The Digital Platform for Contemporary Irish Writing is designed to meet the challenges particular to research and teaching in contemporary writing, including the relative lack of resources and critical commentaries, the difficulty of access to some source material, especially for international readers, and the difficulty and challenges in adjudicating the quality and nature of source materials.
We wish to acknowledge and thank The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Embassy of Ireland, Belgium for their support in making this project a success.
The alarm on my phone goes off at 4am I am not a natural early riser but the thoughts of missing my flight always propels me onwards on such mornings. I bump the blue bag down a flight of stairs and I’m out on the street, almost immediately Giulia a wonderful PhD student with excellent English arrives with her father Martin, our taxi driver. They are a wonderful pair, the love is palpable and it's beautiful to see how proud he is of her. I am soon swept along in their familiar warmth and praise of - pão de queso, the bread of cheese.
The EFACIS Kaleidoscope Series asks writers and artists from the island of Ireland about topical interests concerning Irish literature and culture in Ireland and Europe.