Lucy Collins

Wonderful jaunt to the Casimir Markievicz exhibition at @dublincastle.bsky.social - great insight into a generation of Irish artists and intellectuals. Love that photo of Constance and Althea Gyles smoking together! 👏🏻👏🏻 Great work @emilymfg.bsky.social and @katymilligan.bsky.social

Fantastic opportunity to catch up on a great gathering of essays on the many-faceted work of Eilis Ni Dhuibhne. Available until 1 August.

Huge congratulations to Éilís Ní Dhuibhne on her appointment as the new Laureate for Irish Fiction! In May 2024, the IUR published a special issue dedicated to Ní Dhuibhne’s contributions to Irish literature and culture.

Very much enjoyed my conversation with Eoin McNamee at Cairde in sunny Sligo last night.

And thanks to a great audience.

Not a bad sight to see when opening the UCD website… Great news from the Ireland Chair of Poetry @poetryireland.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social

Fulbright Board Quits, Accusing Trump Administration of Political Interference The board of the prestigious program told the State Department it had no right to cancel scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers.

Fulbright board members are resigning “rather than endorse unprecedented actions that we believe are impermissible under the law, compromise U.S. national interests and integrity, and undermine the mission"
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

Following international law on genocide is optional, but you _must_ follow banking guidelines.

🔔 UPDATE: The deadline to apply for the Poetry Ireland Librarian position has been EXTENDED to Sunday, June 8th at 5pm.

Poetry Ireland are seeking a passionate, qualified Librarian to join their team!

✍️Learn more & apply: www.poetryireland.ie/news/poetry-...

#JobFairy @libraryjobs.bsky.social

It’s the week of launches — 3 in 4 days! Very much looking forward to visiting Dublin on Thursday to launch Ben and Rafael’s pamphlets 🚀 hopefully see you there 🐺 @poetryireland.bsky.social

As people voted for the Israeli entry in the Eurovision, this is what the Israeli state was doing #boycotteurovision #endthegenocide #gazagenocide

Below is how it started, but this is how it’s going: a punishment that includes exclusion from democratic participation, handed down because of disrupting democratic so-called decorum. The crime of possible intimidation is punished with actual disenfranchisement

Poetry book of the month: Mind your language Éireann Lorsung’s vibrant debut delights in the slipperiness of the world and the words we use to capture it

Great review of @eireannmor.bsky.social’s new book with @carcanet.bsky.social - in less than a month we can get our hands on it! observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Jane Clarke (@janeclarke.bsky.social) will be reading alongside poet and Poetry Unbound podcast host Pádraig Ó Tuama @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social's Cork International Poetry Festival on Thursday 15 May, 10pm, at Cork Arts Theatre. #corkpoetryfest
www.corkpoetryfest.net/thursday.html

Screenshot from Emily Dickinson Museum's newsletter. Full text: Update: IMLS Grant Terminated On April 9, the Emily Dickinson Museum received notice that a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, a federal agency, had been terminated the preceding day. In 2023, the Museum was awarded a grant of $117,000 by IMLS to digitize records related to its newly catalogued collection and to locate related information in other repositories with Dickinson family materials. The notice states, “IMLS has determined that your grant is unfortunately no longer consistent with the agency’s priorities and no longer serves the interest of the United States and the IMLS Program.” Our work to amplify Emily Dickinson’s revolutionary poetic voice – by opening her family homes to visitors, by interpretive and educational use of her family’s material legacy, by holding up her enduring poetry – continues with support from the Museum’s friends and our unending gratitude.

Digitizing the archives of Emily Dickinson, arguably the United States' most celebrated poet, "no longer serves the interest of the United States."

h/t @pwallinga.bsky.social

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Stop the Deportation, from Germany, of Two Irish Citizens for Palestine Solidarity Roberta Murray and  Shane O’Brien are Irish activists facing deportation from Germany, ordered to leave by April 21, 2025. Two other activists, Cooper Longbottom (US) and Kasia Wlaszczyk (EU) hav...

Please consider signing this #JusticeforPalestine: my.uplift.ie/petitions/st...

Good woman!! 🙌

I'm not a particularly fancy man, but I've been in academia a long time, and I don't recall "don't ever discuss material that's extraneous to the class" ever having been mentioned as a "core tenet" of academic freedom.

bring us your poor, your tired, and your huddled masses so we can stuff them in an unmarked van and ship them to a slave labor camp in an undisclosed location

And a very fine article it is too!

G. & T. Crampton Photograph Archive: Tayto factory

As the UCD Digital Library team work on the new access platform, we are getting to revisit some of our most popular collections. First up is G. & T. Crampton and our favourite image of the Tayto factory. #CramptonBuilt

‘I am floored’: Anne Enright on winning $175,000 Windham-Campbell Prize Booker Prize-winning author becomes eighth Irish writer to win one of the literary world’s most generous prizes

‘I am floored’: Anne Enright on winning $175,000 Windham-Campbell Prize
Booker Prize-winning author becomes eighth Irish writer to win one of the literary world’s most generous prizes
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

YouTube video by DrRobDoggett Yeats's "Lapis Luzuli" (with Barry Sheils)

Join Dr. Rob Doggett and Dr. Barry Sheils for an engaging discussion about W.B. Yeats' poem "Lapis Lazuli!"

Looking for more episodes of Yeats Conversations? Consider subscribing to our Youtube channel today!

#Yeats #Poetry #IrishLiterature #SupportTheArts
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Tamburlaine the Great, by Amanda Bell Two decades with a beloved pet, whose various scrapes and escapades didn't diminish affections

I love this beautiful piece. If anything turns me into a cat person, this will… 💕 #SundayMiscellany @gagebybell.bsky.social www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Abundant Number vol.3, a beautiful print, a flyer for Éireann Lorsung's forthcoming collection Pattern-Book (Carcanet, May 2025), and a flyer for the Dublin Small Press Fair 2025 (more info to come soon)

Abundant Number vol.3 + bonus material, courtesy of @eireannmor.bsky.social. Includes teasers of exciting new things, including something that Éireann and I have planned for later this year

That’s a lovely bit of news. Congratulations 🎊

Horrific news from Gaza about Israeli massacre of innocents during Ramadan. Btw, all of you separating Ukraine and Gaza: Trump will respond to Israel's violation of ceasefire exactly as he will respond to Russia's. By supporting the aggressor.

Come work with me! We’re hiring a one-year 0.5FTE Teaching Fellow in Creative and Cultural Industries Practice. If you’re a creative with strong teaching skills you’d like to develop, within a collegial and supportive dept, do get in touch! Closes 11 March: universityvacancies.com/university-c...

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.

Celebrating the renaming of the Berkeley Library after Eavan Boland at @tcddublin.bsky.social tonight - beautiful speech by Paula Meehan capturing Boland’s commitment to writing and teaching 🎉 #Irishwomenpoets