Wonderful jaunt to the Casimir Markievicz exhibition at @dublincastle.bsky.social - great insight into a generation of Irish artists and intellectuals. Love that photo of Constance and Althea Gyles smoking together! 👏🏻👏🏻 Great work @emilymfg.bsky.social and @katymilligan.bsky.social

Fantastic opportunity to catch up on a great gathering of essays on the many-faceted work of Eilis Ni Dhuibhne. Available until 1 August.

Irish University Review@irishunireview.bsky.social · last yr.

📢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.

Very much enjoyed my conversation with Eoin McNamee at Cairde in sunny Sligo last night. And thanks to a great audience.

Not a bad sight to see when opening the UCD website… Great news from the Ireland Chair of Poetry @poetryireland.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social

Fulbright board members are resigning “rather than endorse unprecedented actions that we believe are impermissible under the law, compromise U.S. national interests and integrity, and undermine the mission" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

Fulbright Board Quits, Accusing Trump Administration of Political Interference

The board of the prestigious program told the State Department it had no right to cancel scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers.

nytimes.com

Following international law on genocide is optional, but you _must_ follow banking guidelines.

Joe Noonan@joenoonan.bsky.social · last yr.

The head of the Central Bank of Ireland claims it cannot refuse to approve the sale of Israeli war bonds. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

🔔 UPDATE: The deadline to apply for the Poetry Ireland Librarian position has been EXTENDED to Sunday, June 8th at 5pm. Poetry Ireland are seeking a passionate, qualified Librarian to join their team! ✍️Learn more & apply: www.poetryireland.ie/news/poetry-... #JobFairy @libraryjobs.bsky.social

It’s the week of launches — 3 in 4 days! Very much looking forward to visiting Dublin on Thursday to launch Ben and Rafael’s pamphlets 🚀 hopefully see you there 🐺 @poetryireland.bsky.social

As people voted for the Israeli entry in the Eurovision, this is what the Israeli state was doing #boycotteurovision #endthegenocide #gazagenocide

RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · last yr.

At least 100 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes across Gaza overnight, Hamas-run health authorities said, as mediators hosted a new round of ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas.

Below is how it started, but this is how it’s going: a punishment that includes exclusion from democratic participation, handed down because of disrupting democratic so-called decorum. The crime of possible intimidation is punished with actual disenfranchisement

New Zealand MPs who performed haka in parliament given unprecedented punishment

Co-leaders of Te Pāti Māori and its youngest member to be temporarily suspended from parliament after performance protesting controversial bill

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer@tworuru.com · 2y ago

this rules 🇳🇿 #nzpol

Great review of @eireannmor.bsky.social’s new book with @carcanet.bsky.social - in less than a month we can get our hands on it! observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Poetry book of the month: Mind your language

Éireann Lorsung’s vibrant debut delights in the slipperiness of the world and the words we use to capture it

observer.co.uk

Jane Clarke (@janeclarke.bsky.social) will be reading alongside poet and Poetry Unbound podcast host Pádraig Ó Tuama @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social's Cork International Poetry Festival on Thursday 15 May, 10pm, at Cork Arts Theatre. #corkpoetryfest www.corkpoetryfest.net/thursday.html

Munster Literature Centre https://munsterlit.ie/@munsterlitcentre.bsky.social · last yr.

Not long to wait until this years Cork International Poetry Festival - May 13th - 17th. Information on tickets and workshops along with the full programme on our website- www.munsterlit.ie #corkpoetryfest #cork #poets

Digitizing the archives of Emily Dickinson, arguably the United States' most celebrated poet, "no longer serves the interest of the United States." h/t @pwallinga.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/pwal...

Please consider signing this #JusticeforPalestine: my.uplift.ie/petitions/st...

Stop the Deportation, from Germany, of Two Irish Citizens for Palestine Solidarity

Roberta Murray and  Shane O’Brien are Irish activists facing deportation from Germany, ordered to leave by April 21, 2025. Two other activists, Cooper Longbottom (US) and Kasia Wlaszczyk (EU) hav...

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I'm not a particularly fancy man, but I've been in academia a long time, and I don't recall "don't ever discuss material that's extraneous to the class" ever having been mentioned as a "core tenet" of academic freedom.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · last yr.

Could someone give me an example of a college course in which climate change is clearly not relevant?

bring us your poor, your tired, and your huddled masses so we can stuff them in an unmarked van and ship them to a slave labor camp in an undisclosed location

As the UCD Digital Library team work on the new access platform, we are getting to revisit some of our most popular collections. First up is G. & T. Crampton and our favourite image of the Tayto factory. #CramptonBuilt

‘I am floored’: Anne Enright on winning $175,000 Windham-Campbell Prize Booker Prize-winning author becomes eighth Irish writer to win one of the literary world’s most generous prizes www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

‘I am floored’: Anne Enright on winning $175,000 Windham-Campbell Prize

Booker Prize-winning author becomes eighth Irish writer to win one of the literary world’s most generous prizes

irishtimes.com

Join Dr. Rob Doggett and Dr. Barry Sheils for an engaging discussion about W.B. Yeats' poem "Lapis Lazuli!" Looking for more episodes of Yeats Conversations? Consider subscribing to our Youtube channel today! #Yeats #Poetry #IrishLiterature #SupportTheArts youtu.be/fbWJbMHnZa8

Yeats's "Lapis Luzuli" (with Barry Sheils)

YouTube video by DrRobDoggett

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I love this beautiful piece. If anything turns me into a cat person, this will… 💕 #SundayMiscellany @gagebybell.bsky.social www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Tamburlaine the Great, by Amanda Bell

Two decades with a beloved pet, whose various scrapes and escapades didn't diminish affections

rte.ie

Abundant Number vol.3 + bonus material, courtesy of @eireannmor.bsky.social. Includes teasers of exciting new things, including something that Éireann and I have planned for later this year

Horrific news from Gaza about Israeli massacre of innocents during Ramadan. Btw, all of you separating Ukraine and Gaza: Trump will respond to Israel's violation of ceasefire exactly as he will respond to Russia's. By supporting the aggressor.

Come work with me! We’re hiring a one-year 0.5FTE Teaching Fellow in Creative and Cultural Industries Practice. If you’re a creative with strong teaching skills you’d like to develop, within a collegial and supportive dept, do get in touch! Closes 11 March: universityvacancies.com/university-c...

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.

Celebrating the renaming of the Berkeley Library after Eavan Boland at @tcddublin.bsky.social tonight - beautiful speech by Paula Meehan capturing Boland’s commitment to writing and teaching 🎉 #Irishwomenpoets

"When we are a thousand miles away from poetry, we still participate in it by that sudden need to scream—the last stage of lyricism." --Emil Cioran

Interesting piece by @katymilligan.bsky.social on the great Norah McGuinness. Nice to hear about the Elizabeth Bowen connection too #IrishArtsReview #womenartists