IASIL–JAPAN Newsletter
2002–2
International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures
July 2002
1. Plan for IASIL-JAPAN 2002 Conference
Please find the programme and other leaflets of the 2002 IASIL–JAPAN
Conference. The 19th IASIL–Japan Conference will be held at Hiroshima
City University on Saturday, 19 and Sunday, 20 October 2002.
・ Hiroshima

CityUniversity(3-4-1,Ozuka-higashi,Asaminami-ku,Hiroshima, 731-3194. tel: 082-830-1500, fax: 082-830-1656)
We are honoured to have two guest speakers: Mathew Sweeney, an Irish
Poet from London, and Glenn Patterson, a novelist from Belfast. During theConference eight papers will be presented, two symposia will be organized.
To conform your attendance, please send the enclosed postcard to the IASIL–
JAPAN Office by October 5.
・Important Notice・Matthew Sweeney will hold a poetry workshop. The office is recruiting people
who will join the workshop. Those who are willing to participate in the workshop,
please send poems to the office by September 20.

~~The Office would like to express sincere gratitude to President Reiji Fujimoto andProfessor Hiroko Ikeda of Hiroshima City University for their constant cooperationin the planning of holding our conference at their university.~~
2. Journal of Irish Studies

1) Prof. John Oliphant of Rossie will be on the Editorial Board.
2) Prof. Peter O’Connor will create a web site for JIS, which will include theinformation of IASIL-JAPAN.
3) The deadline for submitting papers will be December 14. The address thepapers should be sent will change from Prof. Peter McMillan’s residence tohis office at Kyorin University.
★Letter from the Editor★
Journal of Irish Studies: theme for the 2003 issue
The 2003 issue of the Journal will focus on the theme of contemporary Irish poetry,with an emphasis on younger poets - that is, the generation now in their 40s or younger.
Over the summer, the Editor of the Journal, Peter McMillan, will be in Ireland talking
to poets and collecting poetry for next year's issue. He will also be hoping for academic
papers with a similar focus - either surveys of Irish poetry since the 1970s offering abroad view of the field and trying to define new directions, or papers on individual
poets or on poets working out of similar backgrounds or locality, preoccupations or setsof difficulty. Needless to say, by Irish poetry, we mean poetry coming out of the islandsof Ireland.
Peter McMillan and other members of the editorial committee of the Journal of Irish
Studies will be at the October conference in Hiroshima and will welcome theopportunity there to look over early submissions of papers for the 2003 issue.
Important: if you are thinking of submitting an article, please note that the deadline forthe 2003 Journal will be December 14th 2002. This deadline will be strictly observed.
3. The 2002 Membership Fee
The postal transfer sheet is enclosed. Please do not fail to send the 2002
membership fee!
Regular membership–8,000 yen
Married couples––12,000yen

Student membership––5000 yen. (Students who would like to receive IUR
have to pay 8,000 yen.)
For those who use the bank rather than the post office, please use thefollowing bank:
Name of the Bank: UFJ Bank, Branch: Shogoin
Branch no: 445
Account no: 5006757
Under the name of : Hiroko Ikeda, IASIL-JAPAN Office
口座番号	  5006757
登録者名	  イアシル・ジャパン	  事務局	  池田寛子
店番	  445
銀行名	  UFJ	  銀行	  聖護院支店♧Please forgive us if our communication crossed on the way.♧4. Election of the New Committee
Secretary Akiko Manabe, Prof. Furomoto, Prof. Tanigawa and Prof. Reiko
Taniue counted the votes in May.
As a result the following members have been elected at the committee
meeting in June:
David Burleigh, Kazuhiro Doki, Andrew Fitzsimons, Reiji Fujimoto,Taketoshi Furomoto, George Hughes, Hiroko Ikeda, Chizuko Inoue, Akiko
Manabe,Junko

Matoba,RichardKelly,

SeishiMatsuda,Ken’ichiMatsumura, Peter McMillan, Hiroko Mikami, Masami Nakao, Peter O’Conor,
Mitsuko Ohno, Minako Okamuro, Tetsuro Sano, Yoko Sato, Shigeo Shimizu,Fuyuji Tanigawa, Nobuaki Tochigi, Masazumi Toraiwa, Naoko Toraiwa andHiroyuki Yamasaki.
Ken’ichi Matsumura has been elected new President.
New committee and President will be approved at the AGM in October.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Obituary~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Professor Yasunari Takahashi, a long serving member of IASIL Japan, diedaged seventy on June 24, 2002. He was a member of the executive
committee of our society from 1984 to 1993. I personally recall the festive
atmosphere of the inaugural conference of IASIL Japan held at Waseda
University in 1984, when Professor Takahashi gave an impressive talk on
Brian Friel’s Translations in the symposium “On Irish Drama”, chaired byAnn Saddlemeyer.
Since the publication of Poetry of Ecstasy (1966), Takahashi had engaged
deeply with an astonishing range of literature, from Lewis Carol toShakespeare, the Noh and kyogen, and especially Samuel Beckett. In his
Guardian obituary (July 16) John Casey of Caius, Cambridge, vividlysurveyed the more memorable aspects of this brilliant scholar's life.
Yasunari Takahashi was Professor of English at Tokyo University(1976-92), before joining Showa Women's University (1992-2002). He issurvived by his wife, and their son and daughter.
Ken’ichi Matsumura~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Looking forward to Seeing you in Hiroshima!
Have a Great Summer!

IASIL–JAPAN OFFICE
c/o Akiko Manabe
Shiga University, Faculty of Economics
1–1–1 Banba, Hikone, Shiga 522–8522
tel&fax: +81-(0)749–27–1111
e–mail:akiko–m@biwako.shiga–u.ac.jp