constructing Albany’s Answers to the Irish Questions, 1913-1924’ (Margaret Lasch Carroll)
  • ‘Irish Dance during the Gaelic Revival: Conflicts of Consciousness’ (Sharon Phelan)

Reviews

This section includes book reviews on the following texts: The Theatre of Brian Friel: Tradition and Modernity (Bloomsbury 2014), Selena by Mary Tighe: A Scholarly Edition (Ashgate 2012), Romantic Ireland: From Tone to Gonne; Fresh Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2014), Recollecting Hunger; An Anthology: Cultural Memories of the Great Famine in Irish and British Fiction, 1847-1920 (Irish Academic Press 2012), Irish Theatre in Transition: From the Late Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-First Century (Macmillan 2015).

Nordic Irish Studies – CFP for 2016, regular issue (deadline: 31 March 2016)

Submissions on any aspect within the field of Irish Studies are welcome for the 2016 regular issue of the peer-reviewed journal Nordic Irish Studies. The journal is listed in MLA, JSTOR, EBSCO-Host databases and classified as category INT-1 in the European Research Index for the Humanities, ERIH. Submissions should be anonymous and accompanied with an abstract, five key words, as well as a separate file containing the author(s)’ information – full name(s), affiliation, contact information, and a short biographical note of approximately 150 words. Submissions should be made electronically to Carmen Zamorano Llena (cza@du.se) for articles on literature, and to Billy Gray (bgr@du.se) for articles on politics, history, sociology and cultural studies. The deadline for submissions is 31st March 2016. For further information on submissions, please visit http://www.nordicirishstudies.org/.

Nordic Irish Studies – special issue in 2016

A special issue on the theme of ‘Discourses of Inclusion and Exclusion: Marginal Identities in Irish Writing’ will also be published in 2016. This will be guest-edited by Dr. Pilar Villar-Argáiz, University of Granada, Spain, and is expected to appear by the end of August 2016.

NISN book project – update

The book project Ireland and the North, edited by Fionna Barber, Heidi Hansson and Sara Dybris McQuaid, is now well under way. The collection will be divided into three sections, focusing on material culture, political culture and print culture, with contributors from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden as well as from Ireland. Contributions cover the history of Nordic-Irish relations, from before the Viking Age until today, as well as the engagement with northernness as a concept and a specific political phenomenon within Ireland itself. Publication is planned for late 2016.

Nordic Association of English Studies (NAES) conference, University of Agder, Norway – 4-7 May 2016 (deadline for abstracts: 15th February 2016)

The 12th triennial conference of the Nordic Association of English Studies (NAES) will take place in Kristiansand, at the University of Agder, from May 4 to 7. A second and final call for papers has been issued, with a deadline for abstracts on February 15. Papers on Irish-related topics are most welcome! For further information, please visit http://www.uia.no/en/conferences-and-seminares/naes-nordic-association-of-english-studies .

NISN conference – University of Oulu, Finland

The 10th Biannual Conference of the Nordic Irish Studies Network will be held at the University of Oulu, Finland, coinciding with the celebration of the Irish Festival of Oulu. The provisional dates for the conference are October 6 to 7, 2016. Further information will follow soon.

Events in Denmark

CISA in collaboration with Authors in Aarhus presents: Oona Frawley will talk about her book Flight and Donal Ryan about his book Spinning Wheel at Dokk1, April 20th, 2016.

In collaboration with the Irish Embassy, there will also be a visit in late April (date tbc) by Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, Trinity College, Dublin. Professor Ohlmeyer will give a series of lectures covering topics such as the Rising, First World War, nationalisms (constitutional, cultural and republican) and their consequences for Britain and the Empire, and Modern Ireland.

All the best,

Carmen Zamorano Llena

NISN chair