IWC - We Are Hiring: Programme Administrator
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Delighted! Congrats, Martina
Grrrrr
Little Walter's influence on Derek Mahon has been strangely overlooked. youtu.be/cY7hnRaPJxM?...
Great they had the Aldergrove bus right from their door though …(don’t trigger me on this, we could be here for weeks)
Many congratulations!
‘Both illuminating and wise … The work of a great writer with a deep concern for humanity.’ Eoghan Smith, The Irish Examiner
Delighted to see ESCAPE FROM THE ANTHILL by the singular Hubert Butler reviewed in the Examiner over the weekend 💫
Butler is Ireland’s answer to George Orwell, and his -
You’ll be missed…thanks for all the hard work; appreciated.
Me too…much missed.
My book on failure will be out in April! In Failure Narratives Beyond Redemption, I look at how we talk about failure in public discourse, as well as across film, literature, and performance.
My last commission of the year just disappeared with a pop, so to console myself I'm rereading this.
Aside from anything else, this is the best cover from all Amis's novels when they rejacketed them in a series look about 20 years ago. It's just perfect.
I've written a novel, Experts in a Dying Field. It's out on Penguin Sandycove in June. It's about about a band and a tragedy & art for art's sake & aging & loss & community & Dublin. There's a fox in it. & sheet music. The beautiful cover's by Jack Smyth. You can preorder: linktr.ee/expertsinady...
#TNAConnections Have you had a chance to explore our newest Gold Seam, Parchment Conquest (1171–1307)?
150 years ago Henry Savage Sweetman published the first of five volumes that would become foundational to the study of medieval Ireland.
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Book of the Year
Eoin at his best—sentence by sentence. Courageous, stark, & uncompromising.
Taking a true story, he nevertheless creates—like all great writers—his own unique version of that world, complete with its own language, which reveals the truth more clearly than reality can reveal itself.
I back this.
“Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.”
Me on Joyce Cary's great trilogy - Herself Surprised, To Be a Pilgrim and The Horse's Mouth - where we observe the difference between how we see ourselves and how others see us:
Our latest window display to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the arrival of the Pollard Collection of Children’s Books to
@tcddublin.bsky.social
Library.
And...the full-day symposium kicking off now
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Find out more about the Pollard Collection here: bit.ly/449AL54
Oh hey! Thanks to Kevin Smith for a nice mention of the "ticklish deadpan" in Ghost Mountain in today's
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Hat tip
@sarahgilmartin.bsky.social 🙏
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Other half in IT….
very grateful for this kind endorsement for 'Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955' by @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social @qubhistory.bsky.social Prof Fearghal McGarry
📣 Job Vacancy 📣
Teaching Fellow in English Literature
(0.5 FTE, Fixed Term – Spring Semester 2026)
Mary Immaculate College, Limerick
The appointee will have expertise in contemporary English Literature.
Full details: www.mic.ul.ie/about-mic/va...
Closing date: 2pm on Tuesday, 18 November 2025
It is the booksellers who put books into the hands of readers, who host events and signings, who champion Irish writers. Nothing we do would be possible without them.
Support your local bookshops this week - ceannaigh go háitiúil, ceannaigh earraí Éireannacha ❤️
Liking it so far…
A short clip from Leonard and Hungry Paul for those who want a quick peek before tomorrow night.
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Delighted to see the wonderful PHJ properly acknowledged- pictured here with Olivia Manning who was bitterly envious & reviewed her as ‘dreary’.
DRUID THEATRE: FIFTY YEARS by PATRICK LONERGAN 🎭
We are delighted to be publishing this fully-illustrated and authorised history of the iconic institution that is Druid Theatre, written by Patrick Lonergan with a foreword from Fintan O'Toole.
4x4-year, fully-funded PhD opportunities to work with an interdisciplinary group at Trinity College Dublin 2026-2030.
One of these is to work with me on a public history and cultural heritage PhD, in collaboration with one of Dublins most interesting neighbourhoods.
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