Irish Studies Würzburg (ISWÜ) Newsletter Summer Term 2026

Course:

ISWÜ members will be offering the following course for students:

• Prof. Dr. Ina Bergmann: Irish American Literature, Culture & History #ISWÜ (04093243)

For registration, please see WueStudy: https://wuestudy.zv.uni-wuerzburg.de

 

J. M. Synge Lecture: 

• 21.04.2026: Prof. Nicholas Grene (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), "Synge and Wicklow: Places to Plays"

For more information, please see: https://www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/irish-studies/aktuelles/single/news/jm-synge-lecture-2026/

 

Guest Lectures:

• 02.06.2026: Dr. Kate Tallon (University of Oxford, UK), "English and Irish in Contact: Sociophonetic Perspectives"

For more information, please see: https://www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/irish-studies/aktuelles/single/news/guest-lecture-kate-tallon/

• 30.06.2026: Dr. Maryam Najafibabanazar (Halic University Istanbul, Turkiye), “Negotiating Female Identity and Feminist Movements in 19th- and 20th-Century Irish and Iranian Society and Literature: A Comparative Perspective”

For more information, please see: https://www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/irish-studies/aktuelles/single/news/guest-lecture-maryam-najafibabanazar/

 

Event Registration:
You can now easily register for all upcoming ISWÜ events on our website: https://www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/irish-studies/activities/event-registration/ 
 

Certificates:
All participation in ISWÜ courses and events can be documented for students on three ISWÜ certificates, one of them even allowing to earn ECTS for FSQ and Freier Bereich: Irish Studies Würzburg #ISWÜ (04099990). For more information, please see: https://www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/irish-studies/teaching/certificates/

 

Internships:
We are offering Digital Humanities & Irish Studies internships for JMU students in cooperation with CELT at University College Cork, Ireland. For more information, please see: https://www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/irish-studies/teaching/internships

 

Videocasts:
Videos of most of the past ISWÜ events can be found on our website:

https://www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/irish-studies/video-podcasts/videocasts/ 

 

Social Media:
You can find us (and follow us) on Facebook, Instagram and Bluesky.

 

Deutsch-Irische Gesellschaft Würzburg:
A range of extracurricular activities open to all students and colleagues will be organised by our cooperation partner, Deutsch-Irische Gesellschaft Würzburg:
https://www.dig-wuerzburg.de/veranstaltungen-termine/

 

STAY TUNED
The date and time for the EFACIS Roundtable Discussion: Launch of Review of Irish Studies in Europe 9.1: “The Animal in Ireland - Real and Imagined”, a second themed issue of the journal, edited by ISWÜ members, will be published shortly on our website.

 

PREVIEW WINTER TERM 2026/27
In the winter term, Irish Times journalist and author Patrick Freyne will read from and discuss his new book Experts in a Dying Field (2026) with us. 

 

We are looking forward to welcoming you to our events.

Prof. Dr. Ina Bergmann, Prof. Dr. Maria Eisenmann,
and the whole team of Irish Studies Würzburg (ISWÜ)
https://www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/irish-studies/home/

 

ISWÜ Newsletter (PDF-Document)