The first Limerick Conference in Irish-German Studies gets underway at the start of September in the University. It is exactly forty years since Nobel Literature Prize-winner Heinrich Böll’s Irisches Tagebuch was first published. Böll, who died in 1985, would have been eighty this year and to mark both occasions the conference puts Böll centre stage. The programme is interdisciplinary in nature and covers a wide range—the history of Irish-German relations, literature and music, business, politics.
The conference will also serve as a launching pad for the Centre for Irish-German Studies, which aims to encourage and facilitate interdisciplinary research, to create a forum of discussion for interested parties, to co-ordinate and encourage the compilation of Irish material on Germany and German material on Ireland, and to increase knowledge about Germany and German society. The Centre will operate in close co-operation with various universities and institution in Ireland, Britain and Germany.
Enquiries: Joachim Fischer, tel: (061) 202354, fax: (061) 202556,E-mail: Joachim.Fisher@ul.ie or Gisela Holfter, tel: 202393, fax: (061)202556, E-mail: Gisela.Holfter@ul.ie.
