Dr. Hilary Lennon
@hilarylennon.bsky.social
Literary historian, teacher of literature, editor of Frank O'Connor's letters, working on a cultural history of Irish letter writing.
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CMAT announced that The Late Late Toy Show viewers donated over €4m to the Toy Show Appeal during Friday night's show rte.ie/b/1547576
CMAT unveils Toy Show Appeal total of over €4m
CMAT announced that The Late Late Toy Show viewers donated over €4m to the Toy Show Appeal during Friday night's show.
rte.ie
December 6, 2025 at 8:10 AM
CMAT announced that The Late Late Toy Show viewers donated over €4m to the Toy Show Appeal during Friday night's show rte.ie/b/1547576
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An accurate way to explain Irish Bluesky is #LateLateToyShow Book children that never got picked for the show.
December 5, 2025 at 11:36 PM
An accurate way to explain Irish Bluesky is #LateLateToyShow Book children that never got picked for the show.
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Kid with the bodhran had the best timed wink. #LateLateToyShow
December 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Kid with the bodhran had the best timed wink. #LateLateToyShow
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I'm not sure Roy Keane actually knows he's on the the Toy Show. He kind of just wandered onto set when he heard there was a competition #ToyShow #LateLateToyShow
December 5, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I'm not sure Roy Keane actually knows he's on the the Toy Show. He kind of just wandered onto set when he heard there was a competition #ToyShow #LateLateToyShow
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Has anyone written on Sean O'Casey's influence on Brecht? It can be in German!
December 5, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Has anyone written on Sean O'Casey's influence on Brecht? It can be in German!
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Reading this I am reminded again that it is, and has more often been, the work of the literary and cultural scholars, in the visual arts particularly, to practice the scholarship that Irish historiography even now aspires to, still without recognizing.
I finished my paper talking about my grandparents, and the ways that we talk about people as demographics or lost causes
December 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Reading this I am reminded again that it is, and has more often been, the work of the literary and cultural scholars, in the visual arts particularly, to practice the scholarship that Irish historiography even now aspires to, still without recognizing.
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Do go along to the launch of Antonia Hart's new monograph, The Commercial Lives of Irish Women, 1850-1922 (LUP). It is a brilliant piece of work, beautifully written, and well worth reading.
Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street
Thursday, 4th December | 7pm
Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street
Thursday, 4th December | 7pm
December 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Do go along to the launch of Antonia Hart's new monograph, The Commercial Lives of Irish Women, 1850-1922 (LUP). It is a brilliant piece of work, beautifully written, and well worth reading.
Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street
Thursday, 4th December | 7pm
Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street
Thursday, 4th December | 7pm
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Required reading of the most welcome sort in IHS this morning.
'It is in the space between our divining and conjuring that the argument lies, the debate happens, history is written and the story gets its endless quality.'
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
'It is in the space between our divining and conjuring that the argument lies, the debate happens, history is written and the story gets its endless quality.'
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Encountering modern Irish history: historiography, archives and imagination in the twenty-first century | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core
Encountering modern Irish history: historiography, archives and imagination in the twenty-first century
www.cambridge.org
December 1, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Required reading of the most welcome sort in IHS this morning.
'It is in the space between our divining and conjuring that the argument lies, the debate happens, history is written and the story gets its endless quality.'
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
'It is in the space between our divining and conjuring that the argument lies, the debate happens, history is written and the story gets its endless quality.'
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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First year selling my art at Christmas without the Other site, where most of my sales came from, as well as losing US orders to new tariffs, so it'll be a tough one - I put huge work into every order, so even if you can't buy, shares help get them in front of eyes. GRMA! www.ciaraioch.com/artprints
December 3, 2025 at 10:05 AM
First year selling my art at Christmas without the Other site, where most of my sales came from, as well as losing US orders to new tariffs, so it'll be a tough one - I put huge work into every order, so even if you can't buy, shares help get them in front of eyes. GRMA! www.ciaraioch.com/artprints
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November 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Blew out my front tyre swerving into a ditch out of the way of an oncoming Range Rover with floodlight strength LED headlights.
The sooner these are regulated the better - both the size of range rovers et al and those fkn LED headlights
The sooner these are regulated the better - both the size of range rovers et al and those fkn LED headlights
December 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Blew out my front tyre swerving into a ditch out of the way of an oncoming Range Rover with floodlight strength LED headlights.
The sooner these are regulated the better - both the size of range rovers et al and those fkn LED headlights
The sooner these are regulated the better - both the size of range rovers et al and those fkn LED headlights
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This was a really special event: www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
Christy Nolan posthumously awarded degree from TCD
Poet and author Christy Nolan, who died in 2009, has been posthumously awarded a degree from Trinity College Dublin (TCD).
www.rte.ie
November 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This was a really special event: www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
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You know what we won't need once handwriting recognition software has done its thing? Archivists, curators, conservators, catalogers, codicologists, or paleographers. We won't need archives either. We won't need diplomatics, editorial theory, book or media history, or material culture studies 🗃️🧵
November 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
You know what we won't need once handwriting recognition software has done its thing? Archivists, curators, conservators, catalogers, codicologists, or paleographers. We won't need archives either. We won't need diplomatics, editorial theory, book or media history, or material culture studies 🗃️🧵
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LITERARY MAGAZINES FOR EVERY READER at the #DublinSmallPressFair2025
Nov. 28-29 at Pearse St. Library
dublinsmallpressfair.com for full details!
Nov. 28-29 at Pearse St. Library
dublinsmallpressfair.com for full details!
November 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
LITERARY MAGAZINES FOR EVERY READER at the #DublinSmallPressFair2025
Nov. 28-29 at Pearse St. Library
dublinsmallpressfair.com for full details!
Nov. 28-29 at Pearse St. Library
dublinsmallpressfair.com for full details!
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Armchair critics and door knockers
November 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Armchair critics and door knockers
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Special issue titled ‘Disease and Disability in the Novel’ - looks fantastic!
@lydiacooper.bsky.social’s and my special issue of @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social is out now. Such a joy to work with one of my best friends on this amazing set of articles muse.jhu.edu/issue/55993
Project MUSE - Studies in the Novel-Volume 57, Number 4, Winter 2025
muse.jhu.edu
November 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Special issue titled ‘Disease and Disability in the Novel’ - looks fantastic!
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
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Rebuttal to John Collison's highly contested Irish Times “sermon to the nation", by lawyer @andrewlrjackson.bsky.social. A fact-check pushing back on the tech-optimist, deregulation-first vision - defending environmental law, democratic oversight & evidence-based planning elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
On Environmental Democracy and the Collisons’ “Abundance-Verse”
Andrew Jackson 21 November 2025 I. Introduction A clamour of praise greeted John Collison’s “how to get Ireland moving” Op-Ed following its publication in the Irish Times on 25th October: the Irish…
elajucd.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Rebuttal to John Collison's highly contested Irish Times “sermon to the nation", by lawyer @andrewlrjackson.bsky.social. A fact-check pushing back on the tech-optimist, deregulation-first vision - defending environmental law, democratic oversight & evidence-based planning elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
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❛ There will be dying, there will be dying, / but there is no need to go into that. / The poems flow from the hand unbidden / and the hidden source is the watchful heart.
Poet Derek Mahon, who was born #OTD in 1941.
Poet Derek Mahon, who was born #OTD in 1941.
November 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
❛ There will be dying, there will be dying, / but there is no need to go into that. / The poems flow from the hand unbidden / and the hidden source is the watchful heart.
Poet Derek Mahon, who was born #OTD in 1941.
Poet Derek Mahon, who was born #OTD in 1941.
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Send in your abstracts for the Sadness + Gender conference we're holding in June 2026! We have some fantastic keynote speakers and specialist panels lined up and would love to see you all in Dublin! #cfp @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @molimuseum.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Send in your abstracts for the Sadness + Gender conference we're holding in June 2026! We have some fantastic keynote speakers and specialist panels lined up and would love to see you all in Dublin! #cfp @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @molimuseum.bsky.social
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I'm thrilled to be launching Marion Quirici's brilliant "Fitness For Freedom: Disability, Degeneration & Modern Irish Writing" at this month's ISAANZ conference. A compelling intervention that will be invaluable to work on disability in Irish and modernist studies. Insist your library orders a copy!
November 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I'm thrilled to be launching Marion Quirici's brilliant "Fitness For Freedom: Disability, Degeneration & Modern Irish Writing" at this month's ISAANZ conference. A compelling intervention that will be invaluable to work on disability in Irish and modernist studies. Insist your library orders a copy!
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Exciting to read the program for ISAANZ 27: "Health, Wellness and Care "(20-22 Nov, University of Otago); so many fascinating engagements with the conference's theme!
I'm very honoured to be delivering the opening keynote on "Celibate Care in Kate O’Brien’s The Ante-Room"
isaanz.org/cfp-isaanz-2...
I'm very honoured to be delivering the opening keynote on "Celibate Care in Kate O’Brien’s The Ante-Room"
isaanz.org/cfp-isaanz-2...
CFP: ISAANZ 27 | Health, Wellness and Care
31 July 2025. Submissions are invited for ISAANZ 27 Health, Wellness and Care. As the emergency measures of the pandemic fade into memory, but the virus transitions into an endemic part of our medi…
isaanz.org
October 16, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Exciting to read the program for ISAANZ 27: "Health, Wellness and Care "(20-22 Nov, University of Otago); so many fascinating engagements with the conference's theme!
I'm very honoured to be delivering the opening keynote on "Celibate Care in Kate O’Brien’s The Ante-Room"
isaanz.org/cfp-isaanz-2...
I'm very honoured to be delivering the opening keynote on "Celibate Care in Kate O’Brien’s The Ante-Room"
isaanz.org/cfp-isaanz-2...
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Watercolour on Two Rivers handmade paper, the thick stuff. 79x56 cm.
November 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Watercolour on Two Rivers handmade paper, the thick stuff. 79x56 cm.
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OpenAI is a social arsonist - as Dr. Chris Gilliard reminds us - and the company's attempts to capture education with its "free" version of ChatGPT for teachers should, IMO, be met with vocal resistance and refusal if we as educators are to care for our students, their communities, and our planet.
November 20, 2025 at 12:42 AM
OpenAI is a social arsonist - as Dr. Chris Gilliard reminds us - and the company's attempts to capture education with its "free" version of ChatGPT for teachers should, IMO, be met with vocal resistance and refusal if we as educators are to care for our students, their communities, and our planet.