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Senior Commissioning Editor for Literary Studies and Irish Studies
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Stephen O'Neill
23 days ago
thread of artworks in 'Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955' that I got to see in real life. First, the cover - 'Four Green Fields' by Evie Hone, 1939. I arranged a private tour of government buildings for this one.
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RADAC
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[RENC] 4.05.26 / 17:00 / Librairie Théâtrale A l'occasion de la sortie du livre Martin Crimp: The Writer and the Work et de la création française de sa pièce, Des hommes endormis au théâtre de l'Athénée, Elisabeth Angel-Perez animera une rencontre avec le dramaturge Martin Crimp
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Deryn Rees-Jones
27 days ago
Pavilion launch tonight and there are three tickets left! Join us!
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Stephen O'Neill
about 1 month ago
The launch at
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was absolutely brilliant - wonderful hosts in Dublin and a beautiful venue. Thanks to the team in O'Connell House and to everyone who came.
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Liverpool University Press
about 1 month ago
New in Irish Studies |
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's Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955, is the first book dedicated to examining culture and partition in Ireland. Discover more here ⬇️
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Liverpool University Press
about 1 month ago
☀️ Recently published | Irish Joy: Resistant Affects in Contemporary Irish Literature and Culture by Julia C. Obert is available now! Discover more here ⬇️
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Liverpool University Press
about 2 months ago
Liverpool University Press is thrilled to share that we have been shortlisted for the Clarivate Academic, Educational and Professional Publisher of the Year at the 2026 Independent Publishing Awards!
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Liverpool University Press
about 2 months ago
Recently published | Race, Violence, and Form is available now. One of the first in the new Studies in the Global Nineteenth Century, the book employs exciting new methods to understand nineteenth-century Irish literature and culture. More here ⬇️
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Liverpool University Press
2 months ago
'While we can’t address all of the volume’s essays in this post, together they reframe nineteenth-century Ireland by offering new theories of racialization, new approaches to colonial violence, and new understandings of Irish literary forms.' Mary Mullen and Renée Fox discuss their new book here:
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Reframing Nineteenth-Century Ireland
In this post, authors Renée Fox and Mary L. Mullen discuss the findings of their edited collection, Race, Violence, and Form: Reframing Nineteenth-Century Ireland. The second volume in the new Studies in the Global Nineteenth-Century series from Liverpool University Press, this book challenges assumptions about nineteenth-century Irish identity, exceptionalism, and literary conventions. Credit: “Two forces,” Punch, 1881. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
http://liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2026/03/26/reframing-nineteenth-century-ireland/
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Liverpool University Press
2 months ago
We are pleased to share that Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster has been nominated for the Best Book on 70 Years of Godzilla at 24th Annual Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards. Voting is now open here until the 1st May:
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I’m thrilled to announce our new book series Pioneering Peace: New Paradigms in Peace and Conflict Studies, published in collaboration with
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and edited by
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. Please spread the word!
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This is the first volume in the Studies in the Global Nineteenth Century series in collaboration with
@global19c.bsky.social
! Congratulations to Lahoucine Aammari on the publication of British Travel Writers in Morocco, 1856-1937.
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Liverpool University Press
3 months ago
Recently published | This collection of essays argues for an understanding of Romantic aesthetics grounded in nature, and capable of acting on, existing within, and indeed participating in processes of worldmaking. Find out more:
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Liverpool University Press
3 months ago
This time next week, the first day of
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UP Redux will have started! We're excited to have university press colleagues join us here in Liverpool. Check out the full programme to plan your time (and let us know if you need any local recommendations!):
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UP Redux Programme - ALPSP
UP Redux Programme- Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers - International trade body which supports and represents not-for-profit organizations and institutions that publish…
https://www.alpsp.org/events/up-redux/up-redux-programme/
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Chris Cusack
3 months ago
A very generous review of The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature in
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! Delighted the book’s making its way to readers.
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Sorry for your trouble—The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature - Books Ireland
This is not the best book for late night reading in bed. Its subject matter – death, dying and the dead – are not conducive to sleep. But for the rest of the
https://booksirelandmagazine.com/sorry-for-your-trouble-the-corpse-in-modern-irish-literature/
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Liverpool University Press
3 months ago
To celebrate the brilliant events happening in Liverpool this month, including University Press Redux 2026, the LUP team have put together a playlist of songs that remind them of the city. Find the playlist and more about University Press Redux 2026 below:
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#UPRedux2026
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Liverpool University Press
3 months ago
Read a new blog piece from
@livuniheseltine.bsky.social
on missed opportunities for social housing in Northern Ireland, including on the former Girdwood Barracks site, here ⬇️
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Liverpool University Press
3 months ago
New in paperback | Winner of the 2023 ACIS Donald Murphy Prize, Power, Politics and Territory in the 'New Northern Ireland' by Elizabeth DeYoung explores how North Belfast’s biggest investment in the peace process failed to deliver. Available now in paperback ⬇️
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Liverpool University Press
3 months ago
Recently published in Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies | Science Fiction and the Modern World explores nineteenth-century science fiction as recalibrating humanity’s understanding of its relationship to the natural order. Find out more here:
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Liverpool University Press
3 months ago
📚 Recently published | The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature is available now! This is the first book to centre on the figure of the corpse in Irish literature, and it ranges from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. Discover more here ⬇️
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
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Lucy Arnold
4 months ago
The final final proofs have headed off for 'Hilary Mantel', part of
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'Writers and their Work Series'. Can't wait to see this one in the flesh
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Liverpool University Press
4 months ago
Happy St. Brigid's Day! Honouring St Brigid of Kildare and marking the beginning of spring, the holiday also celebrates Irish women. Here, Samantha Lyster discusses the impact Irish women had on English architecture.
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A Celebration of Irish Women in England
In Ireland, 1st February is St Brigid's Day, honouring St Brigid of Kildare and marking the beginning of spring. The holiday is also used to celebrate Irish women. Here, author of Irish Emigration to England Explored through Buildings, Samantha Lyster, discusses the impact Irish women had on English architecture. St Patrick’s Day is a fixture in the British calendar, but there’s another Irish patron saint that rarely makes the news here.
http://liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2026/02/01/a-celebration-of-irish-women-in-england/
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Liverpool University Press
4 months ago
New in Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies | This book explores speculative war narratives in Spain from the late nineteenth century to the Spanish Civil War, examining their ties to real conflicts, technology, colonialism, and ideological fears. Find out more here:
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Liverpool University Press
4 months ago
New in Literary Studies | This book identifies a literary discourse committed to the idea of socialism as an open and contingent political project without necessary ideological determinations or outcomes. Find out more here:
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Liverpool University Press
4 months ago
Recently published | Irish Writers in the Civil Service, edited by Jonathan Foster and Elliott Mills, is available now! Discover more here ⬇️
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The first book in our Playwriting and the Contemporary: Critical Collaborations series is now available - congratulations to Luke Lamont on the publication of The Documentary Aesthetic in Irish Theatre, 2010-2020!
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I'm a few days late with this, but delighted to share the good news about Catherine E. Ross's excellent book Educating the Romantic Poets: Life and Learning in the Anglo-Classical Academy, 1770-1850. Congratulations, Catherine!
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Liverpool University Press
5 months ago
This book is a new study on contemporary Chinese science fiction through the lens of techno-nationalism, revealing how the genre critiques class inequality, exploitative capitalism, and the social costs of new technologies in the 21st century. Find out more:
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Chris Cusack
5 months ago
Out in February from
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: The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature. The book started as a lockdown tweet. Delighted that it’s finally done! With Bridget English and
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Dr Amanda Dillon
5 months ago
I’ve had flu, so I missed it yesterday, but! 28 December was my book’s OFFICIAL birthday. Metafiction and Narrative Worlds in Science Fiction: Prism, Mirror, Lens (‘PML’ for short) was a labour of love, and is published by
@livunipress.bsky.social
. Available wherever you buy your books.
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Liverpool University Press
5 months ago
Tomorrow is the final day of our Winter Sale! Use discount code 27WINTER on the LUP website for up to 50% off selected print and ebooks.
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Liverpool University Press
6 months ago
New in Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies | Play in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction is a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary study of the different forms of play found in depictions of radically better and radically worse societies. Find out more:
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Liverpool University Press
6 months ago
New in Romantic Reconfigurations | Charlotte Smith's Liberal Feminism re-values her fiction as articulating a specifically liberal agenda of legislative reform and intellectual freedom, often through imitations of earlier comic fiction and satire. Find out more here:
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Liverpool University Press
5 months ago
New in Romantic Reconfigurations | The Stereoscopic Picturesque combines fields of study that have are brought into close contiguity: the history of science, art history, photography, literature, and environmentalism. Find out more here:
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Matthew L Reznicek
6 months ago
The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature is now available for preorder from
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. This collection ranges from graveyard poetry and the gothic through Ní Ghríofa’s Ghost in the Throat, with incisive and new readings of the dead body
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The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature | Home
Christopher Cusack (Radboud University) has published widely on Irish and Irish-diasporic literature. His monograph The Great Famine in Irish and North American Fiction, 1892-1921 is forthcoming from Liverpool University Press.
https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781836244837
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Matthew L Reznicek
6 months ago
Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale is now available for preorder from
@livunipress.bsky.social
. It revises our understanding of this political genre through medical humanities
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Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale | Home
Matthew L. Reznicek is Associate Professor of Medical Humanities at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He has published widely on British and Irish romantic literature, and particularly on the intersection of health and illness in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writing.
https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781805966807
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year to buy LUP books - up to 50% off in our Winter Sale!
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Dr Amanda Dillon
6 months ago
I intend to do a full-on photo shoot with these when I have some free time, but for now, this will do - author copies of my first book, Metafiction and Narratice Worlds in Science Fiction (
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) have arrived! Over the moon, and can highly recommend LUP as publishers.
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Liverpool University Press
6 months ago
Happy
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Week! If you're interested in joining the world of publishing, staff members at LUP share what they love about their jobs and advice on getting into the industry 📚 Read more here ⬇️
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/pages/careers
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Liverpool University Press
6 months ago
🚀 Discover new and forthcoming ebooks in Liverpool Science Fiction Studies Online, a digital collection offering a broad perspective on a variety of themes relating to
#SFStudies
. Available to libraries as a one-off purchase and with perpetual access. Browse the full collection ➡️
bit.ly/lsfso
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Excellent news - congratulations Cathy!
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Stephen O'Neill
7 months ago
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
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Liverpool University Press
7 months ago
Reappraisals in Irish History | The Commercial Lives of Irish Women, 1850-1922 by Antonia Hart is available now! The first book to tell the story of the many entrepreneurial Irish women who ran businesses in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, find out more here ⬇️
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Liverpool University Press
7 months ago
🎉
@hoireabhard.bsky.social
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Publication Prize in Irish History, for his book The Medieval Irish Kings and the English Invasion. Congratulations, Seán! Learn more about the book here ⬇️
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Liverpool University Press
8 months ago
Dr Miranda Melcher recently chatted with
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on the
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
about Speranza: Poems by Jane Wilde! Find out more here:
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Liverpool University Press
8 months ago
'Kamila Shamsie' is now available in Writers and Their Work: The Digital Collection, a perpetual access resource offering over 400 rigorous critical examinations of the works of distinguished writers and schools of writing. Browse the collection ➡️bit.ly/writers-and-their-work-digital-collection
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Dr Paul Huddie
9 months ago
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@livunipress.bsky.social
Finally got my own copies! Hard to think that this all started with a conference in June 2022! Thanks to Arlene and Cathal, all the contributors and to our top secret peer reviewers
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Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland
9 months ago
SSNCI members are now starting to receive their FREE copy of our latest conference volume: New Perspectives on Conflict and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century edited by Paul Huddie, Cathal Billings, Arlene Crampsie
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New Perspectives on Conflict and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century | Home
Paul Huddie is an ERC Research Project Manager at the University College Dublin Centre for War Studies and a historical researcher interested in war and society, principally within the long nineteenth century.
https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781836243892
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Liverpool University Press
9 months ago
Event | Join the School of English and Digital Humanities @ucc.ie on Wednesday, 10th September, for a symposium in honour of the late Dr Eibhear Walshe. Find out more here:
www.eventbrite.ie/e/green-carn...
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Green Carnations: Remembering Eibhear Walshe
The School of English and Digital Humanities, UCC, invites you to a symposium in honour of the late Dr Eibhear Walshe.
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/green-carnations-remembering-eibhear-walshe-tickets-1530530400629?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Matthew Leggatt
9 months ago
It's alive! Publication day! Play in Utopian and Dystopian Ficion arrived in the mail. Thanks Liverpool University Press for producing such a beautiful book.
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