📣 New opportunity for early-career scholars! We’ve partnered with the Women’s History Association of Ireland (@whaireland.bsky.social) to award £500 for the best first monograph in women’s/gender history ❗Deadline: 31 July 2026 Find out more & apply: womenshistorynetwork.org/womens-histo...

The IUR's May 2025 special issue was dedicated to ‘Irish Studies beyond the Text’ (guest editors Emily Mark-FitzGerald & Emma Radley). Check out the link below to Radley & contributor Daithí Kearney's discussion of this interdisciplinary issue at Queen's last Autumn! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fN1...

Irish Studies: Beyond the Text

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More happy publication news! The first of a two-part special issue on 'Irish Women's Genre Fiction' is out. Thanks to our fantastic contributors and to the editorial team at LIT! Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory: Vol 36, No 3 www.tandfonline.com/toc/glit20/3...

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Volume 36, Issue 3 of Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory

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Delighted to contribute to Prof Christina Morin and Prof Ellen Scheible's special issue on Irish women's genre fiction in LIT. My article explores techno-colonialism, feminist mobilisations of the 'Fantastic' & constructions of M/Otherlands in Griffin's sf novel & Chaila's fantasy-inflected music.

Thanks to the organisers of IASIL 2025 for such a rich conference. I delivered a paper on DH methods that help analyse how mythopoeic structures are replicated in contemporary feminist texts & took part in a roundtable on "Irish Women's Genre Fiction", based on an upcoming special issue in LIT!

Many of the pieces - including those by @eoghancarrick.bsky.social @cballantine.bsky.social & @nualaoconnor.bsky.social - are accompanied by recordings in the authors' voices. I would highly recommend giving them a listen as you read. They bring incredible new dimensions to already captivating work

Eoghan Carrick@eoghancarrick.bsky.social · last yr.

Thanks to @laurencassidy.bsky.social for selecting four of my poems to be included in the Quare Éire anthology. Great to be among such a strong selection. www.eoghancarrick.com/post/four-po...

Sarah Churchill's blog post "Will the Housing Crisis Kill the Irish Art Scene?" is now live on EUP's website. Churchill asks contemporary Irish artists Aideen Barry and Spicebag for their thoughts on how Ireland's housing crisis is shaping Irish art today. euppublishingblog.com/2025/07/31/w...

Will Housing Crisis Kill the Irish Art Scene? - Edinburgh University Press Blog

How is Ireland’s housing crisis shaping Irish art today? Sarah Churchill asks contemporary Irish artists Aideen Barry and Spicebag for their thoughts.

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🌙 New poem 🌙 I have a new poem in the #quare_eire anthology. A prose poem about autism and awkwardness, two things that are forever to the forefront for me. Thanks to editor Dr Lauren Cassidy for selecting my piece. @laurencassidy.bsky.social quareeire.wordpress.com?fbclid=PAQ0x...

ALSO @cballantine.bsky.social published a non-fiction piece that explores motherhood, the experience of raising a trans* child, the Irish language, and more. It's incredibly moving & seamless in its ability to explore how Ireland has changed & how it has not quareeire.wordpress.com/thats-the-wa...

that’s the way it should be

Non-fiction by Carol Ballantine Download Bio: Carol Ballantine is a writer and an academic  researcher. Her personal essays have been published in the Stinging Fly and Banshee. This essay is a…

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Carol Ballantine@cballantine.bsky.social · last yr.

I've had the chance this weekend to absorb some of the glorious poetry, imagery, music and story-telling in @laurencassidy.bsky.social's marvellous anthology. I especially loved this gorgeous image, by @justinegc-artist.bsky.social quareeire.wordpress.com/scathach-and...

...Making myself a mother by Catherine Brogan is a marvellous essay about newer, queerer forms of motherhood and Irishness - themes close to my heart quareeire.wordpress.com/making-mysel... (I'll come back to this thread tomorrow with more hot tips)

Making Myself a Mother

Non-fiction by Catherine Brogan Download Bio: Cat Brogan is a queer Irish poet from Omagh. Winner of the BBC Edinburgh Fringe Slam, her work explores identity, legacy, and place. Her poetry has app…

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... and this very clever comic by Aodhán Morris definitely deserves your attention. Revisiting Irish fairy tales from a range of perspectives... quareeire.wordpress.com/the-motif/

the motif

A one-page comic by Aodhán Morris Bio: Aodhán Morris is a queer transmasculine artist and scholar, currently doing a PhD in Political Science and Sociology at the University of Galway (which allows…

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I've had the chance this weekend to absorb some of the glorious poetry, imagery, music and story-telling in @laurencassidy.bsky.social's marvellous anthology. I especially loved this gorgeous image, by @justinegc-artist.bsky.social quareeire.wordpress.com/scathach-and...

Scáthach and Aífe

Artwork by Justine G. Cappelli Medium: Watercolour and gold leaf on cold pressed cotton paper (30x30cm) This painting imagines a bond between the warrior women Scáthach and Aífe: beyond rivalr…

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Dr Lauren Cassidy@laurencassidy.bsky.social · last yr.

"Quare Éire: An Anthology of Neo-mythmaking" has now launched at the following link: quareeire.wordpress.com It was unintentional, but as artist and "Quare Éire" contributor Yvonne Salmon noted earlier today, it is fitting that the anthology launches on Lughnasadh, the Celtic festival of the harvest

"Quare Éire: An Anthology of Neo-mythmaking" has now launched at the following link: quareeire.wordpress.com It was unintentional, but as artist and "Quare Éire" contributor Yvonne Salmon noted earlier today, it is fitting that the anthology launches on Lughnasadh, the Celtic festival of the harvest

📢Great news!📢 Our May 2024 special issue on Éilís Ní Dhuibhne is now an open-access special feature on EUP's website! Read all of our amazing articles about Ní Dhuibhne's contributions to Irish literature and culture at the following link: www.euppublishing.com/toc/iur/54/1

Huge congratulations to Éilís Ní Dhuibhne on her appointment as the new Laureate for Irish Fiction! In May 2024, the IUR published a special issue dedicated to Ní Dhuibhne’s contributions to Irish literature and culture.

None of this would be possible without Quare Éire's incredible contributors. I'm very excited to share their incredible work at the end of this month!

The website is currently under construction & "Quare Éire: An Anthology of Neo-mythmaking" will launch at the end of July! The anthology received incredibly rich submissions & will include a vibrant collection of poetry, short stories, personal essays, artwork, a song, a comic strip & more!

Emily Mark-Fitzgerald & Emma Radley introduce "'Making a Mess of Things': Irish Studies Beyond the Text", the latest issue of the IUR, which analyses the proliferation of multi- and inter-disciplinary collections, special issues, events & more that have emerged in Irish studies over the last 5 years

Spoke to the Irish Independent about the problematic representation of Irish myth & folklore in contemporary Romantasy (particularly the ACOTAR series): 'Cassidy describes it as “emptying out the signifiers”, by erasing the historical meaning behind such legends': www.independent.ie/entertainmen...

Romantasy island: ‘I picked up the book, and I became feral! I read the first book in a day, then the second in a day, which is 700 pages. It was intense’

As the clock ticked towards midnight on January 21, crowds gathered outside bookstores around the world in fevered anticipation of the release of Onyx Storm, the third instalment in Rebecca Yarros’s E...

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I'm excited to share that my first peer-reviewed journal article is now out in the world (and it's open access)! If you want to read about a fantastic poetry show and how it adapted to the circumstances of the pandemic, you can do that here: olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...

‘All your disembodied little heads floating on a screen’: Liveness During the Pandemic in Mel Bradley’s <em>Ms Noir’s Seven Deadly Sins</em> (2020) <!--EndFragment-->

The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK and Ireland in 2020 and the subsequent lockdowns caused a radical rupture in the world of live performances. Both theatre and poetry performance events ...

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Unfortunately, I had to miss what looked to be an amazing launch last night, but delighted to be included in the latest issue of Ragaire Magazine. Huge thank you to the editors and my fellow contributors.

Thanks to the wonderful editors of The Martello Journal for curating (& including me) in their issue, Ragin'. The world is indeed burning ... my poem asks what we can in spite ... or to spite a climate of hate on our doorsteps.

Only 1 week left to submit ⏳️

Dr Lauren Cassidy@laurencassidy.bsky.social · last yr.

LESS THAN 1 MONTH LEFT TO SUBMIT. Send all submissions to quareeire@gmail.com as document attachments (website with detailed submission page below). Send me all of your mythmaking & remaking 🥀 (Particularly interested in receiving more visual artwork & photography)

Thrilled to announce a series of research events and performance masterclasses I'll be helping to facilitate with the amazing trans theatre collective piss/CARNATION as part of R&D for their new show "Orlando: A Pornobiography" this May in Cambridge: www.english.cam.ac.uk/news/archive...

LESS THAN 1 MONTH LEFT TO SUBMIT. Send all submissions to quareeire@gmail.com as document attachments (website with detailed submission page below). Send me all of your mythmaking & remaking 🥀 (Particularly interested in receiving more visual artwork & photography)

Pssst ... tell your friends to submit their creative work to Quare Éire by 30 April ⏳️🕑

I'm developing a creative anthology related to my research. Please share this Call for Submissions widely with anyone you think might be interested! Something mythic this way comes ... quareeire.wordpress.com

Given the nature of some of the submissions I've had so far, I've updated the website's Call for Submissions to include song/music! Experimentation with genre and form is very much encouraged. There's no rest for the mythic - Call for Submissions closes 30 April.

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I'm developing a creative anthology related to my research. Please share this Call for Submissions widely with anyone you think might be interested! Something mythic this way comes ... quareeire.wordpress.com

Please share widely! CFP for Irish Studies: Deep Time in Irish Literature, Culture, Media, and the Arts MLA 2026 in Toronto, guaranteed panel. Proposals of 150 words by February 28, 2025 to bendera5@sacredheart.edu. Roundtable discussion, short papers. Details: www.facebook.com/groups/16780...

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CFP for MLA 2026, Toronto: Guaranteed ACIS Panel Deep Time in Irish Literature, Culture, Media, and the Arts In considering the ecocritical urgency of Irish texts, past and present—including...

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In the latest issue of the IUR, Seán Hewitt examines the place of Irish novelist, poet and scientist Emily Lawless (1845–1913) in contemporary conversations about natural history, particularly the interrelated strands of entomology, marine zoology, and botany