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🥁 COVER REVEAL

WTF HAPPENED: #WakingTheFeminists and the Movement That Changed Irish Theatre
Sarah Durcan with Lian Bell

Out September 2025

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🔗 Preorder at bit.ly/WTF-Happened

#IrishFeminism #FeministMovement #IrishThreatre #NationalTheate #FeministHistory #WomensHistory

It’s nearly off to print! We can’t wait to share this book with you. Stayed tuned this week for a closer look at the front cover 👀

📣 Coming soon from UCD Press…

WTF Happened: #WakingTheFeminists and the Movement That Changed Irish Theatre
Sarah Durcan with Lian Bell
ISBN: 9781739086398

September 2025

#WomeninTheatre #IrishTheatre #IrishPublisher #IrishFeminism @sarahdurcan.bsky.social @lianbell.bsky.social

📚BOOK NEWS 📢

Really thrilled to be working with the wonderful team at @ucdpress.bsky.social to publish my #PhD research on politics and electioneering in County #Kerry in the decade after the Civil War

"From Bullets to Ballots" will be published in September 2025

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🌼 Our Autumn Winter 2025 catalogue is here 🌼

If you weren’t able to pick up a physical copy while attending IASIL in Galway last week, never fear! You can browse our full catalogue online on our website.

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'by far the most detailed account of one of the most stubborn opponents of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921'

Thank you John Bowman @rteradio1.bsky.social for exploring Mary MacSwiney's legacy and @lloislanel.bsky.social's wonderful biography on her

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The Charlie Byrne's team know how to do bookshops....

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Thank you to John Bowman for using my biography of Mary MacSwiney as the hinge for his Bowman on Sunday show @rteradio1.bsky.social on 20 July. It was an honour. @ucdpress.bsky.social

We're all set up for the IASIL Conference here in @universityofgalway Pick up a catalogue, new book or just come say hi 👋

Thank you so much to An Taoiseach @fiannafailparty.bsky.social for launching Mary MacSwiney in the Cork City Hall and to the Lord Mayor, Fergal Dennehy. It was a lovely event.

Great to see naming of one of Cork’s bridges after Mary MacSwiney. Thanks to Councillor Oliver Moran @oliver.ie

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Great day to be signing copies of MaryMacSwiney in Cork #uptherebels
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Thanks to all the wonderful bookshops in Cork City for welcoming us. Get your signed copy of Mary MacSwiney!

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Huge congratulations to author Leeann Lane and many thanks to An Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Cork Lord Mayor Fergal Dennehy, City Council staff and all attendees for a warm homecoming launch for Mary MacSwiney.

Leeann is signing books across Cork bookshops tomorrow - be sure to get a signed copy 📚🖊👏

Our thanks to Margaret Ward and Fortnight Magazine for this generous review of Mary MacSwiney by Leeann Lane.

Join us in two days for the Cork launch with guest speaker Taoiseach Micheál Martin!

ALL WELCOME
🗓️ Friday 18 July 2025
4.00pm at The Council Chamber,
Cork City Hall

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Thank you so very much to @marg50.bsky.social for such a detailed and positive review of Mary MacSwiney @ucdpress.bsky.social
Praise from such a wonderful and rigorous historian as Margaret is unparalleled.

'A woman who refused to be silenced in fight for republican independence'

Thanks to the @irish_examiner for this wonderful exposure of our new biography on Mary MacSwiney in last Saturday's paper.

Mary MacSwiney will have it's Cork launch at City Hall this Friday

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What’s also wonderful is that this book had full support of MacSwiney relatives

A shared heritage - Mary MacSwiney, a very brave and remarkable Irish woman who visited prisoners in #Frongoch and stood her ground in a railway carriage in #Holyhead trying to protect the body of her brother who had died on hunger strike #IrelandWales #Revolution #Empire #Ireland #Wales #Anglesey

Open to read now Leeann and in the Saturday print version. Congratulations 👍

Book extract: Woman who refused to be silenced in fight for republican independence Betrayal of the republic, for Mary MacSwiney, would have meant betrayal of a brother she loved and admired, and it would have been almost impossible for her to think and feel in any other way

Woman who refused to be silenced in fight for republican independence

Thank you @irishexaminer.bsky.social @michaelmoynihan.bsky.social

@lloislanel.bsky.social @homeofdcu.bsky.social @whaireland.bsky.social

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On Friday 18 July in Cork City Hall, Lord Mayor of Cork Fergal Dennehy will host the special launch of Mary MacSwiney, the latest book from Cork author and historian Leeann Lane.

Guest Speaker will be Cork-born Taoiseach Micheál Martin

ALL WELCOME
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Thank you @dubraybooks Grafton St for showcasing After the Train in your bestsellers 👌🌟

'a book to be passed down the generations, with future cultural insurgency in mind'

Thank you @irishtimes.com @martindoyle.bsky.social for this generous review

Read more here

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After the Train: Irishwomen united – a book to be passed down the generations, with future cultural insurgency in mind Inspiring account of IWU, edited by Evelyn Conlon and Rebecca Pelan, has left this reviewer turbocharged for further change

'After the Train: Irishwomen united – a book to be passed down the generations, with future cultural insurgency in mind'

Thank you @irishtimes.com @martindoyle.bsky.social for this generous review

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Two @ucdpress.bsky.social books spotted by @drdeefoley.bsky.social in Charlie Byrne’s Galway. Thank you for sharing Deirdre.