Tina Morin

It was a pleasure working with all of the contributors as well as a dream editorial team, including co-editor @ellenscheible.bsky.social and LIT general editors @tarac321.bsky.social and Amanda Smith.

Opening with a fantastic introduction by Lisa Coen of @tramppress.bsky.social offering a publisher's perspective on contemporary fiction in Ireland, the issue includes excellent essays by Matt Eatough, Alison Graves, @taylorfollett.bsky.social, @kerstipowell.bsky.social, and Jane E. Dougherty.

Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Volume 36, Issue 4 of Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory

The second section of the special issue of LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory on 'Irish Women's Genre Fiction' has been published!

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Assistant Professor in 18th Century Literature at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin Discover Assistant Professor in 18th Century Literature jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

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Read our letter today published in the Irish Times - regarding the announcement of the 12 members appointed to the National Science Advice Forum.

A book on a desk. The book features the title The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature and the names of its editors. The cover image is A Funeral Procession (1900), by Charles Alfred Mills.

A page of the book with the title ‘Why do you bring your dead bodies littering here?’ The Corpse and the Comic Gothic in Romantic-era Irish Women’s Writing.

My contributor’s copy of this fine collection arrived today. Thank you to the editors, @fearfuljoycuit.bsky.social, Bridget English, and @drreznicek.bsky.social, for including me!

Friends and colleagues in Irish academia! The wonderful Dr Mary McGill has asked me to circulate her @researchireland.ie - funded survey on Exploring experiences of gender-based online abuse among female academics in Ireland - please do share! forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Women, 'Failure' and Academia Women, 'Failure' and Academia examines failures in contemporary academia, and especially the intersections between gender and academic failure. It argues that a…

📢 BOOK GIVEAWAY 2/2: We’re giving one free copy of *Women, 'Failure' and Academia*(Apr 2026). Pls share the book’s URL on your social media (tag me in), to enter the raffle. Until nxt Thrs 5March. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-fai.... #FreeBook #Academia #AcademicPrecarity #Failure

Congratulations, Patrick! Well deserved!

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Irish Romanticism: A Literary History by Claire Connolly – A lively tradition that still has much to teach us Claire Connolly’s ambitious study captures well both the gradual development of Irish Romanticism and its ‘copiousness’

In case you didn't catch it in last Saturday's print edition, my review of Irish Romanticism: A Literary History by Claire Connolly is now up on the Irish Times website.

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Inaugural recipient of the O’Malley Fellowship: Advancing Irish Studies joins 'remarkable community of scholars' in University of Limerick Dr Peter Hession is the first appointee of the new University of Limerick O’Malley Fellowship: Advancing Irish Studies, supported by the Irish American Cultural Institute. Dr Hession, a historian curr...

I very much look forward to welcoming Dr. Peter Hession to @unioflimerick.bsky.social as our inaugural O'Malley Fellow!

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The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society is now inviting applications for its Open Bursary 2026-7. €2000 to support archival research, symposiums/conferences, or publication expenses associated with original work on eighteenth-century Ireland. More information here: www.ecis.ie/2026/01/05/e...

⭐️ Today marks the birthday of Irish writer and republican activist Dorothy Macardle.

On this bank holiday Monday in honour of St Brigid, browse a variety of biographies about women in Irish history under the Gender Studies category on www.ucdpress.ie

I’ll be chatting about chapels in Limerick next Tuesday evening (3rd Feb) - do come along! (Free with student cards) #limerick #speirgorm #skystorians

Pages 20-21 of the Ticket from the Irish Times with a review of Irish Romanticism: A Literary History by Claire Connolly.

Very pleased with my first piece for the @irishtimes.com - a review of @claireconnolly.bsky.social new book, Irish Romanticism: A Literary History. Thank you @martindoyle.bsky.social for the opportunity!

I’ve had the unenviable task of writing some reviews lately for which it was hard to find words both true and kind, so it was a DELIGHT to be invited to review @books-borrowing.bsky.social for @abojournal.bsky.social. Review free to read here: digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcont...

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Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences - School of History and Geography- University of Limerick #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/search/histo...

Dream job for somebody!

My flights are booked! I'm off to Notre Dame later this spring to complete research on my monograph, Irish Gothic in the Global Nineteenth Century, thanks to the Keough-Naughton Library Research Award in Irish Studies. Super excited!

@ndirishstudies.bsky.social @ulenglish.bsky.social

REMINDER: The deadline to apply for the Global Irish Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship is Feb. 27.

👉 apply.interfolio.com/176805

@lcis-leuven.bsky.social @cirishcaceres.bsky.social @aedei.bsky.social @efacis.bsky.social @irishstudieswue.bsky.social @sofeir.bsky.social @intyeatssociety.bsky.social

A gentle reminder that this takes place tomorrow! We'll be talking about our favourite Minerva Press novels and why you should read them, too!

Very much looking forward to 'The Uses of Romanticism' symposium next month at UCC!

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Eeeek so excited! My monograph, ‘Theological Monsters: Religion and Irish Gothic’ is out with University of Wales Press!

www.uwp.co.uk/book/theolog...

Very much looking forward to next Thursday's event! Join us!

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Research Ireland and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) have launched a new research programme that will deliver transformational impact on creative economy research between the UK and Ireland. Deadline to apply is 24th March 2026. For more visit: www.researchireland.ie/funding/crea...

Join us as we talk about our favourite Minerva novels (and do our best to convince everyone to read them)!

Reminder: deadline for submitted applications is 12 Jan!!

Our good friends at the Irish Cultural Centre in Paris are advertising a short-term research fellowship in their old library and historical archives. Check it out at portail.centreculturelirlandais.com/index.php?lv...