October’s @mexico_and_below book choice is Perfection by the Italian writer Vincenzo Latronico translated by Sophie Hughes and published by the mighty @fitzcarraldoeditions We meet 6:30pm Wed 15th Oct @noalibisbookstore All are welcome. Just read the book and come along. Books 10% off in store.

After you log in, instead of clicking to accept the terms, edit the URL (or open a new tab) to go directly to www.academia.edu/settings which (at least currently) is not giving the pop-up to accept the new terms. At the bottom of that page, you can delete your account.

My department at Hunter College, which combines studio art & art history, has posted a job listing for an assistant professor of ceramics. The application deadline is in two weeks, on October 1st. Please share widely, thanks! cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

Check out @tlrhub.bsky.social's excellent programme for the Arts & Humanities Research Festival kicking off on Monday 22 September at 10 am with a conversation between Nicholas Johnson and Gina Moxley about their exciting @dublintheatrefest.bsky.social show. All free, all welcome.

📣 📣 The CFP for IASIL 2026 is now LIVE! 📣 📣 Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU) Budapest – 6-10 July 2026 Translating Ireland The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday, November 28, 2025. #IrishStudies #Translation #IrishLiterature Full CFP: www.iasil.org/2025/09/conf... Pls share

Workshops at University of Galway: Quantitative Approaches to Creativity: Culture and Policymaking 24-25 Sept Organised by @miriamhaughton.bsky.social & Prof David O'Shaughnessy Keynotes: Prof Karol J Borowiecki & Prof Paul Bonin-Rodriguez Register by 17 Sept More info: mailchi.mp/749f534a9bc7...

All our Oct-Dec events are now live on our website! We've got James Joyce. We've got Jane Austen. We've got an 18+ LATE. And many more reasons why you should make the trip to Reading. merl.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/aut...

Tell Keir Starmer protesting isn't a crime: action.greenpeace.org.uk/protect-the-...

📢 We're looking for a Lecturer in Cinematography at @royalholloway.bsky.social (0.5 FTE, Fixed Term for 12 months) Please apply by 23:59 on 11 September 2025. jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Druid seeks a Producer The Producer plays a pivotal, senior role in co-ordinating and managing productions, projects, and literary development on national and international tour. For more information, please visit our website: tinyurl.com/36mfnfvf Deadline: Mon 22 Sep

🔥Beckett like you’ve never seen him before Join us at The Irish Cultural Centre on Fri 12 Sep at 8pm for the UK launch of Not Beckett: The Plays. 5 brilliant Irish writers bring Samuel Beckett’s ideas to life in live readings + discussion. 7.30pm irishculturalcentre.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

We’ve launched a new Membership Scheme! Join us as a Member, Ambassador, or Legend starting from £5 a month and help us keep creating bold, radical and accessible theatre now and in the future. Find out more on our How to Donate page: graeae.org/support-us/h...

Last month, Anas al-Sharif sounded the alarm on starvation in Gaza. Israel accused him of terrorism. "We warned this felt like a precursor to justify assassination," said Jodie Ginsberg of the Committee to Protect Journalists. Today he was killed in a targeted strike on a tent housing reporters.

CFP: 34th Annual CDE Conference, Prague (Czech Republic), 4-7 June 2026. Abstract deadline 15 September 2025: contemporarydrama.de/home-news/cd...

A gorgeous feature interview with FELISPEAKS, covering all things Octopus Children, coming to Project Arts Centre as part of Dublin Fringe Festival this September. Tickets selling fast! www.irishtimes.com/culture/stag...

Isabella Nefar will reprise her role in My English Persian Kitchen, Hannah Khalil’s play inspired by an original true story by cookery author Atoosa Sepehr, directed by Chris White. The production returns to @sohotheatre.bsky.social from 30 Sep-11 Oct before touring to Bristol, Dublin & Belfast.

6 highlights from the Galway Arts Festival back pages. @barryhoulihan.bsky.social @uniofgalwaylib.bsky.social looks at some of the favourites featured in the festival’s oral history project www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Announcing: OCTOPUS CHILDREN by FELISPEAKS atDublin Fringe Festival💥 Written by FELISPEAKS, Octopus Children follows Young Felicia coming of age as a queer, ‘Black Irish midlands culchie’ grappling with their identity, led by a wise guide: The Octopus. Book now: www.fringefest.com/fest.../what...

Anyone with even a passing interest in Beckett needs to read Emilie Morin's biography of Suzanne Dumesnil: it's free to download for the next two weeks. This is feminist restorative history in action: read this book!!!

📢 We have a full time Lecturer in Creative Writing post open at @royalholloway.bsky.social (fixed term for 10 months). Apply by midnight on 3 July ✍🏻 jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Sadly, there’ll be no Mexico and Below Book Group in July but August’s read is a cracker. German writer, Benedict Wells’ “The End of Loneliness” translated by Charlotte Collins. We meet Aug 20th at 6:30pm at No Alibis. Everyone welcome. Just read the book (available 10% off in store) and join us.

[COLL] 19-21.06.25 / Konstanz New Stages for Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Theatre 5 RADAC members (@anjahartl.bsky.social, X. Lemoine, @chris-megson.bsky.social, A. Rousseau & @ecco0210.bsky.social) participate in the annual congress of our sister society, CDE! cde-2025.de/programme/

We have lots of events on Sat 21 June to celebrate Reading Refugee week! Pop-Up Performance: Are We There Yet? (Free, book online: rdguk.info/Are_We_There...) Welcome to Reading Coffee Morning (Free, drop in) Everybody’s Welcome Make & Take Craft Sessions (Free, drop in) © Moomin CharactersTM

Our beautiful ninth issue in all its glory ☀️ Shipping worldwide: www.tolkajournal.org/shop

Applications are open for the 2025-26 AHSS Global Fellows Scheme at QUB, funding visits by established academics of 4-12 weeks to Belfast. Specialists in Irish Studies are welcome to contact us at [email protected] before 30 May. More info at www.qub.ac.uk/about/Leader...

🎟️ Registration is now OPEN for #MacGill25 Secure your spot for July 17-19 in Glenties, Donegal: www.eventbrite.ie/e/macgill-su... 🚨Limited tickets available! Register Now! In partnership with @notredame.bsky.social #IrishDebate #Donegal #MacGillSummerSchool

We've updated our list of funding & development opportunities for artists! Feat. @axisballymun.bsky.social @createireland.bsky.social Culture Ireland, Safe to Create, NASC touring network + more If you know of an opp. we should include, ping us & we'll add it! www.thisispopbaby.com/news/funding...

. @shonaghhill.bsky.social now explores Nandi Jola's "Mamtshawe – The Rise of Maqoma" in the context of decolonial feminism, raising thought-provoking points and referencing Vergès notion of decolonial feminism as "a never-ending struggle, revolution as daily work" #ISTR2025 #EndsOfEmpire

My new short story, The Man in the U-Bend, is in the summer issue of Exacting Clam @exactingclam.bsky.social. Looking forward to reading what looks like another splendid gathering of pieces. Clam on exactingclam.com/issues/no-17...

Belfast Book Festival at the Crescent Arts Centre - coming up soon belfastbookfestival.com/whats-on

Of all places I didn't expect to see a framed replica of the signed Belfast Good Friday Agreement it was in Supermacs at Kiltullagh Plaza after an u11 hurling match.

ABEI Journal is currently accepting submissions for a special issue dedicated to #OscarWilde that I am co-editing. Articles must be submitted by August 30, 2025, through the journal’s website: revistas.usp.br/abei/announc...

Statement on Gaza, from Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann @irishpen.bsky.social. Please share: thank you.

It's publication day for Samuel #Beckett and #Ecology! Immense gratitude to all colleagues who collaborated on this project over the past years, as well as friends, families & ecosystems who sustained the development of this work. @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social #researchmatters

“Language as culture is the collective memory bank of a people’s experience in history” Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 1938 - 2025

The @cicuk.bsky.social publishes a useful monthly summary of funding opportunities...

My English Persian Kitchen - the ★★★★ 'theatrical feast' @theguardian.com‬ returns this autumn and is heading on tour ★Soho Theatre Tue 30 Sep - Mon 11 Oct ★Bristol Old Vic Tue 14 - Sat 18 Oct ★‪ @paviliontheatre.bsky.social‬ Tue 21 - Wed 22 Oct ★Lyric Belfast Fri 24 - Sat 25 Oct buff.ly/wZtdyH3

Our partners at Nerve Centre are an event for Refugee Week at QUB. Sharing stories of diversity through film-making.

RIP Alan Yentob

Couldn't get to the Front & Centre symposium's second day at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social. Seems timely to post my @thestage.co.uk piece on women re-shaping NI's theatre. @emmanishuirtain.bsky.social @emilysforan.bsky.social @paulamcfetridge.bsky.social www.thestage.co.uk/features/mee...

Generous profile on me and the work with @forcedents.bsky.social from Jana Perković. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/thea...

Really innovative combination of voices and formats - lovely section on #Beckett’s Happy Days

The latest episode of The Tolka Podcast is out now open.spotify.com/episode/5Dmd...

The UN warns that in the next 48 hours, 14,000 babies in Gaza could die due to Israel’s blockade. After 11 weeks of blockading aid, Israel cleared nine trucks to enter Gaza yesterday. It takes 500 aid trucks per day to meet people's basic needs.

This petition was created by postgraduates at Plymouth University, responding to the proposed cutting of fine art, performing arts and music. This would be a huge loss to creative education in the region as well as to the city's cultural ecology and wellbeing. Please sign.

ON SALE: No Other Land - Best Documentary Feature, Oscars 25 Co-created by a Palestinian-Israeli collective, this film is an act of resistance to Apartheid. It follows activist Basel Adra as he witnesses the destruction of his community. 10 Jul | 🎫 buff.ly/OkuXVWz

Very sad to learn of Paul Durcan’s death.

Hey Toronto, come chat with me on 8 June

What is happening in Gaza will be a permanent stain on the world's collective conscience. History will never forget how our government was complicit in enabling and sustaining this ongoing humanitarian disaster. We must end funding for the Netanyahu war machine.

Our response to this government white paper on immigration