Thanks to all who joined us for the recent launch of Gaelic Wexford 1400-1660 at the Spiegeltent, Wexford. Support from Wexford Historical Society and @notredame.bsky.social, Dublin. Thanks Dominda for the tunes, Stephen Rea for the reading and hurling legend Liam Griffin for launching. 📚 Out now

♀️Last week we celebrated the launch of Thirty Years of Change Through Women’s Eyes: Ireland, 1993–2023 by Íde B. O’Carroll at the @nlireland.bsky.social The final book in a trilogy by the author under our Attic Press imprint was launched by Gráinne Healy. 📸 Maxwell Photography

Celebrating 100 years of books from Cork University Press. From early academic research to bestselling atlases, @marjbrennan.bsky.social takes us through the highlights in the @irishexaminer.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

Hollywood meets hurling? Seán Crosson recounts the origins of his award-winning book Gaelic Games on Film (2019) which inspired TG4’s new documentary Iománaíocht Hollywood: Cluichí Gaelacha ar Scannán/Hollywood Hurling www.thejournal.ie/hollywood-ga...

Thanks to everyone who joined us last night for the launch of Irish Dressers and Delph by Meredith Chesson. Our launch speaker Professor Diarmuid Ó Giolláin spoke beautifully about the way communities and individuals make homes out of houses. Out now: www.corkuniversitypress.com/978178205067...

We love seeing our authors with their books! Here’s Kevin Whelan outside University of Notre Dame, Dublin with and advance copy of Gaelic Wexford 1400–1660: Culture, Landscape, Settlement. This new book, co-authored with Conchubhar Ó Crualaoich, explores the rich heritage of The Model County.

"...the definitive account of the bodhrán" Delighted to see this thoroughly engaged review of Beating Time from Tristan Rosenstock in @journalofmusic.bsky.social this week journalofmusic.com/book-reviews...

Thanks to everyone who joined our Centenary Symposium! It was a joy to celebrate 100 years of publishing. We're continuing the celebration with 25% off all print books until 2 Oct—use code CUP100YEARS at checkout. (1/2)

Brilliantly inspiring presenters for today's symposium in Uni College Cork, for example Prof Claire Connolly MRIA, Feargal Keane & Eoin Reardon who brought some of his vernacular-inspired furniture: celebrating 100 yrs of publishing by Cork University Press @ucc.ie @ucclibrary.bsky.social @ria.ie

Our Symposium is tomorrow – we can’t wait to see you! 📘 Session 4 features Linda Connolly on Attic Press, Thomas McCarthy on Irish Review, Fergal Keane on the Atlas Series + a new series announcement 📝 a few tickets remaining 🔗 Registration & Full programme: bit.ly/CUPSymposium

Fergal Keane reflects on the culture that shaped him in today’s @irishexaminer.bsky.social ahead of our symposium Cork University Press and Irish Intellectual Life this week: www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

Waitlist still open for our Symposium next week! 📘 Session 3 features Heather Laird on Daniel Corkery, Virginia Teehan on The Collegiate Chapel, Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh on Ogam Stones at UCC Margaret Lantry on The College 🔗 Full programme: bit.ly/CUPSymposium

Waitlist now open for our Symposium next week 📘 Session 2 features: Claire Connolly on Irish Women’s Writing, Michelle McKeown on Irish Flora, Ciara Chambers on Gaelic Games on Film, Eoin Reardon on Irish Furniture 🔗Full programme: bit.ly/CUPSymposium

Looking forward to seeing you at our Symposium next week. bit.ly/CUPSymposium 📘 Session 1: Paul McSweeney on Urban Milk Supply. Síle Ní Mhurchú on Dánta Gráda. Iarla Ó Lionáird on Irish Music. Cormac Ó Gráda on Cork’s Economic History Other session details to follow

Tá ríméad orainn go léir ag Cló Ollscoile Chorcaí go bhfuil Glór ón Sceilg ainmnithe do Ghradam Uí Shúilleabháin ag Gradaim Foilsitheoireachta an Oireachtais. Tréaslaími le heagarthóirí an leabhair, Mary Shine Thompson agus Máirín Nic Eoin. @forasnagaeilge.bsky.social @loveleabhargaeilge.bsky.social

Just received the penultimate proofs for our new book with @corkup.bsky.social and I have to say it looks great! Really looking forward to unleashing it into an unsuspecting world :-) www.corkuniversitypress.com/978178205066...

Celebrate 100 years of Cork University Press, Ireland’s oldest university press Join us Thu 11 Sept in UCC’s Dora Allman Room for a symposium on landmark works, from Dánta Grádha to the award-winning Atlas Series, (plus an evening reception.) Free & open to all www.eventbrite.com/e/cork-unive...

UCC Library is recruiting a Head of Special Collections & Archives. Lead the development, digitisation, and promotion of our rare books, manuscripts & archives. Apply by 12pm, 19 Aug: www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc...

🌊Thanks to everyone who joined us for today's sold out event @wcorklitfest.bsky.social on The Lived Experience of Ireland’s Coast: Perspectives From The Coastal Atlas of Ireland. We hope everyone enjoyed the lively discussion and left with fresh considerations on how we engage with our coastlines.

🎵 The history of the bodhrán might surprise you. Fintan Vallely's piece in today's Irish Times tells the story of the Irish frame drum. Learn more in Beating Time: The story of the Irish bodhrán. Out now 📚. www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi...

The Lived Experience of Ireland’s Coast 📍 @wcorklitfest.bsky.social | 15 July 2025 Join Prof. Robert Devoy & panel to explore Ireland’s coastal identity via The Coastal Atlas of Ireland. 🎟️ Book: westcorkmusic.ie/events/2025/the-coastal-atlas-of-ireland #WestCorkLiteraryFestival

📚 Last night we celebrated the launch of Beating Time: The Story of the Irish Bodhrán by Fintan Vallely. Huge thanks to @nmireland.bsky.social for hosting us in their majestic rotunda, to Kevin Conieff for launching and to everyone who joined us 🎶 🔗 www.corkuniversitypress.com/978178205046...

Read an extract from The Birds of County Donegal in @irishexaminer.bsky.social highlighting factors affecting bird populations in the county and ways to conserve these rich and varied communities www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou... Illustration: @robertvaughani.bsky.social

Anocht ar Fios Feasa! Cloisimid faoi chóisir bhreithlae Gréasán Gaeilge na hEarnála Poiblí. Beidh Fintan Valley linn scéal na mbodhrán a roinnt linn agus an Dr Liz Coleman ag labhairt faoi 'The Air We Share' #FiosFeasa @corkup.bsky.social @acadamh.onag @galwaycitycouncil.bsky.social

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The Birds of County Donegal by Ralph Sheppard will be launched by Eric Dempsey today as part of Le Chéile don Dúlra (Together for Nature) a festival of events in the beautiful surroundings of Glenveagh National Park to celebrate #biodiversityweek2025.

A lovely obituary for Dr Elizabeth Wincott Heckett appeared in the Sunday Independent this weekend. A leading textile historian and archaeologist, she was also a valued Cork University Press author. 🔗 www.independent.ie/irish-news/o...

Book Prize: The winner is Amanda Hall for her monograph 'Strained Peace: Northern Ireland from Good Friday to Brexit' @livunipress.bsky.social Highly Commended is Brian Griffin’s Crime and the Criminal Classes in Ireland, 1870-1920 @corkup.bsky.social

We’re excited to let you about "The Wexford Landscape Trilogy" event a special evening honouring Billy Colfer. 📅 Thurs 30 May, 6pm 📍 Murphy’s Barn, Wexford With Kevin Whelan, John Banville, Eoin Colfer & Helen Corish-Wylde. Music, poetry & song. Free – RSVP: [email protected]

Yesterday we celebrated the launch of Ireland and Britain in the Age of Bede: The Jennifer O’Reilly memorial lectures 2017–2024 edited by Máirín MacCarron and Tom O'Reilly. www.corkuniversitypress.com/978178205047...

We are deeply saddened to learn about the death of Emeritus Professor of History, Tom Dunne formerly of the School of History, UCC. A few weeks ago, Tom delivered an address on the history of the Press at our Through the Years exhibition launch in UCC Library...

We are sorry to hear of the death of Tom Dunne, professor emeritus of history at UCC and formerly a director of Cork University Press. Details of funeral arrangements are at rip.ie/death-notice...

My own ( incomplete) list of Irish book accounts well worth a follow. If I've left you out, please let me know and will add. Publishers, bookshops and book people. #speirgorm go.bsky.app/R7MFQ1f

🌄 Tabhair cluas le héisteacht leis an eagrán speisialta seo den chlár An Saol ó Dheas, a taifeadadh i gCOC nuair a seoladh an leabhar Glór ón Sceilg: Scríbhinní le Mícheál Ua Ciarmhaic a d'fhoilsigh Cló Ollscoile Chorcaí agus Bailiúchán Mhíchíl Uí Chiarmhaic, Leabharlann COC. shorturl.at/Hgbtl

On behalf of my co-editors Katherine Ebury & John Greaney, our fantastic contributors, and @corkup.bsky.social, I'm also thrilled that "Flann O'Brien & the Nonhuman: Environments, Animals, Machines" has been shortlisted for the 2023-4 IFOBS Best Book Prize www.corkuniversitypress.com/978178205001...

We are deeply saddened to hear about the death of Elizabeth Wincott Heckett - a leading scholar on the archaeological textiles of Ireland. She will be dearly missed by @ucc.ie colleagues & the wider academic & heritage community. Cork University Press is proud to have published her life's work.

Congratulations to Cork University Press on its 100th anniversary (founded in 1925 by Myles na Gopaleen's bête noire Alfred O'Rahilly!) It's been a true pleasure to publish our 5 Flann O'Brien edited volumes with @corkup.bsky.social Here's to the next 100! www.corkuniversitypress.com/search-resul...

Happy 100th anniversary (wow!) to @corkup.bsky.social! A giant on the Irish Studies landscape and an absolute pleasure of a publisher to work with 😀 www.corkuniversitypress.com/978178205495...

Fintan Vallely joined Aoife McCormack on @rte.ie @therollingwave.bsky.social to discuss the 3rd edition of The Companion to Irish Traditional Music and share some favourite tunes. Listen back here: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Heartiest congratulations to Tom Spalding on the launch of his new book, Designed for Life: Architecture and design in Cork city, 1900-90, published by the brilliant @corkup.bsky.social. Wonderful words from Tom, Sinéad Neville, Richard Butler, and Lord Mayor of Cork, Cllr Dan Boyle at City Hall.

"formidable" "illuminating" "compelling" "equal parts ambitious and exciting" I'm delighted by Jessie Burnette's attentive, insightful review of "Flann O'Brien and the Nonhuman"! 🙏 @jessiepb.bsky.social @corkup.bsky.social @theparishreview.bsky.social 🔗 parishreview.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...

In today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social Cork's 20th century architecture and design is celebrated in an engrossing new work. Read about Tom Spalding's new book, Designed for Life: Architecture and Design in Cork city, 1900-90. www.irishexaminer.com/property/res...

A fantastic review! Congratulations to editors Katherine Ebury, Paul Fagan and John Greaney!

We had a great day exhibiting at the @sofeir.bsky.social @ucc.ie conference on Ireland and Transnational Solidarities. Thanks to everyone who dropped by to say hello, discuss new research ideas and buy a book! 📚 👋🏻

Behind the scenes of our upcoming exhibition! Celebrating 100 years of Cork University Press! Our exhibition showcases its rich history, key publications & milestone achievements. Launch: 27 March, 5pm, Boole Library. Special guests: Tom Dunne & Minister Patrick O’Donovan. #CorkUniversityPress #UCC

Really nice to see the birthday party decorations on the library on my way in this morning! @corkup.bsky.social Celebrating 100 Years of Publishing Excellence @ucclibrary.bsky.social

A sneak peek at our upcoming exhibition at @ucclibrary.bsky.social Watch this space…

Finola O'Kane's 'Dublin's sugar landscapes' speaks this Thursday (6 March) @glasnevincemetery.bsky.social O'Kane #skyhistorian of design & architecture from @ucdengarch.bsky.social published by @corkup.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social with @ciaranon.bsky.social @historytcd.bsky.social #dublin

Agus Seachtain na Gaeilge á ceiliúradh againn, táimid ag súil go mór le seoladh an leabhair Glór ón Sceilg: Scríbhinní le Mícheál Ua Ciarmhaic i Leabharlann Choláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh amárach. (1 / 4)

Last week, we launched Textiles of Ireland: Archaeology, Craft, Art by Elizabeth Wincott Heckett, (ed. Mary Ann Williams) at Hodges Figgis, Dublin We enjoyed an insightful address by Rachel Phelan A-ICRI. Thanks to all who joined us! 💛 www.corkuniversitypress.com/978178205571...