It was a bit of an epic journey getting here yesterday, but I’m delighted to be at the University of Notre Dame for the next week or so working on my book project, Irish Gothic in the Global Nineteenth Century, with thanks to @ndirishstudies.bsky.social.

It's official - my research leave application for the autumn semester has been approved! Happy days!

I was really honoured to be asked to contribute an introduction to this excellent collection of essays! It was an eye-opening opportunity to consider how much has changed since we started Tramp Press in 2014.

'Publishing is an industry that has often proclaimed itself to be on the brink of collapse; yet the persistence of books tells a different story.' EXCEPTIONALLY proud of co-Tramp Lisa Coen for this clear-eyed, straight-up introduction to essays on women's writing in Ireland of the last decade

The second section of the special issue of LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory on 'Irish Women's Genre Fiction' has been published! www.tandfonline.com/toc/glit20/c...

Read our letter today published in the Irish Times - regarding the announcement of the 12 members appointed to the National Science Advice Forum.

My contributor’s copy of this fine collection arrived today. Thank you to the editors, @fearfuljoycuit.bsky.social, Bridget English, and @drreznicek.bsky.social, for including me!

Friends and colleagues in Irish academia! The wonderful Dr Mary McGill has asked me to circulate her @researchireland.ie - funded survey on Exploring experiences of gender-based online abuse among female academics in Ireland - please do share! forms.office.com/pages/respon...

📢 BOOK GIVEAWAY 2/2: We’re giving one free copy of *Women, 'Failure' and Academia*(Apr 2026). Pls share the book’s URL on your social media (tag me in), to enter the raffle. Until nxt Thrs 5March. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-fai.... #FreeBook #Academia #AcademicPrecarity #Failure

In case you didn't catch it in last Saturday's print edition, my review of Irish Romanticism: A Literary History by Claire Connolly is now up on the Irish Times website. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

I very much look forward to welcoming Dr. Peter Hession to @unioflimerick.bsky.social as our inaugural O'Malley Fellow! www.ul.ie/news/inaugur...

The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society is now inviting applications for its Open Bursary 2026-7. €2000 to support archival research, symposiums/conferences, or publication expenses associated with original work on eighteenth-century Ireland. More information here: www.ecis.ie/2026/01/05/e...

⭐️ Today marks the birthday of Irish writer and republican activist Dorothy Macardle. On this bank holiday Monday in honour of St Brigid, browse a variety of biographies about women in Irish history under the Gender Studies category on www.ucdpress.ie

I’ll be chatting about chapels in Limerick next Tuesday evening (3rd Feb) - do come along! (Free with student cards) #limerick #speirgorm #skystorians

Very pleased with my first piece for the @irishtimes.com - a review of @claireconnolly.bsky.social new book, Irish Romanticism: A Literary History. Thank you @martindoyle.bsky.social for the opportunity!

I’ve had the unenviable task of writing some reviews lately for which it was hard to find words both true and kind, so it was a DELIGHT to be invited to review @books-borrowing.bsky.social for @abojournal.bsky.social. Review free to read here: digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Assistant Professor in Irish History Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences - School of History and Geography- University of Limerick #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/search/histo...

Dream job for somebody!

My flights are booked! I'm off to Notre Dame later this spring to complete research on my monograph, Irish Gothic in the Global Nineteenth Century, thanks to the Keough-Naughton Library Research Award in Irish Studies. Super excited! @ndirishstudies.bsky.social @ulenglish.bsky.social

REMINDER: The deadline to apply for the Global Irish Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship is Feb. 27. 👉 apply.interfolio.com/176805 @lcis-leuven.bsky.social @cirishcaceres.bsky.social @aedei.bsky.social @efacis.bsky.social @irishstudieswue.bsky.social @sofeir.bsky.social @intyeatssociety.bsky.social

A gentle reminder that this takes place tomorrow! We'll be talking about our favourite Minerva Press novels and why you should read them, too!

Very much looking forward to 'The Uses of Romanticism' symposium next month at UCC!

Eeeek so excited! My monograph, ‘Theological Monsters: Religion and Irish Gothic’ is out with University of Wales Press! www.uwp.co.uk/book/theolog...

Very much looking forward to next Thursday's event! Join us!

Research Ireland and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) have launched a new research programme that will deliver transformational impact on creative economy research between the UK and Ireland. Deadline to apply is 24th March 2026. For more visit: www.researchireland.ie/funding/crea...

Join us as we talk about our favourite Minerva novels (and do our best to convince everyone to read them)!

Reminder: deadline for submitted applications is 12 Jan!!

Our good friends at the Irish Cultural Centre in Paris are advertising a short-term research fellowship in their old library and historical archives. Check it out at portail.centreculturelirlandais.com/index.php?lv...

Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.

Anybody else get that end-of-term resurgence of imposter syndrome, just at the moment when you can actually, maybe think about research and writing in earnest again?

The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society has a new website that is well-worth checking out for details of the annual conference, journal, and news of the inaugural ECR bursary, which was awarded to @mzukovs.bsky.social. The next bursary will be announced shortly. www.ecis.ie/news-events/

Ok this is kinda badass.

Come and work with us in @ulenglish.bsky.social! www.researchgate.net/job/1033506_...

Well done to our colleague Professor Joseph O'Connor! 😍

My little book will be available for pre-order in January 2026. Please consider ordering a copy for your library. I'll be eternally grateful if you would like to review the book. Happy reading! 😊 www.routledge.com/Irish-Writer...

We are delighted to announce that we'll be hosting the SSNCI conference in Maynooth next June. Call for papers attached. Please spread far and wide!

More happy publication news! The first of a two-part special issue on 'Irish Women's Genre Fiction' is out. Thanks to our fantastic contributors and to the editorial team at LIT! Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory: Vol 36, No 3 www.tandfonline.com/toc/glit20/3...

We are delighted this afternoon to announced the CFP for the 36th annual WHAI conference 2026. The conference will be held at Mary I Limerick on 29 & 30 May 2026. Closing dates for submissions on the theme of 'Gain' is 31 Jan. 2026. sites.google.com/view/whai202...

Delighted to see this collection out! My essay, 'Gothic Plots and the 19thC Irish Novel' looks at, interalia, Kitty Cuthbertson's Romance of the Pyrenees (1803), Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent (1800), and Henrietta Rouviere Mosse's Arrivals from India (1812). www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

Reason number one zillion why I love my students: one of my MA students referred to Melmoth the Wanderer as having a turducken-like structure. I mean!

Really excited to be on the judging panel for the 2026 BARS First Book Prize - details of eligibility, nomination, and submission can be found on @bars.bsky.social’s blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6174 Do share widely!

A new special issue of English Studies I'm really keen to put together! Please consider submitting and circulate widely! @drchrislouttit.bsky.social bookshoplit.com/cfp-booksell...

For anyone who is like “the creature is also named Frankenstein”; Mary Shelley went to see a play version of Frankenstein and was tickled that they listed the creature as “———“ in the dramatis personae: “this nameless mode of naming the unnameable is rather good” www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3...

Great to have these videos up for those interested who weren't able to attend the conference. Keynotes by Prof. Eliga Gould and Prof. Nicholas Canny and a @virtualtreasury.bsky.social panel. Please share widely. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... @historytcd.bsky.social @historyatgalway.bsky.social

Be sure to play the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark official trailer embedded in this article in The Conversation by Christina Morin, Professor in School of English Irish & Communication, University of Limerick. Watch it in the dark... naturally! theconversation.com/scary-storie... #GossamerWight

Kind of expensive, so if you are interested in reading What Has Been (1801), a feminist Minerva Press novel edited by Elizabeth Neiman and I about a woman who attempts to survive as a writer, have your library order it. #c18th #c18 #18c #18thc #Romanticism #Gothic #FeministSky #Minervapress

Folks in DH working with German-language data! Here’s a resource I put together with corpora of both fiction and non-fiction works from the Gutenberg libraries, about 5,000 books in total, including metadata on genre and author gender 📚 🧮 openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....