Irish Studies Research Group

Irlandisztika Kutatócsoport

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Within the broad, interdisciplinary field of Irish Studies, the Irish Studies Research Group focuses on a number of research areas related to literature and culture:

• Anglo-Irish prose, especially the works of Jonathan Swift, Laurence Sterne and Maria Edgeworth;
• Irish drama (from the Irish Literary Revival at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries to contemporary Irish drama, e.g. J. M. Synge, Brian Friel, Tom Murphy, Frank McGuinness, Conor McPherson); the work of Irish women playwrights;
• Irish prose fiction and the short story;
• Irish–Hungarian and Irish–Central European intercultural studies;
  Contemporary Irish society (the history of the island of Ireland, and the place of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland in Europe);
• The role of translation and adaptation in Irish literature;
• The reception of Irish literature in Hungary.

Members of the research group disseminate their findings through conferences, publications and workshops to audiences interested in literary and cultural studies in general and in Irish Studies in particular.

The research centre's members are university lecturers, researchers and PhD students from various fields of study at the University of Pécs.

Supporting talented students interested in Irish Studies as an interdisciplinary research field also plays an important role in the centre's work.

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MTMT

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• Mária Kurdi (Professor Emerita)
• Gabriella Hartvig (Associate Professor)
• Csaba Maczelka (Associate Professor)
• Zsuzsa Csikai (Assistant Professor)
• Bence Kvéder (Ph.D. student)
• Andrea Majoros (Ph.D. student)
   

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Kurdi Mária: Explorations of Intertextuality in Recent Critical Works on J. M. Synge: Aspects of Irish Modernism Revisited
In: Gaál-Szabó Péter (szerk.)
Intertextuality, Intersubjectivity, and Narrative Identity. Newcastle upon
Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017. pp. 47-63.

Müller Péter: Performing on the Razor's Edge: The Aesthetics of the Theatre of Martin McDonagh
HUNGARIAN JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN STUDIES 23:(1) pp. 105-119. (2017)

Hartvig, Gabriella, Gabriella Vöő, assistant eds. Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies Special Issue on Irish Drama, Theatre, and Performance in Honour of Professor Mária Kurdi. 23.1 (2017).

Kurdi Mária, Miriam Haughton, eds.Radical Contemporary Theatre Practices by Women in Ireland. Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2015.

Kurdi Mária: Lesbian Versions of the Female Biography Play: Emma Donoghue’s I Know My Own Heart and Ladies and Gentlemen
In: Finola Cronin, Eamonn Jordan (szerk.)
Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance Studies Reader. Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2016. 

Kurdi Mária: Hungarian Migration to Ireland after the 1956 Revolution: Mark Collins’s Novel Stateless in the Celtic Tiger Context
In: Aidan O’Malley, Eve Patten (szerk.)

Ireland, West to East: Irish Cultural Connections with Central and Eastern Europe. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Academic Publishers, 2014. pp. 255-271.
(Reimagining Ireland; 52..)

Hartvig Gabriella: The Critical and Creative Reception of Eighteenth-Century British and Anglo-Irish Authors in Hungary.: Essays in Intercultural Literary Exchance
Pécs: Institute of English Studies, University of Pécs, 2013. 

Hartvig Gabriella: Hungarian Swift Scholarship in the Period of Censorship
In: Kirsten Juhas, Hermann J Real, Sandra Simon (szerk.)
Reading Swift: Papers from The Sixth Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2013. pp. 633-645.

Csikai Zsuzsa: A Sirály Írországban: Thomas Kilroy adaptációja
In: Regéczi Ildikó (Orosz irodalom) (szerk.)
Csehov- újraírások. 248 p.
Debrecen: Didakt Kiadó, 2016. pp. 110-124.

Csikai Zsuzsa: ””Telling my Side of Things” – Tolstoy Novellas into Monologue Drama.” Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies. U of Debrecen, 2017.
Csikai Zsuzsa: Domestication as a Mode of Cultural Resistance: Irish-English Translations of Chekhov
In: Seruya Teresa, Justo José Miranda (szerk.)

Rereading Schleiermacher: Translation, Cognition and Culture. 315 p. 
Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2016.
Kurdi, Mária, Miriam Haughton, eds.Radical Contemporary Theatre Practices by Women in Ireland. Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2015.

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IASIL (International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures):

International Swift Society

Irish Society for Theatre Research

Szakmai kapcsolatok a következő egyetemek oktatóival: University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, University College of Galway, Queen’s University Belfast, Jagelló Egyetem, Krakkó.

Irish Embassy of Hungary (Irish Embassy Bursary – tanulmányi ösztöndíj irlandisztikát kutató MA diákok számára)

Hungarian Joyce Society

Hungarian Yeats Society

Hungarian Society for the Study of English

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