Orlaith Darling

On Friday 16 January we will be hosting a one-day conference on LABOUR POLITICS IN WEST BELFAST, 1918-83. Free event - all welcome (in-person and online). www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...

⏱️FOUR MORE WEEKS to submit your abstract to @darlingorlaith.bsky.social and Fionnula Simpson for their upcoming 8-9 June 'Bad Feelings: Sadness and Gender in Contemporary Culture' conference, a research project funded by the UCD Humanities Institute's Seed Funding Scheme.

This sounds great! Send in an abstract!

I would love to, as soon as I am back from perfidious albion of the no fadas and peculiar surnames x

cut to 8 year old me petitioning to change my surname to my mother's maiden name

Sure, I think Lauren Berlant is always a good place to start with this. Any of their books from The Queen of America Goes to Washington City. Or, in a more specifically literary sphere, Rachel Greenwald Smith's 2015 book.

Just saw a student wearing a barbour jacket and a mullet and don't know what to think

Who’s Here? Introducing CRASSH Fellows in Michaelmas Term 2025 - CRASSH A brief introduction to new fellows joining CRASSH this term.

Who's Here? 👋

A warm welcome to:
Dr Audrey Borowski (Cambridge)
Dr Elizabeth Sarah Coles (Pompeu Fabra)
Dr Sheila Crane (Virginia)
Dr @darlingorlaith.bsky.social (UC Dublin)
Dr @kareemestefan.bsky.social (Cambridge)
Dr @fernandag.bsky.social (Cambridge)
Dr Jan Kerkmann (Freiburg)

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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Excellent! Would love to have you

Lauren Berlant: A Michaelmas Reading Group - CRASSH In an early talk about Cruel Optimism, Lauren Berlant describes their critical object: namely, the “desire”, which they perceive as endemic to capitalism, “to have a cluster of feelings in lieu of hav...

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I will be hosting a reading group on the work of Lauren Berlant Oct.-Nov. @crasshlive.bsky.social. Berlant's writing on sentimentality and the public sphere has lots to say to the current moment we're living through + anyone in Cambridge should please join us!

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

Ooh I will absolutely!

Wolfson College Cambridge: Everything’s Fine, Nothing’s Fine: The Sad Girl Novel Why are so many millennial women so sad?

www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/about/events... I will be a visiting fellow at @crasshlive.bsky.social and Wolfson College from Oct-Dec. Come see me talk about my new project at Wolfson Humanities Society! I believe the event will also be MS Team-ed @ucdhumanities.bsky.social

Clare Moriarty: I’ve cracked the afterschool childcare problem. It has cheap coffee, wifi and over-excited toddlers As Dua Lipa pulsed through the soft play centre in Kildare, and I tried to write a lecture on Descartes’ sixth Meditation, I finally experienced the real distinction of mind and body

Clare Moriarty: I’ve cracked the afterschool childcare problem. It has cheap coffee, wifi and over-excited toddlers

Tune in to hear me talk about Research Ireland postdocs (formerly the IRC)

Irish Central Bank will no longer approve Israeli bonds The latest bond prospectus issued by Israel has been approved by Luxembourg and not the Central Bank in Ireland.

srael is no longer seeking approval for issuing bonds through Ireland's Central Bank.

Despite the pathetic Irish Government refusing to formally stop authorising Israeli bonds, the concerted pressure of a popular campaign here led to this outcome.

www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...

the phrase 'crisp rugby shirts' makes me want to boke

Entirely man-made famine.

Like everyone, I am listening to obscene amounts of Oasis recently and would like to have a moment of appreciation for Liam's incredible diction (a fraught topic between myself and my childhood singing teacher)

Fellowship from Bloomsbury for early career academics who are Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...

Absolutely!

People are, I think, simply pick-mes who like to make a personality out of badmouthing critically and popularly acclaimed writers like Rooney. So boring.

Sally Rooney Background Sally Rooney is the author of poetry, short stories, essays,...

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New Literary Encyclopedia entry on Sally Rooney just dropped. A real joy to think about her oeuvre, and a real challenge to fit it into concise entry!

Call out to drop me your favourite love poems🥰

In Ireland, I had to do a health check before registering, but that's because anyone above a certain (very low) income threshold has to pay GP fees and they want to make as much money out of you as possible 😅

Would you like to contribute to the public consultation about the Basic Income for the Arts? 💡

Fill out this survey from Minister O’Donovan at the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

Thrilled that Fionnula and myself have been granted generous funding by @ucdhumanities.bsky.social to run this conference. Anyone interested in women's lit/mental health/disability studies keep your eyes peeled for CfP!

We're pleased to announce funding awarded to 6 projects catalysing research across the CAH Research Strands. The projects are funded by the HI Seed Funding Scheme: CAH Research Strands 2025-2026. We're delighted these projects can be realised and look forward to collaborating with the project leads.

"There is no case since WW2 of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled"

Famine expert Alex de Waal on Israel deliberately starving an entire civilian population