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Adam Hanna

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Senior Lecturer in Irish Literature at University College Cork

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We're delighted to see the annual Law and Humanities roundtable is coming to Ireland for the first time (in association with the @irishhumanities.bsky.social Legal Humanities Working Group).

Congratulations and best of luck to the leads, Rรณisรญn Costello and David Gurnham.

CFP below!

06.11.2025 19:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
2025 Conference of the International Yeats Society - The School of English | Trinity College Dublin

11 days left to submit an abstract for the 2025 International Yeats Society conference, on W. B. Yeats as Dubliner. Trinity College, 30 October - 1 November. tcd.ie/english/rese...

14.08.2025 09:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Law and Literature: The Irish Case | Home Adam Hanna is Lecturer in Irish Literature in the Department of English at University College Cork.

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

Law and Literature: The Irish Case - now in paperback! ยฃ24, so a bit easier on your library budgets

11.08.2025 14:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Pragmatism, Law, and Literature This book uses literary examples to make the case for understanding law and the legal system through the lens of philosophical pragmatism. For pragmatists, experience is everything; they argue against...

Is the legal world really too complicated for any abstraction?
@dkennytcd.bsky.social argues so in his new book 'Pragmatism, Law and Literature' tinyurl.com/yc5spfh3 as reviewed for us by @adamhanna.bsky.social - Find Adam Hanna's review here: doi.org/10.1080/1752...

28.07.2025 10:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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'Jesus, break his fall: // There - but for the clutch of luck - go we all'.

I'm sorry to read Paul Durcan has died: his books had so much whimsy and fury, punk and poetry. They brought so much that was new over the threshold.

18.05.2025 09:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Yesterday writers, lawyers and academics met in the Abbey's Peacock Stage to discuss Sophocles' Antigone. Dialogues between Darren Murphy and Eugene McNulty; Marina Carr and Melissa Sihra; Carlo Gรฉbler and Paul Delaney. Thanks to everyone who came along. @irishhumanities.bsky.social

02.05.2025 09:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The Legal Humanities Working Group: An Introduction | Irish Humanities Alliance The legal humanities are a global phenomenon; the newly-established Legal Humanities Working Group in the Irish Humanities Alliance is interested in the ways in which they have been, and continue to b...

The legal humanities are a global phenomenon. Read why the IHA now has an established working group in this area from our WG Co-Chair @adamhanna.bsky.social @ucc.ie

www.irishhumanities.com/blog/the-leg...

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I've written a short piece on Michael Longley - less an obituary than an appreciation.

booksirelandmagazine.com/as-long-as-t...

Pictures: Portrait by Colin Davidson in the National Gallery of Ireland; with Seamus Heaney on the Hill of Tara in 2010.

29.01.2025 13:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

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