Anna Devereux
@annadevs.bsky.social
PhD on Doris Lessing's archive: communism, decolonialism & literary practice, University of East Anglia & the Harry Ransom Center, CHASE-funded
interested in postcolonialism and global anglophone literatures
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interested in postcolonialism and global anglophone literatures
https://mountainsbound.substack.com/
she/her
🇵🇸
I wrote about derelict London and perpetual war in David Gladwell's MEMOIRS OF A SURVIVOR (1981), an accurate and disturbing take on the Doris Lessing apocalypse classic. A must see for Julie Christie heads.
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When Everything Stopped
Watching Memoirs of a Survivor (1981, David Gladwell)
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August 28, 2025 at 8:15 AM
I wrote about derelict London and perpetual war in David Gladwell's MEMOIRS OF A SURVIVOR (1981), an accurate and disturbing take on the Doris Lessing apocalypse classic. A must see for Julie Christie heads.
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Dedicated to the one I hate: Frank McNally on how a book inscription came back to haunt Patrick Kavanagh
Dedicated to the one I hate: Frank McNally on how a book inscription came back to haunt Patrick Kavanagh
Signed first American edition of Tarry Flynn is dedicated to ‘poet and painter’ Brendan Behan
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August 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Dedicated to the one I hate: Frank McNally on how a book inscription came back to haunt Patrick Kavanagh
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Seán Rocks was a lovely man and a great broadcaster. He brought arts programming to life. He'll be very missed.
July 31, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Seán Rocks was a lovely man and a great broadcaster. He brought arts programming to life. He'll be very missed.
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Ah lads, Seán Rocks 💔
July 31, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Ah lads, Seán Rocks 💔
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A plan to evacuate 18 seriously ill children from Gaza to Ireland for potentially life-saving treatment has stalled because of Government concerns about granting special visas to the children’s siblings.
Several children listed for treatment in Ireland have died.
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Several children listed for treatment in Ireland have died.
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Treatment of seriously ill Gaza children in Ireland stalls over visa concerns
Evacuations halted over sibling visas, with several on waiting list dying since scheme announced
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July 4, 2025 at 7:00 AM
"If women ruled the world, there would be no wars. True or false? False, if all the women were Ursula von der Leyen. Because a hawk in sheep’s clothing is still a hawk."
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Justine McCarthy: What gives Ursula von der Leyen the right to egg Binyamin Netanyahu on with his killing crusades?
Von der Leyen is living proof against the foolish notion that women don’t tolerate warfare
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June 27, 2025 at 7:29 AM
"If women ruled the world, there would be no wars. True or false? False, if all the women were Ursula von der Leyen. Because a hawk in sheep’s clothing is still a hawk."
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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Had a lovely time talking Doris Lessing and distrusting the university at @ucddublin.bsky.social Dis/Trusting the Institution(s) of Literature conference last week. Lovely people, panels, and setting: more conferences within walking distance of the sea please 🙏
June 25, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Had a lovely time talking Doris Lessing and distrusting the university at @ucddublin.bsky.social Dis/Trusting the Institution(s) of Literature conference last week. Lovely people, panels, and setting: more conferences within walking distance of the sea please 🙏
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This is happening in two weeks 👀: trustlit.org/dis-trusting...
Dis/Trusting the Institution(s) of Literature 2025 - TRUST
Dis/Trusting the Institution(s) of Literature University College Dublin, Ireland 17-20 June, 2025 A Conference sponsored by Taighde Eireann / Research Ireland If […]
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June 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM
This is happening in two weeks 👀: trustlit.org/dis-trusting...
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“Yippee ki-yay…”
We are excited to tell everyone that Westminster Council decided on May 1st that the Prince Charles Cinema would be included in the list of Assets of Community Value maintained by the Council under section 87 of the Localism Act 2011.
We are excited to tell everyone that Westminster Council decided on May 1st that the Prince Charles Cinema would be included in the list of Assets of Community Value maintained by the Council under section 87 of the Localism Act 2011.
May 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
“Yippee ki-yay…”
We are excited to tell everyone that Westminster Council decided on May 1st that the Prince Charles Cinema would be included in the list of Assets of Community Value maintained by the Council under section 87 of the Localism Act 2011.
We are excited to tell everyone that Westminster Council decided on May 1st that the Prince Charles Cinema would be included in the list of Assets of Community Value maintained by the Council under section 87 of the Localism Act 2011.
delighted by this news! came across this absolute gem by chance in The Last Bookshop, Rathmines a few years ago and was totally bowled over, really one of the best memoirs around
April 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
delighted by this news! came across this absolute gem by chance in The Last Bookshop, Rathmines a few years ago and was totally bowled over, really one of the best memoirs around
huge love to my UEA colleagues out in the picket today! wish I could be with you, sending solidarity from Texas #SaveUEA
A phenomenal turnout for the UEA UCU day of action. Staff and students are making their voice heard, striving for a future for Higher Ed that doesn't look as bleak as it does right now. #SaveUEA #UKHE #StopTheCuts @ucu.org.uk
March 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
huge love to my UEA colleagues out in the picket today! wish I could be with you, sending solidarity from Texas #SaveUEA
"And Foy has written books, though none are published. She thinks she needs a mentor to help with that. She shows me a hardback self-made copy of a book she wrote all about rhubarb." 🩷 what a gorgeous saturday read www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
Dr Lydia Foy: ‘I never got an apology actually. It would be nice to get one’
The trans activist who fought the State for years for the right to change her gender on her birth cert would prefer to ‘talk about me as a person rather than all the baloney with the courts’
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February 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"And Foy has written books, though none are published. She thinks she needs a mentor to help with that. She shows me a hardback self-made copy of a book she wrote all about rhubarb." 🩷 what a gorgeous saturday read www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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Thinking of Ann Lovett today, ##otd 1984, 15yrs old & pregnant, she went to the grotto in Granard where she gave birth to a still born baby boy, she was found sometime later but died shortly after of hypothermia & blood loss. Her story shocked the country #speirgorm www.thejournal.ie/readme/ann-l...
Dr Mary McAuliffe: The details of Ann Lovett's tragic death are still harrowing 40 years on
The historian looks back at the loss of the teenager who died after giving birth in a grotto in Granard, 40 years ago today.
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January 31, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Thinking of Ann Lovett today, ##otd 1984, 15yrs old & pregnant, she went to the grotto in Granard where she gave birth to a still born baby boy, she was found sometime later but died shortly after of hypothermia & blood loss. Her story shocked the country #speirgorm www.thejournal.ie/readme/ann-l...
I have started the inevitable substack to log my time living in the USA. Please read along, like, subscribe, etc. First up, feeling like an alien in New Orleans... open.substack.com/pub/mountain...
Alien
New Orleans, the big American conference, and a list of all I've been reading/watching/eating
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January 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I have started the inevitable substack to log my time living in the USA. Please read along, like, subscribe, etc. First up, feeling like an alien in New Orleans... open.substack.com/pub/mountain...
an English colleague and I were ranting to each other yesterday in the corridor about devastating situation at Cardiff University, when an American colleague came up, asked us what was going on, and replied "Ha, our president is still worse!" 🤷♀️
January 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
an English colleague and I were ranting to each other yesterday in the corridor about devastating situation at Cardiff University, when an American colleague came up, asked us what was going on, and replied "Ha, our president is still worse!" 🤷♀️
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UEA is trying to fire hundreds of my colleagues and insist that they "don't think that students and staff will notice... these are modest changes to our overall budget."
I'm fighting with and for my colleagues at @uea-ucu.bsky.social to save those jobs and build a better future for HE
I'm fighting with and for my colleagues at @uea-ucu.bsky.social to save those jobs and build a better future for HE
January 29, 2025 at 9:26 AM
UEA is trying to fire hundreds of my colleagues and insist that they "don't think that students and staff will notice... these are modest changes to our overall budget."
I'm fighting with and for my colleagues at @uea-ucu.bsky.social to save those jobs and build a better future for HE
I'm fighting with and for my colleagues at @uea-ucu.bsky.social to save those jobs and build a better future for HE
wearing cowboy boots to the archive today
January 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
wearing cowboy boots to the archive today
If you're hanging around #MLA25 I will be presenting Saturday 3.30pm on identity under colonial confinement in Doris Lessing’s archive - would love to see some friendly faces! In exchange I promise some saucy excerpts from Lessing's letters...
January 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
If you're hanging around #MLA25 I will be presenting Saturday 3.30pm on identity under colonial confinement in Doris Lessing’s archive - would love to see some friendly faces! In exchange I promise some saucy excerpts from Lessing's letters...
First book / Last book of 2024
January 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
First book / Last book of 2024
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I love how much Alec Guinness loved Wallace & Gromit
December 25, 2024 at 1:48 PM
I love how much Alec Guinness loved Wallace & Gromit
a lone pint in Slattery's pub, Rathmines
December 21, 2024 at 12:25 PM
a lone pint in Slattery's pub, Rathmines
I'm in great company writing about the Hallmark Christmas industrial complex for Cinema Year Zero's latest issue - out now and free to read! 🎄 cinemayearzero.com/2024/12/12/t...
THE CHRISTMAS HEART
Credit: Hallmark Entertainment Anna Devereux A boy. A close knit community. A missing heart. And… an annual “Luminary Event.” Ever heard of a Luminary Event before? Neither had I, but this te…
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December 13, 2024 at 8:42 PM
I'm in great company writing about the Hallmark Christmas industrial complex for Cinema Year Zero's latest issue - out now and free to read! 🎄 cinemayearzero.com/2024/12/12/t...
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‘Wintry Morning’, London Bridge North (2004) by Ed Gray
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December 13, 2024 at 7:36 AM
‘Wintry Morning’, London Bridge North (2004) by Ed Gray
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