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Deirdre Flynn
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Lecturer in 21st Literature - Secretary of IASIL - Member of Young Academy of Ireland
#IrishStudies #HarukiMurakami 🍉🇵🇸
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Lecturer in Creative Writing (Prose)

University of St Andrews

Permanent

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Lecturer in Creative Writing (Prose) - AC2598 at University of St Andrews
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January 15, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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BOOK LAUNCH: Irish Digital Cultures - Identity, Contexts, Space

Tuesday, Jan 27, 2026 | 5pm - 7pm | Royal Irish Academy

RSVP HERE: forms.office.com/e/qAF8CGt7sk

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Irish Digital Cultures: Identity, Contexts, Space
Irish Digital Cultures explores how questions of Ireland and Irishness are represented in online environments, and what these phenomena say about contemporary Irish identities both within the country ...
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January 15, 2026 at 10:42 AM
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Fifteen of these countries—Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay, Iran, Jordan, Uzbekistan, Algeria, Cape Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Ghana, Morocco, Senegal, Tunisia, and Haiti—have qualified for the 2026 World Cup
January 14, 2026 at 7:36 PM
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Hello! I am sharing information about my @researchireland.ie project Locating Loss: histories of infertility in landscapes and spaces. I would love to connect with researchers/ practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines, so please share widely! @nursingclio.bsky.social
Page of information outlining the aims of the Locating Loss research project which explores the histories of infertility in landscapes and spaces. This project aims to bring scholars from a wide range of disciplines together in 2026. Please DM me if more info is needed and this alt text is not enough!
January 14, 2026 at 7:16 PM
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A thing of beauty
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Lily Allen’s West End Girl but it’s The Wild Rover
January 14, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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#AcademicSky
#SeanPenn
The Leo di caprio, jennifer Lawrence, Sean Penn golden globes meme, but about academia
January 13, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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Never gets old - spotted 7 years ago in Aldi
A box with a picture of Mickey Mouse with the title "crochet your own Mickey"
January 12, 2026 at 2:34 PM
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Looking forward to this “The Old Fire” by Elisa Shua Dusapin – Asian Review of Books share.google/QxPbvzPxcMzl... @dauntbookspub.bsky.social
“The Old Fire” by Elisa Shua Dusapin
Elisa Shua Dusapin’s debut novel, Winter in Sokcho, won a National Book Award, among others. It was set in South Korea, while her next two novels were respectively set in Japan and Russia. Of Franc…
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January 10, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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Faculty, Tenure Track Position (Open-rank) in English Literature

College of Integrative Studies, Singapore Management University

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Faculty, Tenure Track Position (Open-rank) in English Literature - Singapore (SG) job with College of Integrative Studies, Singapore Management University | 405854
Full Time Faculty, Tenure Track Position (Open-rank) in English Literature at College of Integrative Studies, Singapore Management University.
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January 10, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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Things stepping up.

ICCL and Digital Rights Ireland have written to the Garda Commissioner calling for an urgent investigation of X.
January 6, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework. Analysis of his ChatGPT account shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
74 suicide warnings and 243 mentions of hanging: What ChatGPT said to a suicidal teen
Analysis of high-schooler Adam Raine’s ChatGPT account by attorneys for his parents shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
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December 28, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Absolutely thrilled to see this in print. Looking forward to reading all the chapters over the break. Pleasure to work with both Deirdre and Mary.
deirdreflynn.bsky.social Deirdre Flynn @deirdreflynn.bsky.social · Dec 18
Absolutely thrilled to have this in my hands!

What a joy working with Mary McGill on this & such an excellent group of contributors.

Launch in Jan 2026!

For more on Irish Digital Cultures: Identity, Context, Space click here: www.routledge.com/Irish-Digita...

#AcademicSky #SpeirGorm
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December 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Tenuretrack professor in Cultural and Societal Storytelling (Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven)

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Full-time tenure-track position in cultural storytelling research and teaching, with focus on inclusion and sustainability. PhD required. English proficiency...
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December 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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#AcademicSky does anyone have access to a chapter from Transnationalism in Irish Literature and Culture

Chapter 13 - Irish Fiction, Small Presses, and the World-System
By Matthew Eatough

That they could send me?

#IrishStudies
December 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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9 years ago at Apollo house for the Home Sweet Home demo in Dublin - that Christmas 7148 people were in emergency accommodation - we're now well over double that
December 20, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Absolutely thrilled to have this in my hands!

What a joy working with Mary McGill on this & such an excellent group of contributors.

Launch in Jan 2026!

For more on Irish Digital Cultures: Identity, Context, Space click here: www.routledge.com/Irish-Digita...

#AcademicSky #SpeirGorm
Image of 3 books with a green cover- Irish Digital Cultures- Identity, Contexts, Space edited by deirdre flynn and Mary McGill
December 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Sally Rooney - notorious Pittsburgh Steelers fan
Google scholar alert for Sally Rooney that is really a spam link - the article title is where to watch pittsburgh steelers vs Chicago bears
December 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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We are delighted this afternoon to announced the CFP for the 36th annual WHAI conference 2026. The conference will be held at Mary I Limerick on 29 & 30 May 2026. Closing dates for submissions on the theme of 'Gain' is 31 Jan. 2026.
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WHAI2026
Welcome to the homepage for the next Women's History Association of Ireland conference. Our next annual conference will take place 29-30 May 2026 at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. The conferenc...
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December 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Hey all,

The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.

Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.

You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
Fellowship
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December 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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The bus driver just got off the bus at a designated stop to get a sausage roll
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Want to hold a major academic conference in the humanities and social sciences? We offer up to £20k (and sometimes £25k) for a conference on any topic to be held between April 27/March 28. Apply by 29 Jan 2026.
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British Academy Conferences funding for UK-based researchers
An exceptional opportunity for UK-based scholars to run a landmark event featuring leading-edge research as part of the British Academy’s events programme.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Nothing was more of a revelation than a recent trip to Ireland, however. Each summer, I do interviews for the Belfast dance music festival AVA, and regularly end up surrounded by beautiful, positive and accomplished twentysomethings. At one point during my last jaunt, just such a room of young people began avidly swapping tales of disastrous Hinge and Tinder dates. I offhandedly mentioned I’d never used a dating app, because my relationship with my wife predates the invention of the smartphone by about six months. Now, I realised, it was me doling out the psychic shocks, as I looked up to find my youthful colleagues were staring at me as if I was a gnarled and toothless corpse they’d just pulled from a bog, one which had now gasped back to life, demanding mutton and hog’s blood. With something like reverent horror, they listened as I went on. Whiskers grew from my cheeks as I informed them that, for many years, text messages didn’t show you when the other person was typing. “You couldn’t even tell if they’d seen or received your message,” I told one, while another cast me a worried look and asked me I’d like someone to fetch me a chair.
November 24, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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📢CFP for the 6th Seminar in English Studies (SEING VI) is now open‼️

Here is some key info:
🗓️May 8th, 2026
📍Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
🕐Deadline CFP: January 15th

More details ⬇️🔗🧵
November 17, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM