The Centre for Irish Studies congratulates Markéta Novotná, Maxmilián Filip and Stanislav Cincibuch, students of Mariana Machová’s poetry translation seminar, for their translation of Seamus Heaney’s villanelle “Beacons at Bealtaine” into Czech. Commissioned for the twentieth anniversary of the accession of Czech Republic to the European Union, the translation is now available on the website […]
VIDEO NOW AVAILABLE! The Centre for Irish Studies is delighted to invite you to a poetry reading by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, which will take place at Kavárna Na Boršově (Náprstkova 10, Praha 1) on Tuesday 16 April at 19:30. Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, whose career spans more than fifty years, has for long been recognized as […]
The Centre for Irish Studies invites you to “Lost Decades or Decades of Change? Mid–Twentieth–Century Ireland“, a guest lecture by Dr Tomás Finn. The lecture will take place on Thursday 18 April, 12:30 – 14:00 in Room 111. Tomás Finn is a lecturer in history at the University of Galway. His research interests include the […]
VIDEO NOW AVAILABLE! Our traditional St Patrick’s Day celebration will take place at Kampus Hybernská on Friday 15 March from 19:30. Please join us for readings of new Czech translations of Irish writing and a concert by Conamara Chaos, with special guest Jáchym Hájek (voc, viola). The concert will feature the launch of the band’s […]
The Centre for Irish Studies is pleased to invite you to “Literature and Politics in the Early Modern Irish period, c.1200-1650″, a guest lecture by Dr Ken Ó Donnchú (University College Cork). The lecture will take place on Thursday 29 February, 12:30-14:00 in Room 111. Ken Ó Donnchú (MA, PhD) is a graduate of NUI […]
Podcasts created by the wonderful Schwa student society have included a few by the Centre’s members: Daniela Theinová on poetry and ecology Radvan Markus on the Irish language Clare Wallace on contemporary British drama Ondřej Pilný on modern Irish drama. Enjoy, for instance on Spotify (free access), and watch out for more.
