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Institute of #irishstudies @liverpooluni.bsky.social: world-leading research & teaching in peace & conflict, women's studies, literature & history. https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/irish-studies
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Irish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social · 11d
It's October and that means time for @liverpooluni.bsky.social Literary Festival and @livirishfest.bsky.social (and pumpkins🎃)
We are delighted to be contributing events to both festivals, see 🧵👇 for more details of all our October events or check out www.liverpool.ac.uk/irish-studie...
Events | Institute of Irish Studies | University of Liverpool
www.liverpool.ac.uk
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Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social · 1d
Colm Tóibín on The Poems of Seamus Heaney: For those familiar with Heaney’s work, the new poems will keep them going well beyond Christmas. But soon, the core of the book will matter more – the 12 volumes Heaney published in his lifetime placed in sequence.

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Colm Tóibín on The Poems of Seamus Heaney: ‘A process of finding echoes and associations’
This book contains Heaney’s unpublished poems plus all those from his single books of poetry published
www.irishtimes.com
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Irish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social · 2d
For videos of previous Seamus Heaney Lectures, please go to www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Annual Seamus Heaney Lecture - YouTube
The Institute of Irish Studies is honoured to be hosting an annual lecture in memory of Irish poet Seamus Heaney. Seamus Heaney was born and raised in County...
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Irish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social · 2d
//2025 Seamus Heaney Lecture//
Professor Sir Simon Schama on "Politics and the Poet"
Reading of Heaney poems by Leanne Best
🗓️ 6:00 pm, 13 November
🧭 Paul Brett LT, Yoko Ono Lennon Centre @liverpooluni.bsky.social
🎟️ FREE registration REQUIRED: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1765402248...
The 2025 Seamus Heaney Lecture: ‘Politics and the Poet' by Sir Simon Schama
The 2025 Seamus Heaney Lecture by Sir Simon Schama, with readings by Leanne Best
www.eventbrite.co.uk
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Irish in Britain @irishinbritain.bsky.social · 2d
Mental health challenges are common across all communities–research shows they're especially significant within Irish communities in Britain, with higher rates of depression, anxiety & psychological ill-health

Information on support👇
irishinbritain.org/what-we-do/h...
#WorldMentalHealthDay
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Liverpool City Council @lpoolcouncil.bsky.social · 3d
As Liverpool marks Black History Month 2025, our Deputy Leader Cllr Ruth Bennett reflects on the strength, creativity and year-round contributions of our city’s Black communities, and why this month matters.

#ourliverpool #blackhistorymonthuk
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University of Liverpool @liverpooluni.bsky.social · 3d
We’re celebrating breaking into the global top 150 and rising 17 places in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2026, now ranked 143rd - our highest-ever position! 🏆

What a year for us - we’re so proud of you #TeamLivUni 💙

Read more: news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/10/09/u...
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Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann @poetryireland.bsky.social · 4d
It has been wonderful to see this image of Seamus Heaney in his study circulating ahead of the launch of his new collection.

The books seen here are some of the many which will be housed in our new Seamus Heaney Poetry Library at No. 11 Parnell Square.

We can’t wait to share them with you all.📖
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Liverpool Irish Festival @livirishfest.bsky.social · 4d
📚 The 6th John McGahern Book Prize.
5:30pm, Sun 19 Oct, Victoria Gallery and Museum.

FREE. Winning debut chosen by Colm Tóibín.

www.liverpoolirishfestival.com?post_type=ev...

#LIF2025
The John McGahern Annual Book Prize - Liverpool Irish Festival
The sixth annual John McGahern Book Prize event, part of the Liverpool Literary Festival, includes a reading from the winning novel.
www.liverpoolirishfestival.com
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Liverpool Irish Festival @livirishfest.bsky.social · 4d
🕊 Our annual Great Hunger Memorial service.

1pm, Sun 26 Oct, St Luke’s Bombed Out Church.

Choirs, music and reflection of the lives of millions changed irrevocably by the Great Hunger.

www.liverpoolirishfestival.com/events/livir...

#GreatHunger
Liverpool Irish Great Hunger Memorial - Liverpool Irish Festival
A Memorial Service to mark the anniversary of An Gorta Mór (The Great Hunger), which lasted 1845-1852 and changed Liverpool forever.
www.liverpoolirishfestival.com
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Irish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social · 4d
❗1 week warning❗Harry Clarke's Windows
Illustrated talk by Gerry Molumby (The Irish Post) on the work of Irish stained glass artist Harry Clarke
🗓️6pm, 15 October 2025
🧭Rendall Building @liverpooluni.bsky.social
🎟️FREE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/harry-clar...
Part of @livirishfest.bsky.social #LIF2025
Harry Clarke’s windows
Gerry Molumby (The Irish Post) leads this hour-long illustrated talk on Harry Clarke's windows.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
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Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place @livuniheseltine.bsky.social · 5d
Just 2 weeks to go until our 2025 annual lecture! Join us for a fascinating discussion on football's relationship with Liverpool, its economy and its people, featuring Keiran Maguire (Associate Professor in football finance) at @liverpooluni.bsky.social and more. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/heseltine-...
Heseltine Institute Annual Lecture 2025: Football and the City
Exploring the role of football clubs in driving regeneration, uplifting communities and sustaining our connection to place.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
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School of the Arts at University of Liverpool @sotauol.bsky.social · 5d
⭐ GLOBAL OPPORTUNITIES WEEK ⭐️

📅 Tues 21 - Tues 28 Oct
🎉 Full week of sessions & workshop
🌍 Global Opportunities Fair - Tues 21 Oct

Discover amazing new cultures and make lifelong friends from across the globe!

Full schedule: liverpool.ac.uk/global-opportunities/global-opportunities-week/
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School of the Arts at University of Liverpool @sotauol.bsky.social · 6d
Happy Monday! This week @thetungauditorium.bsky.social

🎶 Tayo Aluko and Andrew Barney: Black Activist Song Cycle
📅 Wednesday 8 October
🎟️ tinyurl.com/3u9dykk4

🎶 Inspirations - Ensemble 10:10
📅 Wednesday 8 October
🎟️ tinyurl.com/mwz593vu

🎶 Imagine Lennon
📅 Thursday 9 October
🎟️ tinyurl.com/mv3nk66c
Tayo Aluko and Andrew Barney: Black Activist… | The Tung Auditorium
Yoko Ono Lennon Lunchtime Concert Series Baritone Tayo Aluko and composer Andrew Barney present a new song cycle inspired by Black History related to…
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Irish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social · 6d
4th Annual Tony Birtill Lecture
🗣@irishinstitute.bsky.social's Dr Eoghan Ahern on the Impact of the Famine on the Irish Language
🗣️Local historian Greg Quiery on the Great Hunger commemoration memorial
🗓️21.10.
🧭Liverpool Irish Centre
🎟️FREE, no booking required
Part of LIF25 @livirishfest.bsky.social
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Humanities & Social Sciences, UoL @livunihss.bsky.social · 6d
Conducting research in an ethical and just fashion, for all concerned, was the topic of a one-day workshop organised recently by Faculty colleagues. Read about their creative and productive experiences here www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...
Visual notes produced at the Ethics for Social Justice workshop by More than Minutes. Collage by Freddy Sperring whose collage featuring found materials including fragments of work published in Resurgence and Ecologist.
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Victoria Gallery & Museum @victoriagallery.bsky.social · 6d
Tickets still remain for tomorrow's FREE guided tour of @liverpooluni.bsky.social's flagship building at 2pm.

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https://orlo.uk/V7nkt

Tuesday doesn't suit? Then come this Saturday, 11 October at 2pm!

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https://orlo.uk/QS9hX
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University of Liverpool @liverpooluni.bsky.social · 6d
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to all our #TeamLivUni students, staff and alumni celebrating in Liverpool and around the world! 🎉

Watch to see how current student, Effy, is celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival and she tells us what it’s all about! 💙
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Office of Public Works @opwireland.bsky.social · 8d
Step inside Dublin’s architecture

From 11–19 October, participating OPW sites in Dublin will open their doors as part of #OpenHouseDublin 2025, a free festival celebrating design, heritage and the people who build our city.
Find out more at openhousedublin.com

#IrishArchitecture #BuiltHeritage
Grand neoclassical building with a blue-green dome, reflected in a calm river. Text: "Irish Architecture Foundation," "Festival of Architecture," "Open House Dublin 11-19 October."
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Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social · 8d
Seamus Heaney’s Ribbons: A beautiful poem about his sisters, published for the first time and astutely analysed by Dr Rosie Lavan, co-editor of his Colleced Poems with Bernard O’Donoghue, out next week
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
Seamus Heaney’s Ribbons: A beautiful poem about his sisters, published for the first time
The reader is transported by Heaney’s illuminating memory: we’re in a school, a photographer is visiting and the girls are having their picture taken
www.irishtimes.com
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Humanities & Social Sciences, UoL @livunihss.bsky.social · 9d
🎧 Looking for a lunchtime listen? Our latest 'researcher in focus' podcast features Grace Goodwin from our Music Dept sharing her work tackling gender and regional inequalities in the music business. Smash the system here 🤘 creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
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Irish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social · 10d
Room has now been confirmed for this event, so please join Dr James Gallacher and us on 30 October in @liverpooluni.bsky.social's Rendall Building for:
"Gerard Keenan and The Honest Ulsterman"
FREE registration www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1764858010...
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University of Liverpool @liverpooluni.bsky.social · 10d
WATCH | Discover Lightbulb Moments at Tate Hall, @victoriagallery.bsky.social 💡

A free exhibition with 150 objects from the University’s collection and the National Archives, exploring how curiosity sparks creativity. Curator Steve Slack explains more…

#LightbulbMoments #RedbrickReborn
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Irish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social · 10d
Registration for @pmpnconf.bsky.social's next conference, co-organised by our PhD @coffeoglobin.bsky.social, is now open!
🗓️13 & 14 November
🧭ONLINE
🎟️FREE registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
ℹ️ performingmagicinthepremodernnorthconference.wordpress.com/2025-nov-13t...
#medievalsky
Conference schedule for Day 1: WELCOME, DAY 1 (11:00-11:15) Solveig Marie Wang SESSION I – Chair: Solveig Marie Wang (11:15-11:45) Housing Complexes: Domestic Protection in Central Medieval England c.800-1215 – Jennifer Coulton, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford (11:50-12:20) ‘Bewitching Corne’ and other ‘such ridiculous fictions’: Elizabeth Sawyer and Popular Obsessions with Maleficium in Early Modern England – Paul Barret, Independent Researcher (12:25-12:55) The Transformation of Ghosts in the Byland Ghost Stories – Regina Papp, University of Pécs COFFEE BREAK (12:55 – 13:15) SESSION II – Chair: Selu Ita (13:15-13:45) ‘Ley this or set this on her & she shall be deleuryd’: Parturient Women Performing Magic in Late Medieval England – Jessica Boynton, Independent Researcher (13:50-14:20) The Division of Labour between Magicians and the Church in Rus’ and Muscovy – Shannyn L Bald, University of Illinois Conference schedule for Day 2: (11:00-11:05) Jennifer Hemphill SESSION III – Chair: Jennifer Hemphill (11:05 – 11:35) Obtaining Knowledge from the Earth Dweller: Dreams, Earth and Healing Charms from the Icelandic Grimoire Jarðskinna – Kári Pálsson, Independent Research (11:40-12:10) A re-examination of the Icelandic magical staves (galdrastafir) – Roberto Luigi Pagani, Háskóli Íslands / University of Iceland (12:15-12:45) The Galdrabók: practical spells and formulas in the magical material of 17th century Iceland – Giorgia Sottotetti, Independent Researcher COFFEE BREAK (12:45 – 13:00) SESSION IV – Chair: Ségdae Richardson-Read (13:00-13:30) Revisiting Perceptions of Magic in Viking Age Society – Harley Nicole Botham, University of the Highlands and Islands (13:35-14:05) Old Norse Magical Vocabulary: Problems and Potential – Joseph Fenwick, University of Edinburgh (14:10-14:40) The Poetry of Magic: Poetic Techniques in the Jarðskinna Manuscript – Galen Miler-Atkins, Independent Researcher
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Humanities & Social Sciences, UoL @livunihss.bsky.social · 10d
This month's most-read @uk.theconversation.com article from a Faculty colleague is @downham.bsky.social's thoughtful review of a new book exploring the reign of Æthelstan (924 to 939). Check it out here (35,588 readers can't be wrong).
The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom – a deep and nuanced analysis of a complex monarch
A well-rounded view of the king, his government, religion and more.
theconversation.com
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