Franco-Irish Studies

The initial Franco-Irish conference, hosted in what was then IT Tallaght in March 2003, elicited a very positive response. The collection France-Ireland: Anatomy of a Relationship (Peter Lang, 2004), edited by Eamon Maher and Grace Neville and with a Preface by Professor Joe Lee, came out a year later, based in large part on extended versions of the papers given at the conference. As a result of the success of this undertaking, it was decided to set up a National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies, based in Tallaght, and then an ancillary organisation, AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish Studies), which organised conferences and other activities. AFIS has published 18 books to date, nearly all of them in the Studies in Franco-Irish Relations series with Peter Lang.