Call For Papers - ABEI Journal 28.2 Special Issue: Irish Storytelling - A Cinematic Approach
We invite contributions in the form of academic articles, reviews, and interviews focused on Irish cinema. Entitled “Irish Storytelling: A Cinemantic Approach”, this volume aims to open new avenues of discussion around the following central questions: What defines a film as Irish? Is it determined by the nationality or identity of its director, producers, founders, screenwriters, or cast––or by its funding sources, locations, or thematic concerns?
Submissions are encouraged to engage with this dilemma through a range of possible topics, including but not limited to:
● Directors, Diaspora, and Dislocation
● Funding, Production, and the “Irish” Label
● Casting and Cultural Authenticity
● Landscape as Character
● The Troubles Beyond Paramilitarism
● The Magdalene Laundries, Mother and Baby Homes, and Institutional Abuse
● Post-Colonial and Decolonial Readings
● The Celtic Tiger and Its Aftermath
● Irish Horror and the Gothic
● The Irish Western
● Romantic Comedy and the Celtic Charm
● Urban Realism and Social Drama
● Documentary as Activism
● Archival and Found Footage Films
● Self-Representation and Community-Led Documentary
● Irish-Language Cinema
● Accent, Dialect, and Subtitling
● Streaming Platforms and the New Irish Landscape
● Irish Cinema in the 2020s
● Animation and Irish Storytelling
This collection seeks to foster reflection on how Irish identities continue to shape cinematic production, representation, and reception within national and transnational contexts.
The ABEI Journal is peer-reviewed and committed to establishing a dialogue between Brazil and Ireland. It is aimed at scholars, independent researchers, and postgraduate students in Irish studies. The ABEI Journal is indexed by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA), Maryland, USA and Modern Language Association (MLA), EBSCO, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Diretório de Políticas Editoriais das revistas científicas brasileiras (Diadorim), Latindex and Google Scholar. It is published twice a year – a general issue and a special issue with guest editors – and co-edited with the support of the University of São Paulo and the ESP Programme (Embassy of Ireland in Brazil).
Submissions are welcome in all interdisciplinary fields of Irish studies. Articles should not exceed 6,000 words, and reviews should be limited to 1,500 words. The text must be written using Times New Roman font, size 12, and spaced 1.5.
Submission Guidelines
● Manuscripts must be submitted in English in Microsoft Word format (.doc, .docx).
● Articles should include an abstract in English of at least 150 words, accompanied by at least three keywords.
● Authors must include their affiliation, institution, city, and country in a separate file, not within the text.
● Illustrations, graphs, and tables must be submitted in a separate file in print quality and include source information if not created by the author.
● Endnotes should be numbered consecutively and placed at the end of the manuscript. Quotes in a different language should be followed by their translation as an endnote.
● References must be in MLA format and alphabetized by the author's last name.
● Deadline for submissions: 1st of June, 2026.
Manuscripts must be uploaded to the journal’s online platform:
