The Public Scholar publishes one week from today. Please consider pre-ordering and/or asking your library to order. Authors really need your pre-orders to make a book go.
I think it's a useful book! More importantly, so do real scholars and writers!
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
A poster with a black background and green/white type as well as a picture of Dr. Peter Hession. The type reads: Inaugural Lecture, O'Malley Fellowship: Advancing Irish Studies; The University of Limerick is pleased to invite you to the inaugural lecture by Dr. Peter Hession, O'Malley Fellow in Irish Studies. ' "From nowhere, going nowhere": The Famine Road in Context'. Monday, 27 April 2026. Reception: 5.30 pm. Lecture: 6.00pm. Location: KBG12, Kemmy Business School, UL. RSVP by 6pm, 24 April 2026.
Dr. Peter Hession will deliver the inaugural O'Malley Fellowship Lecture next Monday, 27 April, from 5:30 pm in the Kemmy Business School, UL (with live streaming). All are welcome, but please register to attend. Link to register: tinyurl.com/58he94t6.
A picture of a rather dilapidated copy of "The picture of Dorian Gray" There is visible water damage to the cover and the plastic cover is yellowing. Obviously, not evident from the picture but there is a truly foul musty smell emanating from it!
Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic!
Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....
Belfast launch of Irish Culture and Partition 1920-1955 will be at the Seamus Heaney Centre on May 1, from 5.30pm to 7pm. Bígí Linn
No, a government agency, Oifig Díolta Foillseacháin Rialtais, as detailed in ALT
Isn't it just?
Dracula, Bram Stoker, translated into Irish by Seán Ó Cuirrín, Oifig Díolta Foillseacháin Rialtais, 1933. Design: AóM (Austin Molloy). John Moore/Little Museum of Dublin
Dracula 1933 Irish translation cover
Only way to keep the smell under control is to eat them quickly, run with the emptied tin and toss into dishwasher, and keep it tightly shut the rest of the day as if something very dangerous is confined there (which there is)
The brilliant @ciarab.bsky.social talking about the release of the 1926 Irish census and how census research opens windows onto both your family’s past and the state’s past.
Don't miss our Curator's Talk & Tour on 28 April, which is part of a programme of events to mark our new exhibition Ink & Innovation: the earliest printed books of the Royal Irish Academy. We're sharing a taster here and you can book your free place at the event now: www.ria.ie/events/ink-i...
There's already a large crowd of teens gathered outside the Marriott hoping to see their favorite American historians arrive for #OAH2026 here in Philly
poster for April 22, 2026 Boston College Irish Studies interdisciplinary panel with BC'S African and African Diaspora Studies program titled "Horror and Hidden Histories in Sinners"
Honored to participate in this AADS & @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social panel. Full info: events.bc.edu/event/horror...
My hand holding a copy of A Hosting , with cover art from Louis Le Brocquy's The Táin, Army Massing. Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2026, to be published 16th April 2026.
Just arrived today, (with an excellent cover from Louis le Brocquy no less) is A Hosting from @martindoyle.bsky.social via @lilliputpress.bsky.social - interviews with the cream of Irish writers over 35 years. #speirgorm
An image shoeing the cover of a new book, Seeing Ireland: Art, Culture, and Power in Modern Ireland (UND Press, 2026), with a blurb quote by Diarmuid Ó Giolláin calling it a 'highly original contribution to the study of Irish Art.'
Today is publication day for this beautiful book. Inspiration for it came from seeing @billyshortall.bsky.social talk about his brilliant PhD research at the IHSA in @tlrhub.bsky.social in 2017. One of those joyful collaborations that come along sometimes in academia. Cover is a Paul Henry painting
Several stacks of book plate stickers with the cover image of Anna Law's Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship with a US flag and a shadow of a man behind it like the stripes are bars.
For those like @robertrosenthal.bsky.social patiently waiting for my book to arrive or are curious as to what it's about. I can share the Introduction chapter with all for a month for free here: fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/... Academics, ahem, it's long enough that you can cite the book from it.
It's an intense read!
How is Chevy Chase on that cover?
I've written elsewhere on how in this 1820 Irish Gothic novel, the immortal title character in a pact with the devil had first come to Ireland with Cromwell...so something of a consensus on Cromwell in Irish literature, history & folklore!
this looks like a great collection!
The cover of the collection Race, Violence, and Form: Reframing Nineteenth-Century Ireland, edited by Renee Fox and Mary Mullen. The cover image is Abandoned (2025) by Fiona McGovern.
Very happy to find this waiting for me when I returned home from South Bend! I’ve a chapter in here on ‘Irish Gothic and Global Reading Cultures in the Long Nineteenth Century’, which was so much fun to write! I loved working with @cookiegoth.bsky.social and @marymullen.bsky.social, too!
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We are delighted this afternoon to present the final programme for our conference in May. Registration and further details will be made after Easter.
Noticed AI image cards in a handmade vibe cutesy gift shop. Owner claimed to have no idea but was discomfited. Call it out evert time you recognize AI to get the message out that nobody wants this
The industry is bracing itself for the Deep Blue moment when a prize winning book turns out to be AI or something. Aside from the fact that Deep Blue didn't replace human chess players, this inevitability bias leads people to prematurely legitimise AI use and overstate its proven value in literature
Fritillaria - Checkered Lily Meleagris?
Thanks, Eileen! I need to get the word out!
Luke Morgan, poet
Luke Morgan collection, Blood Atlas
7pm om April 7 @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social will be the Gerson Irish Reader 2026 at Benton Museum @uconn.bsky.social Free!
title...? And congrats!
