While in #Thornton this weekend to attend the #TheBrontëSociety AGM, I paid my first visit to the #BrontëBirthplace and had the magical experience of spending the weekend sleeping in the room where the #BrontëSisters slept as small children, and exploring the house in which they were born.

New blog post: an up-to-date list of Irish literary journals anneolearyblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/i...

🚨Call for Papers! ❓Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities: A VPFA Study Day 🗺️Loughborough University 📅27 March 2026 💷 FREE For full CfP: victorianpopularfiction.org/studyday/for... Contact the organiser Anne-Marie Beller (@braddonite.bsky.social) at [email protected] for more information

Paris Review Visiting Professor of Literature at BPI www.theparisreview.org/about/opport...

Designed these wedding for the lovely Linda and Shane - they wanted to combine elements of their homelands of Fenit and west Kerry, including the lighthouse and Macha na Bó, in a celebration of rural and maritime life and the coming together of two beautiful parts of the Kingdom.

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

Want to attend NAVSA 2025: Aftermaths but can't make it to DC? Want MORE brilliant Victorianist scholarship than you can get at the in-person event? The NAVSA 2025 DIGITAL PRESESSION is free and open to all —registration required for security (thread of papers below)

We are hugely honoured to have won the 2025 MSA Book Prize for The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonization, Radical Campuses and Modernism. Thank you to everyone involved. It was a huge joy to work on such a wonderful period in Pacific writing.

It's time to announce the winners of the 2025 MSA Book Prize: Maebh Long and Matthew Hayward for The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonization, Radical Campuses, and Modernism. Congratulations! @maebhlong.bsky.social, Matthew, and @columbiaup.bsky.social

Let's pretend this can be explained

There are a few of these floating around out there. Please be careful.

What an extraordinary collaboration and delightful historical reconstruction!

"we will not move forward with evaluations created using AI" New line in a familiar reader report form

Oct 3: Anelise Shrout (Bates) on “Famine Chronotopes: Digital Humanities and the Great Famine” CUNY GC, NYC docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

… “I’m having a hard time writing about Sunday. Getting the long hollow feeling of Sundays. No mail and faraway lawn mowers, the hopelessness.” ― Lucia Berlin A Manual for Cleaning Women

Anyone know why it was named "Ireland" (in Latin)?

Yet another reminder than Google's AI Overview is only a predictive language model driven by the text ingested by the tool. Garbage in = garbage out. Contrary to this AI Overview response, the Irish in Britain already have UK voting rights, home student status, and access to NHS & social welfare.

Oscar and his friends today (at Père-Lachaise).

In discussion with a computer scientist from the University of Cambridge last night: Me: "you've described some of the things that AI is good at. How would you describe the category of things it's not good at? **pause** Him: "Anything where it has to be right".

ALL WELCOME to join our Irish Studies Publishing Workshop at the Institute of Irish Studies, QUB, Belfast 430pm Mon 29 Sept 📚📚📚 @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social @petergray47.bsky.social @olwenpurdue.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social Booking here www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...

Great article here on the much needed Basic Income for the Arts Please read

yeah we're into LLMs (Large Lamb-bridge Models)

This book of portraits, just published by @lilliputpress.bsky.social, contains over 100 writers from the 1980s to the present. An extraordinary collection.

Roddy Doyle: ‘I got a phone call from one of the New Yorker’s famous fact-checkers’ . Doyle, Anne Enright, Colin Barrett and Belinda McKeon reflect on their relationship with the magazine ahead of an Abbey Theatre celebration. Plus panel listing all Irish in mag www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Did some mandatory gen AI training. Unfortunately, I was given an opportunity to provide feedback.

THIS IS IT! You have until 11.59pm TONIGHT to submit your proposals for #BSECS2026 Ease yourself into the New Year by joining us @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026 #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

WELCOME TO RATHKILL ISLAND. Featuring local news and weather; a local, (admittedly creepy), craft corner; ghastly, mysterious creatures; unexplained folk horror happenings...and super-fun updates about the upcoming island festival that will 💯 boost tourism! Yay! rathkill.substack.com/welcome

twelve thousand years after the extinction of the human race... . ... . Academia,edu: "The name "Daniel Kennedy" was recently found in the text of 467 papers."

I hope Melvin Bragg's retirement will not end In Our Times. He has a lovely voice and manner but it's the people he invites that hold the show. I'll take this chance to post a thread of some of the more memorable episodes for me. Starting with Schaffer, Worrall, and @michelamassimi.bsky.social

Over on 'All Old Strange Things' I've written a new free-to-read post reflecting on @peteralanross.bsky.social's thought-provoking book 'Upon A White Horse': substack.com/home/post/p-...

"aspire to..." This is why close reading matters

I just put a long paper definitely 100 per cent written by a human into the first stupid AI detector on Google search and it said it was 97% AI. Absolutely ridiculous situation all of us are in.

Page proofs! That's my weekend sorted. Coming your way next spring.

Digitization alert! We recently digitized materials by and about Irish patriot and suffragist Maud Gonne. The materials include correspondence, photo, articles, Women's Prisoners' Defence League records, and more. Check them out: https://findingaids.bc.edu/repositories/2/resources/254/digitized

Oct 2, TCD www.eventbrite.ie/e/in-the-hal...

My new article uncovers Fitzgerald's overlooked colonial-era Irish immigrant ancestor

Contributors to a collection on @tramppress.bsky.social I’m editing with Tara Harney-Mahajan discuss contemporary Irish fiction & publishing & Tramp's Recovered Voices series @ #IrishStudies Seminar CUNY, Dec 5. Registration / full info: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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New England is quite like old England

Limerick, are you seeing this???

The imagined consumer on the landing page for Google's NotebookLM is a student in an upper-division literature course who has been assigned James Joyce's "Ulysses," and asks the software to summarize the novel and identify its themes. Who is this advertising for?

QUB History research seminars - Fridays at 4pm starting 26 September. All welcome!

On Thomas Street on Monday, an annual rediscovery of scythes was underway. “I don't think I can ever get used to living in the city, actually,” said one participant. “So when I heard about this opportunity, I was like, ‘Okay, this sounds like a real thing.’”

a post from 1936 has just landed

posh Irish pubs are a thing in Burlington, Vermont

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THIS is what the cool ones do instead of the Vegas residency

Publication day! My book The Colonial Way of War has finally appeared with CUP. The book is the first comparative & transimperial study of the violence of colonial warfare around 1900, based on an extensive empirical base &case studies from the British, German & Dutch Empire. It... shorturl.at/crWw2