Dr. Kersti Powell

The MHRA has transitioned from Twitter/X and will now use Bluesky to communicate our work. We are excited to contribute to establishing Bluesky as a dynamic, inclusive, and engaging platform for academic exchange and collaboration.

To celebrate this new chapter, we are hosting a book giveaway! 👇

This is very, very good! New Claire-Louise Bennett novel, BIG KISS, BYE-BYE, published by @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social later this week.
You can also find CLB in Tolka Issues Two and Seven . . .

Join us tomorrow eve for the launch of our new podcast series: 'In the Half Light: Voices from Black Ireland'

Featuring podcast curator Dr Phil Mullen in conversation with journalist Caelainn Hogan

⏲️6.30pm
📍Davis Theatre, Arts Building, TCD

www.eventbrite.ie/e/in-the-hal...

The XXX International James Joyce Symposium will be held in beautiful Kraków next June. See you there?! Here's the call for papers: conference.pais.edu.pl

ESTUDIOS IRLANDESES - Irish Studies Around the World If you wish to add your book to this list please contact me _________________________________________________________________________ The Irish Bildungsroman Edited by Gregory Castle, Sarah L. Townse...

Call for reviewers!!
#IrishStudies #AcademicSky
Looking for reviewers for Irish Studies books from around the world for ESTUDIOS IRLANDESES - Irish Studies Around the World

Some of the books I'm hoping to get reviewed below - email me if you are interested!
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Perhaps Anne Haverty's "The Free and Easy" and Paul Murray's"The Mark and the Void" might work?

YouTube video by Annie Andrews Annie Andrews Launch Video: "Unafraid"

I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t.

Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wM...

Image for The Irish Itinerary Podcast Episode 60, Emily Cooper & Dean Fee in conversation with Tim Groenland. Additional info: In their conversation with Tim Groenland, Emily Cooper and Dean Fee discuss the origins of their literary journal, The Pig’s Back, designed as a Donegal-based journal with an international bent. They talk about creating not only an issue, but a beautiful object that stays in people’s minds; blurring fiction and non-fiction; bringing the many literary journals in Ireland together at the Journals Fleadh; and what being edited has thought them as writers and editors.

For the Irish Itinerary Podcast (@efacis.bsky.social), I had a fun chat with Dean Fee and Emily Cooper of @thepigsback.bsky.social about their editing of the magazine, Irish literary journals and the Journals Fleadh, and their own writing:
www.efacis.eu/podcast

Read Jean Baudrillard's 18th-century writings in Middle English? Postmodernism in action?

⚠️Reminder ⬇️

RTÉ Radio 1 presents The Prompt - A new eight-part series showcasing fresh Irish writing, curated by Ireland’s leading literary voices – About RTÉ Featuring guest writers Edel Coffey, Mike McCormack, Sinéad Moriarty, Dave Rudden, Caoilinn Hughes, Lucy Caldwell, Belinda McKeon and Wendy Erskine Sunday 25 May at 7.30pm on RTÉ Radio 1  This Sunday ...

RTÉ Radio 1 presents The Prompt – A new eight-part series showcasing fresh Irish writing, curated by Ireland’s leading literary voices
about.rte.ie/2025/05/23/r...

Google AI overview: Several notable Irish poets have died at relatively young ages. One example is John Keats, who died in Rome at the age of 25 from tuberculosis. Another is Rupert Brooke, a highly admired poet, who died at 27 during World War I. Brendan Behan, a celebrated playwright and poet, passed away at the age of 41.

One for the Romantic Studies crowd...

SJu students in conversation with Caoilinn Hughes

It was an immense pleasure and privilege to host @caoilinnhughes.bsky.social at SJU! Our students loved The Alternatives, and it sparked many conversations about climate change, the nature of democracy, and siblinghood. Thanks so much for visiting our campus, Caoilinn!

Hot off the [SU] Press! Available in the US now, with a companion edition available everywhere else this fall! Congrats Anna, Ellen, and contributors!

@cauverymadhavan.bsky.social did a generous giveaway of bookmarks & her previous novels when visiting my class prior to her well-attended public reading of her new novel, "The Inheritance" @uconn.bsky.social

It’s here! Hooray! Many congrats to Joe Valente and Seán Kennedy and all contributors. I can’t wait to read it (My article is on Caitriona Lally’s Eggshells!).

Cauvery Madhavan at Saint Joseph's University

Cauvery Madhavan signing books for SJU students

Cauvery Madhavan event at SJU

It was an enormous pleasure and privilege to host @cauverymadhavan.bsky.social at Saint Joseph's University! Our students were blown away by her kindness, generosity, and warmth. And, of course, all of us just loved The Inheritance!

Congrats, Caroline!!

Oh, I'm so glad that you liked The Alternatives, Tim! Looks like Caoilinn will be visiting our campus later this semester, so - if you're anywhere around Philly this April - do come along!

New deadline for abstracts for the 2025 EFACIS Conference, "Attending to Ireland", is 7 February 2025!

Åbo / Turku, Finland, 8-11 May 2025

Full Call for Papers: www.efacis.eu/sites/defaul...

You can find more information on the Conference website (blogs2.abo.fi/naes-efacis2...).

The Gruffalo or anything else by Julia Donaldson!

It would be fantastic if you could also include @efacis.bsky.social and their Irish Itinerary podcast?

The Best Irish Novels From the Past 15 Years Which works by Sally Rooney, Colm Toibin, and Claire Keegan among others, reign supreme?

I contributed my tuppenceworth to this. www.vulture.com/article/best...

I’ve updated this #StarterPack as more people join #BlueSky.

This one has Northern Ireland politicians, journalists & political commentators.

Send through any recommendations or anyone you spot that I should include.

go.bsky.app/SGhfVQV

📢The first deadline for IASIL 2025 is fast approaching!

⏰⏰Nov 27th! ⏰⏰

On-site accommodation opening in December!

IASIL GALWAY 2025
21-25 July
Technology and Ireland
University of Galway
#IrishStudies #PhDChat

CFP HERE:
www.iasil.org/conference-2...

#contemporaryirishwriters #writers #books #authors

I'm making this active travel and public transport starter pack for Ireland. Who else should I add to the list? go.bsky.app/4totAya

The Routledge History of Irish America: A vast and comprehensive study of all aspects of the Irish-American experience Vigorous and critically minded history proves that the shifting and sometimes contradictory ‘social construct’ of Irish America cannot be reduced to one singular identity

Great review in Irish Times this morn of the Routledge History of Irish America edited by Cian McMahon & Kathleen Costello-Sullivan — sounds like a mighty collection of essays!
#irishstudies

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

It was such a pleasure to interview Colin Walsh for the EFACIS Irish Itinerary podcast! If you haven't read Kala, you're in for a treat! #Irishliterature, #Lit/CulturalStudies, #IrishStudies