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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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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
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Glucksman Chair in Contemporary Writing in English
University of Limerick

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November 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Glucksman Chair in Contemporary Writing in English
University of Limerick

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November 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Assistant Professor in Film Studies
Trinity College Dublin,

5 year Tenure track

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Assistant Professor in Film Studies at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
Recruiting now: Assistant Professor in Film Studies on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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November 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Troy story 3

📸 Attila Kisbedenek
Troy Parrott and Ireland celebrate against Hungary
November 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Troy Parrott you hero! #COYBIG
November 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Eeekkkk #COYBIG
November 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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This two part investigation from Paul Kimmage - A journey inside the toxic world of Irish rowing’s High Performance Unit - is essential reading

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Paul Kimmage: ‘They’re messing with his head’ – a journey inside the toxic world of Irish rowing’s High Performance Unit
It started with an email on a Tuesday evening in February, 2023. The timing wasn’t great. I was severely jet-lagged from a two-week trip to Los Angeles, and about to have surgery on my hand, but the w...
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November 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Mack Hansen for life #IREvAUS
November 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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The special issue of Eighteenth Century Studies on Coasts is now out - glad to be part of it with some thoughts about coasts and gardens in c18 Ireland #BlueHumanities #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies 🌊

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November 6, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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#CFP: "Poetry's Environments" June 9-11, 2026 (University of Leeds, UK)
Keynote speaker: Simon Armitage

Deadline for proposal: December 5th 2025

Info: conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...

#envhum #envhist #ecolit #environment #poetry #ecocriticism
Picture of Leeds' skyline at dusk.
November 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Wowsa #coybig
November 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Blow it up ref #coybig
November 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Whoop #HiddenBooksGame
The image displayed when you complete the hidden books game - an illustrated scene of a woman in a sitting room in her pajamas with a christmas tree, dog, cat, laptop and bookcase!
November 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Ah no - not Silkes!
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Well-loved Limerick city centre retailer to cease trading after more than 30 years
Catherine Street store Silkes One-Stop Art and Stationery to close on Christmas Eve
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November 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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It's the most wonderful time of the year!
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Booklovers, your favourite game is back! 📚🔎

Guess all 20 books in the #HiddenBooksGame and you could win a £500/€500 National Book Token to spend in your local bookshop (the best gift ever, in our opinion).

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An illustration of this year's game. Text says: "Hidden Books Game is BACK! Play at nationalbooktokens.com" and "Win £500 to spend on books".
November 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Less than a week to get your application in
#AcademicSky
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📣 Job Vacancy 📣

Teaching Fellow in English Literature
(0.5 FTE, Fixed Term – Spring Semester 2026)
Mary Immaculate College, Limerick

The appointee will have expertise in contemporary English Literature.

Full details: www.mic.ul.ie/about-mic/va...

Closing date: 2pm on Tuesday, 18 November 2025
Vacancies | Mary Immaculate College
Mary Immaculate College has a wide range of academic and professional services job opportunities on an ongoing basis. Learn more about our vacancies.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Senior Curator - Programming, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin City Council

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Senior Curator - Programming, Hugh Lane Gallery :Dublin
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November 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Great piece from Peter Coviello about bad faith media and academia
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Assistant professor with focus on Anglo-American literature
University of Ostrava
Czech Republic

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Assistant professor with focus on Anglo-American literature
The Dean of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ostrava announces a selection procedure, ref. number: OU-168399/25-2025, to fill an academic position of:
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November 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Call for Contributions: Special Issue on the Systems Novel in the Twenty-First Century

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Call for Contributions: Special Issue on the Systems Novel in the Twenty-First Century
Guest editor: Ali Dehdarirad (University of Rome, Sapienza) In 1987 Tom LeClair formulated the concept of the “systems novel,” a generic category that included highly erudite works that “master the …
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November 6, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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2 weeks left to apply!
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📣 Job Vacancy 📣

Teaching Fellow in English Literature
(0.5 FTE, Fixed Term – Spring Semester 2026)
Mary Immaculate College, Limerick

The appointee will have expertise in contemporary English Literature.

Full details: www.mic.ul.ie/about-mic/va...

Closing date: 2pm on Tuesday, 18 November 2025
Vacancies | Mary Immaculate College
Mary Immaculate College has a wide range of academic and professional services job opportunities on an ongoing basis. Learn more about our vacancies.
www.mic.ul.ie
November 4, 2025 at 12:23 PM