Y​ou are warmly invited to join us for the EFACIS Online Roundtable on "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" on Monday 13 October 2025,​ 7 pm Central European Time (CET)​. 
 

🗓️ Oct 13

⏰ 19:00 CET (18:00 IT)

📍 online 

✍️ Register here
 

The roundtable is pitched as an open workshop/work-in-progress discussion for the forthcoming ​open-access special ​issue​ of the Humanities journal,​ entitled​ Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing (Ed. Paul Fagan). The programme for the 90-minute roundtable is as follows. 

 
Opening Remarks

Charles Armstrong (EFACIS president)
Crina Maria Marina (Humanities Journal)

Paul Fagan (LMU Munich, editor of Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing)

Presentations by the contributors

I. Social and Political History of Celibacy in Ireland

Leann Lane (DCU)

Deirdre Foley (Trinity College, Dublin)

Open Discussion

II. Literary Representations of Celibacy by Irish Women Writers

Michelle Witen (University of Flensburg)

Kathleen Costello-Sullivan (Le Moyne College)

Julyan Oldham (University of Oxford)

Maureen O'Connor (UCC)

Open Discussion

III. Test Case: Spotlight on Mary Lavin

Michael Cronin (Maynooth University)
Fae McNamara (Teesside University)

Anne Fogarty (UCD)

Open Discussion
 

​Please visit the EFACIS website for more information including the registration link​:  https://www.efacis.eu/content/efacis-roundtable-discussions​.​ 

A recording of the roundtable will subsequently be uploaded to the EFACIS YouTube channel.