Christabel Scaife
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Christabel Scaife
@christabelscaife.bsky.social
Senior Commissioning Editor for Literary Studies and Irish Studies @livunipress.bsky.social
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The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature is now available for preorder from @livunipress.bsky.social. This collection ranges from graveyard poetry and the gothic through Ní Ghríofa’s Ghost in the Throat, with incisive and new readings of the dead body
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature | Home
Christopher Cusack (Radboud University) has published widely on Irish and Irish-diasporic literature. His monograph The Great Famine in Irish and North American Fiction, 1892-1921 is forthcoming from Liverpool University Press.
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December 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale is now available for preorder from @livunipress.bsky.social. It revises our understanding of this political genre through medical humanities
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Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale | Home
Matthew L. Reznicek is Associate Professor of Medical Humanities at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He has published widely on British and Irish romantic literature, and particularly on the intersection of health and illness in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writing.
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
It’s the most wonderful time of the year to buy LUP books - up to 50% off in our Winter Sale!
We are offering up to 50% off print and ebooks in our Winter Sale!*
Use discount code 27WINTER at checkout on our website before Thursday 18th December 2025.

Browse our latest releases: bit.ly/AW25LUP

*Selected partner titles excluded from the sale.
December 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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I intend to do a full-on photo shoot with these when I have some free time, but for now, this will do - author copies of my first book, Metafiction and Narratice Worlds in Science Fiction ( @livunipress.bsky.social ) have arrived! Over the moon, and can highly recommend LUP as publishers.
December 1, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Happy #WorkInPublishing Week! If you're interested in joining the world of publishing, staff members at LUP share what they love about their jobs and advice on getting into the industry 📚

Read more here ⬇️
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/pages/careers

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November 19, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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🚀 Discover new and forthcoming ebooks in Liverpool Science Fiction Studies Online, a digital collection offering a broad perspective on a variety of themes relating to #SFStudies. Available to libraries as a one-off purchase and with perpetual access.

Browse the full collection ➡️ bit.ly/lsfso
November 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Excellent news - congratulations Cathy! @crossphd.bsky.social
We are thrilled to share that Educating the Romantic Poets has made it onto the shortlist for the Marilyn Gaull Book Award! Congratulations to Catherine E. Ross (@crossphd.bsky.social) on this very deserved nomination.
November 12, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Very happy with this cover for ‘Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955’, which features a detail from Evie Hone’s stained glass window 'Four Green Fields'. This window was originally shown at the New York's World Fair in 1939, but is now found in Government Buildings on Merrion Street
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Reappraisals in Irish History | The Commercial Lives of Irish Women, 1850-1922 by Antonia Hart is available now!

The first book to tell the story of the many entrepreneurial Irish women who ran businesses in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, find out more here ⬇️
bit.ly/CommercialLi...
October 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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🎉 @hoireabhard.bsky.social has been awarded the 2025 @nuimerrionsq.bsky.social Publication Prize in Irish History, for his book The Medieval Irish Kings and the English Invasion. Congratulations, Seán!

Learn more about the book here ⬇️
bit.ly/MedievalIris...
October 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Dr Miranda Melcher recently chatted with @eleanorfitzsimons.bsky.social on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about Speranza: Poems by Jane Wilde!

Find out more here:
bit.ly/NBNSPJW
October 14, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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'Kamila Shamsie' is now available in Writers and Their Work: The Digital Collection, a perpetual access resource offering over 400 rigorous critical examinations of the works of distinguished writers and schools of writing.

Browse the collection ➡️bit.ly/writers-and-their-work-digital-collection
October 2, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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@ssnci.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social Finally got my own copies! Hard to think that this all started with a conference in June 2022! Thanks to Arlene and Cathal, all the contributors and to our top secret peer reviewers #ssnci #irishstudies #conflict #Ireland
September 9, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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SSNCI members are now starting to receive their FREE copy of our latest conference volume: New Perspectives on Conflict and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century edited by Paul Huddie, Cathal Billings, Arlene Crampsie
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
New Perspectives on Conflict and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century | Home
Paul Huddie is an ERC Research Project Manager at the University College Dublin Centre for War Studies and a historical researcher interested in war and society, principally within the long nineteenth century.
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September 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Event | Join the School of English and Digital Humanities ‪@ucc.ie‬ on Wednesday, 10th September, for a symposium in honour of the late Dr Eibhear Walshe.

Find out more here:
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Green Carnations: Remembering Eibhear Walshe
The School of English and Digital Humanities, UCC, invites you to a symposium in honour of the late Dr Eibhear Walshe.
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August 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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It's alive! Publication day! Play in Utopian and Dystopian Ficion arrived in the mail. Thanks Liverpool University Press for producing such a beautiful book.
August 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Back in Galway in glorious sunshine for the ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference! Come to the LUP table for discounted books or to talk about our book series Liverpool Studies in Literature and Environment:
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/topic/book-s...

@asleuki.bsky.social
August 12, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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New in paperback | Down from London focuses on reading, literary genre and seaside resorts between the 1840s and the 1930s. As the railway network developed, debates about ‘seaside reading’ intensified and inflected the development of new forms of fiction.

Find out more here:
bit.ly/DownFL
August 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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If anyone has a spare ticket for sale for Comic Con in Dublin (Saturday), we’d love if you could drop us a line! Many thanks.
August 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Available now | The latest volume in the Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland series, this book is the first dedicated study exploring the theme of Irish conflict, broadly defined, during the long nineteenth century.

Discover more here: bit.ly/NPCINC
July 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Lovely to catch up with so many LUP authors at the IASIL conference in Galway. Come and visit our book table for a 50% discount and/or a chat about publishing with us!
July 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Great to be in Birmingham attending the World Congress of @global19c.bsky.social. If you’re here, do come by the book stand and find out more about publishing with @livunipress.bsky.social!
July 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Our Summer Sale starts today with up to 50% off our books* when purchased via the LUP website. Use discount code 27SUMMER at checkout before Sunday 20th July to receive your discount.
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
*Excludes selected partner titles.
July 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM
All set up for English Shared Futures in the Huntingdon Room at King’s Manor - come and browse our books!
July 3, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Just arrived in beautiful York for the English Shared Futures conference. Looking forward to tomorrow!
July 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM