Having January blues? Join us for the First Fortnight Festival at the Goethe Institut in Dublin on Thursday 15 January at 6.30 pm for an uplifting event on "Beckettian Spaces of Resilience." Registration at this link: firstfortnight.ie/.../becketti...

Company SJ delivers another deeply moving experience of the Irish lan(d)guage with #Beckett Sa Chreig: Guth Na mBan at @dublintheatrefest.bsky.social. This virtual “Walking the land” with Mná Na hÉireann is a journey through the grief and care of the everyday sublimated by cast, costume and camera.

Marina #Carr’s The Boy revives Ancient Greek tragic myths and characters for the present times. It redefines the tragic and the performance of #tragedy on the contemporary Irish stage. Masterfully directed, deftly performed, smartly designed. @abbeytheatre.bsky.social @dublintheatrefest.bsky.social

#Hamlet by Chela de Ferrari at @dublintheatrefest.bsky.social had me on the edge of my seat, sinking into it, clinging onto it and springing off it to disco on the stage. What a wonderful show and what wonderful artists! Hope it keeps touring: the world needs it.

#Whitewashing’s dramaturgy of interweaving demands to slow down, witness and feel histories of oppression, domination and destruction. The actors perform a strong corrective of history through black, ecofeminist poetry and choreography. Left with goosebumps. @dublintheatrefest.bsky.social

The @tlrhub.bsky.social is offering a time to reflect on the role of the #arts and #humanities on a #warming #planet as part of its Research Festival. Great to hear more acknowledgment of acts of slow violence, more methods for attunement and the reiteration of the power of storytelling.

The #Beckett Working Group of the International Federation for #Theatre #Research will meet at the next congress (Melbourne, 6–10 July 2026). 🎭 Theme: '"Nothing to be done": What Samuel Beckett Theatre Does and What We Do with It." 🗓️ Abstract submission deadline: 8 December 2026 📄 Full CFP ⬇️

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.

Fantastic interview of theatre director Yuta Hagiwara about his telephone play Breath <Message Dial ver.> after #Beckett's Breath. Interview led by @alshalanamjad.bsky.social & published on her blog dedicated to #Saudi and #world #literatures. 5atrah.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/b...

Stimulating panel on #Performance and #Olfactory Becomings at #IFTR2025 with Julia Ostwald and @fredafiala.bsky.social from University of Arts Linz. Both scholars demonstrate how powerful the politics of smell is in shaping our socio-economic and intercultural relations.

Yuta Hagiwara, artistic director of Kamome Machine, is presenting the telephone performance “Breath <Message Dial ver.>” after #Beckett’s Breath at #IFTR2025. This is a unsettling and transformative encounter with modernism, self and other. Don’t miss it if you are at @unicologne.bsky.social!

Great first day at #IFTR2025 with the #Beckett Working Group, reflecting on Beckett’s Grey Carnival. Looking forward to the rest of the week at @unicologne.bsky.social.

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

@mmrovlje.bsky.social from @universityofleeds.bsky.social presents an insightful paper on Rosa #Luxemburg to reframe #FailingBetter both as a crushing lived reality and a potent political model of revolution and collective action. #FailWorse Symposium @tlrhub.bsky.social

Nathaniel Coleman from @newcastleuni.bsky.social introduces his research on #failure as a different kind of success in #Architecture #pedagogy in the studio. He argues that recoding desire for the new liberates creative desire for fulfilment. #FailWorse Symposium @tlrhub.bsky.social

Excellent and important talk by Jonathan Heron at the #FailWorse Symposium taking place at the @tlrhub.bsky.social: they reflect on how #students enter and exit universities using footages from the screen adaptation of Sally Rooney’s #NormalPeople as a prompt to engage with real experiences.

Full house at the Hub for @evepatt.bsky.social’s farewell coffee morning as Director of the @tlrhub.bsky.social. Go raibh míle maith agat, Eve, for fostering #arts and #humanities research with such diligence and dedication through the pandemic, as well as many other challenges & more joyful times.

Fantastic day at the @ria.ie, learning about intersectional and interdisciplinary #ecological practices and reflecting on what the #Arts and #Humanities do and can do. Many thanks to all organisers, particularly @pflonergan.bsky.social, and all speakers!

I had a great time at the online roundtable "Reading Bodies & #Embodied #Readings in #Modernist Prose and Poetry." Much gratitude to all organisers, particularly to Bowen Wang, for inviting me to present at this event. It was a good opportunity to think again about #Stimmung in #Beckett's novels.

Thank you to Sarah Alyn Stacey for inviting me to deliver the inaugural annual #Beckett lecture of the French Department at @tcddublin.bsky.social, and many thanks to all attendees for their presence and for an engaging discussion time. It was a joy to discuss Beckett's #French #creative #ecology.

Celebrating my first co-authored papers published in the Journal of #Beckett Studies (34.1)! Many thanks to Prof. Corinna Salvadori Lonergan, Dr. Nicholas Johnson & the editors for co-creating the article on Beckett's #BrownCanon & the theatre review of #GareStLazareIreland's Shades Through a Shade.

Happy Birthday Michael D Higgins President, Poet, Leader. A man with a deep understanding of the arts and its role in society. Photo taken on Aran Islands at the Abbey Theatre production of Laethanta Shona in July 2021.

Deadline reminder for the special issue of Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui on THE TRAGIC. 🗓 Submission of abstracts in French and in English welcome until 30th April 📩 [email protected] 📌 CfP available at iftr.org/working-grou... (see "Current Projects" section)

💫FIRST LOOK💫 The Abbey Theatre’s first ever production of Mary Manning’s Youth’s the Season -? is now on until May 3 ⭐ 🎟️ Tickets for this dazzling tragicomedy are available from €15: www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/you... 📸 Ros Kavanagh

Excited to say that the programme note I wrote for KING LEAR (currently @gatetheatredublin.bsky.social) has been re-printed for RTE Culture. Do take a look: I discuss the nature of tragedy, whether or not Lear is TOO sad, and how endings aren't foregone conclusions. www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

💫ONE WEEK TO GO💫 The countdown is officially on at the Abbey Theatre as we prepare for Youth's the Season - ? to return to the stage next week, nearly 100 years since it was first performed at the Gate Theatre 🎭

“Our audiences will witness real newness, a true freshness of ideas and expression” - Introducing our artistic programme for 2025. 🔗https://www.abbeytheatre.ie/2025-national-theatre-of-stories/ #NationalTheatreOfStories (1/5)

Amidst all the chaos, spring turns @tcddublin.bsky.social campus into a serene oasis. The sense of continuity and rebirth is comforting.

Conference CfP: "(Un)fulfilled Futures. Waiting and Expectation in Cultural and Literary Practices" Conference details: 29–30 May 2025, Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa, Poland, and online Submission deadline: 10 April 2025 Contact: [email protected]

What a fucking tool. Every racist “Ireland is full” bollix talking point trotted out while presuming to speak for Irish people. This prick speaks for nobody but himself - and he can barely do that

Ireland is built on bravery, of those who have endured injustice yet speak out for others, those who have & continue to build community in adversity, those who recognise brutality & privilege of bullying in all its forms, current & past & stand firm. We are more #StPatricksDay

When #Trump is asked to name his favourite Irish person, of all names he went for Connor #McGregor... Speaks for itself. When you think he's hit rock bottom, he always has something else in store to keep digging further down. I switch off.

I'm very happy that our @ria.ie committee on Languages, Literature, Culture and Communications is organising this seminar and workshop - 'The Climate Crisis - What Can the Arts and Humanities Do?' More information soon but registration is already open! www.ria.ie/events/the-c...

Great article by @davidjcoates.bsky.social about theatre history, queer artists and embodied knowledge in @theconversation.com, and an excellent demonstration of the social role that theatre history plays. theconversation.com/queer-theatr...

My latest post is now out. I show how Trump's attacks on science and universities are neither random nor new - they fit very precisely into the authoritarian playbook. This means we can guess what might come next and prepare - and we must! christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-pur...

When I was a child, my grand-parents – who lived through the war in France – told me: "we ate brown bread first and white bread next, but for you, it'll be other way around." I knew they were telling me something important, but I am only realising the full scale of their warning.

Never seen anything like #Milk at the #Abbey Theatre. It begins with a delicate blackout and then subtly tells everything that needs to be told - without a word. Incredible acting on the most dangerous set I’ve ever seen. A good reminder of why we need #theatre, especially amidst catastrophe.

@lemonde.fr et @franc-tireur.bsky.social: le quotidien et l'hebdomadaire qui me permettent de mieux comprendre la politique et la géopolitique d'un point de vue français, mes deux phares dans l'océan des informations et de la désinformation. Et vous, quels journaux vous lisez-vous?

Facilitating #seminars is one of the greatest joys of #teaching in higher-ed. Today, learners were reflecting on how their vision of #modernism has changed over the first half of the term, and witnessing both their self-assessment and progress was such a privilege.

Today, I rediscovered good writing days do exist. It feels like seeing the sun after 10 days of greyness in Ireland. I’m considering starting an atmospheric writing log and making it an ice-breaking (no pun intended) strategy in all new social interactions.

Oftentimes, I feel like having to go to office on Sundays to carve out research hours is a direct consequence of a capitalist academic structure and the precariousness of the ECR status, but today, I’ll write about modernist art and resistance, and it feels political more than anything else. On!

Great London #Beckett Seminar this evening with Corinna Salvadori Lonergan’s lecture on Beckett and #Dante, tracing the presence of the latter throughout Beckett’s drama particularly when love is at play.

Natalie Katsou wraps up the first panel of the #Staging #Injustice conference by asking how #AI driven data collection and processing is changing #border controls as well as the #performance of #biometric assemblage and #traceability.

Matsaseng Ralekoala reflects on the New EU #migration Pact and calls Europe to reflect on movement as a historical process intensifying with climate change. The #Staging #Injustice Symposium highlights how EU processes, procedures & laws keep neglecting the agency of refugees. @tlrhub.bsky.social

Nick Gill delivers the first paper of the Staging Injustice: Performance & Asylum Hearings Symposium at @tlrhub.bsky.social reflecting on public asylum appeals as performances constructing asylum seekers as subjects submitted to authority from the moment they entrer the premisses.

Today in the @irishtimes.com our exec member @deirdreflynn.bsky.social speaks about the challenges facing academia & what the YAI can do. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

The 3rd #Beckett Beyond #zine exhibition is now open in the Eavan Boland Library at @tcddublin.bsky.social. Congratulations to all #undergraduate researchers who produced zines. Many thanks to colleagues who support the project & spoke at the roundtable on #creative #assessment & UG research.

STAGING INJUSTICE: PERFORMANCE AND ASYLUM HEARINGS A fascinating and urgent symposium taking place at Trinity Long Room Hub @tlrhub.bsky.social this Friday 21 Feb, 3-7.30pm www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr... The event is also accessible via Zoom. Register via the link below.

Thanks to the Irish Women's Writing Network for sharing our #CFP for an open-access Special Issue of 'Humanities' on 'Celibacy in Irish Women’s Writing'. irishwomenswritingnetwork.com/news/ Get in contact if you've an idea for a submission, we'd love to collaborate with you! #modwrite #irishstudies

In this week’s TLS, I write about The University of Bliss, Julian Stannard’s dystopian campus novel. @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...