Aigne Journal

About the Journal

Aigne (‘Mind’) is a peer-reviewed online postgraduate journal and falls under the auspices of the Graduate School of the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences at University College Cork. Aigne was founded in 2010 by postgraduate students of the College and regularly invites submissions from postgraduates and early career researchers, both at UCC and internationally. 

In keeping with the ethos of the College, Aigne encourages submissions that adopt an interdisciplinary perspective. The journal uses a double-blind peer-review process to ensure anonymity and quality of submissions.

The journal publishes an annual, theme-based volume that welcomes contributions from postgraduates and early career researchers worldwide. We also accept article submissions for consideration on a rolling basis. For detailed information about the journal's scope, the types of submissions Aigne seeks, and our review process, please visit this page.

We are further looking for enthusiastic postgraduates who would like to get involved in the workings of the journal. If you are interested in becoming an editor, reviewer or proofreader for Aigne, please do not hesitate to contact us at aigne@ucc.ie.

Announcements

Call for Book Reviewers

2025-05-28

Call for Book Reviewers  
Aigne, vol. 11 
Theme: “Response: Reflection and Action” 
Deadline: 20th June, 2025 

Our upcoming issue, Aigne vol. 11 seeks to engage with the theme "Response: Reflection and Action" in diverse ways.  This has led to the following selection of books for review:


Battell, Sophie E. 2023. On the Threshold: Hospitality in Shakespeare’s Drama. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 

Beck, Joachim. 2022. Horizontal Integration: An Administrative Science Perspective on Cross-Border Cooperation in Europe. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Mbh & Co 

Crostini, Barbara and Christian Høgel (eds.) 2024. Syrian Stylites: Reareadings and Recastings of Late Ancient Superheroes. Istanbul: Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul 

Drury, Fintan. 2025. Catastrophe: Nakba II. Dublin: Irish Academic Press

Fhuartháin, Méabh Ní. 2024. Heading to the Fleadh: Festival, cultural revival and Irish traditional music 1951-1969. Cork: Cork University Press

House, Julianne and Dániel Z. Kádár. 2025. Language and Politics: A Cross-Cultural Pragmatics Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Ishikawa, Tadashi. 2025. Geographies of Gender: Family and Law in Imperial Japan and Colonial Taiwan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Lindberg, Annika 2022. Deportation Limbo: State Violence and Contestations in the Nordics. Manchester: Manchester University Press 

Moore, Chris. 2025. Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up. Dublin: Irish Academic Press

Neiman, Susan. 2023. Left is Not Woke. Cambridge: Polity Press 

Nic Eoin, Máirín and Mary Shine Thompson (eds.) 2025. Glór ón Sceilg Scríbhinní le Mícheál Ua Ciarmhaic by Mícheál Ua Ciarmhaic. Cork: Cork University Press 

Park, Sunyoung (ed.). 2019. Revisiting Minjung: New Perspectives on the Cultural History of 1980s South Korea. Michigan: University of Michigan Press

Plamper, Jan. 2023. We Are All Migrants: A History of Multicultural Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 

 

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Current Issue

Vol. 10 (2024): Encounters
Cover Image, Aigne 2024 (vol. 10)

Knowledge requires engagement, and to encounter someone or something risks change. Encounters initiate opportunities to meet, participate, and practise resilience or adaptation in the face of the unfamiliar or unknown. They may encourage a sense of belonging. Conversely, encounters may lead to rejection or silencing of new ideas, voices, objects, organisms, or experiences, to polarisation, to fear of the Other or to a desire to remain unaffected. They may be chance or intentional, confrontational or interactive, comfortable or unsettling. Encounters may span human and non-human terrains.

The goal of this issue is to present a collection of articles and other submissions that explore the theme of "Encounters" through a variety of thought-provoking and distinct perspectives.

Published: 2024-11-15

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