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Great CFP for next summer’s IASIL conference - looking forward to heading westward! IASIL Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway

Jesus, Mary and Joseph, I can think of about 20 women poets/academics/literary critics - many of whom wear all of these hats - who could speak authoritatively about #eavanboland but now, we have Diarmuid Ferriter yet again Today with Claire Byrne

I genuinely don't remember making you all this stupid.

We were delighted to welcome writer Seán Hewitt Seán Hewitt to the museum today to read an extract of De Profundis to mark 170 years since the birth of Oscar Wilde, as well as the announcement of a new exhibition on Wilde which will run from March 2025.

Wishing our dear friend Paul Durcan a happy 80th birthday - and in gratitude for the brilliant poetic gifts he has given us over the decades. Here he is with SH in 1992. Pic by FRANK MILLER and The Irish Times

This ⬇️ #uncannylikeness

Photobombing Giraffe 😅

Loved talking to the wonderful Dr Victoria Kennefick (She/Her)🍉 about her latest collection #Egg/shell, her evolving writing practice, women’s bodies (again!) and all kinds of wildness. She’s brilliant! #Irishpoetry Carcanet Press

Well worth listening to @KathleenMacM & @roisiningle discuss why the naming of Mary Lavin Place at Wilton Park is so important. ✍️Open to the public from this afternoon as well as the newly restored one-acre Victorian Park. Meticulous work from @IPUT_plc 👏 #marylavinplace

💙💛 Professor Tom Garvin: 1944 - 2024 With deep sadness, the UCD community mourns the loss of Emeritus Professor Tom Garvin, Professor of Politics at University College Dublin from 1991 - 2008. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam. irishtimes.com/ireland/educat…

Lucky #ABEI to have Catherine Phil MacCarthy on your hands! Looks like a great symposium #IrishStudies #IrishPoetry

On Monday night, President Higgins read Paul Durcan's poem ‘The Haulier's Wife Meets Jesus on the Road Near Moone’ as part of the event Paul Durcan: 80 at 80 presented by Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann and Gate Theatre to celebrate the poet's 80th birthday

Banning UNRWA is not just about allegations of staff members bring connected to Hamas. It’s about the fact that UNRWA legitimises Palestinians’ refugee status and the ‘right to return’ to what is now Israel. There is more to this than meets the eye.

Well worth your time ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ #poetrypeople #Warpoetry #StopTheGenocide #IsraellsAnApartheidState

📢LATEST ISSUE📢Terry Gunnell explores the collaborative relationships between Irish writers Thomas Crofton Croker & Thomas Keightley, artists Daniel Maclise & William Henry Brooke, & fairy collections, evincing the powerful dimensions artwork gave these stories & beliefs

Dear friends in the US, please read this and share it as much as you are able. Thank you. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

“I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.” ― Seamus Heaney

This is APPALLING. Deciding that English Lit degrees are “no longer viable in the current climate” is a disgrace - English Lit teaches empathy, communication & coherence of argument: what will you take from students by denying the opportunity to study it? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Sylvia Plath (from the Unabridged Journals):