The wonderful Billy Ramsell recited from his new book *Render* in @booksupstairs.bsky.social yesterday, and talked about it with Adam Wyeth. Interesting to hear about how the role @jesstraynor.bsky.social - also pictured - played as poem-doctor to the collection's stunning funeral ballad.

Congratulations to my @ucc.ie colleague @eimearryan.bsky.social, editor @bansheepress.bsky.social, on the publication of Billy Ramsell’s new collection of poetry, Render. Masterfully launched by our other colleague, @adamhanna.bsky.social. Get it while you can: bansheepress.org/shop/p/rende...

It will be an honour to launch Billy Ramsell's superb collection *Render* in Lavit Gallery in Cork, 4 June, 6pm. Come and hear some excellent poetry. On what more distant somewheres will their tidings, their indigo gospel, their weightlessness have settled by morning? from 'Two Boys' See less

JT Welsch during the spellbinding reading from his *The Poetry of Suicide* at the book's Dublin launch the other day. Lovely to see you @kebury.bsky.social, too!

Really nice launch at O'Connell House for this fine-looking book the other day. Congratulations, Stephen! @oneillsb.bsky.social www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

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[SEM] 19.02.26 / 17h30-19h Le séminaire commun des aires irlandaises du CECILLE et de EA PRISMES, ERINC (Univ.Sorbonne Nouvelle) aura lieu en ligne: @adamhanna.bsky.social présentera son intervention: "Seamus Heaney's North Notebooks and Manuscript Drafts" Lien Zoom sur demande aux organisateurs

I had the honour of giving the address at the Senate's W. B. Yeats commemorative event, viewable at this link. Between 14-24 mins in you I talk about - among other things - Yeats as a Senator, the importance of imaginative literature, and great-rooted blossomers. www.oireachtas.ie/en/press-cen...

We're delighted to see the annual Law and Humanities roundtable is coming to Ireland for the first time (in association with the @irishhumanities.bsky.social Legal Humanities Working Group). Congratulations and best of luck to the leads, Róisín Costello and David Gurnham. CFP below!

11 days left to submit an abstract for the 2025 International Yeats Society conference, on W. B. Yeats as Dubliner. Trinity College, 30 October - 1 November. tcd.ie/english/rese...

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/... Law and Literature: The Irish Case - now in paperback! £24, so a bit easier on your library budgets

Is the legal world really too complicated for any abstraction? @dkennytcd.bsky.social argues so in his new book 'Pragmatism, Law and Literature' tinyurl.com/yc5spfh3 as reviewed for us by @adamhanna.bsky.social - Find Adam Hanna's review here: doi.org/10.1080/1752...

'Jesus, break his fall: // There - but for the clutch of luck - go we all'. I'm sorry to read Paul Durcan has died: his books had so much whimsy and fury, punk and poetry. They brought so much that was new over the threshold.

Yesterday writers, lawyers and academics met in the Abbey's Peacock Stage to discuss Sophocles' Antigone. Dialogues between Darren Murphy and Eugene McNulty; Marina Carr and Melissa Sihra; Carlo Gébler and Paul Delaney. Thanks to everyone who came along. @irishhumanities.bsky.social

The legal humanities are a global phenomenon. Read why the IHA now has an established working group in this area from our WG Co-Chair @adamhanna.bsky.social @ucc.ie www.irishhumanities.com/blog/the-leg...

I've written a short piece on Michael Longley - less an obituary than an appreciation. booksirelandmagazine.com/as-long-as-t... Pictures: Portrait by Colin Davidson in the National Gallery of Ireland; with Seamus Heaney on the Hill of Tara in 2010.