This is something my lovely students worked on last academic year. If you're interested in student perspectives on what decolonisation means for English Literature, please listen to this thoughtful discussion.

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This is so interesting from @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social regarding the impact of the Irish Famine. @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social

Our neighbours @livunipress.bsky.social have published their Autumn/Winter list.
Doesn't take long to find books of interest to #IrishStudies scholars 😊 but just in case, here is the Autumn/Winter Irish Studies list: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/topic/public...
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🎊 🎉The department is thrilled to be part of the award 'Crafting Care for People, Place and Planet'! Look out for new PhD opportunities with us related to this funding.

You should all pre-order Hannah's excellent book!

In the lead-up to Brian Friel’s centenary year, Arts Over Borders directors talk about the epic five-year project of site-specific presentations of his plays 👇

The Labour government is turbocharging the British derisking state with the world's most expensive nuclear power plant, Sizewell C.

Expensive for us, profitable for investors.
Public subsidies for 12% returns, when average infrastructure yields about 7, all hail investible infrastructure!

‘When neoliberal policymakers attack abortion and promote conservative visions of sexuality and the family, it is not only to maintain women’s subordinate status, but because the family is central to the reorganisation of economic life they have overseen’
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Delighted to announce the shortlist for our 📚Annual John McGahern Book Prize📚 for best debut by an Irish author.
Congratulations to Ferdia Lennon, Alan Murrin, Sinéad Gleeson and Anna Fitzgerald.
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At this point I think I may be one of an incredibly small number of people to have read the second Sullivan report in detail. It is uniformly poor scholarship, containing flagrant fabrications and misrepresentations, calling into question Alice Sullivan's ability to conduct basic academic research

Mustafa Sheta ran The Freedom Theatre in a refugee camp in Jenin - then he was arrested by Israeli forces in 2023. Just a month after his release, their show Return to Palestine opens in London...

@hollyomahony.bsky.social interviews Sheta about the realities of making theatre under occupation

If you or your students are interested in contemporary theatre and performance in Northern Ireland, you can now get 20% off the (hefty...) price using the discount code: PALAUT.

There's lots stuff in it that will be of interest to feminist theatre scholars too. link.springer.com/book/9783031752292

We also heard the research of Rachel Fehily, Róisín O’Gorman, Michael R. Murphy & Sarah Hoover on Dramaturgies and Visibility #ISTR2025 endsofempire.com

Second day of #ISTR2025 is off to a fantastic start as Brian Singleton discusses ANU Productions’ Hammam (2023), bringing it together with the context of the 2023 Dublin Riot www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/ham...

Kurt Taroff raises thought-provoking points in ‘Circuses of stasis: performing the defence of the imperial state in the US and Northern Ireland’, juxtaposing the perfomativity and iconography of The Twelfth parades with Trump rallies (at one of which he apparently "signed a baby")
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@lukelamont.bsky.social on Abomination by Conor Mitchell and Belfast Ensemble at @irishtheatreres.bsky.social 2025 #EndsofEmpire hosted by @myiadt.bsky.social

Catching our breath after a flurry of brilliant panels this afternoon.

The Government Policy & the Arts panel featured papers from Patricia O’Beirne, Ben McCabe & Charlotte McIvor. #ISTR2025 endsofempire.com

It does show how much ideological ground has been lost to arguments that should have been challenged without hesitation. To quote Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who understands coalition building from the left: “social conditions never create consciousness sui generis”.

Sometimes is does seem extraordinary how far things have shifted to the right. Apart from being wrong, it’s also hard to see which prospective Labour voter this argument is for.

What a fab cover! I’m looking forward to reading it.

Join us at 4pm BST on 28 June for Pleasure: University of Liverpool Kenneth Allott Lecture / Poetry Society Summer Lecture with Ledbury Poetry Critics co-founder Vidyan Ravinthiran at the Ledbury Poetry Festival!

In 1802, William Wordsworth was already worried – like us – about

And yet, near silence from the government.

🎭 Katie Knowles and Esme Miskimmin have been working on a collaborative project: a new play performed at #ShakespeareNorthPlayhouse, featuring young actors from the Imaginarium Youth Theatre Group.

Info on the show and accompanying exhibition:

shakespearenorthplayhouse.co.uk/event/act-yo...