Bernice M. Murphy

Needs must, I suppose!

Looks great: all you need is one of these -

I really adored this - 'Brian' by Jeremy Cooper (2023). Really moving & affirming short novel about an isolated man whose life gradually transforms after he joins the BFI & becomes ever more absorbed in the world of film.

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Podcasting Fear: Conversations with Irish Podcasters Join the INGHS in conversation with leading Irish podcasts in the fields of horror, the gothic, and the weird.

Join us on 25th February at 7 pm Irish Time for the first of our discussions with Irish podcasters! We'll be talking to folks from Petrified & Scream Queens about their work, the genre, and the practice of podcasting. This online event is free & open to all (registration necessary). bit.ly/4qufUTv

Basic Income for the Arts scheme to be made permanent The Government has announced details of a new permanent Basic Income for the Arts (BIA) scheme, which will succeed the pilot programme introduced in 2022.

Such good news - basic Income for Artists to become permanent: www.rte.ie/culture/2026...

“There are places in the Pacific almost as far away as another star.”

STRANGE SOUTH SEAS | Beatrice Grimshaw

#StrangeStoriesbyIrishWomen

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Really enjoyed seeing Friedkin's Sorcerer for the first time at the Lighthouse this afternoon: it looked amazing in new 4k restoration. Rain, sweat & driving peril so realistic you feel unpleasantly damp just watching it...

The plenary speakers have just been announced! And a reminder that the CfP for the 18th biennial conference of the International #Gothic Association closes on the 31st of January. hullgothic.wordpress.com @igagoths.bsky.social @gothicstudies.bsky.social

One of the reasons why I love ‘Arrival’ is because it suggests that with adequate whiteboard access, academics can save humanity

New BARS Digital Event Announcement: Re-reading the Minerva Press

Taking place 22 Jan 2026, 6pm GMT

For more info and to register for the Zoom link:
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6265

THE DARK RETURN OF TIME by R. B. Russell is a title in our catalogue occasionally overlooked.

It's an uncanny tale for bibliophiles: It concerns an antiquarian bookshop in Paris. One day a gentleman enters the shop searching for a book that should not exist.

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A proclivity for producing v large tomes must run in the family...

The miniseries is so good from the outset that hopefully it would gain traction!

Beginning 2026 with a Battlestar Galactica rewatch: still, for the most part, fantastic.

Last day today to download this fascinating sounding book in this great series

Great detail!

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Oooh!!!

Christy Nolan posthumously awarded degree from TCD Poet and author Christy Nolan, who died in 2009, has been posthumously awarded a degree from Trinity College Dublin (TCD).

This was a really special event: www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

Great line-up in this beautifully designed new anthology from @helleborezine.bsky.social including a new South Armagh-set horror story from my v talented brother Eóin Murphy @ragemonki.bsky.social

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📣 Trinity College Dublin is hiring 2 #tenuretrack Assistant Professors in Sociology.

👉 Environmental Sociology. Closing Dec 1
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👉 Gender and Sexuality. Closing Dec 2
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Very happy with this cover for ‘Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955’, which features a detail from Evie Hone’s stained glass window 'Four Green Fields'. This window was originally shown at the New York's World Fair in 1939, but is now found in Government Buildings on Merrion Street

Poster for Del Toro's Frankenstein with a glowering creature shrouded in darkness

It's gorgeous - see on the big screen if you can!

IT’S HERE! Our first volume of strange and supernatural stories for the darker half of the year. Nine new tales by masters of the genre: Ramsey Campbell, Helen Grant, Reggie Oliver, Ally Wilkes, Steve Toase, Verity Holloway and more.

👉🏼 Get your copy on www.helleborezine.com

Poster for the film Strange Harvest. Strange symbol in red and a creepy mask wearing killer

Now streaming - ‘Strange Harvest’ is a really effective mash-up of true crime mockumentary & occult horror film.

Green grass and a 17th century burial marker with writing in olf Irish script.

Visited Urney Graveyard - gorgeous historical ground in North Louth - in honour of All Soul's Day.