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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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.
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NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
The Great AI Bubble
Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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This is the illustration accompanying Robert Pinsky's review of Seamus Heaney's Collected Poems in the New York Times... But who the fuck is it supposed to be?
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
This is the illustration accompanying Robert Pinsky's review of Seamus Heaney's Collected Poems in the New York Times... But who the fuck is it supposed to be?
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"Essential services are now digital by default, leaving many older people feeling locked out of their own lives."
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
Opinion: We’ve grown far too comfortable excluding older people from the digital world
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
"Essential services are now digital by default, leaving many older people feeling locked out of their own lives."
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
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Join us online for this year’s Breandán Ó Buachalla Lecture, organised with the support of @nlireland.bsky.social. The lecture, “The harp and the harper in Classical Irish Poetry” will be given by Dr Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh. Registration now open
www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...
www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...
Binn gotha na dtéad
The harp and the harper in Classical Irish Poetry
www.nli.ie
November 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Join us online for this year’s Breandán Ó Buachalla Lecture, organised with the support of @nlireland.bsky.social. The lecture, “The harp and the harper in Classical Irish Poetry” will be given by Dr Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh. Registration now open
www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...
www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...
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This lad.
(Troy Parrott, inner-city Dubliner, only in the team because Evan Ferguson is injured, scores two on Thursday to beat Portugal, says it's the best night of his life. Today he gets three to beat Hungary and put us through to the World Cup playoffs. Last-minute winner too. INCREDIBLE.)
(Troy Parrott, inner-city Dubliner, only in the team because Evan Ferguson is injured, scores two on Thursday to beat Portugal, says it's the best night of his life. Today he gets three to beat Hungary and put us through to the World Cup playoffs. Last-minute winner too. INCREDIBLE.)
Yup Sheriffer!
(Nice one, entire country is crying)
(Nice one, entire country is crying)
November 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
This lad.
(Troy Parrott, inner-city Dubliner, only in the team because Evan Ferguson is injured, scores two on Thursday to beat Portugal, says it's the best night of his life. Today he gets three to beat Hungary and put us through to the World Cup playoffs. Last-minute winner too. INCREDIBLE.)
(Troy Parrott, inner-city Dubliner, only in the team because Evan Ferguson is injured, scores two on Thursday to beat Portugal, says it's the best night of his life. Today he gets three to beat Hungary and put us through to the World Cup playoffs. Last-minute winner too. INCREDIBLE.)
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This year's Christmas cards feature An Cailleach, bringer of winter in Irish tradition. They're available to order at the link below and will begin shipping towards the end of November ❄️
www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
Cártaí Nollag / Christmas Cards - An Cailleach (Goddess Of Winter) — Ciaraíoch Art
Christmas cards featuring the Cailleach, the mythological figure in Irish, Scottish, and Manx tradition who summons winter. She is associated with storms, the landscape, and horned beasts like deer, ...
www.ciaraioch.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
This year's Christmas cards feature An Cailleach, bringer of winter in Irish tradition. They're available to order at the link below and will begin shipping towards the end of November ❄️
www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
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November 16, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Dublin City council covers an area where 600,000 people live. DCC has assigned 3 people to the derelict site levy team. There are €10.5mn of fines uncollected.
November 16, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Dublin City council covers an area where 600,000 people live. DCC has assigned 3 people to the derelict site levy team. There are €10.5mn of fines uncollected.
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New build 3-bed house price
June 2021
Clonard Wexford €175k
Carlow Town €199k
Sligo €175k
Portlaoise €212k
Nov 2025
Clonard Wexford €360k ⬆️106%
Carlow Town €330k (2bed) ⬆️66%
Sligo €270 (duplex) ⬆️54%
Portlaoise €370k⬆️ 75%
Construction tender inflation 2021-25 ≈⬆️28% (SCSI) so it’s not bricks/mortar
June 2021
Clonard Wexford €175k
Carlow Town €199k
Sligo €175k
Portlaoise €212k
Nov 2025
Clonard Wexford €360k ⬆️106%
Carlow Town €330k (2bed) ⬆️66%
Sligo €270 (duplex) ⬆️54%
Portlaoise €370k⬆️ 75%
Construction tender inflation 2021-25 ≈⬆️28% (SCSI) so it’s not bricks/mortar
November 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM
New build 3-bed house price
June 2021
Clonard Wexford €175k
Carlow Town €199k
Sligo €175k
Portlaoise €212k
Nov 2025
Clonard Wexford €360k ⬆️106%
Carlow Town €330k (2bed) ⬆️66%
Sligo €270 (duplex) ⬆️54%
Portlaoise €370k⬆️ 75%
Construction tender inflation 2021-25 ≈⬆️28% (SCSI) so it’s not bricks/mortar
June 2021
Clonard Wexford €175k
Carlow Town €199k
Sligo €175k
Portlaoise €212k
Nov 2025
Clonard Wexford €360k ⬆️106%
Carlow Town €330k (2bed) ⬆️66%
Sligo €270 (duplex) ⬆️54%
Portlaoise €370k⬆️ 75%
Construction tender inflation 2021-25 ≈⬆️28% (SCSI) so it’s not bricks/mortar
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Hot off the press release. My second book is a collection of interviews with Irish writers from Alice Taylor in 1991 to Sebastian Barry, Wendy Erskine, Colum McCann, Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín, John Banville, Emma Donoghue and Anna Burns in 2025. Out April from the Lilliput Press
November 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Hot off the press release. My second book is a collection of interviews with Irish writers from Alice Taylor in 1991 to Sebastian Barry, Wendy Erskine, Colum McCann, Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín, John Banville, Emma Donoghue and Anna Burns in 2025. Out April from the Lilliput Press
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Very happy with this cover for ‘Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955’, which features a detail from Evie Hone’s stained glass window 'Four Green Fields'. This window was originally shown at the New York's World Fair in 1939, but is now found in Government Buildings on Merrion Street
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Very happy with this cover for ‘Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955’, which features a detail from Evie Hone’s stained glass window 'Four Green Fields'. This window was originally shown at the New York's World Fair in 1939, but is now found in Government Buildings on Merrion Street
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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...