My other half on book-signing tour for #InjuryTime @lilliputpress.bsky.social & delighted to make the washing-machine window @dubraybooks.bsky.social

📣 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 #envhist #energysky

First sighting of Scribendi in the wild! A gorgeous, gorgeous book celebrating the last forty years of Irish writing ❤️

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 @ucc.ie colleague Nuala Finnegan

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!

Congratulations @sineadgleeson.bsky.social and @louisekennedy.bsky.social and thank you @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social - great to see a big group of people celebrating Norah Hoult today in Terenure 💫

Injury Time by Kevin Smith: Engrossing and supremely witty

New from @lilliputpress.bsky.social '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...

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 @etaintannam.bsky.social @klillington.bsky.social @lilliputpress.bsky.social

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.

Just arrived. Looking forward to reading this. @lilliputpress.bsky.social

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-

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...

Magical! @mcdiarmidlucy.bsky.social

Looking forward to this even more now…

Lough Neagh and its system of peripheral waterways on course to record worst year of algal blooms to date. While rescue plans for Ireland's largest inland waterbody stall, the fallout from this pollution crisis deepens. My story in today's @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...

SCRIBENDI by STEVE PYKE 📸 We are delighted to be publishing this landmark book which features over 100 portraits and interviews with Ireland's greatest contemporary writers, captured through the lens of one of the world's most renowned photographers, Steve Pyke ✨️

Looking forward to this.

This isn't one to be missed! We will be launching Injury Time on Tuesday, 16 September at Hodges Figgis @hodgesfiggis - all welcome! 🎉 Proudly supported by the Arts Council 📚 Available to pre-order now: www.lilliputpress.ie/products/inj... ☀️

INJURY TIME by KEVIN SMITH 🍷 We are beyond excited to be publishing the latest novel from award-winning writer Kevin Smith! Injury Time is a poignant, acerbic look at a man out of sync with the world around him. By turns hilarious and incisive, Smith manages to blend satire with-

Really excited for audiences to see KONSTANTIN. It’s in Dublin Theatre Festival this October. www.eoghancarrick.com/post/konstan...

I'm now in hour 32 of my 48 hour Hunger Strike to raise support for the Sameer Project in Gaza. Recorded this video earlier when I felt a bit more clear headed! Please do share and support and donate if you can chuffed.org/project/help...

Excellent project indeed.

Hundreds marched through the streets of central Tel Aviv last night carrying sacks of flour and photos of Palestinian children in Gaza in a protest organized by Standing Together. Video courtesy of @standing-together.bsky.social and @alonlee.bsky.social

News of the World and An Aran Keening by Andrew McNeillie: Joy and meaning in living and dreaming

Mary Robinson: Gaza situation is ‘unconscionable’ and ceasefire is ‘an utter urgency’

People in Gaza are ‘walking corpses’, says Unrwa, as agency says it has 6,000 aid trucks ready to enter – Middle East crisis live

Couldn’t agree more @irishtimes.com @tcddublin.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS – The International Yeats Society is still accepting submissions for its upcoming 2025 conference in Dublin. For full details and submission guidelines, please visit our website: internationalyeatssociety.org/conferences/...

We were honoured to host the 46th International #TSEliot Society Conference this July — the first time the event was held in Ireland! Scholars gathered to explore Eliot’s legacy, including his links to Ireland, poetry, performance & AI. Learn more here: www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr... #TSEliot

Excellent news.

Really looking forward to this!

We're Hiring: The National Museum of Ireland is seeking a Curator of Contemporary Irish History 🕔 Deadline: Friday, 18 July 2025 at 17:00 📄 Learn more & apply: www.museum.ie/en-IE/About/... #JobFairy #museumjobs

🎼 The Expansive Canvas is a 3-day international conference celebrating music by women composers of the long 19th century, and it’s inviting creative responses from beyond the concert hall. 📽️ Learn more in this short explainer: youtu.be/BSSRXfW_Rx0 @nicoleegrimes.bsky.social @sminews1.bsky.social

Worldwide interest expected as 19th-century Irish census records recovered and put online

So the ‘greasy till’ triumphs after all.

Fintan O’Toole: Official documents are quietly disappearing from departmental websites. Why?

Reminder: the deadline for submissions is this Monday, June 16th.

Funded PhD studentship of €25,000/year for 4 years plus fees available @tcddublin.bsky.social to work with me on Irish women's life writing from the long 18th century! Please spread the word! @ecfjournal.bsky.social @cecs-york.bsky.social @clhlwr.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social

Mark O'Connell: ‘I walked through the fire all by myself’. This is barbarism

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.

Join us on May 22nd for a @tricondublin.bsky.social seminar marking the 10th Anniversary of the Marriage Equality Referendum in the @tlrhub.bsky.social. Key reflections by Katherine Zappone & comments by Profs @dkennytcd.bsky.social & @aileenkavanagh.bsky.social.

How does language shape how we think? 💭 Our latest window display takes inspiration from George Orwell's '1984'. #HubMatters #Orwell1984

“Whenever a writer is still being read, it means that they are still alive.”

Assistant Professorship in Nineteenth-Century European History- Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMS063/a...