Brendan Behan at 100: Legacy and New Directions 23-24 June 2023 VIDEOS from the Behan concert now available Conference website. Hosted by the Centre for Irish Studies, Charles University, Prague Conference venue: Faculty of Arts main building, Náměstí Jana Palacha 2, Prague 1 Keynote speakers John Brannigan (UCD) Deirdre McMahon Irish author, playwright and rebel […]

JUST OUT! In episode 43 of the EFACIS Irish Itinerary Podcast, Irish documentary film maker Alan Gilsenan talks to Nathalie Lamprecht about his 2022 documentary An Buachaill Gealgháireach (in English: The Laughing Boy), which charts the journey of Brendan Behan’s song of the same name from his childhood home to its translation into Greek and […]

New collective monograph resulting from the EFACIS 2021 conference hosted by the Centre for Irish Studies has just come out. Edited by Ondřej Pilný, Radvan Markus, Daniela Theinová and James Little, the volume ranges across the fields of history, literary studies, music studies, theatre and performance studies, film studies, media studies, and the study of […]