Dr. David Clare
@davidclareabu.bsky.social
Irish Studies Scholar // English and Drama Lecturer // Musician (and occasional Theatremaker!) https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9617-6294
The continental European launch of my book IRELAND IN THE LIFE AND WORK OF C.S. LEWIS (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) will be taking place today in Budapest, as part of IASIL 2026. Big thanks to Dr. Sonja Lawrenson for leading the launch session! Here’s a recent review of the book from THE IRISH TIMES.
It was great to be back behind the drums for my wife Deirdre Clare’s powerful storytelling/music piece, SHOW SOME EMOTION, live at The International Bar, Dublin. This is our take on the Joan Armatrading classic, “Like Fire”. Shout-out to Eoin O’Halloran on bass & Deirdre herself on piano and vocals!
Highly commended is Dr Connal Parr's 'Solidarity and Pressure: The Story of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement' @academic.oup.com
I’m delighted by the review of my recent book (Ireland in the Life and Work of C.S. Lewis) in this weekend’s Irish Times. 😊 www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
CS Lewis’s rich Irishness gives the lie to the ‘buttoned-up Englishman’ stereotype
As an ‘alternative’ Ulster Protestant with parents from Cork, his Irishness has been marginalised and reduced
irishtimes.com
Springer is running a Flash Sale until 2 May 2026, so, if you act fast, you can get my latest book IRELAND IN THE LIFE AND WORK OF C.S. LEWIS for 50% off, using the code: FLASH50 Here is the link: link.springer.com/book/9783031...
I am pleased to report that I have two pieces in the latest issue of the Eugene O'Neill Review (47.1). 😊 A journal article on O'Neill and Dennis Scott: muse.jhu.edu/pub/2/articl... And a review of last year's London revival of O'Neill's A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN: muse.jhu.edu/pub/2/articl...
We're recruiting a Teaching Assistant in #English at @unioflimerick.bsky.social! You can find the job description here: my.corehr.com/pls/esbsheul... #jobsfairy #academicjobs #speirgorm
University of Limerick Vacancies
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Great article by Sally Rooney: Fragility of global fuel systems strengthens the case for rationing www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
Sally Rooney: Fragility of global fuel systems strengthens the case for rationing
We cannot increase the amount of oil and gas available, but we can decide how to fairly distribute the supply
irishtimes.com
The FT Books pages looking good this morning… and the Irish Times not too shabby either 🙏
hilariously i had to be reminded it was shakespeare’s birthday today. anyway it’s a good day as any to tell yous that my book IRISH SHAKESPEARES: GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND PERFORMANCE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY has been sent into production at Routledge [pre-order link tbc!]
Data centres uses 32% of Ireland's total electricity supply but pay almost less than half of the residential rate. So we're effectively subsidizing tech giants during a cost of living & energy crisis. Meanwhile this Govt continues to cheerlead their expansion & continue to fail in their obligations.
A connection between ABBA and Thin Lizzy (the Philo, Eric Bell, and Brian Downey lineup)!
The reason Irish rock helped ABBA win Eurovision
ABBA winning Eurovision was a cultural touchstone never to be forgotten, but beneath the glittering surface, there was a hint of help from Irish rock icons.
faroutmagazine.co.uk
So Fantasy grows out of Romance (medieval) but rejects Romance (contemporary) because for girls, so Romance (contemporary) develops into something increasingly un-Fantastical, and has to be portmanteued back into Fantasy (Romantasy), despite Fantasy being originally Romance...
Hi all, my contract at LMU ends this month and I don't have any options lined up. I know that many of us are in the same situation, but if you hear of any opportunities or projects you think I might be suited to (doesn't have to be in academia) please send me a message or comment below. Thanks!
Good piece. While I am famous for my serenity, it can sometimes feel a little irritating to see male journalists and academics "discover" the manosphere, while very pointedly not referencing any of the research or writing, mostly by women, that goes back 10-15 years on this topic
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4mo agoFeminists began raising the alarm about the manosphere decades ago – and we were ignored | Laurie Penny
Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable sources, proving the transition is not theoretical but already operational. The barrier is no longer technology, but political will, investment priorities, and the courage to move faster.
have there been zero arrests after four days of road blockages? asking for that teenager who was arrested at Shannon Airport for sitting on an empty road in an industrial estate
I think one of my visceral reactions to the protesters is because they are bullies. Loud, boorish bullies. And I have no time for bullies. The irony is Trump caused the global crisis, and miniTrumps are causing the local one.
Let's not forget classics like this, big part of the problem was the constant minimising of it "You've overreacting, you're overreacting, you've overreacting, you're overreacting, you've overreacting, you're overreacting, you've overreacting, you're overreacting, OH SHIT WAIT YOU WERE ALL RIGHT!"
Michael Patrick, pioneering Irish actor, dies from motor neuron disease at 35
Michael Patrick, pioneering Irish actor, dies from motor neuron disease at 35
Actor was first with a disability to play Shakespeare’s Richard III on the island of Ireland, at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast in 2024
irishtimes.com
Incredible lack of imagination to still see billionaires as the solution to anything, given the current state of the world
As a Jewish historian who works at a university, I think it’s great that an administration committed to destroying “the internal globalist enemy” which is staffed by groyper antisemites is collecting lists of Jews. Can’t see any potential downside here at all.
Irony was killed stone dead ages ago. But I suppose they can still piss on its grave.
