The Nature and Purposes of the ACIS
The American Conference for Irish Studies is a multidisciplinary scholarly
organization with approximately 1500 members in the United States, Ireland,
Canada, and other countries around the world. Each spring the ACIS holds
a national conference attended by 300-400 people from the academic community
and the general public. Each fall meetings are held in the New England,
Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, and Western regions; the Southern regional takes
place in the winter. The ACIS also sponsors joint sessions with the American
Historical Association and the Modern Language Association at their annual
conventions.
Both national and regional meetings include plenary speakers, academic
sessions in all fields of Irish Studies, poetry and fiction readings, films,
and performances of Irish music and plays. In recent years the ACIS has
met in Boston, Madison, Omaha, and New York, as well as Dublin, Galway,
Belfast, and Limerick. In 2001, the national meeting took place in New
York; in 2001, in Milwaukee. The national meeting will take place
in Minneapolis/St. Paul in 2000.
The ACIS was founded in 1960 as the American Committee for Irish Studies;
it is incorporated in the Commonwealth of Virginia as a non-profit organization.
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