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The Official Account of the Iris Murdoch Society

Dame Jean Iris Murdoch was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net (1954), was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Her 1978 novel The Sea, The Sea won the Booker Prize. In 1987, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". .. more

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Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · 2d

Iris Murdoch Review 16 (2025) Cover and Contents Reveal! This year is a North American Special Edition.

Lots to look forward to; members get the review mailed to them on publication. Not yet a member? You can join here from just £15 for the year.

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Nick Black @fuzzynick.bsky.social · 2d

My wife's started 'The Italian Girl'. We're officially house of Iris right now.

#amreading #nowreading @irismurdoch.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙

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Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · 2d

It was found in the attic, not written in it!

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Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · 3d

Coming up in the spring...

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Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · 4d

Excellent :)

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Books on GIF @booksongif.com · 6d

It's Iris Murdoch-tober! A month of awkward-love jams and raging against growing old.

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Welcome to Iris Murdoch-tober

Let's spend October reading and discussing one of my favorite authors, who I hope will become one of yours, too.

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Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · 8d

You might like this:

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Philippa Foot Podcast

In this special episode celebrating the Oxford Quartet Miles is joined by Lesley Brown (Somerville College, Oxford) and John Hacker-Wright (University of Guelph, Canada) to discuss the life and work o

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Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · 8d

Glad you enjoyed it!

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Richard Medhurst📚️🇯🇵 @richardmedh.bsky.social · 8d

I admit I haven't read that much Iris Murdoch, but I didn't know she could write this kind of light, breezy comedy. Her debut novel, great fun to read.

"Under the Net" by Iris Murdoch

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Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · 11d

Nick Reynolds from #ChiUni has produced a wonderful suite of music based on works by Iris Murdoch. Take a listen!

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Iris Murdoch Suite - YouTube

This is a series of seven short pieces all reflecting an aspect of author Iris Murdoch's work. The music attempts to reflect my feelings and memories about t...

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Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · 11d

Come and join us if you're in the area. Or catch the editors out on the road at various events over the next six months or so.

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Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · 15d

Yeesh...

Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · 17d

Iris Murdoch talk in December!

Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · 18d

The new exhibition at the Iris Murdoch Archives at Kingston University - 'Iris Murdoch: Rhyme and Reason', is now open!
If you're in Kingston though, why not visit the exhibition in person. It's free and accessible to all, everyday from 10am-4pm until 15th January 2026 (excluding bank holidays!).

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Oxford Academic @oxfordacademic.bsky.social · 18d

The Monist invites you to submit a manuscript for a thematic issue on the philosophy of Iris Murdoch.

Submissions that go beyond textual exegesis to consider how Murdochian approaches might open up new perspectives on central questions in moral philosophy welcomed: oxford.ly/4gDcI3K

Philosophy After Murdoch: A Special Issue of The Monist. Learn more and submit research. Oxford University Press

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The London Magazine @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social · 19d

'I feel strongly about a number of things and don't say enough. I think it's the job of any intellectual in society to make comments.

From 1968, an interview with Iris Murdoch: thelondonmagazine.org/archive-iris...

Archive | Iris Murdoch, informally - The London Magazine

'People are often looking for a god or ready to cast somebody in the role of a demon.' From June 1968, an interview with Iris Murdoch.

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Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · 21d

Enjoy!

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Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · 22d

Oooo, go on then!

Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · 22d

'In the poetry I am trying to change my old wicked god into a good god, but to change our gods we have to change ourselves.'

Publishing with @ChattoBooks on 06.11.25

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Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · 25d

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Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · 25d

Classic.

Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · 25d

Philippa Foot thought the same as Kieran, and A. S. Byatt thought it one of the very best.

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Sal Randolph @salrandolph.bsky.social · 26d

“So I am writing my life, after all, as a novel! Why not? It was a matter of finding a form, and somehow history, my history, has found the form for me...so my novel can still be a sort of memoir and a sort of diary.”

The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch

Cover of “The Sea, the Sea” by Iris Murdoch, a Penguin Classics edition where the lower quarter of the cover is plain black, with the title and author in white. Above is an illustration showing the torso and legs of man, facing away as he looks out a window (or looks at a painting of a window). The window shows the sea with sunlight reflecting on its waves. The room has a bright red wall, and the man is standing on a pinkish carpet decorated with Chinese dragons. One of the dragons has lifted from the carpet and is climbing on his leg.

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Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · 26d

New Iris Murdoch Podcast Episode!

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Iris Murdoch and the Virtues

In this episode we discuss Murdoch’s conceptualisation of virtue and what it might mean to be virtuous. We’ll range across her philosophy, of course, but we’ll also have time to visit her fiction and

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Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · 29d

Walking with The Black Prince - April 2026. Join us.

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Walking with The Black Prince: A Guided Tour - The Iris Murdoch Society

Join your guides, Professor Anne Rowe, Dr Miles Leeson, and cartographer James Jefferies for a tour of Bradley Pearson's London!

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Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · Sep 9

CFP: Philosophy After Murdoch.

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Call for Papers: Philosophy After Murdoch

The Monist invites submissions for an upcoming thematic issue of the journal on the philosophy of Iris Murdoch. Advisory Editors: Matthew Congdon (Vanderbilt U

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Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · Sep 9

#whenfinished

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A Word Child Revisited Podcast

Welcome to a new season of the Iris Murdoch Podcast! In this episode we’re celebrating the 50th anniversary of the publication of one of Murdoch very best novels, and one of the six first-person male

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Nick Black @fuzzynick.bsky.social · Sep 9

#amreading #nowreading @irismurdoch.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙

Seventies Penguin edition of the 1975 Irish Murdoch novel 'A Word Child'

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Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · Sep 8

That's Under the Net...

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(women) In Parenthesis @inparenthesis.bsky.social · Sep 8

We're excited to announce our new Online Seminar Series for the 2025-6 academic year!! We have 5 fantastic talks coming up. For titles and abstracts see our website - and get the dates in your diary!

www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk/news/

#philsky #philosophy

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