Irish writing

The Royal Irish Academy's Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge (Historical Dictionary of Irish) project has launched the Historical Corpus of Irish 1600 - 1926.  This online corpus makes 19 million words of Irish, from over 3000 printed texts, freely available to read and search.  Search for a headword (lemma), for a standardised version, or for an exact match of your search term.  Results are displayed in context along with historical variations charting the word's evolution.  In addition, results can be viewed in their original text which can be

I am delighted to announce that UCD's 'Joyce Today' was launched on April 20th, 2017. Detailing some of the most innovative adaptations of James Joyce's oeuvre, it aims to illustrate the dynamic and diverse ways in which artists, creative practitioners, and academics continue to respond to his work.

Writing in The Irish Times, Professor Margaret Kelleher, chair of Anglo-Irish literature and drama at UCD, explains why the new Contemporary Irish Writing website is such an exciting resource for academia and the wider cultural community.