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Professor of English, Trinity College Dublin
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Irish Literary Times
22 days ago
IWC - We Are Hiring: Programme Administrator
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We Are Hiring: Programme Administrator - Irish Writers Centre
Programme Administrator for the Irish Writers Centre 15 January 2026 ABOUT THE ROLE JOB TITLE: Programme Administrator CONTRACT: Full time, permanent, with six-month probation period. SALARY: €31...
https://irishwriterscentre.ie/we-are-hiring-programme-administrator/?utm_source=Main+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=61d81b1a23-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_11_7_2023_16_36_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_615d15ae04-61d81b1a23-230597373&mc_cid=61d81b1a23&mc_eid=d52351cc05
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John Hughes
about 1 month ago
Little Walter's influence on Derek Mahon has been strangely overlooked.
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Little Walter - Everything's Gonna Be Alright [1959]
YouTube video by Classic Mood Experience
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The Lilliput Press
about 1 month ago
‘Both illuminating and wise … The work of a great writer with a deep concern for humanity.’ Eoghan Smith, The Irish Examiner Delighted to see ESCAPE FROM THE ANTHILL by the singular Hubert Butler reviewed in the Examiner over the weekend 💫 Butler is Ireland’s answer to George Orwell, and his -
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Krzysztof Rowiński
about 2 months ago
My book on failure will be out in April! In Failure Narratives Beyond Redemption, I look at how we talk about failure in public discourse, as well as across film, literature, and performance.
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John Self
2 months ago
My last commission of the year just disappeared with a pop, so to console myself I'm rereading this. Aside from anything else, this is the best cover from all Amis's novels when they rejacketed them in a series look about 20 years ago. It's just perfect.
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Patrick Freyne
3 months ago
I've written a novel, Experts in a Dying Field. It's out on Penguin Sandycove in June. It's about about a band and a tragedy & art for art's sake & aging & loss & community & Dublin. There's a fox in it. & sheet music. The beautiful cover's by Jack Smyth. You can preorder:
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Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
2 months ago
#TNAConnections
Have you had a chance to explore our newest Gold Seam, Parchment Conquest (1171–1307)? 150 years ago Henry Savage Sweetman published the first of five volumes that would become foundational to the study of medieval Ireland.
virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/C...
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Gerard Beirne
3 months ago
Book of the Year Eoin at his best—sentence by sentence. Courageous, stark, & uncompromising. Taking a true story, he nevertheless creates—like all great writers—his own unique version of that world, complete with its own language, which reveals the truth more clearly than reality can reveal itself.
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Shauns_Aviation🇮🇪✈️
3 months ago
I back this.
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John Self
3 months ago
“Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.” Me on Joyce Cary's great trilogy - Herself Surprised, To Be a Pilgrim and The Horse's Mouth - where we observe the difference between how we see ourselves and how others see us:
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The swindler, the sex pest and the vamp — a great trilogy
In his First Trilogy, published between 1941 and 1944, Joyce Cary produced three novels touched by genius
https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/herself-surprised-be-pilgrim-horses-mouth-joyce-cary-review-sjdftzq5x
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Trinity Long Room Hub
3 months ago
Our latest window display to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the arrival of the Pollard Collection of Children’s Books to
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Library. And...the full-day symposium kicking off now
@tlrhub.bsky.social
Find out more about the Pollard Collection here:
bit.ly/449AL54
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Rónán Hession
3 months ago
Oh hey! Thanks to Kevin Smith for a nice mention of the "ticklish deadpan" in Ghost Mountain in today's
@irishtimes.com
Hat tip
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🙏
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Author Kevin Smith: ‘Whenever I leave the North I do feel a pull – a hankering for that coded familiarity’
The writer on his latest novel, Injury Time; his favourite funny writers; and the book that always makes him cry
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2025/10/11/author-kevin-smith-whenever-i-leave-the-north-i-do-feel-a-pull-a-hankering-for-that-coded-familiarity/
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Other half in IT….
3 months ago
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Stephen O'Neill
4 months ago
very grateful for this kind endorsement for 'Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955' by
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@qubhistory.bsky.social
Prof Fearghal McGarry
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Deirdre Flynn
4 months ago
📣 Job Vacancy 📣 Teaching Fellow in English Literature (0.5 FTE, Fixed Term – Spring Semester 2026) Mary Immaculate College, Limerick The appointee will have expertise in contemporary English Literature. Full details:
www.mic.ul.ie/about-mic/va...
Closing date: 2pm on Tuesday, 18 November 2025
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Vacancies | Mary Immaculate College
Mary Immaculate College has a wide range of academic and professional services job opportunities on an ongoing basis. Learn more about our vacancies.
https://www.mic.ul.ie/about-mic/vacancies
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The Lilliput Press
4 months ago
It is the booksellers who put books into the hands of readers, who host events and signings, who champion Irish writers. Nothing we do would be possible without them. Support your local bookshops this week - ceannaigh go háitiúil, ceannaigh earraí Éireannacha ❤️
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New Irish Fiction: Injury Time by Kevin Smith
We're celebrating Irish Book Week (which runs 18th - 25th October) with a series of choice extracts from outstanding new Irish titles...
https://www.rte.ie/culture/2025/1021/1534925-new-irish-fiction-injury-time-by-kevin-smith/
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Rónán Hession
4 months ago
A short clip from Leonard and Hungry Paul for those who want a quick peek before tomorrow night.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
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BBC One - Leonard and Hungry Paul, Series 1, Episode 1, "They don't give this sash to just anybody"
Fire warden Shelley pulls rank on Leonard when a fire alarm goes off in the office.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0m8rh07
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Marvellous cast of characters in Kevin Smith’s Injury Time romp through a mid-life crisis in Belfast and Dublin
Middle age can be a trying time, but be grateful you’re not going through the trials foistered upon Fenton Conville around his 50th birthday. His Belfast tanning salons business had being booming and ...
https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/book-reviews/marvellous-cast-of-characters-in-kevin-smiths-injury-time-romp-through-a-mid-life-crisis-in-belfast-and-dublin/a633171776.html
4 months ago
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The Lilliput Press
4 months ago
DRUID THEATRE: FIFTY YEARS by PATRICK LONERGAN 🎭 We are delighted to be publishing this fully-illustrated and authorised history of the iconic institution that is Druid Theatre, written by Patrick Lonergan with a foreword from Fintan O'Toole.
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Ciaran O'Neill
4 months 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 Guardian
4 months ago
Crossword editor’s desk: clues for Michael Stipe and a life in puzzles
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Crossword editor’s desk: clues for Michael Stipe and a life in puzzles
REM’s Michael Stipe declared it an honour to feature in a puzzle; we continue to do those honours
https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/crossword-blog/2025/oct/10/crossword-editors-desk-clues-michael-stipe-life-puzzles?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1760141812
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The Journal
4 months ago
A new museum dedicated to the life of Anglo-Irish Antarctic Explorer Ernest Shackleton has opened in his native Kildare. Among the features at the Shackleton Experience is the actual cabin in which he died in 1922.
http://jrnl.ie/6840929
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New museum dedicated to Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton opens in Co Kildare
The museum dedicated to Shackleton’s adventures is located in Athy Town Hall.
http://jrnl.ie/6840929
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Irish Literary Times
4 months ago
The Poems of Seamus Heaney review – collected works reveal his colossal achievement
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
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The Poems of Seamus Heaney review – collected works reveal his colossal achievement
The complete works, including previously unpublished poems and expert notes, are brought together in one volume for the first time
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/09/the-poems-of-seamus-heaney-review-collected-works-reveal-his-colossal-achievement?CMP=share_btn_url
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Irish Literary Times
5 months ago
"The books seen here are some of the many which will be housed in our new Seamus Heaney Poetry Library at No. 11 Parnell Square."
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The Lilliput Press
5 months ago
'With a marvellous cast of characters and even an ending that nods at James Joyce's 'The Dead', it's hard to know what more could be asked of this winning piece of work.' - Pat Carthy, Sunday Independent INJURY TIME by Kevin Smith is out NOW! It's a brilliant novel-
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John Self
5 months ago
“Some writers have no ear for the music.” I interviewed Ian McEwan for the
@irishtimes.com
about his new novel, about whether “early school leavers make bad decisions” … and what he didn’t like about his friend Martin Amis’s writing. In print now, online soon.
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The Lilliput Press
5 months ago
Fun day in the sun with Kevin Smith signing copies of his amazing novel INJURY TIME all over Dublin! Signed copies are now available at: 📕
@booksupstairs.bsky.social
📘 Dubray Books Mary St 📗 Hodges Figgis Big ups to the booksellers for their support ✨️
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Jane Casey
5 months ago
Incredibly sad. A man with a most beautiful mind - a true intellectual in the best sense of the word.
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The Guardian
5 months ago
The Irish language is a joy not a burden: in what other tongue is a penis a wild carrot? | Una Mullally
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The Irish language is a joy not a burden: in what other tongue is a penis a wild carrot? | Una Mullally
Record numbers of pupils are seeking opt-outs from compulsory learning. This is misguided – Irish is a portal to a world of imagination, says journalist Una Mullally
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/03/the-irish-language-is-a-joy-not-a-burden-in-what-other-tongue-is-a-penis-a-wild-carrot?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1759464954
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October Books of the Month- smart choices from
@dubraybooks.bsky.social
including
#InjuryTime
from Kevin Smith
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Congratulations Gareth, look forward to reading
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My other half on book-signing tour for
#InjuryTime
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& delighted to make the washing-machine window
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Katja Bruisch
5 months ago
📣 It's publication day! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 is out with
@universitypress.cambridge.org
! My book tells the forgotten history of peat in the context of Russia’s industrialization & electrification and points to the lingering presence of past extraction 1/5
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The Lilliput Press
5 months ago
First sighting of Scribendi in the wild! A gorgeous, gorgeous book celebrating the last forty years of Irish writing ❤️
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Claire Connolly
5 months ago
Wonderful few days in Mexico City hosted by UNAM/La Cátedra Extraordinaria Eavan Boland-Anne Enright de Estudios Irlandeses - thanks to Hannah McCarthy for this great write up also featuring my
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colleague Nuala Finnegan
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Darryl Jones
5 months ago
We have a cover! ‘For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James’ will be published by Oxford University Press on 10 September 2026. Set your watches, mark your calendars, and spread the word!
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Amanda Bell
5 months ago
Congratulations
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and
@louisekennedy.bsky.social
and thank you
@dubcitycouncil.bsky.social
- great to see a big group of people celebrating Norah Hoult today in Terenure 💫
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The Irish Times
5 months ago
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Injury Time by Kevin Smith: Engrossing and supremely witty
The protagonist, a marvellous creation, is embedded in the affluent world of north Co Down – a Protestant world of generational wealth and no little ostentation
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2025/09/20/injury-time-by-kevin-smith-engrossing-and-supremely-witty/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
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The Irish Times
5 months ago
Injury Time by Kevin Smith: Engrossing and supremely witty
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The protagonist, a marvellous creation, is embedded in the affluent world of north Co Down – a Protestant world of generational wealth and no little ostentation
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2025/09/20/injury-time-by-kevin-smith-engrossing-and-supremely-witty/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
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Jellybooks Ltd
5 months ago
New from
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'Injury Time' by Kevin Smith This novel is a poignant, acerbic look at a man out of sync with the world around him. available to buy
@omahonysbooks.bsky.social
📖 sample to look inside and share
www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...
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Sample of "Injury Time" by Kevin Smith
Peek inside this book and discover another great read.
https://www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader/excerpts/injury-time_9781843519508-ex/L3Leb
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Fabulous launch last night for Kevin Smith’s
#InjuryTime
- now at number 1
@hodgesfiggis.bsky.social
- thanks to everyone for coming
@tlrhub.bsky.social
@profdarryljones.bsky.social
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Joel Herman
5 months ago
Excited to release the conference programme for 'Ireland and the American Revolution: 250th Anniversary Perspectives'. There are only a few tickets left, so if you would like to attend I would suggest getting one as soon as possible. Attendance is free but booking is essential.
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John Hughes
5 months ago
Just arrived. Looking forward to reading this.
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The Lilliput Press
5 months ago
Happy publication week to this gem of a book, INJURY TIME by KEVIN SMITH 🍷🎉 Injury Time is the poignant, acerbic and at times hilarious story of Fenton Conville; businessman, upper-class, lapsed-Protestant. He coasts through life with his mates and his money in a sleepy village at the edge of-
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Rónán Hession
5 months ago
My
@irishtimes.com
fiction in translation column is now online for subscribers. Fiction from Romania, Italy, Haiti, China and Gaza. Fiction in translation: Yang Hao an exciting new voice in Chinese – and Irish – literature
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Fiction in translation: Yang Hao an exciting new voice in Chinese – and Irish – literature
In Farthest Seas; Blurred; Cécé; Diablo’s Boys; and Voices of Resistance: Diaries of Genocide reviewed
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2025/09/14/fiction-in-translation-yang-hao-an-exciting-new-voice-in-chinese-and-irish-literature/
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Magical!
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