Claire Connolly

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Professor of Modern English @ucc.ie | Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Secretary @ria.ie | Coming December 2025 — Irish Romanticism: a Literary History @universitypress.cambridge.org

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Adrian Legg @adrianlegg.bsky.social · 2h

Martin Parr
A drive through McDonalds. Nutgrove shopping centre. Dublin. Ireland. 1986.

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BC_Gemma @bcgemma.bsky.social · 1d

Somehow, the eel wasn't quite the quick snack that the Cormorant thought it would be ... #Birds

Cormorant with an eel knotted around its beak.

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Tina Morin @drtinamorin.bsky.social · 2d

More happy publication news! The first of a two-part special issue on 'Irish Women's Genre Fiction' is out. Thanks to our fantastic contributors and to the editorial team at LIT! Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory: Vol 36, No 3 www.tandfonline.com/toc/glit20/3...

Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory

Volume 36, Issue 3 of Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory

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Essaka Joshua @essaka.bsky.social · 3d

Coming soon: Disability and the Gothic: The Nineteenth Century. Cambridge Gothic Elements series. Publication date is 24 March 2026

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Disability and the Gothic

Cambridge Core - English Literature 1700-1830 - Disability and the Gothic

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 4d

yes, fab photos, though probably of no use with loveliness to ticket sales ratio ...

Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 4d

May I direct you to the wonderful @nlireland.bsky.social Dripsey Woollen mills photo album! catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls0...

Holdings: [Dripsey Woolen Mills Album] :: Library Catalog

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 4d

24 hours later for me 🤞🤞🤞

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Murray Pittock : @murrayp.bsky.social · 5d

Universities Committee in Scottish Literature launches the new Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize.

The prize will be awarded biennially starting in 2026; nominations close 31 March 2026.

Full details, and a nominations template, can be found here:

ucsl-scotland.com/scottish-lit...

Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize

The Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize is awarded biennially to an outstanding work of scholarship in the field of Scottish literary studies. Founded in 2025, the prize is open to book-length wor…

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 5d

Delighted to see this out! Thanks to @bruceholsinger.bsky.social for all his support and to @uccresearch.bsky.social Future Humanities Institute too #IrishKeywords

Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 5d

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
New Literary History
Vol. 56, N0. 2, Spring 2025 
Special Issue: Irish Keywords
tinyurl.com/bdcrw9cm

CONTRIBUTORS 
Claire Connolly, James Chandler, Joe Cleary, Aileen Dillane, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Clara Tuite, Paige Reynolds, Jane Ohlmeyer, Barry McCrea, Clair Wills, and more

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
New Literary History
Volume 56, Number 2, Spring 2025
 Special Issue: Irish Keywords
CONTRIBUTORS 
Claire Connolly, James Chandler, Joe Cleary, Aileen Dillane, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Clara Tuite, Paige Reynolds, Jane Ohlmeyer, Margaret Kelleher, Barry McCrea, Clair Wills, Breandán Mac Suibhne, Josephine McDonagh, Sparky Booker, Heather Laird, Rory Rapple, Guy Beiner, Rashid Khalidi, Lisa Goff, Mary M. Burke, Finola O'Kane, Robert J. Savage, and Clíona Ó Gallchoir

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 5d

Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 6d

Ordered! Congratulations @sorourke25.bsky.social

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Sophie Cooper @sophcocooper.bsky.social · 6d

Have you got a new book out about Irish America? Regardless of discipline, if it came out in 2025, you can submit it to the ACIS Lawrence McCaffrey Prize for Books on Irish America! You need to fill out the form on this website and the books need to be sent by 1 January!
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Lawrence J. McCaffrey Prize | American Conference for Irish Studies – An Chomhdháil Mheiriceánach do Léann na hÉireann

Larry McCaffrey, co-founder of ACIS, was a highly respected, engaging, and beloved teacher throughout his entire career. He served as the first Secretary of ACIS and was ACIS President from 1975 to…

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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 7d

The New Testament was first published in Irish in London, 1681. The famous Irish scientist Robert Boyle (1627-1691) financed the casting of metal type for the Old Irish script by Joseph Moxon in London. The books were printed by Robert Everingham of Ave Maria Lane, London EC4
#IrishLondonHistory ☘️

Scan of the front page of 'Tiomhna Nuadh', the Old Testament in Irish published in London in 1681.
Full scan available here https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_tiomna-nuadh-_bible-gaelic_1681/mode/2up

Closeup of the printer details, printed in Old Irish script, on the title page of 'Tiomhna Nuadh', the Old Testament in Irish

First page of the Old Testament in Irish - 'Tiomhna Nuadh'.

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Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social · 7d

My favourite shop! The Apple Farm shop in Tipperary @theapplefarmer.bsky.social

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 8d

Bargain copies of my book available for £11 this weekend in the @edinburghup.bsky.social St Andrew's Day sale 😎 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-hydrofi...

Hydrofictions

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Matthew Sangster @mjrsangster.bsky.social · 8d

Interesting article on the Royal Literary Fund, drawing on archival materials I catalogued at the British Library (as well as later papers still held at the Fund's offices): www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n....

From Dylan Thomas’ shopping list to a note from Sylvia Plath’s doctor: newly uncovered case files reveal the hidden lives of famous writers

Exclusive: Hardship grant applications to the Royal Literary Fund, including unseen letters by Doris Lessing and a note from James Joyce saying that he ‘gets nothing in the way of royalties’, show aut...

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Dublin Small Press Fair @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social · 8d

so lovely to see everyone this evening—please come tomorrow (Saturday 29th) to the Pearse Street Library from 10-4 and see just a fraction of the amazing book culture available in Ireland and from abroad!

#DublinSmallPressFair2025

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 8d

Surely an American student?!

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Nick Daly @nickdaly.bsky.social · 9d

With 6.5 poets per acre, Ireland is especially vulnerable

www.wired.com/story/poems-...

Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon

It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 9d

PSA if you use the code HOLIDAY25, you can get 30% off of @sorourke25.bsky.social’s incredibly smart, gorgeously illustrated new book—do it! 🌿🎉💥

Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction

O’Rourke argues that artistic representations played a pivotal role in shaping how people thought about the natural world during the Industrial Revolution. In the late eighteenth and early nineteent...

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James O’Sullivan @jamesosullivan.bsky.social · 11d

Andrew Prescott’s ‘The Grand Challenges of Digital Humanities’ compels us to think through what it is that humanists are equipped to bring to the world in the digital age.

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#DigitalHumanities #GrandChallenges

Grand Challenges for the Digital Humanities

Andrew Prescott’s The Grand Challenges of Digital Humanities compels us to think through what the humanities can bring to the world in the digital age.

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Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social · 11d

Get set! Our #StAndrewsDay sale is days away! Browse our books and top-up your shopping lists...

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Dr Jennie Orr @drjenniferorr.bsky.social · 11d

Doing the media bit ahead of the Linenhall’s annual Ulster Scots Writing Competition. Me and my homeboy in the corner of the Governor’s room while Prof Hutchinson is waxing lyrical on the quality of this year’s entry

Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 11d

But basically I was right

Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 11d

🫣 Oops

Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 11d

Oops. Only a couple of months behind the times then ...

Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 11d

Great to read about the Rev Le Fanu’s library in @ria.ie - thanks @rothweeee.bsky.social - @nickdaly.bsky.social will be interested to know that there was mummy material in the family library

RTÉ Brainstorm @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social · Oct 30

Inside Sheridan Le Fanu's spooky world of Gothic ghosts and ghouls. The writer's early life in Dublin and reading material give valuable insights into his ghostly tales and supernatural horror stories, write @rothweeee.bsky.social & Ailbhe Rogers @ria.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Inside Sheridan Le Fanu's spooky world of Gothic ghosts & ghouls

The writer's early life in Dublin and reading material give valuable insights into his ghostly tales and supernatural horror stories

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 11d

Finally we have two new entries in the Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities:
"Hurakán Culture" by Yairen Jerez Columbié
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"Metabolism" by Molly MacVeagh
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 11d

The November 2025 issue of Environmental Humanities is out now! Check it out for all the lastest #envhum scholarship
read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...

Cover image: A Marshall Islands navigation chart collected by Thomas William Smillie in 1899. Smithsonian Institution Archives.

cover of journal Environmental Humanities. White sticks laid out in a shape on a light blue background

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The Centre for Robert Burns Studies @glasgowburns.bsky.social · 12d

Burns and Nature 🌳👨‍🌾🐭

Join us and the @natlibscot.bsky.social as we explore the Ploughman Poet’s relationship with nature through poetry, spoken word, song and film.

21st January 2026 | Kelvin Hall | 6pm

Book your free ticket here👇

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Burns and Nature

An exploration of Robert Burns’ relationship to nature through poetry, spoken word and film.

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