| Title | Interview with Eimear McBride |
| Description | Eimear McBride (1976- ) is an Irish writer. At the age of 17, McBride moved to London for university, where she earned a BA from Drama Centre London. Her debut novel, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing (2013), is written as a stream of consciousness and portrays the story of a young girl struggling with her familial relations and sexuality. McBride has also published the novels The Lesser Bohemians (2016) and Strange Hotel (2020), as well as a collection of short stories, Mouthpiece (2020). In addition to her fiction works, she penned a non-fiction book titled Something Out of Place: Women and Disgust (2021), which questions societal perceptions of women. regarding feminism and the perceptions of others concerning women. Furthermore, McBride has achieved numerous prizes for her literary creations, including the Women’s Prize for Fiction, Goldsmiths Prize, and Irish Novel of the Year Awards. In this interview, McBride discusses Modernism, the importance of her background in theatre to her writing, and the hardships of publishing her work. She also talks about the artistic influences on The Lesser Bohemians, which includes films and the band Tindersticks, as well as other artistic influences on her writing. McBride also explains her thoughts on writing about taboo subjects, such as the suicidal ideation in Strange Hotel, and expresses her feelings about writing what she wants regardless of others’ opinions. Additionally, she delves into the translation process of her novels and her relationships with the translators themselves. The interview was conducted by Alinne Fernandes, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer of the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) in the English Department, at the Henrique Fontes Auditorium-UFSC in Florianópolis, Brazil as part of the VI Jornada do Núcleo de Estudos Irlandeses, “Irish Modernisms”, on November 9th, 2022. |
| Participants | Eimear McBride, Alinne Balduino P. Fernandes |
| Date | 09/11/2022 |
| Language | English |
| Category | Interview |
| Subject | Modernism; Theatre; Taboo subjects; Translation; |
| Type | Audio |
| Format | MP3 |
| Duration | 40:30 |
| Size | 73,6 MB |
| Rights | Alinne Balduino P. Fernandes |
Leitura Dramática de Eclipse | Trecho 1
| Title | Leitura Dramática de Eclipse | Trecho 1 |
| Description | Eclipsed is a two-act play written by playwright Patricia Burke Brogan. Her work addresses the inhuman and marginalizing treatment of ‘fallen women’ by the Irish government and the country’s religious institutions in the 1990s. The play received a dramatic reading by Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) in 2017 as part of an extension project by the Center for Irish Studies — Núcleo de Estudos Irlandeses (NEI) — in collaboration with the Performing Arts course at the aforementioned institution. |
| Participants | Translation: Alinne Fernandes Sound Operation: Larissa Dias Peligrini • Sophia Catarina Rosa Light Board Operation: Paulo Ricardo Witt Tomazoni • Nilson José da Silva Cast: Anna Lia Araújo Sant’Anna • Joelma Santos Souza • Kyttiane Nayara Kittel • Leonardo Vieira • Lidiane Nobre de Mesquita • Mariana Barreiros • Marlei Albrecht • Taciane Saldanha Dürings Photography: Wagner Locks |
| Date | 28th April, 2017 |
| Language | Portuguese – BR |
| Category | Event |
| Subject | Ireland |
| Type | Video |
| Format | MP4 |
| Duration | 20:12 |
| Size | 1,17 GB |
| Rights | Núcleo de Estudos Irlandeses – UFSC |
Calendário NEI 2023.2
Tema: Disabilities
2023.2 – segundas, 14h00 às 15h00
28/08 – Mainstream – peça teatral de Rosaleen McDonagh
25/09 – An Old Song, Half Forgotten – Deirdre Kinahan
07/11 , 08/11 – VII Jornada do Núcleo de Estudos Irlandeses: Irish Arts and Disabilities
Para participar dos encontros, envie um email para ufsc.nei@gmail.com
VII Jornada NEI
VII Jornada do Núcleo de Estudos Irlandeses da UFSC (7-8•11•23)
Irish Arts and Disabilities
Acesse a programação completa do evento aqui
Calendário NEI 2023.1
Tema: Disabilities
2023.1 – segundas, 16h00
20/03 – “Disability and Irish Life Writing: An Overview” (Elizabeth Grubgeld, 2020) + “Life Writing as Cultural Narrative: Rosaleen McDonagh’s Unsettled” (Grubgeld, IUR 2022);
24/04 – Unsettled (Rosaleen McDonagh, 2021);
22/05 – “Introduction: Gerontology and Its Challenges (Heather Ingman, Ageing in Irish: Strangers to Themselves, 2018, Palgrave);
26/06 – “The afternoon life”: Ageing, Dementia and Dying in Deirdre Kinahan’s Halcyon Days + the play Halcyon Days, by Deirdre Kinahan.
Para participar dos encontros, envie um email para ufsc.nei@gmail.com
NEI Round Tables and Digital Events
Desde 2020, com o início da pandemia do novo Coronavírus, o Núcleo de Estudos Irlandeses da UFSC passou a realizar eventos e mesas redondas virtuais para dar continuidade aos eventos que marcam as atividades do Núcleo desde sua criação.
Nesta página você encontra os vídeos da V Jornada do NEI, que aconteceu em novembro de 2021; das round tables e de eventos especiais:
V Jornada do Núcleo de Estudos Irlandeses
NEI Digital Round Tables:
VI Jornada NEI
VI Jornada do Núcleo de Estudos Irlandeses da UFSC
(8-9•11•22)
Irish modernisms
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Seleção PPGI
Vagas oferecidas para mestrado e doutorado no @PPGI_UFSC com professoras do NEI em: estudos irlandeses; escritas de mulheres; drama radiofônico; ecocrítica; gêneros híbridos e não-ficcionais. Inscrições até 31 de outubro! Informações: https://ppgi.posgrad.ufsc.br/editais-de-selecao
Reuniões do NEI em 2022.2
– 25 de agosto, 14h, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing (2014) – condução da discussão por Eloísa Dall’Bello;
– 22 de setembro, 14h, Mouthpieces (2021) – Mouthpieces (RTE peça, In the Wings – entrevista sobre as obras da McBride e produção de Mouthpieces; e texto) – condução da discussão por Maria Eduarda;
– 20 de outubro, 14h, Strange Hotel (2020). Para acessar a reunião: Link (Google Meet)
Última chamada: inscrições abertas de propostas para a VI Jornada do Núcleo de Estudos Irlandeses da UFSC
Intitulado Irish Modernisms, o evento acontecerá nos dias 08 e 09 de setembro de 2022 no Auditório Henrique Fontes, no Bloco B do Centro de Comunicação e Expressão (CCE) da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC). O período de submissão de apresentações está aberto até sexta-feira — 02 de setembro de 2022.