‘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...

I'm told this will be out in early to mid December. Please forgive coming episodes of shameless self-promotion and make a note of launch dates in your diaries! UCC 19 February Boston College 11 March NYU Glucksman House 12 March Royal Irish Academy 25 March www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...

The K-SAA is excited to share about an exciting digital event celebrating the publication of Volume IV of the Johns Hopkins University Press edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetry! Please find more info on the #KSAABlog: www.k-saa.org/blog/jhu4-ev...

Call for Papers: 'Regional Perspectives, Planetary Reach. Themes, Genres, Forms of Narration in Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction', 28-29 May 2026, Università di Napoli L'Orientale. Deadline for proposals: 10 January 2026. sites.google.com/view/irsconf...

Global Irish Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship at Notre Dame University. This is open exclusively to scholars of any nationality with a PhD from institutions outside the US, UK, Canada, and Ireland. Scholars working in any area of Irish Studies are encouraged to apply. apply.interfolio.com/176805

Yesterday, NUI proudly conferred honorary degrees on six outstanding individuals who have made exceptional contributions across science, literature, education, the arts, public life, and history; Emer Cooke, Claire Keegan, Maurice Manning, Aibhlín McCrann, Patricia O'Donovan and Robert Savage 🎓

🚨 Job alert 🚨 NorseMap is recruiting for a new team member: a 3-year postdoctoral researcher with a background in Politics OR Old Norse Viking Studies to lead the 'Politics & Identity' strand of the project. Come and work with us at UCC! my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru...

Feels important : Ann Rigney's new book Remembering Hope: The Cultural Afterlife of Protest has just been published #OA by @oxfordacademic.bsky.social 'It became my goal to understand how hope becomes transfer- able through the stories told about it.' fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...

I'm thrilled to see that the special issue of ECS, "Eighteenth-Century Coasts," is finally out today! Check out my essay on coral, and many other fantastic contributions: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889

The special issue of Eighteenth Century Studies on Coasts is now out - glad to be part of it with some thoughts about coasts and gardens in c18 Ireland #BlueHumanities #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies 🌊 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889

Thanks! Here is a flyer with 30% off of this volume and all the others.

Just arrived:

You are all in for a serious treat with this new collected poems from Lynette Roberts. A phenomenal poet of rich, startingly language & with diverse interests, from South America to rural Wales. I'll be hosting the online launch for Carcanet - tickets are £2.

📚 A Letter to the Dead by Lynette Roberts, hosted by Francesca Brooks - Tuesday 25 November, 7pm. This new edition contains sixty-five unpublished poems by Roberts, and a new epilogue highlighting her importance to our understanding of twentieth-century poetry. www.carcanet.co.uk/events/a-let...

Register below for this Friday’s @cncsi.bsky.social #Halloween Nineteenth-Century #Gothic Afterlives event with our 5 fantastic speakers: Sonja Lawrenson, @romgothsam.bsky.social, Richard Hand, @marijkevalk.bsky.social & @drdjohnston.bsky.social ⬇️🎃

I feel really excited and privileged to get to speak at this, and more importantly to hear all the rich work happening amongst graduate students in Irish Studies!

Reposting for the day that's in it #Halloween #Samhain #Speirgorm

📣 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

Reminder! Our next research seminar takes place on 5th November, 12pm, LCB012!

Too busy having fun to post - and @gillianobrien.bsky.social took better pics in any case - but great to catch up with @curioustravellers.bsky.social and other colleagues in North Wales last week #plasnewydd #llangollen #wales #research #ladiesofllangollen #HolyheadRoad

@iancushing.bsky.social @callanjd.bsky.social @noreenmasud.bsky.social @manmetuni.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social @bristolunienglish.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @artshumsucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @manchester.ac.uk

30% off my new book ‘Music Refuge: Living Asylum Through Music’ (Oxford University Press, 2025). Use code AUFLY30 on the OUP webpage. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Great celebration of "Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move" eds. @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @kevinkenny.bsky.social (especially the Irish dimensions of the book) at Boston College @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social @gihnyu.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social @tedsmyth.bsky.social

We opened #OpenAccessWeek 2025 at University College Cork Library with an event on our UCC Diamond Open Access journals: Pathways to your first publication – celebrating the diversity and impact of UCC’s Open Access Journals. journals.ucc.ie

⏳ Submit your abstract by 14 Nov! Join the Resilient Landscapes and Seas Symposium to share your research and experience on tackling biodiversity loss & climate change through collaboration at scale 📅 10–11 Feb 📍 Edinburgh 👉 https://www.ecologicalcontinuitytrust.org/rlas-call-for-submissions

Dublin and adjacent, I'll be launching After Party in Books Upstairs on Wednesday! With the brilliant Tom Morris

New favourite lecture slide decoration: Convent of Mercy pupils greet JFK in Galway, 1963. Spectacular headgear.

NOEMA's been rolling out bangers this year. In "The Last Days of Social Media" @jamesosullivan.bsky.social sketches out a hopeful little map to help us design our way past the current slopstorm and lay groundwork for the next, better thing. Well worth your time.

It appears that the Shelley Conference special issue of 'Romanticism' is currently available open access! Anna Mercer and I edited this issue, including essays by Nora Crook, Michael Rossington, @paulstephens.bsky.social, & more, from the 2022 Shelley Conference 🍂 www.euppublishing.com/toc/rom/30/1

Thanks for sharing Claire. We are very blessed to have this bursary. I can testify to the fact the Copley award made it possible for me to access crucial primary sources for my first book at a difficult time financially.

A reminder that pg researchers and ECRs working in Romantic Studies in the UK are invited to apply for a Stephen Copley Research Award (valued up to £500) The late Stephen Copley supervised my PhD and I appreciate seeing his name live on like this #Romanticism www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...

Back to history today and a lecture for the Oxford History Faculty Environmental Humanities group on @curioustravellers.bsky.social and our Curious Minds: Thomas Pennant and Gilbert White exhibition. #HistoricalResearch #DigitalHumanities #ThomasPennanr #GilbertWhite @ox.ac.uk

The John Galt Society welcomes applications for a grant (of up to ₤1000) to defray expenses incurred in connection with research into the works, life or influence of John Galt. Deadline: 31 January 2026. More information: thejohngaltsociety.com/research-gra...

A night to remember. Delighted to welcome @willdalrymple.bsky.social to Trinity for our annual Edmund Burke Lecture on the East India Company in a packed Edmund Burke theatre. 🤩🤩🤩 @tlrhub.bsky.social @historytcd.bsky.social

Really looking forward to speaking at the London Irish Studies Seminar @ies-sas.bsky.social next week - tried to do this last year but Storm Éowyn scuppered my plans ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #IrishStudies

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

Applications for our digital artist in residence pilot close this Friday at 5:30. More info at the link: artscouncil.ie/funding-oppo...

If you know Soupy Norman, you know... if you don't, we have a deep dive into the cult comedy show on the latest Get Around To It Podcast. Plus I detail my Top 5 British comedies of the 2000s! Find your podcast provider here: linktr.ee/getaroundtoit

A privilege to be representing @sharinglands.bsky.social at the World Food Forum in Rome this week. A great start with Peter Cleary noting the importance of Choctaw Irish relations which I'll expand on tomorrow. #betterfoodsbetterfuture #wff2025 #sharinglands #rome #fao

Heading in the same direction @tlrhub.bsky.social

Off to @tlrhub.bsky.social for what should be a fascinating conference on Ireland and the American Revolution organised by @joelherman.bsky.social and @timvrti.bsky.social with support from @historytcd.bsky.social and @virtualtreasury.bsky.social www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr...

Rituals of Migration offers snapshots of Irish migrants on the move in the 19th and 20th centuries On October 16, we will host a panel with the book's co-editor, Kevin Kenny, and 3 #BCIRishStudies alumni in the publication: Jill Bender, Hidetaka Hirota, & Gráinne McEvoy

Great see that our UCC Arboretum and ITEN tree resources being used by pupils in Gaelscoil Pheig Sayers, Cork this week. Check out www.tree-explorers.ie to find out more. #TreesUCC @researchireland.ie

2 doctoral positions on the '(Dis)Empowered Communities: A Comparative Study of Decommissioning Nuclear Sites' project led by Davide Orsini at the @carsoncenter.bsky.social Deadline: 30 November #histtech #envhist #energyhistory #nuclearhistory www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/about_rcc/jo...

As the History Representative for ACIS, I have the distinct privilege to chair the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book. If you, or someone you know, has a book copyrighted in 2025 in Irish Studies please do consider submitting! Details here. 🗃️ #speirgorm

Last day to apply! Applications must be submitted online by 5 pm Irish time.

Join us tomorrow for our first research seminar of the year! Our very own Prof Mary Fairclough will be presenting a paper titled ‘Mary Wollstonecraft: Apostrophe, Prayer and Voice’. 🗓️ Tuesday 7 October, 5pm 📍 HG/09, Heslington Hall More info: www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

It’s real!! I just got my first copy of Ghosts Behind Glass and it is beautiful. You all really need to order your copies. You will not regret it. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Auckland university is hiring a Lecturer (that’s Assistant Prof for all you Americans) in English, specialising in the long nineteenth century, to a permanent position commencing before Semester 1, 2026 (or by negotiation). Focus is nineteenth century fiction - details below!

📣 Announcing the publication of BARS review Issue 61, my first issue as editor! www.bars.ac.uk/review/index...