"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
"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
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.
"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
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
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