The Centre for Irish Studies is pleased to invite you to a guest lecture by Dr Seán Hewitt “Mysticism, the Occult, and Synge’s The Aran Islands”. Although Synge, unlike contemporaries such as Yeats and AE, has not been seen as an occult or mystical thinker, archival materials show that he read widely in occult literature, […]
Thursday 24 November 2022, 17:00 DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Poupětova 1, Prague 7 The Centre for Irish Studies is pleased to invite you to a presentation by Dirk Van Hulle and Mark Nixon that will examine Samuel Beckett’s personal library, which has remained in his apartment in Paris since his death in 1989. It […]
22–23 September 2023 CALL FOR PAPERS Paper proposals are invited for the biannual international postgraduate conference organised by the Centre for Irish Studies at Charles University, Prague. As in previous years, we wish to offer discussion space for graduate students working in Irish Studies, including those whose background extends beyond the literary context. The title […]
24 October, 18:00 Edison Filmhub, Jeruzalémská 2, Praha 1 The Embassy of Ireland and the Centre for Irish Studies, Charles University invite you to a programme showcasing the work of the unique Patrick Kavanagh Centre in Inniskeen, Co. Monaghan. Born in humble rural circumstances, Patrick Kavanagh (1904-1967) rose from being a small farmer to one […]
The Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures cordially invites you to the workshop “Cultural Links between Irish and Scottish Gaelic”, organised as part of KREAS project. The workshop is going to be concluded by a reading of contemporary prose and poetry in Irish and Scottish Gaelic with Czech translations (Saturday 12 November, 7 pm, Café […]
The Centre for Irish Studies is pleased to invite you to a guest lecture by Dr Caroline Magennis on “Acts of Casual Intimacy: Critical Bodies and Bodies of Criticism in Recent Northern Irish Fiction”. The lecture will take place on 13 October 2022 at 14:10 in Room 001 (main building of the Faculty of Arts). […]
