The Department has hosted various major conferences including the International James Joyce Symposium (2010), the World Shakespeare Congress (2011), Metamorphoses: The III International Flann O’Brien Conference (2015), AR AN IMEALL I LÁR AN DOMHAIN: An tairseachúlacht i litríocht agus i gcultúr na hÉireann agus na hEorpa (2017), Samuel Beckett and Technology conference (2018), and the 3rd World Congress of Scottish Literatures (2022).

Recent conferences and workshops:

• Brendan Behan at 100: Legacy and New Directions (June 2023)
• Cultural Links between Irish and Scottish Gaelic (November 2022)
• 3rd World Congress of Scottish Literatures (June 2022)
• Culture as Dialogue and Interface (May 2022)
• Interfaces and Dialogues: EFACIS 2021 Conference (September 2021)
• Shakespeare, Creativity and Creative Industries (March 2020)
• Minority Languages in a Globalized World (March 2020)
• Performativity and Creativity in Modern Cultures (November 2019)
• Byron’s Manfred – Necessity and Emancipation (October 2019)
• Romanticism and Periodization (May 2019)
• Frankenstein at 200 (March 2019)