How Irish Traveller stories link us to the natural world. The traditional knowledge contained in Mincéir stories may help us to reconnect with the natural world, write Anne Marie Kavanagh & Caitriona DCU Institute of Education @DCU rte.ie/brainstorm/202…

Claire: You once shared the 2007 transcript of Juanita Casey's “Remembered Words” interview with me, which seeded a Tramp Press reissue bit.ly/3ZTfAP Thank you!

Our next Irish Studies seminar is on Tuesday 7 May at 4.30. Our visiting Boston College fellow Rachael Young will speak on community murals in Brixton and Belfast. In-person and online - register at seminar-rachael-young-tickets-881056101517 Irish Studies at Boston College HAPP at Queen's

How exciting to have a new open-access issue of RISE from EFACIS on 'Remapping Irish Literary and Cultural Landscapes'! Thanks to the efforts of Seán Crosson & Sylvie Mikowski & Sien Deltour, among others. I reviewed Yeats Revisited from David Pierce: risejournal.eu/index.php/rise….

This book published in Ireland 1977. I silently say a thank you so frequently for the abolition of VAT on books. I think it’s a huge and acknowledged factor in the development of literature in Ireland over the last 45 years! Great story(ies) behind it too!

So happy I had the opportunity to chat with the wonderful Mary McGlynn for New Books in Irish Studies on the New Books Network 📚 about her excellent new book, Broken Irelands published by Syracuse U Press. Please check out the podcast here: newbooksnetwork.com/broken-irelands

TertuliaBooksWestport I wouldn’t have a clue either . But I can tell you from first hand experience it’s a cracking little book shop and if your down that part of the country folks , it’s well worth a visit, you won’t be disappointed! 🥰

I've been looking out for copies of Irish domestic science bible 'All in the Cooking', and found a (slightly mildewed and battered) copy of vol 1 today. With 3 bonus inserts that along with the book say a bit about women's lives in 1950s/60s...

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📣 #TOEBI 2024 #CFP #medievaltwitter #OldEnglish
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In today’s The Observer, the Irish Government is advertising its Payment Scheme for those spent time in ‘Mother and Baby’ institutions. The application process is said to be a straightforward one. Details below.

Why I wrote Dirty Linen: recording the toll the Troubles took on my parish, the long tail of trauma. How faint a trace our commonplace atrocities leave on the historical record and national consciousness, yet how indelibly they mark the lives left behind. irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

A German travel book has included us in its new guide to Ireland, not sure what they have said but I'm sure it's all good 👍 #abookshoplikenoother

The Alternatives publishes in the UK + IRL on Thursday. I’m grateful to Niamh Donnelly for this gracious, thoughtful interview in Irish Times Magazine. Print interviews do give me the heebie-jeebies, so it makes a difference when there’s a kind reader on board.
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Claire Kilory's Women’s Prize for Fiction nomination is fab. The response to her work on this global fiction of motherhood panel was intense

Anne Enright and Claire Kilroy shortlisted for Women’s prize for fiction hotpress.com/competitions/a…

So far I have only read one, Soldier Sailor, and it was one of the most stunning things I've ever read (and completely broke me). I'm looking forward to discovering the rest of this list, but so glad that Claire Kilroy made it to the SL 💖

Huge congrats to the #WomensPrize shortlisted authors! And extra congrats to Claire Kilroy who was with us at ILFD last year 🫶

Book 20 #clairekilroy #soldiersailor A stream of consciousness memoir from mother to son as she recounts her deepest love and darkest moments of early motherhood This exquisite, unreliable narrator captures the exhausted mind perfectly. Darkly funny, raw and relentless. Loved.

Our heartiest congratulations to all the shortlisted authors, especially the two Irish nominees, Anne Enright and Claire Kilroy! These six novels are truly brilliant, spellbinding, and deeply original.
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