Welcome, Sam! Delighted you will be joining us! @unioflimerick.bsky.social

Dr Sam Hirst@romgothsam.bsky.social · 3w ago

Well, I've signed and sent off the contract so I guess it's finally time to reveal... Next year, I'll be working at the University of Limerick. Excited for the opportunity

Our colleague Dr Colleen Ballard writes on Claire Keegan's _Small Things Like These_ for @theconversation.com theconversation.com/the-ten-best... @unioflimerick.bsky.social

The ten best short novels under 150 pages – chosen by experts

These expert recommendations are short enough to tear through over a weekend

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@maynoothuniversity.ie @maynoothenglish.bsky.social @muresearch.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social @ulenglish.bsky.social @abdallahaljazzar.bsky.social @lujaynanan.bsky.social

Dr Mary McAuliffe@drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 3w ago

If you work in any of the Irish HEIs please consider signing this letter openletter.earth/refusal-of-v...

I'm leaving Boston College today filled with gratitude: what an amazing six weeks this has been! I've gotten more done on my book project than I have for a very long time thanks to the resources and support of @burnslibrary.bsky.social and @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social.

Congratulations to our own Dr Colleen Ballard who has just published a piece with @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social on 19thc guides to reading and sitting properly. Fascinating! #research @unioflimerick.bsky.social

cballard-biblio.bsky.social@cballard-biblio.bsky.social · 4w ago

@ulenglish.bsky.social

Our wonderful colleague, poet in residence Emily Cullen, and her son Lee have been in the national news this last week, and now they're on the #BBC! Read the heartwarming story here: www.bbc.com/news/article... @unioflimerick.bsky.social #poetry #juniorcert

I wrote a poem about my son - years later it appeared on his exam

Emily Cullen says she couldn't believe it when her son told her about the poem, which she had written seven years earlier.

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Our graduate researcher Jack Reid writes about Irish poetic responses to the climate crisis for @theconversation.com: theconversation.com/elegies-for-... #research @ulresearch.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social

Elegies for a changing land: how Ireland’s poets are responding to the climate crisis

Loss is inevitable, but the formalised language of poetry may help us endure it.

theconversation.com

In our final English Lunchtime Seminar of the academic year, which takes place 12pm May 6th, we welcome Dr Miguel Sanz Jiménez to talk about Chandler, African American Crime Fiction and its Spanish Reception. All welcome #spéirgorm @unioflimerick.bsky.social #crimefiction #research

Delighted that my former institution @unioflimerick.bsky.social has *Theatrical Afterlives* on its shelves already! Thanks to @punchpattie.bsky.social and @ulenglish.bsky.social ❤️ 📖 ❤️ *Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage* (OUP 26) global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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

Congratulations to SEIC & @cemslimerick.bsky.social student Emma Barrett who presented a paper at the Tragedy & Resistence conference hosted by the Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus in Berlin, organised by staff of Northumbria University and Ghent University! @unioflimerick.bsky.social

There's still time to register for this event! #speirgorm #UL @ulhistory.bsky.social @ulenglish.bsky.social

Centre for Early Modern Studies, Limerick @cemslimerick.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Calling FYP and MA students! For those thinking of becoming a researcher in Medieval or Early Modern studies, please join us on the 30th of April for Next Steps: Research and Study in Medieval and Early Modern Subjects. Sign up at forms.cloud.microsoft/e/VR2YAELm5G

Join us for the annual Máire Ní Chrualaoich lecture taking place at the People's Museum, Limerick, 14 April, from 6pm to 8pm to hear Dr Emma Nic Cárthaigh's lecture on the subject of ‘Prudentia versus politia: bardic encouragement in a poem by Tadhg Mac Bruaideadha for the fourth earl of Thomond’.

Date for your diaries! Our next lunchtime seminar will be on 4 March when our own David Coughlan will speak on "The Laws of the Locked Room Mystery". All welcome! @unioflimerick.bsky.social #ULEnglish #spéirgorm

Banshee is of course co-founded and -edited by Eimear Ryan, a PhD researcher with us here in English and Creative Writing! Well done Eimear and colleagues! @unioflimerick.bsky.social

Little Island Books@littleislandbooks.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Very pleased to be again shortlisted for Small Press of the Year at the British Book Awards. Thanks to all at @thebookseller.com! www.thebookseller.com/british-book...

Limerick History Research Seminar series, in association with CEMS: Tues 10 February, Dr David Brown (Trinity College Dublin): ‘Beyond the black box: critical AI pipelines for historical research.' 5.30pm in room G08 (Foundation Bdg) in MIC @ulresearch.bsky.social @ulhistory.bsky.social

Macbeth: SHIT

simi@simifresh.bsky.social · 6mo ago

the bushes were people 😂

Two of our terrific graduate students in UL English, Emma Barrett and Jack Reid, have established a new journal! _Early Modern Society_ has a #CFP out currently for its first issue -theme = gender & the supernatural! #ecr #graduate @ulresearch.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social #research

Centre for Early Modern Studies, Limerick @cemslimerick.bsky.social · 7mo ago

See the call for papers from The Early Modern Society below for the first issue of their e-journal. #centreforearlymodernstudies #cems #earlymodernsociety #ems #ullibrary #ul_eic #ul_history #irishworldacademy #ul.languagecentre #earlymodern #supernatural

PSA: English lunchtime research seminars! On 18th February we welcome Raphael Zähringer, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen; & on 4th March our own David Coughlan. All welcome to attend! @ulresearch.bsky.social @ullibrary.bsky.social #research #english @unioflimerick.bsky.social

Reminder that the #paperback edition of mine and Hannah Ryley's _Recipes and Book Culture_ can be pre-ordered here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10..... There are also 2 #openaccess chapters available on the same site! #research @ulenglish.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social

Carrie Griffin@carriegrif.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Grateful for a very positive review of this volume in the newest _Studies in the Age of Chaucer_. Indebted to our fantastic contributors and to editor supreme Clare Litt @livunipress.bsky.social! Remember the paperback is imminent and can be preordered now with a good discount.

Our colleague Prof @drtinamorin.bsky.social reviews the latest book by @claireconnolly.bsky.social for @irishtimes.com. Congratulations both! www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Irish Romanticism: A Literary History by Claire Connolly – A lively tradition that still has much to teach us

Claire Connolly’s ambitious study captures well both the gradual development of Irish Romanticism and its ‘copiousness’

irishtimes.com

Congratulations to our colleague @drtinamorin.bsky.social! Wonderful news.

Tina Morin@drtinamorin.bsky.social · 7mo ago

My flights are booked! I'm off to Notre Dame later this spring to complete research on my monograph, Irish Gothic in the Global Nineteenth Century, thanks to the Keough-Naughton Library Research Award in Irish Studies. Super excited! @ndirishstudies.bsky.social @ulenglish.bsky.social

My flights are booked! I'm off to Notre Dame later this spring to complete research on my monograph, Irish Gothic in the Global Nineteenth Century, thanks to the Keough-Naughton Library Research Award in Irish Studies. Super excited! @ndirishstudies.bsky.social @ulenglish.bsky.social

See the call for papers from The Early Modern Society below for the first issue of their e-journal. #centreforearlymodernstudies #cems #earlymodernsociety #ems #ullibrary #ul_eic #ul_history #irishworldacademy #ul.languagecentre #earlymodern #supernatural

Well done to our colleague Professor Joseph O'Connor! 😍

University of Limerick@unioflimerick.bsky.social · 8mo ago

“This remarkable achievement is a testament to his exceptional talent, creativity & contribution to literature." The Ghosts of Rome by Professor Joseph O’Connor, Frank McCourt Chair of Creative Writing at UL, has been announced as the 2025 An Post Irish Book of the Year. www.ul.ie/news/the-gho...

An important and powerful piece in @theconversation.com by our wonderful PhD student Clodagh Guerin: theconversation.com/if-i-must-di... #gaza

‘If I must die’: poetry from Gaza creates an alternative archive of testimony

Poetry offers something that news and visual imagery cannot in times of crisis: depth over immediacy and meaning over spectacle.

theconversation.com

"In terms of Irish writing, it would be hard to think of a better or healthier time than the one we're going through at the moment" Professor Joseph O'Connor, UL Chair of Creative Writing, spoke on Arena on RTÉ Radio 1 about his award-winning novel, The Ghosts of Rome 🎧 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Thank you to everyone who attended/spoke at our 4th Winter School this week! It was a fantastic event that featured talks by staff & students, a wonderful keynote lecture by Dr Jason Harris of History @ucc.ie, all expertly & generously faciltated by @ullibrary.bsky.social special collections staff.

Clodagh Tait@clodaghtait.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Join us for the @cemslimerick.bsky.social 4th Winter School in Archival Research Skills and Book History on 2-3 December in the University of Limerick. Programme and registration here: emslimerick.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/4...

several of our colleagues and graduate students in English will present at the @cemslimerick.bsky.social Winter School in Archival Research Skills and Book History, 2-3 Dec, @ullibrary.bsky.social emslimerick.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/4... @ulresearch.bsky.social

Congratulations, Dr Gaëlle Clion! #graduand #phd @researchireland.ie @ulresearch.bsky.social

Carrie Griffin@carriegrif.bsky.social · 9mo ago

V proud supervisor! Congrats DR Gaëlle Clion who had a very successful viva today @unioflimerick.bsky.social. Pictured with Gaëlle are supervisors @gordonoriain.bsky.social @aofionnagain.bsky.social & examiners Sile de Cléir & Pádraig Ó Macháin (UCC). Thanks also to chair @drtinamorin.bsky.social