Robert Savage, a co-director of Boston College Irish Studies from 2003–2010, has been named the program’s interim director. An expert on Irish, British, and European history with a bachelor’s and a doctoral degree from Boston College, Savage sees an opportunity for Irish Studies to expand its partnerships and collaborations within the University and beyond.
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Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, an Irish novelist, short story writer, and folklorist, is the Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies for fall 2020. Ní Dhuibhne, who writes in both English and Irish, has published more than 30 books. She has lectured in creative writing and folklore studies at University College Dublin, and her current research focuses on the collector Thomas Crofton Croker and his connection with the Brothers Grimm.
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The Irish Studies program congratulates Professor Margaret Kelleher, Ph.D. ’92, on her election to the Royal Irish Academy, Ireland’s independent body of experts in the sciences and humanities. A professor of Anglo-Irish literature and drama at University College Dublin, Kelleher is an internationally recognized scholar of Irish literature in English.
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Associate Professor Marjorie Howes, who teaches in the English department and the Irish Studies program, served as a general editor of Irish Literature in Transition, a six-volume series that tracks Irish literature since 1700. The series, which Howes co-edited with Claire Connolly of University College Cork, was published by Cambridge University Press earlier this year.
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In July, Four Courts Press published The Politics of Dublin Corporation, 1840–1900: from Reform to Expansion, by Professor of English James H. Murphy, who directed the Irish Studies program and the Boston College Center for Irish Programs from 2016–2020.
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As many readers will recall, scholars, activists, and survivors gathered at Gasson Hall on November 1–2, 2018 for the international conference “Towards Transitional Justice: Recognition, Truth-telling, and Institutional Abuse in Ireland.” Proceedings from the conference will be printed this fall in a special issue of Éire-Ireland: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies.
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The John J. Burns Library of Rare Books and Special Collections is now offering access to researchers by appointment during the coronavirus public health crisis. Visit bc.edu/burns for more information and updates.
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The Burns Library is home to the papers of the poet and critic Gerald Dawe, whose award-winning books probe the cultural legacy of Northern Ireland. Now, all of his papers through the year 2018 have been made available to researchers.
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The recordings and writings in the Séamus Connolly Collection of Irish Music, available online since 2016, are now available as a free e-book on the Connolly Collection’s website.
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Busts of Ireland’s four Nobel laureates in literature—W.B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, and Seamus Heaney—by sculptor Rowan Gillespie will be installed this fall in the foyer of Boston College Ireland, at 43 St. Stephen’s Green in Dublin. The statue is a twin of a 2011 piece that resides in the Burns Library at Boston College.
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The Comhfhios conference, from the Irish word meaning “knowledge together” or “open to all knowledge,” has convened Irish Studies scholars at Boston College for the past three years. For updates on the status of 2021’s conference, please check the Irish Studies program’s upcoming events in the coming months.
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Featured image in the banner: Birds, Bloody Foreland, Donegal, 1967, by Alen MacWeeney (1939–)
Archival pigment print, 24 x 20 in., McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College
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