ACIS Members currently receive three publications:

1.  The ACIS annual (see below), a volume of scholarly essays published  in conjunction with the University of Massachusetts Press.  The first volume, Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland, was published in 1997 and the second volume, Politics & Performance in Contemporary Northern Ireland, was published in 1999. A forthcoming volume will focus on the United Irishmen and Young Ireland movement (expected publication 2000).

2.  The Irish Literary Supplement, a review of books published in March and September.

3.  The ACIS Newsletter, published in spring, fall and winter.

In addition, ACIS members have access to  The Guide to Irish Studies in the United States, currently being published and maintained on our web site. Members should contact the Secretary with updates.

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ACIS Annual:  Politics and Performance in Contemporary Northern Ireland.

The second volume of the ACIS annual, Politics and Performance in Contemporary Northern Ireland, edited by  John P. Harrington and Elizabeth J. Mitchell, was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in May, 1999.

Including:

Marilynn Richtarik , "Living in Interesting Times: Stewart Parker's Northern Star"

Bill Rolston , "Music and Politics in Ireland: The Case of Loyalism"

James White McAuley , "Still ``No Surrender''?: New Loyalism and the Peace Process in Ireland"

Helen Lojek , "Playing Politics with Belfast's CharabancTheatre Company"

Roger Mac Ginty, "Policing and the Northern Ireland Peace Process"

Micheal D. Roe, William Pegg, Kim Hodges, Rebecca A. Trimm, "Forgiving the Other Side: Social Identity and Ethnic Memories in Northern Ireland"

Maureen S. G. Hawkins, "Brenton's The Romans in Britain and Rudkin's The Saxon Shore: Audience, Purpose, and Dramatic Response to the Conflict in Northern Ireland"

William A. Hazleton, "Local Government and the Peace Process"

Jennifer C Cornell, "Recontextualizing the Conflict: Northern Ireland, Television Drama,and the Politics of Validation"

The first volume of the American Conference for Irish Studies annual, Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland, edited by Tony Bradley and Maryanne Valiulis, was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in December, 1997.
 

Including:

• Adrian Frazier, "Queering the Irish Renaissance: The Masculinities of Moore, Martyn, and Yeats"
• Antoinette Quinn, "Cathleen ni Houlihan Writes Back: Maud Gonne and Irish National Theater"
• Maureen Murphy, "The Fionnuala Factor: Irish Sibling Emigration at the Turn of the Century"
• Margaret Ward, "Nationalism, Pacifism, Internationalism: Louie Bennett, Hanna Sheehy-Skefington and the Problems of Defining Feminism'"
• Lucy McDiarmid, "The Posthumous Life of Roger Casement"
• Mary Daly, "Oh! Kathleen ni Houlihan Your Way's a Thorny Way!': The Condition of Women in 20th Century Ireland"
• Elizabeth Cullingord, "Gender, Sexuality, and Englishness in Modern Irish Drama"
• Guinn Batten, "The More With Which We are Connected': The Muse of the Minus and the Negative Capabilities of McGuckian and Kinsella"
• Carol Coulter, "Hello Divorce, Goodbye Daddy': Women, Gender, and the Divorce Debate"
• Dillon Johnston, "Our bodies' eyes and writing hands': Secrecy and Sensuality in Ni Chuilleanain's Baroque Art"
• Catherine Shannon, "The Changing Face of Cathleen Ni Houlihan: Women and Politics in Ireland 1960-1996"
• Margaret MacCurtain, "Godly Burden: The Catholic Sisterhoods in Ireland 1900-1967"
• Angela Bourke, "Language, Stories, Healing"