€2.79 for a a tube of fruit pastilles! @dublinairport.bsky.social bonkers

#earlymodern delighted that this is now out it has been a privilege to work with such fine scholars and a tribute to Betty Hageman who commissioned the volume

I’m sure this is a decent book, but this kind of thing actually makes me feel a bit demented - 3 pages on women of which 1.5 are pictures of annunciations…just off to grind my teeth for a bit. Back later

I'm not a big letter signer, but this one is 🎯 in my opinion. I naively hoped that bringing SFI together with the IRC would open *more* opportunities for curiosity-driven research, and *reduce* the obsession with short-term commercial impact. openletter.earth/concern-abou...

Loved this - in Borough Yards. I might have to change my bsky handle from rhetorician to tropewalker!

Another random question @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social and other em food people. Anything you can think of written about the olio or olla podrida?

#earlymodern book question. Current project covers a lot of material (ms, print) and where there is an edition I quote from that. Problem is this then leads to a mix of modern and old spelling in quotations. Increasingly practice for em women is to modernise everything 1/2

This is hilarious @racheljwillie.bsky.social I am reminded of a dear colleague who ran away from the SRS accommodation in Liverpool hope because the bed was torturing her 🤣

We took a pool on this in the count centre (look it’s a long day). Congratulations to Donal who was one vote off

As troublesome as he is handsome..

Having a fan girl moment over Ali Smith winning the Dublin literary award and getting to see her in conversation tomorrow @ilfdublin.bsky.social

Final spaces available for our ‘Locating Loss: histories of infertility in landscapes and spaces’ conference next week @unioflimerick.bsky.social - 27 May. Free, all welcome (booking required) - we have a wonderful line-up of speakers on the day - www.irishhumanities.ie/news-events/...

The parts of a book: 7 years, 7 chapters. About another 5000 words to write and then cutting, editing, rewriting.

Farage seems to be unaware that two MPs were killed when he says he is the most attacked politician of modern times

After what seems like a long run of competent but unmemorable books I am now simultaneously reading two brilliant ones: Ben Lerner’s Transcription and Danielle McLaughlin’s Rituals. One is my “upstairs” book and the other my “downstairs” book.

I want to say congrats to my BA dissertation students who submitted today: they were an absolute pleasure to work with. Hard working, smart, dedicated, inventive. It was a privilege to learn with and from them @artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social

I have reached a dangerous point in this book project; the one where every problem apparently has a stationery-based solution

A dozen female Palestinians are working to save and preserve medieval and early modern manuscripts 📕 from the Al-Omari mosque’s library. Hang this picture in the Louvre (and the Met). www.newarab.com/features/ins...

#CFP for #earlymodern folks! @hannah-historian.bsky.social and I are putting together a special edition of the Journal of Epistolary Studies on "Letters as Paratexts in the Early Modern World"!

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m... Very sad to hear this news - I learned a lot from her column and found lots of wonderful new poems through her readings

A lovely spring picture from the banks of the royal canal, Dublin, for this May morning

Did anyone else watch Top Cat growing up? Take a look at this video, 'top cat cartoon' share.google/6pd8tmftBPiD...

I am a profligate user of the em dash. Will everyone think I am using AI? I absolutely am not!

I love Herbert’s poems so much: ‘Now I am here, what thou wilt do with me/None of my books will show./ I reade, and sigh, and wish I were a tree;/ For sure then I should grow/ To fruit or shade: at least some bird would trust/Her houshold to me, and I should be just’ . ‘Affliction I’

Even the dog didn’t want the Fianna Fáil leaflet #dublincentral #byeelection2026

Would anyone have a copy of Mark Robson’s essay on Hester Pulter in English Manuscript Studies 9? Ordered it up in BL but apparently I needed two days’ notice…am only in London for the day

Begging folks with open ended academic jobs not to forget there’s a whole underclass of permanently casualised academics who’ve been facing redundancy as standard for years. 12+ in my case. I get it’s awful facing redundancy ofc! Just…this isn’t unprecedented for us. It’s the norm.

I'm pleased to announce I'm a founding co-editor of the new @manchesterup.bsky.social book series, Radical Histories. Do let me know if you have a proposal for a book that fits our inclusive remit on radical histories. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/radic...

Here’s a little (mostly Catholic/jesuit) booklist in a 1670 copy of Crashaw

Fascinating Mayflower hero was secretly sold into slavery, hidden files reveal www.thetimes.com/article/1306...

Would any of you wise people know of a medical/midwifery text from #earlymodern period that mentions head massage for infants? Or an ancient text reprinted?

www.theguardian.com/education/ng... The reality of international student recruitment- immoral doesn’t even start to describe it

QS rankings - I know I know - but Ireland has 5 English departments in the top 100 (one in top 25, another in top 50) alongside universities like Edinburgh, Penn, Duke, McGill, ANU etc. Trinity, UCD, UCC, Queen’s, U Galway. Two in top 100 for arts and humanities. 1/2

The SRS invites applications for its Postdoctoral Fellowships, ŵ a stipend worth £15,000. SRS Fellows can hold jobs alongside their fellowship provided they do not take up more than the equivalent of 3 days a week over the course of the academic year. Apply by 30 April rensoc.org.uk/apply/postdo...

This is infuriating; like no one has been reading Mary Lavin until now, teaching her, writing in her, or that @ucddublin.bsky.social doesn’t have a centre of creative writing that bears her name; and he can’t actually really bring himself to say that she’s any good app.the-tls.com/216727/conte...

I have been meaning to do this for years; this is based on Patricia Crawford’s list of published books by women in Mary Prior’s 1985 collection. Blue line is first editions, orange is all editions. Years are in 5 year intervals.

Dear #scottishpaleography people, I greet you with another word which stumps me entirely. I would be so very grateful for any assistance 🙏. My reading of the line is: ‘Each tyrant of thy name did(?) or named is (?) from(?) blingsto..? From a verse on the death of Cromwell. #earlymodernpaleography

At ANU to give a paper @englishanu.bsky.social and enjoyed walking round campus, the smell of eucalyptus and my visit to the National Gallery of Australia

Definitely here for this kind of manicule

Any #EarlyModern folks out there who could recommend printed legal materials from England in the early 1630s, especially linked to forest law? I have a student who wants to work on this area for an undergraduate dissertation, & the go-to series I know for medieval legal sources aren't helping much.

You have to love an early modern graphic novel; from Quarles, Divine Poems (1634) in the Emmerson collection @statelibraryvic.bsky.social

#earlymodern has anyone come across copies of Quarles poems in manuscript miscellanies? Nothing on CELM

If you’re in Melbourne at the end of the month I’m doing a lecture www.slv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/202...

Excellent piece

I’ve been thinking a lot about elegy lately and its capacity for helping to think through climate crisis, habitat loss etc. And there’s interesting work on relationships between endangered habitats and endangered languages. Does anyone know of Irish language poetry in the form of eco elegy?

Congratulations to the editors on what is going to be an amazing journal

I imagine Galway is simply be first to fall University of Galway plans to end and replace arts course amid fall-off in interest www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

Honoured and delighted to be giving this year’s Foxcroft lecture @statelibraryvic.bsky.social - livestream also available www.slv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/202...

Should say that you can complete this whether you have experience of this or not. #speirgorm