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.