In 1932, Irish writer, revolutionary & political activist Peadar O’Donnell took a libel case against the editor of the Irish Rosary for claims he had visited communist Russia. Niall Carson argues in the latest IUR that this case illuminates transnational connections between Ireland, Britain & Russia

In the latest IUR, Steven Matthews argues that the publication of John Montague’s ‘The Great Bell’, a poetic sequence about his encounters with the Anglo-Welsh poet David Jones, serves as a reminder of the significance of Jones’s work for writers in the late 1960s & 1970s

In the latest IUR, Ashim Dutta discusses W. B. Yeats's interest in the relationship between the East and West. Of the different Easts that attracted him, India, Dutta argues, held a special place, keeping him invested in its religion and philosophy, literature & mythology.

In the latest issue of the IUR, Matthew Fogarty builds upon 2 interconnected 21st-century developments in Irish & modernist studies, revisiting the critical debate concerning Patrick Kavanagh’s engagement with aesthetic modernism in The Great Hunger.

The IUR's May 2025 special issue was dedicated to ‘Irish Studies beyond the Text’ (guest editors Emily Mark-FitzGerald & Emma Radley). Check out the link below to Radley & contributor Daithí Kearney's discussion of this interdisciplinary issue at Queen's last Autumn! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fN1...

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Focusing on the case study of Druid's Unusual Rural Tour of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (2016), Chloé Duane explores how Druid use site-responsive scenography to engage the histories and cultural legacies of the Inis Meáin landscape.

Ann Curran explores Québécoise artist Françoise Sullivan's 1978 visit to the Blasket Islands, the series of performances for camera she developed during her time there & the complex relationship between photography & performances.

Huayu Yang argues that Palimpsest, CoisCéim Dance Theatre's performance that took place during Dublin's 2024 St Patrick's Day celebration, stages the 'iterative' contemporaneity of Ireland, where the past continues to frame present experiences and the present is incessantly conflated with the past

In the latest issue of the IUR, Molly-Claire Gillett charts the symbol of the 'currach', a small boat traditionally made of skin or canvas and stretched over wood ribs, in Irish art practice, from the early-twentieth century to the present day.

In the latest issue of the IUR, J. Javier Torres-Fernández explores the contemporary landscape of Irish queer theatre and performance, focusing particularly on the landmark theatre company THISISPOPBABY, who have won awards for their productions RIOT (2016), Wake (2022), more

Sarah Churchill's blog post "Will the Housing Crisis Kill the Irish Art Scene?" is now live on EUP's website. Churchill asks contemporary Irish artists Aideen Barry and Spicebag for their thoughts on how Ireland's housing crisis is shaping Irish art today. euppublishingblog.com/2025/07/31/w...

Will Housing Crisis Kill the Irish Art Scene? - Edinburgh University Press Blog

How is Ireland’s housing crisis shaping Irish art today? Sarah Churchill asks contemporary Irish artists Aideen Barry and Spicebag for their thoughts.

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Today's keynote at #IASIL2025 was provided by Prof Breandán Mac Suibhne, who produced a 'micro history', exploring the real-life people and Marconi radio (which, he notes, is almost a character in its own right) that inspired Brian Friel’s 'Dancing at Lughnasa'.

One of the final panels today, titled 'Ecology, History, and Historiography', is currently kicking off at the University of Galway, with Patrick Lonergan & Marisol Morales-Ladrón as speakers #IASIL2025

Looking forward to presenting at IASIL 2025 in Galway, Ireland, this week! #DigitalHumanities #IASIL #IASIL2025

The panel "Remediation, Revolution, and Resistance in Irish Theatre and Performance" is currently underway at #IASIL2025, with speakers Clare Wallace, Miriam Haughton, and James Little

IASIL 2025, "Technology & Ireland" kicked off yesterday with a brilliant keynote from Prof Gerardine Meaney on “Migration & Narration: Data, Archives, Nations”.

📢Great news!📢 Our May 2024 special issue on Éilís Ní Dhuibhne is now an open-access special feature on EUP's website! Read all of our amazing articles about Ní Dhuibhne's contributions to Irish literature and culture at the following link: www.euppublishing.com/toc/iur/54/1

Huge congratulations to Éilís Ní Dhuibhne; comhghairdeachas ó chroí as ucht an onóir seo; tuillte go maith agat! proud to have co-edited (w ‪@kellyfitzgerald.bsky.social‬) recent special issue of IUR on Éilís work. See following link: www.euppublishing.com/toc/iur/54/1 @irishunireview.bsky.social‬

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Huge congratulations to Éilís Ní Dhuibhne on her appointment as the new Laureate for Irish Fiction! In May 2024, the IUR published a special issue dedicated to Ní Dhuibhne’s contributions to Irish literature and culture.

Daithí Kearney examines performances of the Irish set dance ‘The Blackbird’, focusing on steps from the Munnix tradition of North Kerry & highlighting differences in performance aesthetics that incorporate varying levels of cultural understanding or a kinaesthetic sense of place

Emily Mark-Fitzgerald & Emma Radley introduce "'Making a Mess of Things': Irish Studies Beyond the Text", the latest issue of the IUR, which analyses the proliferation of multi- and inter-disciplinary collections, special issues, events & more that have emerged in Irish studies over the last 5 years

In the latest issue of the IUR, Victor Pacheco explores how, despite the global reach of Irish studies, institutional EDI initiatives that promote considerations of gender, sexuality, class, and race are not reflected in the field’s publications

Part of IASIL’s Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Roundtable, J. Javier Torres-Fernández, a Spanish ECR who studies representations of HIV/AIDS in Irish & American theatres, reflects on how his research (and other scholars’ work in Irish studies) can help “to voice the unvoiced”.

Part of IASIL’s Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Roundtable, Taylor Follett elucidates the urgent need to address the exclusion of trans and gender non-conforming scholars in Irish studies.

Part of IASIL’s Postgraduate and ECR Roundtable, Sandrine Uwase Ndahiro discusses Irish writing’s preoccupation with themes of identity, social change & belonging. Ndahiro states that despite these reoccurring themes, black voices are consistently excluded from Irish canon production.

Part of IASIL’s Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Roundtable, Tapasya Narang, an Irish studies scholar in Ireland & recipient of an IRC Enterprise Partnership Scheme Postdoctoral Fellowship, shares the challenges she has faced as a person of colour and woman in academia.

Peter Leman examines Paul Muldoon’s interest in the 19th-century Apache leader Mangas Coloradas. The figure's recurrence in Muldoon’s poetry reflects his well-known fascination with indigenous American history, but must also be understood in relation to cultural appropriation

Alan Graham argues that the critical consensus concerning Brian Friel’s Faith Healer (1979) as the origin play for an Irish tradition of monologue theatre overlooks the indebtedness of Friel’s first monologue drama to Samuel Beckett’s Play (1963)

📢In the latest issue of the IUR,📢 Joseph Heininger discusses Seamus Heaney's translation of two French poems early in his career: an unpublished Renaissance 'spiritual sonnet' and a nineteenth-century narrative poem in rhyming schemes that appeared in North

In the latest issue, Catriona Clutterbuck explores how, in Irish poetry of parental bereavement, child death is variously confronted, conceded, recalibrated and countervailed – often all within the same poem.