Dear all, I'm excited to share the CFP for the annual SOFEIR conference which I'm organising on 26-27 March 2026 in Strasbourg. The theme is "Irish Exceptionalism". You'll find the CFP here: www.sofeir.fr/cfp-irish-ex...

Final panel of #ISTR2025 now with fellow feminist interventionist @ciaralynnmurphy.bsky.social's excellent and engaging paper on "'Get Your Brits Out': Performing Stereotypes of Irish Nationalism Through Subversive Aesthetics" www.nme.com/news/music/k...

#SAES2025 @tadhgheron.bsky.social présente son bilan sur la veille documentaire et les réseaux sociaux

We need a softness rooted in the fierce desire for radical equality. We need a gentleness grounded in the firm commitment to collective care. We need a tenderness that rests on the steadfast struggle for total emancipation.

Submissions for the next special issue of Etudes Irlandaises on Children and the Youth in Ireland are expected by 1 June 2025. journals.openedition.org/etudesirland...

[ #VeilleESR ] Même question, deux réponses. « le refus du président de l’Université de Strasbourg d’autoriser la tenue d’une conférence à laquelle participerait Rima Hassan portait atteinte à la liberté d’expression. » - TA de Strasbourg strasbourg.tribunal-administratif.fr/decisions-de...

Great many people show support to our colleague in Anglophone Studies, Dr Maboula Soumahoro, whose specialism in critical race analyses in France & US is well known. EU Parliament cancelled her intervention follwing sustained pressure from the far-right. Collective✊🏾 www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...

Reporting on genocide is harmful to bluesky? @safety.bsky.app I only post images and reporting by verified journalists how on earth is that interpreted into breaking the law or being harmful to others on my own timeline?

Le budget 2025 des universités françaises met la qualité de notre enseignement supérieur en danger comme jamais auparavant. Signons la pétition ! chng.it/8LjbQpRkbt #universitésendanger #recherche #science

#Irishstudies #AcademicSky #History #radicalism #Ireland With my colleagues (@tadhgheron.bsky.social & others), we are pleased to share a call for contributions to an edited volume on Radicalism, radicalisation and deradicalisation from 1798 to the present day. Please RT. Many thanks.

Back after a long break, and happy to see a lot of new faces here. Hi everyone!

"Walking as Methodology: Tracing post-conflict Belfast on foot" Blog Post by Dr Elizabeth DeYoung for @livunipress.bsky.social: liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2024/01/19/w... Don't forget to register for our FREE event with Dr Deyoung on 1 February: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the...

Don't miss out on episode 46 of our Irish Itinerary Podcast with the wonderful Sheila Armstrong! And stay tuned for a new episode this Thursday. www.efacis.eu/podcast #irishwriting #irishstudies #novel #shortstory

Don't try to phish a linguist. 🤨 They will notice that your use of sentence initial 'please' is West African not Irish & that (as the German you're pretending to be) you wouldn't address someone by their first name straight away. So FYI, there's phishing emails in the name of EFACIS circulating.

The Irish Studies in Europe special issue "Stage Irish: Performance, Identity, Cultural Circulation" that I co-edited with Dieter Fuchs & Tamara Radak in 2021 has been made available to the public by EFACIS Read the full PDF @ this 🔗 www.efacis.eu/sites/defaul... (Individual chapter PDFs in the 🧵👇)

It has been our pleasure to have Helen Cullen at the University of Stuttgart for two creative writing workshops: Ecologies of Sound & Readings of Form. Thanks to the EFACIS Irish itinerary, the Dept of English Literatures & the School for Talents. Helen's tips on revision were genius!

For all PhD students in Irish Studies Come and join the first EFACIS #PhD Lunch Break of the new year on 30 January! All info at fb.me/e/8ak4dsrMJ #PhDtalk #PhDlife #IrishStudies

The following article in the Irish University Review is free to read for the rest of January! 3. Stan Erraught, "'I was listening … but did not succeed in hearing you’: Flann O’Brien, Ralph Cusack, and the Absurdities of Silent Musical Experience" 🔗👉 www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....

Alongside the three lectureships currently advertised, UCC French Department is also recruiting a Professor! Please share widely. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DFI276/p...

The CFP for our study day on Radicalism is on Calenda. Comparative approaches are welcome too. Feel free to share! calenda.org/1126434

Want to know more about the discoveries relating to Thomas Cromwell's Book of Hours, now on display in the Wren? This blog post will tell you everything, from the link with Holbein's portrait to how Raman spectroscopy was used to identify the jewels in the binding. Not to be missed! t.ly/ot3RS

Starring Cillian Murphy and Eileen Walsh and directed by Tim Mielants from a screenplay by Enda Walsh, the film is an adaptation of Claire Keegan’s novel of the same name which was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

Vous aimez Vivienne Westwood, le stylisme ou la culture #punk ? Écoutez ce documentaire sur la créatrice iconoclaste britannique sur @franceculture.bsky.social samedi soir à 17h! J'y interviens pour parler des liens entre Westwood et le punk. www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Teaching mode ON

Alright, the SAES Bluesky account is now live and running ! Looking forward to connect with all of you here.

Athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh! Wishing you all the best for 2024. The SOFEIR Bluesky account is now up and running. #irishstudies

Alright I'm officially starting out on Bluesky. Any advice welcome, especially as I'm a community manager for two different academic organisations and I need to build up their networks again from scratch.

Thrilled to announce with @timheron.bsky.social a great study day on April 17, 2024 with wonderful keynote speakers: Prof. Peter Gray (QUB) & Prof. Eugenio Biagini (Cambridge) thanks to @IDEA_UL @Univ_Lorraine @sofeir, GIS EIRE & Search @unistra.fr The CFP is now available ⬇️