The North East Irish Culture Network holds an annual conference at the University of Sunderland.

Details of forthcoming and past conferences can be found on the following links:

Ninth Annual NEICN Conference, 'Ireland and Scotland: Barriers and Borderland', 11-13 November 2011

Eighth Annual NEICN Conference, 'Kilt by Kelt Shell Kithagain with Kinagain : Ireland and Scotland', 12-14 November 2010

Seventh Annual NEICN Conference, 'Fantasy Ireland: Imaginings and Re-Imaginings', 9-11 November 2007

Sixth Annual NEICN Conference, 'Re-Imagining Ireland', 14-16 November 2008

Fifth Annual NEICN Conference, 'Ireland: At War and Peace', 9-11 November 2007

Fourth Annual NEICN Conference, 'Ireland: Renaissance, Revolution and Regeneration', 10-12th November 2006

Third Annual NEICN Conference, ‘Ireland: Lands of Saints and Scholars’, 11-13 November 2005

Second Annual NEICN Conference, 'The Word, The Icon and The Ritual', 10-12 November 2004

First Annual NEICN Conference, 'Representing Ireland: Past, Present and Future', 24-26 October 2003

For details of forthcoming NEICN conferences contact:

Dr Alison O'Malley-Younger,

Colin Younger, MA, or

Professor John Strachan

Three collections of essays based on the NEICN conferences have been published:

‘No Country for Old Men’, edited by Paddy Lyons and Alison O’Malley-Younger

Details from Peter Lang Publishing Group

'Essays on Modern Irish Literature', edited by Alison O'Malley-Younger and John Strachan

Details from Sunderland University Press

'Representing Ireland: Past Present and Future', edited by Frank Beardow and Alison O'Malley-Younger

Details from Sunderland University Press