I've just sent my book on 'Edinburgh's Unruly Women' to the copy editors Routledge Books 🎉 It's so hard to let go of these things! But shout out to the National Museums Scotland for the amazing image:

University showcases and celebrates John McGahern on screen and in photos dlvr.it/T60GFQ

Ww included a few Brendan Kennelly excerpts and poems. 🤗 TCD Research Collections Ciara Daly

You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum that raised me

Getting excited for International Literature Festival Dublin! Two events booked so far!

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Making John McGahern’s That They May Face the Rising Sun into a movie: ‘I remember joking that it’s almost unfilmable’

irishtimes.com/culture/film/2…

Final archive items being set for exhibition opening this Wednesday, 4pm:
'A Deep Well of Want: Photographs and Archives of McGahern Country' cuirt.ie/whats-on/a-dee…

Very proud to launch our Ethical Cataloguing Guidelines for UCD Digital Library. Compiled by our metadata librarian, Órna Roche, this is our commitment to describing material accurately, respectfully, and in a way that will not cause distress or offence. 💻n2t.net/ark:/87925/h19…

Haven't you registered yet? On Thursday, April 25th, at 16:00 [BST]/ 17:00 [CEST] Adam Koszary will give a fantastic talk on how museums could conquer social media. Do not miss it out! Pls register here: bit.ly/3weUDpD

Lovely day for a splash, unless you're Jonah of course! 🐳🚣‍♂️🍦☀️⛱️🎉 Jonah & the whale (aka large fish) from TCD MS 51: digitalcollections.tcd.ie/concern/works/…

From the #Archives :  The inaugural meeting of Galway County Council was held on this day 125 years ago, 22 April 1899; John P Nolan was its first Chairman. The Council minutes from 1899 to 2014 are available free @ galway.ie/digitalarchives  #EYA #history
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Congratulations to all the students elected to Scholarship this morning! We are so proud of you 🎉On this Trinity Monday, we'd like to remember Olive Purser, first female scholar Trinity College Dublin who was named in recognition of all her work for female students in 1906. Trinity Women Grads

Revisiting …. for the day that’s in it. BrendanKennellyTrust

#ATimeForVoices

Extracts from Brendan Kennelly's reading at the Irish Writers' Centre, Dublin, 10th May 2012.

Link to listen here ❤️ 🎧
youtu.be/eO_E-j7ARbc?fe…

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Increase, don’t cut, funding for the National Library, Amgueddfa Cymru, and the Royal Commission.

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TCD Research Collections Ciara Daly English, TCD BrendanKennellyTrust The Library of Trinity College Dublin And here he is on his graduation day with the man with the smile - his father, Timmie, and his mother, Bridie. Both died in 1979, the year before Brendan had the dream that inspired the poem.

Creative writers of fiction! ⁦English, TCD⁩ wants you. It’s tenure track. And we’re very nice.

Today we celebrated an extra special commencement ceremony as 3 of our Library colleagues received Honorary degrees (MAjo) in recognition of their years of service.
Congratulations to Brendan Garrahan, Gerard Garrahan, Teresa Fagan and all who celebrated today. #TrinityCommunity

New exhibition is taking shape ahead of launch next week as part of Cúirt Festival - 'A Deep Well of Want: Photographs and Archives of McGahern Country' featuring the brilliant photography of Paul Butler & a new exhibition of McGahern literary archives.
cuirt.ie/whats-on/a-dee…

To mark Professor Brendan Kennelly's 88th birthday @tcdresearchcoll are sharing an insight into the Brendan Kennelly Literary Archive, a #VirtualTrinityLibrary project.