Out in February from @livunipress.bsky.social: The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature. The book started as a lockdown tweet. Delighted that it’s finally done! With Bridget English and @drreznicek.bsky.social

Thrilled to see Eva Gore-Booth biography anniversary edition now included in the @manchesterup.bsky.social trade catalogue 2026. Due in print March 2026! dhjhkxawhe8q4.cloudfront.net/manchester-u...

Happy New Year! In our new episode Dr Sparky Booker @historytcd.bsky.social shares some wonderful, instructive, insights into how we can explore gender, class, ethnicity & community through an exam of individual legal cases in a fascinating period of Irish history. open.spotify.com/episode/38Aq...

🍾Happy New Year🍾 We are slowly getting back into work, and noticed we picked up a few new followers while we were away. Hello👋 For anyone needing a summary/refresher of what we do, little video below or slightly longer version at youtu.be/dCBLhl2ZJH0

The cóta mór and its strange power to convey something of Irish culture Prof. @claireconnolly.bsky.social explores Irish romantic literature and coats as a way of thinking about these extraordinary decades of literary invention.

My friend Nels tells me this will be our wirh Edinburgh in March, will be great

I reviewed Chris Morash's excellent "Dublin: A Writer's City" for Irish Studies Review - all now published online here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/G77YU...

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A short history of mummers, straw boys and Wren Boys. From mummers to wren boys, the practice of rambling from house to house in rural Ireland lifted isolation for many communities at Christmas, writes @barryhoulihan.bsky.social @uniofgalway.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Absolutely thrilled to have this in my hands! What a joy working with Mary McGill on this & such an excellent group of contributors. Launch in Jan 2026! For more on Irish Digital Cultures: Identity, Context, Space click here: www.routledge.com/Irish-Digita... #AcademicSky #SpeirGorm

The proofs before Christmas and a rare foray into the twentieth century!

CFP: Violence: Legacies of Conflict in Ireland Comhfhios Boston Irish Studies at Boston College Feb 7, 2026, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA All proposals should be 200 - 300 words, for papers 15-20 minutes long. Please submit all proposals by January 5th, 2026. Contact [email protected]

CfP 'Intimacies in nineteenth-century Ireland' @ssnci.bsky.social annual conference in June 2026. Deadline 1 Feb 2026! For details see ssnci.org/annual-confe...

We have just added some information on accommodation options that are available for those travelling to Limerick. We hope to provide more options in the New Year. Still loads of time to get those abstracts in. The committee is looking forward to reading them.

Our friends @bairishstudies.bsky.social are now accepting single-author monographs published in 2025 on any #IrishStudies topic for the 2026 BAIS Book Prize. The BAIS PG Bursary Prize and BAIS PG Essay Prize are also accepting submissions. Full details: irishstudies.co.uk/prizes-and-f...

📣 BAIS PRIZES 2026: We are pleased to announce our Book, Essay and Bursary prizes for 2026! See the BAIS website for details on how to enter and eligibility: irishstudies.co.uk/prizes-and-f...

Before people start packing up for Christmas (I know, I know, we still have a week and a bit), a reminder that books need to be postmarked 1 January to be eligible for this year's McCaffrey Prize! #irishstudies @bairishstudies.bsky.social @iehs.bsky.social @irishhiststudies.bsky.social

Really interesting CFP for #IrishinBritain scholars here from @museumofthehome.bsky.social . museumofthehome.org.uk/our-work/res...

We are delighted to announce that we'll be hosting the SSNCI conference in Maynooth next June. Call for papers attached. Please spread far and wide!

This year’s O’Donnell Lecture at the University of Edinburgh will be given by Professor @brendankanect.bsky.social of @earlymodirish.bsky.social fame. Brendan is Visiting Leverhulme Professor in Edinburgh in 2025 and 2026.

We invite you to join us next Friday, 28th November, to celebrate the launch of Dr Claire Pierson's new book "Women's Troubles". Dr Claire Pierson (University of Liverpool) will be in conversation with Dr Emma Campbell (UU) and Mhairi Claire Lynch (QUB). www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/womens-tro...

OPPORTUNITY: Junior Research Fellowship in the Northern Ireland Peace Process

Tonight week, Friday, 21st November, please join us for the official launch of our new edited collection on the Civil War in Kerry and beyond from Four Courts Press 📅 Friday, 21st November ⏲️ 6.00pm 🏦 Kerry County Museum 🎙️ Minister Norma Foley @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social #booklaunch

‘Capitalism within the British Empire created in Ireland a society especially vulnerable to the effects of crop failure.’ Niamh Gallagher on a history of the Great Famine. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Very happy with this cover for ‘Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955’, which features a detail from Evie Hone’s stained glass window 'Four Green Fields'. This window was originally shown at the New York's World Fair in 1939, but is now found in Government Buildings on Merrion Street

We are co-hosting on 3 Dec. a conference on 'From Boundary Commission to Border Poll? A Century of the Irish Border'. This is a free event, but registration is required (by 26 Nov.). Info at: www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...

If you missed Hiram Morgan's talk on 'Anatomies of death: force famine in the Tudor conquest of Ireland', an recording is now available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hAI...

Me and @eireannmor.bsky.social have a few words on @rte.ie about small presses, the "rich forest of independent publishing," and the Dublin Small Press Fair @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social (28/29 November, Pearse St library): www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

The 2025 Seamus Heaney Lecture will be in just 🔟days, and there's just a handful of spaces left so best register now: Professor Sir Simon Schama Leanne Best 🗓️ 6:00 pm, 13 November 🧭 Yoko Ono Lennon Centre @liverpooluni.bsky.social 🎟️ FREE registration REQUIRED: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1765402248...

EFACIS Roundtable Discussion 13: Workshop on Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing - recording

We're delighted to announce that, after a very successful first year, RIISS will be hosting a further New Voices ECR Visiting Fellow in 2026. Applications are open until 5th December 2025. www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-e...

OPPORTUNITY: The Childers Professorship of Irish History, University of Cambridge

We are delighted to share our programme of seminars for Michaelmas Term 2025 🍂 👇

⚠️1 week warning⚠️ Want to pick up Cúpla Focal or learn more about the history of the Irish Language? Join our Taster/History Session as part of #LIF2025 All welcome - no Irish required! ‪ 🗓️6pm, 22 October 2025 🧭Rendall Building @liverpooluni.bsky.social 🎟️FREE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1753116200...

OPPORTUNITY: applications are open for the Keough-Naughton Library Research Award in Irish Studies

Take advantage of the Hesburgh Libraries’ outstanding Irish studies collection — including the finest collection of Irish-language printed texts in North America. Established scholars, grad students, and postdocs are encouraged to apply! See more details here: irishstudies.nd.edu/scholars/vis...

📚 Book launch 📍The Irish Secretariat, Belfast 📆 Wednesday October 1st,  5pm Panelists Paul Gillespie,  Prof Katy Hayward @katyhayward.bsky.social and Prof Michael Keating host a roundtable discussion on their new book! Book your spot:

The 2025 BAIS Essay Prize winner, written by Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social is now available to read on Irish Studies Review! doi.org/10.1080/0967...

The book is now available to order in a variety of formats. We recommend ordering direct from Methuen or via Galway's wonderful booksellers, @kennysbookshop.bsky.social or Charlie Byrne's Bookshop. Find out more about the book on our website: tinyurl.com/mwtvnmx5

So great to see this in print! A real pleasure to work on this book with @druidtheatre.bsky.social @methuendrama.bsky.social and of course with the best of co-editors of Patrick Lonergan and Máiréad Ní Chrónín.

Digitization alert! We recently digitized materials by and about Irish patriot and suffragist Maud Gonne. The materials include correspondence, photo, articles, Women's Prisoners' Defence League records, and more. Check them out: https://findingaids.bc.edu/repositories/2/resources/254/digitized

📣 📣 The CFP for IASIL 2026 is now LIVE! 📣 📣 Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU) Budapest – 6-10 July 2026 Translating Ireland The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday, November 28, 2025. #IrishStudies #Translation #IrishLiterature Full CFP: www.iasil.org/2025/09/conf... Pls share

Most read in Studia Hibernica this week: 'Theatre in Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century: the troubled 1840s' by Karina Holton Read it online: bit.ly/SH-Holton @ciarandunbarrach.bsky.social @bairishstudies.bsky.social @dublincityuni.bsky.social @irishinstitute.bsky.social @fsg-dcu.bsky.social

Join us on Thursday, 11 Sept. 2025 at 6.30pm for the launch of "James Joyce’s Legacies in Contemporary Irish Women’s Writing" (Routledge), a new monograph by Dr. Annalisa Mastronardi. The event is free but booking is essential. We hope to see you there! www.eventbrite.ie/e/book-launc...

Thanks so much to Fin of the Irish History Podcast for having me on to talk in detail about the Irish world of the Hotel Lux. You can listen here: shows.acast.com/irishhistory...

We are delighted to be co-hosting the Laurence Sterne Conference this year from 5th - 7th November 2025 at @sotauol.bsky.social🌍 Deadline for registration: 1st September Deadline for proposals: 15th August Find out more and how to register: bit.ly/SterneConference25 @lsternetrust.bsky.social

New pub: Continuity and Change in the Irish Culinary History and Culture, 1922-1973 Explore how food reflected and influenced Irish social, cultural, and economic shifts during these pivotal years. @bairishstudies.bsky.social brill.com/display/titl...

We are delighted to announce that a full programme and registration for the 35th Irish Conference of Historian is now available. Maynooth University, 12-13 September. Please share widely. www.eventbrite.com/e/35th-irish... @muahi.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @benjamin-casey.bsky.social ‪

@ssnci.bsky.social Just a month and a half to go until you can a hold of this baby! Order your copy now for the first ever dedicated book on conflict in 19c Ireland and amongst or involving "the Irish" abroad. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... #conflict #ssnci