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Ghost Conference Alert!! Dr Andrew Sneddon @tait_clodagh and myself are delighted to be organising a conference on historical representations of ghosts at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick in June 2025. CFP attached! Please share! #earlymodern #twitterstorians #emotions #emostorians

We are pleased to announce that the #CFP for the 2025 EFACIS #Conference "Attending to Ireland" is now open! The Conference will take place at Åbo / Turku, Finland, from 8 to 11 May 2025. Find the full CFP at efacis.eu/sites/default/… #irishstudies

The IASIL website is brimming with news CFPs for #IASIL2025 , for EFACIS in Finland, special issue of Eire Ireland, Postdoc jobs, new books, Nordic Irish Studies see more: iasil.org/posts/ #IrishStudies #AcademicTwitter

What has US presidential election campaign shown us about body language? By Dr Chris Fitzgerald Mary Immaculate College (MIC) rte.ie/brainstorm/202…

Such lovely news that UCC Ireland 'Atlas of the Irish Civil War: New Perspectives' has been shortlisted in 2 categories for the An Post Irish Book Awards 2024. Huge credit is due to our superb contributors, the CorkUniversityPress team, publication partner National Library of Ireland, designer Anú Design, & Tourism-Culture-Arts-Gaeltacht-Sport-Media

CFP Special Issue: Island Sound Scales: Working Towards Aural Ecocriticism (edited by Christina Kullberg and Kasia Mika-Bresolin) uu.se/institution/mo… Jonathan Pugh asleuki ACLA KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory Enviro Humanities #islands #ecocriticism #CFP

Congratulations to all the awardees - great to see excellent research from @MIC Arts colleagues, incl Postdoctoral Fellow in English Geraldine Brassil Dr Kathryn Laing and PhD in Geography Evans Amoako Amoah, winner of DFA Conflict Resolution Scholarship John Morrissey #loveirishresearch

My essay on Irish Climate Fiction in The Irish Times yesterday. ‘We are living through the sixth extinction’: How contemporary Irish writers are pointedly addressing the climate crisis ⁦⁦Caoilinn Hughes⁩ ⁦UMass English⁩ ⁦UMass Amherst HFA⁩ irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

Ask your canvassing politicians questions that matter this #GeneralElection! Great work by the Just Transitions Network addressing the real issues that should inform this election and your vote #GE2024

CFP: "Dis/Trusting the Institution(s) of Literature" University College Dublin, Ireland 17-20 June 2025 Keynote speakers: Sarah Brouillette (Sarah Brouillette), Chris Newfield (Christopher Newfield) Full CFP here: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/... Please share widely!

Congratulations to CorkUniversityPress and the editors for this thoroughly-deserved recognition by An Post Irish Book Awards! I'm delighted to have a chapter on the poetry of the Civil War here, richly illustrated by a variety of contemporary and historical artworks.

UCC researcher to lead landmark €2m study into the impact of the Vikings in Europe Dr Tom Birkett English UCC to lead the groundbreaking five year project funded by European Research Council (ERC). independent.ie/irish-news/ucc…

I am so grateful to Research Ireland for the opportunity to pursue this research project on global conflict in Irish cultural practice since the foundation of the state. Thanks to Mary Immaculate College (MIC) for a fabulous evening celebrating staff and student achievements! #loveirishresearch

First official meeting of the Research Ireland-funded PATHOS project team today Mary Immaculate College (MIC)! Excited to work with Dr @juliemoiaussi as Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Leah Smith as PhD scholar on Irish cultural practice and global conflict. Watch this space! #loveirishresearch

A chairde, The #FemFestMIC 2025 committee would like to draw your attention to our upcoming talk by Booker prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo. It will take place on March 10th at 6.30pm in T118 (Limerick campus). Register here (link in bio, also): mic.ul.ie/FemFest

The fall of another great oak of Irish Poetry - RIP Michael Longley bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Delighted the PATHOS Project Website is now live! Watch this space for project events, including our upcoming collaboration with The Glucksman funded by Research Ireland pathos-project.com #loveirishresearch

Looking forward to our Departmental Research Day today Mary Immaculate College (MIC) - have a look at the schedule for a teaser of some of the cutting-edge work-in-progress in our mighty department!

The first stage of PATHOS is a collaboration with Glucksman UCC Ireland funded by Research Ireland. We've hosted participatory workshops with an incredible cohort of literary and visual artists, with co-authored Guiding Principles forthcoming. More collaboration news coming soon!