Launch of Voyages Between France and Ireland: Culture, Tourism and Sport, the proceedings of the AFIS conference in La Rochelle, at the residence of the French Ambassador to Ireland, in May 2018, with the co-editors Brigitte Bastiat and Franck Healy, and a selection of contributors.

The Association of Franco-Irish Studies, in conjunction with the NCFIS, has published several books as a result of its international conferences, a list of which is supplied below:

1. Maher, Eamon and Grace Neville (eds), France-Ireland: Anatomy of a Relationship (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2004).
2. Maher, Eamon, Grace Neville and Eugene O’Brien (eds), Reinventing Ireland Through a French Prism (Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, 2007). Volume 1 of Studies in Franco-Irish Relations, edited by Eamon Maher.
3. Maher, Eamon, Grace Neville and Eugene O’Brien (eds), Modernity and Postmodernity in a Franco-Irish Context (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2008). Volume 2 of Studies in Franco-Irish Relations.
4. Bévant, Yann, Eamon Maher, Grace Neville and Eugene O’Brien (eds), Issues of Globalisation and Secularisation in France and Ireland (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2009). Volume 3 of Studies in Franco-Irish Relations.
5. Maher, Eamon and Eugene O’Brien (eds), War of the Words: Literary Rebellion in France and Ireland (Rennes: TIR, 2010).
6. Bévant, Yann, Anne Goarzin and Grace Neville (eds), France, Ireland and Rebellion (Rennes: TIR, 2011).
7. Mikowski, Sylvie (ed.), Histoire et mémoire en France et en Irlande/History and Memory in France and Ireland (Reims : EPURE, 2011).
8. Maher, Eamon and Catherine Maignant (eds), Franco-Irish Connections in Space and Time: Peregrinations and Ruminations (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2012).  Volume 28 of Reimagining Ireland series, edited by Eamon Maher.
9. Maignant, Catherine (éd.), La France et l’Irlande : Destins croisés 16e-21e siècles (Lille : Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2013).
10. Keatinge, Benjamin and Mary Pierse (eds), France and Ireland in the Public Imagination (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2014). Volume 55 in Reimagining Ireland series.
11. Hunt, Una and Pierse, Mary (eds), France and Ireland: Notes and Narratives (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2015), Volume 66, Reimagining Ireland series
12. Goarzin, Anne (ed.), New Critical Perspectives on Franco-Irish Relations (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2015), Volume 68 in Reimagining Ireland series.
13. Healy, Frank and Brigitte Bastiat (eds), Voyages between France and Ireland: Culture, Tourism and Sport (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017), Volume 9, Studies in Franco-Irish Relations.
14. Maher, Eamon and Eugene O'Brien (eds), Patrimoine/Cultural Heritage in France and Ireland (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019). Volume 14, Studies in Franco-Irish Relations.
15. Maignant, Catherine, Sylvain Tondeur and Déborah Vandewoude (eds), Margins and Marginalities in France and Ireland (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2021). Volume 15, Studies in Franco-Irish Relations.
16. Balen, Sarah and Eamon Maher (eds), Sounding the Margins: Literary Examples from France and Ireland (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2022).

When one considers the publishing opportunities for TU Dublin staff that are directly attributable to their involvement in the NCFIS, one can see that there are 60+ book chapters, 18 journal articles, 20 edited or co-edited books and three monographs (the vast majority of which appeared in the Reimagining Ireland series for which Eamon Maher is General Editor or JOFIS).

Since its inception in 2003 the NCFIS has brought through

• 7 PhDs
• 7 Masters by Research
• There are currently 4 PhDs in progress

TSRI postgraduate fellowships (cumulatively worth more than €180,000):

• 2005 - The French Connection: The Influence of Camus and Proust on the Fictions of John McGahern. (Raymond Mullen). Graduated with research Masters in 2007.
• 2006 – ‘As Mirrors are Lonely’: A Lacanian Reading of Three Irish Novelists. (Peter Guy). Graduated with PhD in 2009.
• 2006 – Goodbye to the Power and the Glory? From Modernity to Ultramodernity – A Socio-historical Analysis of Secularisation as the Restructuration of Catholic and Political Belief in France and in Ireland. (Jean-Christophe Penet). Graduated with PhD in 2010.

• 2007 – A City Rooted Out of Time: A Rhizomatic Analysis of the City and Woman in the Poetry of Charles Baudelaire, Fernando Pessoa, T. S. Eliot and Peter Sirr. (Sarah Balen). Graduated with PhD in 2014.

Self-funded PhDs and MPhil

• Jeanne Lakatos, ‘The Wild Irish Girl': Iconic Realism and Revolutionary Rhetoric in the Work of Sydney Owenson. Graduated in November 2012.
• Brian Murphy, Changing Identities in a Homogenised World: The Role of Place and Story in Modern Perceptions of French Wine Culture. Graduated in November 2013.
• Patricia Medcalf, Five Decades of Guinness Advertising in Ireland: Increments of Change. Graduated in 2018.
• Paul Butler, Visualising John McGahern. Graduated with a Research Masters in 2020.

PhDs based on prior publication

• John Littleton, ‘Coming to terms with a changing Catholic Identity in Contemporary Ireland’. Due to submit early in 2022.
• Tony Kiely, ‘The Interplay between the Ordinary and the Extraordinary in Everyday Life: Case Studies from an Ireland in Transition.’ Due to submit early in 2022.
• John Mulcahy, ‘Recognising the place of food tourism in Ireland: An autoethnographic perspective.’ Graduated in November 2020.

Co-tutelle/Joint Supervision with Professor Catherine Maignant (Université Charles de Gaulle – Lille 3)

• Sylvain Tondeur, Poitín et whiskey irlandais: de la marchandisation à la construction d’une nouvelle identité culturelle (Poitín and Irish Whiskey: From Commercialisation to the Creation of a new cultural Identity). Due to submit in 2022.

President’s Awards (internal postgraduate Fellowships, each worth approximately €32, 000)

• 2021: ‘Cultural representations of the Irish pub’ (co-supervised with Dr Brian Murphy). (Aoife Carrigy). Ongoing.
• 2017 – ‘‘Oui à la France’: Tracing the French Influence on the Work of John McGahern (1934-2006)’ (Emily Smith).

Graduated with a Research Masters in 2019.

• 2016 – ‘John McGahern (1934-2006): Assessing a Literary Legacy’ (Séamus O’Kane).

Graduated with a Research Masters in 2018.

• 2015 – ‘’ (Emmalyne Smith).
• Graduated with a Research Masters in 2017.
• 2012 –‘‘Bande à part’: Céline, Cendrars, Giono and the Legacy of the Great War’ (Gerard Connolly). Graduated with a research Masters in 2014.