Tim Groenland
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Academic in Dublin. Contemporary literature & publishing.
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Here's something that me and Evan Brier have been working on for ages: a special issue on editors in postwar US literature, full of essays by brilliant scholars. Delighted to see it published!
post45.org/sections/iss...
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Issue 9: Editing American Literature - Post45
Edited by Evan Brier and Tim Groenland
https://post45.org/sections/issue/editing-american-literature/
over 1 year ago
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Just finished Flesh the other day, thought it was excellent, but lol at this final line
about 12 hours ago
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Fiona Small
1 day ago
A genuine embarrassment and national shame that this man is still platformed by our media and in the pro-Palestine movement
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There should be wider coverage of these charges
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4 days ago
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Congrats to
@brianrobmoore.bsky.social
! The book is a banger & the translation is ingenious
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4 days ago
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Today's class is on translation, translators, and the labour of translation - reading this by
@jencalleja.bsky.social
5 days ago
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"What does it mean to be a young, working-class male writer in contemporary Ireland?" Free tickets for the closing event in our
@dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social
programme (organised by
@skeinpress.bsky.social
and
@poetryireland.bsky.social
) are now available here:
www.eventbrite.ie/e/young-bloo...
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Young Blood: Class x Masculinity in Contemporary Poetry
What does it mean to be a young, working-class male writer in contemporary Ireland?
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/young-blood-class-x-masculinity-in-contemporary-poetry-tickets-1954425271599
6 days ago
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Joanne Stocker
6 days ago
Journalism can be a thankless job but every now and then you get to ask the guy who threw his shoes at Bush what he thinks about Cheney's death and it's all worth it again
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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠
7 days ago
ok i think that's all of them
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"What goes up but never comes down?" ..... "Money!! Like, the cost of stuff!" Topical riddle from the 7-year-old
6 days ago
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"Pariah Carey" - good headline I saw in a tabloid today. Obvious in hindsight, perhaps, but then so are all the best headlines
7 days ago
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Éireann
8 days ago
it will happen
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Hadas Weiss
8 days ago
seeking contributors for an edited volume
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Mondo Mascots
2 months ago
Hatton, a sentient aerial view of a spilled bowl of soup, is the mascot for Tome City. The ingredients in the soup are local produce, and the spillage is in the shape of the city.
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Simon McGarr
10 days ago
Wed: “Our migration numbers are too high”-Simon Harris Thurs: “Taoiseach and Donohoe back Tánaiste’s remarks that numbers migrating to Ireland are ‘too high’” Fri: ”migration numbers too high outside of international protection…as well”-Simon Harris *Arson attack on infants in IPAS centre.*
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They're calling it the wholesomest Saturday morning they've ever seen
10 days ago
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H 🇵🇸 ☘️
10 days ago
Politicians that spoke about "too much immigration" in the last few days are just as responsible
#speirgorm
some fucking neck on them
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The London Magazine
about 1 month ago
'There’s big trouble in the world of little magazines.' — Tristram Fane Saunders Tristram Fane Saunders on what makes 'little magazines' so fragile, why they matter and why they so often vanish without any fanfare. Read here:
thelondonmagazine.org/article/essa...
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Essay | Why Magazines Fail by Tristram Fane Saunders - The London Magazine
Drawing on recent literary magazine closures, Tristram Fane Saunders asks what makes 'little magazines' so fragile, why they matter and why they so often vanish.
https://thelondonmagazine.org/article/essay-why-magazines-fail-by-tristram-fane-saunders/
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Günter Leypoldt
13 days ago
Thrilled to announce my new book (electronic version out now, print next month) — it proposes a new value theory grounded in the longue durée of literary institutions, 1800–present.
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Dublin Small Press Fair
18 days ago
just over a month from now! want to distribute postcards or hang flyers for the DSPF? Fill in this form!
forms.gle/LePucX4D5Pym...
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omg
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13 days ago
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We have postcards
13 days ago
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Nathan K. Hensley
14 days ago
this is a hugely helpful list of possible countermeasures against AI, but (yet more helpfully!) lists the counter-countermeasures students could take to cheat anyway. overall, an indication of how dark & exhausting things have become for those of us trying to get people to actually think & read
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Skein Press
14 days ago
Excited and honoured to be part of the very first Dublin Small Press Fair 📚 Indie publishing all the way! 💖
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Nick Sturm
15 days ago
Nigel Newton, CEO of Bloomsbury, telling us why AI is good for publishing with this fun caveat: “We are programmed deep in our DNA to be comforted by the authority and the reliability of big brand names, & that applies more than ever to the names of big writers."
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief
Publisher last week reported jump in revenue in academic and professional arm thanks to AI licensing deal
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/27/ai-authors-writers-block-bloomsbury-chief-book-publisher-shares
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Dublin Small Press Fair
21 days ago
with apologies to Mr. Joyce, we think that even Gabriel would not be late for the
#DublinSmallPressFair2025
November 28 (opening panel 5 p.m.; book sales 6-9) November 29 (book sales 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; closing panel 4-5) Pearse Street Library, Dublin 2 snow may or may not be general all over Ireland
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An annual ritual: getting weirdly emotional watching the Dublin Marathon from outside my house
16 days ago
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Hari Kunzru
17 days ago
Taking some pointers from Muriel Spark about maintaining relationships with editors
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Dean Van Nguyen
17 days ago
This was unique circumstances for spoiled vote: no anti-gov candidate anywhere on the right, loud online campaign, week of riots. It’s still going to end up with less than half the vote Peter Casey got as a similar protest. The “political earthquake” here is the thumping victory for the united left
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Sharing this again for
#Irishbookweek
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20 days ago
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A British soldier approaches From Liadan Ní Chuinn's "Daisy Hill"
19 days ago
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Cool teaching experience: asking the class to wait a second while you display your slides, plugging in the hdmi cable, the laptop making a deafening horrific noise like R2D2 being strangled, the screen going dark
19 days ago
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Stack for today's class on literary journals
19 days ago
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Sharing this again for
#Irishbookweek
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20 days ago
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Shamim Malekmian
20 days ago
Every day in 2025
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Dublin Small Press Fair
21 days ago
ahem
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Dublin Small Press Fair
21 days ago
can't wait to see Longbarrow Press and Intergraphia at the
#DublinSmallPressFair2025
! November 28-29, Pearse St. Library, Dublin 2 (
dublinsmallpressfair.com
for information)
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Dublin Small Press Fair
21 days ago
our small press fair brings all the depictions of Englishmen by 19th-century Japanese printmakers to the yard. and they're like, wow, I really enjoy browsing books from a range of very small, small, independent, underground, and other presses based on the island of Ireland and from abroad.
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Most relatable thing Humphreys has said all campaign tbh
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21 days ago
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Learning about Christy Kinahan Sr's fondness for açai bowls
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22 days ago
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The inaugural Dublin Small Press Fair is happening at the end of November! 30+ presses, events, readings, and more. Organised by me and
@eireannmor.bsky.social
. More information coming very soon - follow
@dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social
for updates
27 days ago
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Some new ones
24 days ago
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Longbarrow Press
25 days ago
Looking forward to being part of this next month (and exploring options for making at least some of the journey on foot, even if it's just the last few miles from the ferry port)
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Scratch Books
25 days ago
This will be ace! Catch us all at Pearse st on 29th Nov!
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Little Island Books
26 days ago
We’ll be there! 👇
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)
27 days ago
not to repeat the obvious but: if they are doing this to one of the most famous Western activists alive, imagine what they are doing to the people whose names we will never know
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Max Read
27 days ago
as i tired to suggest in my post last week, chatgpt's absurd growth and the culture/incentives of silicon valley have cursed the company (and investors) to chase facebook-type revenues--and, worse facebook-type revenue models
maxread.substack.com/p/can-openai...
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Swan River Press
27 days ago
We'll have a table at the Dublin Small Press Fair at the Pearse Street Library.
@dublincitylibs.bsky.social
Friday, 28 November – Saturday, 29 November 2025
swanriverpress.ie/events/forth...
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Ciaran O'Neill
29 days ago
4x4-year, fully-funded PhD opportunities to work with an interdisciplinary group at Trinity College Dublin 2026-2030. One of these is to work with me on a public history and cultural heritage PhD, in collaboration with one of Dublins most interesting neighbourhoods.
www.tcd.ie/graduatestud...
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PhD Opportunity - Trinity East - Graduate Studies | Trinity College Dublin
Professor Timothy Stott and his team are inviting applications to doctoral research on the heritage of Trinity East in Grand Canal Dock, Dublin.
https://www.tcd.ie/graduatestudies/news/phd-opportunity---trinity-east/
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The inaugural Dublin Small Press Fair is happening at the end of November! 30+ presses, events, readings, and more. Organised by me and
@eireannmor.bsky.social
. More information coming very soon - follow
@dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social
for updates
27 days ago
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Sharae Deckard
27 days ago
TOMORROW: UCD Walk Out for Gaza, Thurs 16 Oct! UCD BDS & UCD Justice for Palestine ask UCD students and workers to join the rally by Tierney at 1 PM and help gear up for a renewed campaign for full boycott of Israeli universities and research partnerships
#standoutforgaza1610
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