Our first #IrishStudies Seminar of the new semester will be by Anna Johnston (Queensland) on '“Songs of an Exile”: Sentiment and Violence in Eliza Hamilton Dunlop’s Irish and Australian Elegies, 1838-63'. Mon 18/9 at 4.30.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/irish-studies-seminars-anna-johnston-tickets-715868119817 #IrishAustralia #IrishLiterature

This is a great piece by poet Peggy O'Brien, detailing a lovely portrait of female friendship, #ElizabethRivers, Harriet O'Donovan Sheehy, #FrankOConnor, #EvieHone, TCD, Cuala Press, and The Letters of Abelard and Heloise. @NewIslandBooks, Writing.ie, https://www.writing.ie/interviews/sidelines-tongues-by-peggy-obrien/ #Art #IrishArt #Books #MastoDaoine #IrishLiterature

Can someone please explain what the fuck the short story "Lebensraum" by Aidan Higgins about? #ireland #shortstory #IrishLiterature

After dinner, Joyce and his protege, Samuel Beckett, “get pretty tight,” Norris says. On the way home, frustrated by the frequency of requests, Joyce and Beckett are making for pit stops, the carriage driver decides not to wait for Joyce’s drinking buddy to return from the pissoir, and leaves Beckett “ingloriously abandoned on the outskirts of Paris”.

#IrishLiterature #JamesJoyce #Ulysses #Bloomsday #SamuelBeckett #Paris #Versailles #OnThisDay

According to David Norris, a Dublin senator and a leading Joyce scholar, the first official celebration of Bloomsday is held on its twenty-fifth anniversary on 16 June 1929. That night, Joyce is the guest of honour at a dinner party held at Les Vaux de Cernay, a village near Versailles. 1/2

#IrishLiterature #JamesJoyce #Ulysses #Bloomsday #SamuelBeckett #Paris #Versailles #OnThisDay

On 16 June 1924 friends send Joyce, who is in hospital, a bouquet of white and blue hydrangeas. He writes in his notebook: “Today 16 of June 1924 twenty years after. Will anybody remember this date?”

#IrishLiterature #JamesJoyce #Ulysses #Bloomsday #Dublin #OnThisDay

16th June is Bloomsday, a commemoration and celebration of the life of James Joyce during which the events of Ulysses (set on 16 June 1904) are relived. Joyce chose the date because it was the date of his first outing with Nora Barnacle when they walked to Ringsend.

#IrishLiterature #JamesJoyce #Ulysses #Bloomsday #Dublin #Ringsend

William Butler Yeats was born in Sandymount in County Dublin on 13 June 1865. He was a poet, dramatist and writer. One of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature, he was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival. In December 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation".

#Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishLiterature #Poetry #WBYeats #OnThisDay

Christy Brown was born on 5th June 1932 in Crumlin, Dublin. He had 22 siblings of whom 9 died in infancy. He was an Irish writer and painter who had cerebral palsy and was able to write or type only with the toes of one foot. His most recognised work is an autobiography, My Left Foot (1954). It was later made into a 1989 film of the same name, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Brown.

#Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishLiterature #ChristyBrown #Dublin #CerebralPalsy #DanielDay-Lewis #OnThisDay

Finished this monster of a biography of my literary hero James Joyce. Found it fair with a balance of negative and positive and insightful to an artist’s life.

Now more than ever I feel he was #autistic.

I also want to read Finnegan’s Wake again soon.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11457455

@bookstodon #bookstodon #IrishLiterature #JamesJoyce

Brendan Behan died in the Meath Hospital, Dublin on 20th March 1964 after reportedly telling a nun looking after him: ‘Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops’.

#Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishLiterature #BrendanBehan #Dublin #MeathHospital #OnThisDay

Tribute to Maurice Scully, 1952-2023, by Trevor Joyce. #IrishLiterature #modernism #poetry 'But if, as I say, the primary mode of this poetry is of close unblinking attention, then it is frequently varied by the incursions of an all too familiar practical world of electricity bills, bank managers, and other shifty manipulators, which distract from the minutiae of the world and the practice of notation.' https://stingingfly.org/2023/03/14/in-remembrance-of-maurice-scully/?fbclid=IwAR1L7QnS_yTCMfVpw64EaQQEvfhAqZoeCtg5cAoN3bxwasYKJXyaJEg6Eno

a callin back home

James Conor Paterson, ‘ENGLAND’ #poetry #IrishLiterature

At Swim-Two-Birds, a novel by writer Brian O’Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O’Brien was first published on 13th March 1939. It is widely considered to be O’Brien’s masterpiece, and one of the most sophisticated examples of metafiction.

#Ireland #IrishLiterature #FlannOBrien #BrianONolan #AtSwimTwoBirds

Irish Studies Spring Seminar Series
Tuesday 14 March at 4.30pm - 27 University Square 01/003 and online via MS Teams

Professor Marilynn Richtarik, Georgia State University, ‘Getting to Good Friday: Literature and the Peace Process in #NorthernIreland ‘

All welcome – register via Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/getting-to-good-fridayliterature-and-the-peace-process-in-northern-ireland-tickets-570534824017 #GFA #IrishLiterature

Roddy Doyle’s Two Pints is dialog of two guys sitting in a pub and talking daily bullshit. Each chapter is dialog only and brisk. Mostly funny and sometimes heartwarming.

Previous there were 3 volumes but now they’re combined along with a play and zoom episodes, which have yet been published before.

Some brilliant Irish literature that will have you calling everyone a cunt.

#IrishLiterature #humor #RoddyDoyle #reading @bookstodon #bookstodon #amreading

New in Paperback: The Literary Afterlives of Roger Casement, 1899–2016 by our colleague Alison Garden, which explores the literary and cultural afterlives of Ireland’s most enigmatic and controversial son. #RogerCasement #Casement #IrishLiterature #IrishHistory https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781789621815

Born 123 years ago #OnThisDay, this Irishman was one of the masters of the #ShortStory

#GlobalIrishNation #IrishLiterature #IrishWriters #Writer #Writers #mastodaoine #IrishHistory

https://www.irishstewpodcast.com/blog/otd-birth-of-sean-o-faolain-1900

EFACIS #IrishStudies Conference: 'Unions and Partitions in Ireland', #Belfast 24-27 August 2023.
We have extended the Call for Papers for our conference until 27 March 2023 - proposals for papers and panels relating to the interdisciplinary conference theme are very welcome. Come and join us in Belfast for this summer event!
Website and CFP at: https://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/efacis-2023/
*Registration will open next week* #IrishLiterature #IrishHistory

Ulysses on the black market in The Man Who Japed

#books #IrishLiterature #PKD #PhilipKDick #JamesJoyce #BooksInBooks