EFACIS Roundtable Discussions

You are invited to join the 13th EFACIS Roundtable Discussion (Monday 13 October, 6 pm GMT/ 7 pm CET), which will take the form of an open workshop on Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing, a forthcoming open-access special issue of Humanities that re-examines the role of unmarried women in Irish movements and literature. The discussion will explore celibacy’s imbrications with first-wave feminist politics, patterns of queer kinship and Irish literary movements, and aims to learn more about historical bonds formed between unmarried Irish women—whether in friendships, romantic relationships, creative collaborations or forms of political and revolutionary organisation. Addressing topics that range from the marriage bar in Ireland to unmarried Irish revolutionary women, the contributors will discuss how these social and historical contexts can inform new readings of celibate characters and themes in the writing of Frances Power Cobbe, L.T. Meade, Kate O'Brien, Elizabeth Bowen, Norah Hoult, Molly Keane, Janet McNeill, Mary Lavin, and Edna O'Brien.

You can find the registration link and a full programme on our EFACIS Roundtable Discussions page.

EFACIS Book Club

The EFACIS book club aims to introduce readers to highlights of Irish literature, both past and present. All meetings of the EFACIS book club will take place online, via zoom. Readings and discussions are in English. We usually meet on Wednesdays between 8 pm and 10 pm (CET). During our 2-hour sessions, the work is briefly introduced and contextualized by an expert and then discussed by the participants of the session. Sometimes authors join the book club meetings in the second half.  Have a look at the EFACIS Book Club page for this year's reading list!

EFACIS Activities 2024-2025

Summary of the Regional EFACIS Reports 2024-2025 by EFACIS LEUVEN

Click below to find the individual regional EFACIS reports. 

Summer Writing Retreat for PhD students and early-career researchers

The EFACIS PhD Representatives are pleased to announce that they plan to organize a summer writing retreat at the Irish College in Leuven, Belgium, from 11 to 15 August 2025. Follow the link below for more information and to register. Deadline for registration is 31 July 2025.

Anne Enright

The European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS), warmly invites you to participate in this new international translation project. Building on the past successes of Yeats Reborn (2015), Translating Banville (2018), and our involvement in the Aistriu project with N.U.I Galway, the fourth instalment of Literature as Translation will focus on one of the most critically acclaimed contemporary Irish writers, Anne Enright.

(c) photo courtesy of Erik Derycke

Kaleidoscope 2

The EFACIS Kaleidoscope Series engages with writers and artists from the island of Ireland about topical interests. While Kaleidoscope 1 collected fiction authors’ observations about the act of writing fiction Kaleidoscope 2 asks Irish authors what Europe means to them. Over 40 authors and artists describe their experience of Europe and how the EU has changed Ireland. Publication in instalments from March to June 2021on http://kaleidoscope2.efacis.eu/