Morgan L Ventura (Dr Hilary M V Leathem)
@morganvl.bsky.social
Writer, archaeologist | In Al Jazeera, Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee, F&SF, Best Canadian Essays 21' | Curating a digital repatriation @UniExeter | MA QUB, PhD UChicago | They/She 🏳️🌈 Sicilian-Irish-Egyptian
Arts Council of NI SIAP 2025
Arts Council of NI SIAP 2025
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🏺 An extremely important article from @morganvl.bsky.social about archaeology’s complicity in the current genocide of Palestinians and why archaeologists - and the organisations that claim to represent them - must speak up and refuse to stay neutral. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
Why archaeologists must speak up for Gaza
Archaeology is often a mechanism of power. As such, its scholars have an obligation to speak up against oppression.
www.aljazeera.com
I haven’t posted in a while, but now back after deleting my X in Sept. I’m a writer, poet, & anthropologist of heritage. My piece in @aljazeera.com on the destruction of Palestinian heritage & archeology as a mechanism of power says all you need to know about my views
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Our #BooksoftheYear special includes work by @charlottewood.bsky.social Kevin Curran @lilliputpress.bsky.social @fflurdafydd.bsky.social
@drkkennedy.bsky.social
@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Liadan Ní Chuinn @stingingfly.bsky.social
& @poetrybuspress.bsky.social
thelonelycrowd.org/2025/12/06/b...
@drkkennedy.bsky.social
@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Liadan Ní Chuinn @stingingfly.bsky.social
& @poetrybuspress.bsky.social
thelonelycrowd.org/2025/12/06/b...
Books of the Year 2025 / Part One
Contributors to The Lonely Crowd choose the books they have most enjoyed this year. Part Two follows next week.
thelonelycrowd.org
December 7, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Our #BooksoftheYear special includes work by @charlottewood.bsky.social Kevin Curran @lilliputpress.bsky.social @fflurdafydd.bsky.social
@drkkennedy.bsky.social
@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Liadan Ní Chuinn @stingingfly.bsky.social
& @poetrybuspress.bsky.social
thelonelycrowd.org/2025/12/06/b...
@drkkennedy.bsky.social
@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Liadan Ní Chuinn @stingingfly.bsky.social
& @poetrybuspress.bsky.social
thelonelycrowd.org/2025/12/06/b...
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The first part of our Books of the Year special is now online. Mary Morrissy, Jo Mazelis, Jane Fraser, Tony Curtis, Morgan L. Ventura & Brian Kirk all choose their favourite reads.
thelonelycrowd.org/2025/12/06/b...
thelonelycrowd.org/2025/12/06/b...
Books of the Year 2025 / Part One
Contributors to The Lonely Crowd choose the books they have most enjoyed this year. Part Two follows next week.
thelonelycrowd.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:26 PM
The first part of our Books of the Year special is now online. Mary Morrissy, Jo Mazelis, Jane Fraser, Tony Curtis, Morgan L. Ventura & Brian Kirk all choose their favourite reads.
thelonelycrowd.org/2025/12/06/b...
thelonelycrowd.org/2025/12/06/b...
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It’s been a week since the Archaeological Achievement Awards 💛
We’ve rounded up some moments from the night, and if you’d like to experience the whole thing, you can now watch the ceremony on our blog, meet the shortlisted projects, and discover this year’s winners 👉
We’ve rounded up some moments from the night, and if you’d like to experience the whole thing, you can now watch the ceremony on our blog, meet the shortlisted projects, and discover this year’s winners 👉
Meet the Winners of the 2025 Archaeological Achievement Awards
The Archaeological Achievement Awards, coordinated by the Council for British Archaeology, celebrate the very best of archaeology across the UK and Ireland. On 28 November 2025, we gathered in the…
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December 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
It’s been a week since the Archaeological Achievement Awards 💛
We’ve rounded up some moments from the night, and if you’d like to experience the whole thing, you can now watch the ceremony on our blog, meet the shortlisted projects, and discover this year’s winners 👉
We’ve rounded up some moments from the night, and if you’d like to experience the whole thing, you can now watch the ceremony on our blog, meet the shortlisted projects, and discover this year’s winners 👉
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Celebrating 20 issues and 10 years of @bansheepress.bsky.social yesterday at @booksupstairs.bsky.social
Thank you so much to the @bansheepress.bsky.social & @booksupstairs.bsky.social teams, and to all our writers and readers. It was a magical night ✨️
Thank you so much to the @bansheepress.bsky.social & @booksupstairs.bsky.social teams, and to all our writers and readers. It was a magical night ✨️
December 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Celebrating 20 issues and 10 years of @bansheepress.bsky.social yesterday at @booksupstairs.bsky.social
Thank you so much to the @bansheepress.bsky.social & @booksupstairs.bsky.social teams, and to all our writers and readers. It was a magical night ✨️
Thank you so much to the @bansheepress.bsky.social & @booksupstairs.bsky.social teams, and to all our writers and readers. It was a magical night ✨️
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STATE, IN RELATION. My piece - Word Rain - is designed to be read multiple ways. Launching Sunday 14th at TBG+S, and available to buy at Dublin Art Book Fair.
📸: @sonyagildea.bsky.social
📸: @sonyagildea.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
STATE, IN RELATION. My piece - Word Rain - is designed to be read multiple ways. Launching Sunday 14th at TBG+S, and available to buy at Dublin Art Book Fair.
📸: @sonyagildea.bsky.social
📸: @sonyagildea.bsky.social
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#FindsFriday A mystery stone head on display at Castell Henllys Iron Age fort in Pembrokeshire, found locally in north Pembrokeshire
Not a typical 'Celtic' head but nonetheless possesses many features which could suggest an Iron Age date 🧐🤔
📷 My own, last week
Not a typical 'Celtic' head but nonetheless possesses many features which could suggest an Iron Age date 🧐🤔
📷 My own, last week
December 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
#FindsFriday A mystery stone head on display at Castell Henllys Iron Age fort in Pembrokeshire, found locally in north Pembrokeshire
Not a typical 'Celtic' head but nonetheless possesses many features which could suggest an Iron Age date 🧐🤔
📷 My own, last week
Not a typical 'Celtic' head but nonetheless possesses many features which could suggest an Iron Age date 🧐🤔
📷 My own, last week
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Irish Writers Centre: National Mentoring Programme 2026
Applications deadline: 31st December 2025 Applications for the Irish Writers Centre’s acclaimed National Mentoring Programme (NMP) are now open. This highly regarded scheme offers writers across the island of Ireland the opportunity to…
Applications deadline: 31st December 2025 Applications for the Irish Writers Centre’s acclaimed National Mentoring Programme (NMP) are now open. This highly regarded scheme offers writers across the island of Ireland the opportunity to…
Irish Writers Centre: National Mentoring Programme 2026
Applications deadline: 31st December 2025 Applications for the Irish Writers Centre’s acclaimed National Mentoring Programme (NMP) are now open. This highly regarded scheme offers writers across the island of Ireland the opportunity to receive sustained creative and professional support from an established Irish writer of their choosing. Now entering its ninth year, the programme has played a transformative role in the development of many emerging voices.
www.writing.ie
December 3, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Irish Writers Centre: National Mentoring Programme 2026
Applications deadline: 31st December 2025 Applications for the Irish Writers Centre’s acclaimed National Mentoring Programme (NMP) are now open. This highly regarded scheme offers writers across the island of Ireland the opportunity to…
Applications deadline: 31st December 2025 Applications for the Irish Writers Centre’s acclaimed National Mentoring Programme (NMP) are now open. This highly regarded scheme offers writers across the island of Ireland the opportunity to…
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The Anacé Indigenous people are protesting TikTok’s construction of the largest data center in Brazil. english.elpais.com/internationa...
The Anacé Indigenous people are protesting TikTok’s construction of the largest data center in Brazil
The native people, who fear the social and environmental impact of the project, accuse the company of not consulting them about installing multi-billion dollar infrastructure on their traditional land...
english.elpais.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:51 AM
The Anacé Indigenous people are protesting TikTok’s construction of the largest data center in Brazil. english.elpais.com/internationa...
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I’m honoured to have hosted the Council for British Archaeology’s (@archaeologyuk.bsky.social) Archaeological Achievement Awards in Belfast this past Friday. It was a lovely evening celebrating extraordinary archaeologists across the UK & Ireland. All the projects were so well-deserving!
December 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I’m honoured to have hosted the Council for British Archaeology’s (@archaeologyuk.bsky.social) Archaeological Achievement Awards in Belfast this past Friday. It was a lovely evening celebrating extraordinary archaeologists across the UK & Ireland. All the projects were so well-deserving!
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December 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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For anybody with a disability considering a PhD -
Trinity College Dublin is offering a new award/scholarship and it is very generous - the *dream* thing if you are ready to start your studies next year
tcdie-lb01-production.terminalfour.net/graduatestud...
Trinity College Dublin is offering a new award/scholarship and it is very generous - the *dream* thing if you are ready to start your studies next year
tcdie-lb01-production.terminalfour.net/graduatestud...
TRDA Student with Disability - Graduate Studies | Trinity College Dublin
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December 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
For anybody with a disability considering a PhD -
Trinity College Dublin is offering a new award/scholarship and it is very generous - the *dream* thing if you are ready to start your studies next year
tcdie-lb01-production.terminalfour.net/graduatestud...
Trinity College Dublin is offering a new award/scholarship and it is very generous - the *dream* thing if you are ready to start your studies next year
tcdie-lb01-production.terminalfour.net/graduatestud...
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Happy to report that the author copies of the shelf-ready version of the book have landed on my doorstep from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social! Feel very grateful to be with my favourite publisher 🙏 Next up is the launch in Belfast on January 29! (Deets in due course). 🤍💙
December 2, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Happy to report that the author copies of the shelf-ready version of the book have landed on my doorstep from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social! Feel very grateful to be with my favourite publisher 🙏 Next up is the launch in Belfast on January 29! (Deets in due course). 🤍💙
I’m honoured to have hosted the Council for British Archaeology’s (@archaeologyuk.bsky.social) Archaeological Achievement Awards in Belfast this past Friday. It was a lovely evening celebrating extraordinary archaeologists across the UK & Ireland. All the projects were so well-deserving!
December 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I’m honoured to have hosted the Council for British Archaeology’s (@archaeologyuk.bsky.social) Archaeological Achievement Awards in Belfast this past Friday. It was a lovely evening celebrating extraordinary archaeologists across the UK & Ireland. All the projects were so well-deserving!
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Folks, Ragaire is open for submissions for Issue 5! Send us your best poems, short stories and essays! We can't wait to read them!
December 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Folks, Ragaire is open for submissions for Issue 5! Send us your best poems, short stories and essays! We can't wait to read them!
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My ‘Histories of Egyptology’ edited volume featuring lots of lovely people is currently on sale: www.routledge.com/Histories-of...
Histories of Egyptology: Interdisciplinary Measures
Histories of Egyptology are increasingly of interest: to Egyptologists, archaeologists, historians, and others. Yet, particularly as Egypt undergoes a contested process of political redefinition, how ...
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November 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
My ‘Histories of Egyptology’ edited volume featuring lots of lovely people is currently on sale: www.routledge.com/Histories-of...
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I can feel people’s eyes rolling every time I post something like this
But because I am a sentimental idiot and like the idea of somebody getting my books in 60 years from a secondhand shop when I am long dead, I always write inside my books
(Heaney quote inscribed bog oak pen/UCD graduation)
But because I am a sentimental idiot and like the idea of somebody getting my books in 60 years from a secondhand shop when I am long dead, I always write inside my books
(Heaney quote inscribed bog oak pen/UCD graduation)
November 29, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I can feel people’s eyes rolling every time I post something like this
But because I am a sentimental idiot and like the idea of somebody getting my books in 60 years from a secondhand shop when I am long dead, I always write inside my books
(Heaney quote inscribed bog oak pen/UCD graduation)
But because I am a sentimental idiot and like the idea of somebody getting my books in 60 years from a secondhand shop when I am long dead, I always write inside my books
(Heaney quote inscribed bog oak pen/UCD graduation)
Thank you so much, @ranylt.bsky.social - and to remember Dr Ormeau on my birthday (& at an archaeology ceremony in Belfast!) Feels v serendipitous! I loved working on this story & love Lackington’s.
Verily, I’m in the mood to revisit a classic Lackington’s-style tale of epistolary fabric, this one by @morganvl.bsky.social, with artwork by Marlo Musa. Some days I really miss the less-traditional stories we loved to publish. And our host of anthropologist contributors. shorturl.at/lLDcx
Dr. Ormeau’s Botanical Menagerie, by Morgan L. Ventura
The following is an assemblage of newspaper clippings, letters, court transcripts, and ethnographic logs from both Dr Sidney Ormeau, a botanist, and Dr Agnes Fortune, an anthropologist dispatched b…
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November 29, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Thank you so much, @ranylt.bsky.social - and to remember Dr Ormeau on my birthday (& at an archaeology ceremony in Belfast!) Feels v serendipitous! I loved working on this story & love Lackington’s.
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Verily, I’m in the mood to revisit a classic Lackington’s-style tale of epistolary fabric, this one by @morganvl.bsky.social, with artwork by Marlo Musa. Some days I really miss the less-traditional stories we loved to publish. And our host of anthropologist contributors. shorturl.at/lLDcx
Dr. Ormeau’s Botanical Menagerie, by Morgan L. Ventura
The following is an assemblage of newspaper clippings, letters, court transcripts, and ethnographic logs from both Dr Sidney Ormeau, a botanist, and Dr Agnes Fortune, an anthropologist dispatched b…
shorturl.at
November 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Verily, I’m in the mood to revisit a classic Lackington’s-style tale of epistolary fabric, this one by @morganvl.bsky.social, with artwork by Marlo Musa. Some days I really miss the less-traditional stories we loved to publish. And our host of anthropologist contributors. shorturl.at/lLDcx
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Only a few hours left until we come together with archaeologists across the UK and Ireland to celebrate the 2025 #ArchaeologicalAchievementAwards!
You can join us and cheer on the winners from home by watching our live-stream, starting 8 pm today 👉 www.youtube.com/live/GA6_QaE...
You can join us and cheer on the winners from home by watching our live-stream, starting 8 pm today 👉 www.youtube.com/live/GA6_QaE...
Archaeological Achievement Awards 2025
YouTube video by Council for British Archaeology
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November 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Only a few hours left until we come together with archaeologists across the UK and Ireland to celebrate the 2025 #ArchaeologicalAchievementAwards!
You can join us and cheer on the winners from home by watching our live-stream, starting 8 pm today 👉 www.youtube.com/live/GA6_QaE...
You can join us and cheer on the winners from home by watching our live-stream, starting 8 pm today 👉 www.youtube.com/live/GA6_QaE...
Birthday coffee! And then to have the incredible honour of hosting the Council for British Archaeology’s annual Archaeological Achievement Awards!
November 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Birthday coffee! And then to have the incredible honour of hosting the Council for British Archaeology’s annual Archaeological Achievement Awards!
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My cat Meowzilla sometimes looks like a luckdragon — or the most perfect Ratzilla
November 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
My cat Meowzilla sometimes looks like a luckdragon — or the most perfect Ratzilla
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The WINNER of the 2025 @thejournal.ie Best Irish-Published Book of the Year is...
Ninety-Nine Words for Rain (and One for Sun), Manchán Magan, Illustrated by Megan Luddy (Gill Books)
#APIBA #StoriesMakeUs
Ninety-Nine Words for Rain (and One for Sun), Manchán Magan, Illustrated by Megan Luddy (Gill Books)
#APIBA #StoriesMakeUs
November 27, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The WINNER of the 2025 @thejournal.ie Best Irish-Published Book of the Year is...
Ninety-Nine Words for Rain (and One for Sun), Manchán Magan, Illustrated by Megan Luddy (Gill Books)
#APIBA #StoriesMakeUs
Ninety-Nine Words for Rain (and One for Sun), Manchán Magan, Illustrated by Megan Luddy (Gill Books)
#APIBA #StoriesMakeUs
CMAT - Where Are Your Kids Tonight feat. John Grant (Official Video)
YouTube video by CMAT
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November 27, 2025 at 12:34 AM
My cat Meowzilla sometimes looks like a luckdragon — or the most perfect Ratzilla
November 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
My cat Meowzilla sometimes looks like a luckdragon — or the most perfect Ratzilla
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people always stereotype Canadians as being polite, and its not true at all. We are passive-agressive weirdos who live in isolated weird places and the sooner we make peace with that the better
November 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
people always stereotype Canadians as being polite, and its not true at all. We are passive-agressive weirdos who live in isolated weird places and the sooner we make peace with that the better