Céad míle fáilte (“One hundred thousand welcomes”)! Trinity College Dublin is located in the center of the city. It is near many important landmarks including the River Liffey, Dublin Castle, and the National Gallery of Ireland.
All conference sessions and keynotes will take place in the Arts Building (#1 on the map below). Those staying in on-campus accommodations will be located in Printing House Square on the other side of campus (#4). Our Welcome Reception will be located in the Dining Hall (#2), with the Closing Reception in the Museum Building (#3) behind the Old Library. See the map below for locations.
Getting to Campus
Trinity College provides a variety of maps (both interactive and static) on its website, as well as detailed instructions on how to get to campus from various locations by bus, local public transit (DART, Luas, etc.), car, and even ferry.
A Message from Our Host
Fáilte go Baile Átha Cliath. Welcome to Dublin!
It is a great pleasure to welcome you to RSVP 2026 and to Trinity College Dublin for this year’s conference, Movements and Migrations.
For me, this conference feels both familiar and remarkable. Fifteen years ago, I attended my first ever academic conference: RSVP in Canterbury in 2011. Like many early-career scholars, I arrived feeling more than a little nervous, uncertain of my place, and wondering whether I belonged in the conversations taking place around me. What I remember most clearly is not the paper I gave, nor even the papers I heard, but the extraordinary kindness of the people I met. Senior scholars took an interest in my work, colleagues became friends, and what might have been an intimidating experience instead became one of welcome, encouragement, and intellectual excitement.
Fifteen years later, it is a particular privilege to welcome RSVP to Trinity College Dublin, where I have worked for the past fourteen years and which I am proud to call my academic home. Over those years, I have had the good fortune to build a career in the School of English and within an institution that I deeply value, and it is a pleasure to share both with colleagues from around the world.
Our theme invites us to think about circulation, exchange, connection, and displacement. We are interested in the movement of texts, ideas, people, objects, and cultures, but also in the networks that make those movements possible. Few scholarly organisations embody those principles better than RSVP. Ours is a community that has always crossed borders—disciplinary, institutional, and national—and this year’s programme reflects the extraordinary international reach of periodical studies, with scholars travelling to Dublin from across Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia. The generosity that I experienced as a first-time attendee in Canterbury fifteen years ago remains one of RSVP’s defining qualities, and one of the reasons so many of us continue to return year after year.
Dublin is itself a city shaped by movement and migration. For centuries, people, books, newspapers, ideas, and ambitions have arrived and departed here. It is a city marked by emigration and return, by local attachments and global connections. Trinity itself has long been part of these networks of cultural exchange. Among its nineteenth-century graduates were Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker, writers whose careers were shaped not only by books but also by the newspapers, magazines, and print cultures that bring us together this week. As we explore the movements and migrations of the nineteenth-century press and print culture, there could hardly be a more fitting place to gather.
My hope is that our time together in Dublin will be filled with stimulating discussion, lively debate, unexpected discoveries, and renewed enthusiasm for our shared work. I also hope that it will offer opportunities for connection, encouragement, and generosity—the qualities that first made RSVP feel like a community to me.
Thank you for being here, for making the journey to Dublin and to Trinity College Dublin, and for helping to create the warm, collegial, and intellectually vibrant atmosphere that makes RSVP such a special society.
Céad míle fáilte and enjoy the conference.
– Clare Clarke