Research

The Association of Franco-Irish Studies (AFIS) was set up as an offshoot of the NCFIS to organise conferences, doctoral training seminars, guest lectures and bring out several publications, a list of which can be found below:
- Maher, Eamon and Grace Neville (eds), France-Ireland: Anatomy of a Relationship (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2004).
- Maher, Eamon, Grace Neville and Eugene O’Brien (eds), Reinventing Ireland Through a French Prism (Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, 2007).
- Maher, Eamon, Grace Neville and Eugene O’Brien (eds), Modernity and Postmodernity in a Franco-Irish Context (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2008).
- 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).
- Maher, Eamon and Eugene O’Brien (eds), War of the Words: Literary Rebellion in France and Ireland (Rennes: TIR, 2010).
- Bévant, Yann, Anne Goarzin and Grace Neville (eds), France, Ireland and Rebellion (Rennes: TIR, 2011).
- Mikowski, Sylvie (ed.), Histoire et mémoire en France et en Irlande/History and Memory in France and Ireland (Reims : EPURE, 2011).
- Maher, Eamon and Catherine Maignant (eds), Franco-Irish Connections in Space and Time: Peregrinations and Ruminations (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2012).
- Maignant, Catherine (éd.), La France et l’Irlande : Destins croisés 16e-21e siècles (Lille : Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2013).
- Keatinge, Benjamin and Mary Pierse (eds), France and Ireland in the Public Imagination (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2014).
- Hunt, Una and Pierse, Mary (eds), France and Ireland: Notes and Narratives (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2015).
- Goarzin, Anne (ed.), New Critical Perspectives on Franco-Irish Relations (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2015).
- Healy, Frank and Brigitte Bastiat (eds), Voyages between France and Ireland: Culture, Tourism and Sport (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017).
- Maher, Eamon and Eugene O'Brien (eds), Patrimoine/Cultural Heritage in France and Ireland (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019).
- Maignant, Catherine, Sylvain Tondeur and Déborah Vandewoude (eds), Margins and Marginalities in France and Ireland (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2021).
- Balen, Sarah and Eamon Maher (eds), Sounding the Margins: Literary Examples from France and Ireland (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2022).
- Mac Con Iomaire, Máirtín and Eamon Maher (eds), New Beginnings: Perspectives from France and Ireland (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2023).
- Bastiat, Brigitte and Frank Healy (eds), Adventure in France and Ireland Through Literature and Culture (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2025).
When one considers the publishing opportunities for TU Dublin staff that are directly attributable to their involvement in the AFIS, one can see that there are 70+ book chapters, 30 journal articles, 22 edited or co-edited books and three monographs.