"Seekers of Wonder" by Elena E. Sottilotta pioneers the comparison of women's roles in Italian & #IrishFolklore & #FairyTales 1870-1920 collected / written by #WomenWriters Laura Gonzenbach, Grazia Deledda, #JaneWilde & #AugustaGregory

#IrishLiterature #IrishStudies #Folklore

We have a Fulbright Fellowship in #IrishStudies for US faculty available for 2027 - see here for details: https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/NewsandEvents/News/NewFulbrightFellowshipinIrishStudies.html
New Fulbright Fellowship in Irish Studies at Queen's University Belfast available from 2027

The US-UK Fulbright Commission's Queen's University Belfast Award in Irish Studies covers a six-month appointment to research, lecture and teach in Irish Studies in Northern Ireland.

Queen's University Belfast
Thanks to everyone who supported our academic programme in #IrishStudies this year. You can find recordings of most of our events on our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@QUBIrishStudies
If you missed it, there’s a recording of David Wilson’s #IrishStudies lecture on ‘Parallels and patterns: Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Conor Cruise O’Brien and Edmund Burke’ at https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/NewsandEvents/IrishStudiesInternationalLectureDavidWilson-DArcyMcGeeCruiseOBrienandBurke.html
If you missed it, there’s a recording of David Wilson’s #IrishStudies lecture on ‘Parallels and patterns: Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Conor Cruise O’Brien and Edmund Burke’ at https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/NewsandEvents/IrishStudiesInternationalLectureDavidWilson-DArcyMcGeeCruiseOBrienandBurke.html
Irish Studies International Lecture: David Wilson - ‘D’Arcy McGee, Cruise O'Brien and Burke'

"Otherworld" collects 9 tales from #MedievalIreland - composed over 1000 years ago in monastic libraries of #Ireland, inspiration for later 🇬🇧 & 🇫🇷 #fairytales, are retold by historian & novelist Lisa M. Bitel

https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1886557160

#IrishStudies #IrishLiterature #MedievalLiterature #folklore

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2 new books in our collection - today on the theme of #Ireland!
"Death in Irish #Prehistory" by Gabriel Cooney is a massive yet approachable volume with lots of illustrations & photos from 8500 years of tracing life & death in #IrishHistory - 8000 BC - 400 AD.

https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1872314457

#IrishStudies

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Our next #IrishStudies seminar on Mon. 7 April will be Rob Savage (Boston College) on ‘The death of an informer, London, 1974’. This event is in-person only. #NorthernIreland #Troubles

https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/NewsandEvents/IrishStudiesSeminarRobSavageThedeathofaninformerLondon1974.html

Irish Studies Seminar: Rob Savage, 'The death of an informer, London, 1974'