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An author-interview #podcast channel in the NewBooksNetwork Email us: [email protected] Listen to us: https://t.co/gdzOPcRwse Hosts: Meg Smith - Danica Ramsey-Brimberg - Averill Earls - Bridget English - Colleen English - Aidan Beatty

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Averill Earls @aearls.bsky.social · 28d

Fun to chat with Aidan for the channel!

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Talking about police surveillance, archives and queer lives with @aearls.bsky.social

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White and purple cover of Averill Earls' book "Love in the Lav"

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New Books in Irish Studies @leabhairnua.bsky.social · 28d

Talking about police surveillance, archives and queer lives with @aearls.bsky.social

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Dr Walsh @laurelwalsh.bsky.social · Aug 5

Book club, anyone? I need to read this book! 🥰❤️🥰

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Talking about feminism, radicalism and neoliberalism with @camillafitz.bsky.social

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Green book cover with multi-coloured letters of "Rethinking Feminism in Ireland" by Camilla Fitzsimons

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New Books in Irish Studies @leabhairnua.bsky.social · Aug 5

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Talking about feminism, radicalism and neoliberalism with @camillafitz.bsky.social

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Véronique Altglas @valtglas.bsky.social · Jun 24

I enjoyed that, hope you will too!

New Books in Irish Studies @leabhairnua.bsky.social · Jun 24

Talking about Christian Zionism, Messianic Christians and Northern Ireland with @valtglas.bsky.social on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

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Blue and green cover of the book "Judaizing Christianity and Christian Zionism in Northern Ireland" by Véronique Altglas

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Jonathan G. Heaney @jonathangheaney.bsky.social · Jun 25

Great chat about @valtglas.bsky.social's brilliant new book on Christain Zionism in the North -- an important contribution to the sociology of religion and the sociology of Ireland/Northern Ireland/Irish Studies!

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New Books in Irish Studies @leabhairnua.bsky.social · Jun 24

Talking about Christian Zionism, Messianic Christians and Northern Ireland with @valtglas.bsky.social on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

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Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com · Apr 14

My review of Michael Braddick's great new @versobooks.bsky.social biography of Christopher Hill

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Christopher Hill: The Life of a Radical Historian by Michael Braddick – A sometimes dry but sensitive account of Hill’s political developments

This new biography represents a robust synthesis of the life and ideas of one of Britain’s finest historians

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New Books in Irish Studies @leabhairnua.bsky.social · Apr 14

Talking about civil rights, Northern Ireland and African-American comparisons with @forestissacj.bsky.social

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Cover of "Good Trouble: The Selma, Alabama and Derry, Northern Ireland Connection 1963-1972"

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New Books in Irish Studies @leabhairnua.bsky.social · Apr 7

Talking about Irish-America, Republicanism and Philadelphia with Sean Creagh

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Blue-coloured cover of Sean Creagh's biography of Joseph McGarrity

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New Books in Irish Studies @leabhairnua.bsky.social · Jan 15

Talking about Northern Ireland, Irish-America and Presidents with Stephen Watt

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Cover, showing a mural of John F. Kennedy, of Stephen Watt's "From the Troubles to Trumpism"

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Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com · Jan 13

And then on February 6th, this event at Carnegie Mellon University with Tariq Ali, where he will talking about his new @versobooks.bsky.social memoir

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Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com · Jan 13

On January 27th, as part of this American Conference for Irish Studies panel on New Books on the Irish Left with David Landy and @oisingilmore.bsky.social, we will be talking about our @plutopress.bsky.social books, moderated by Sinéad Kennedy

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Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com · Jan 13

Over the next month I will be taking part in two events in which I will be talking about my recent book on Gerry Healy

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Ciaran O'Neill @ciaranon.bsky.social · Jan 13

Really enjoyed this chat with @aidanbeatty.com for New Books Network

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Ciaran O'Neill, "Power and Powerlessness in Union Ireland: Life in a Palliative State" (Oxford UP, 2024) - New Books Network

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New Books in Irish Studies @leabhairnua.bsky.social · Jan 13

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New Books in Irish Studies @leabhairnua.bsky.social · Jan 13

Talking about The State, willful subjects and Irish historiography with @ciaranon.bsky.social

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Cover, showing a painting of a Martello Tower, of Ciaran O'Neill's book "Power and Powerlessness in Union Ireland: Life in a Palliative State" (2024)

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New Books in Irish Studies @leabhairnua.bsky.social · Nov 11

Talking with @conormccabe.bsky.social about James Connolly, the lost archives of Irish socialism and the history of Irish anti-imperialist thought

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Green and beige cover of Conor McCabe's edited collection of James Connolly's early writings

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New Books in Irish Studies @leabhairnua.bsky.social · Sep 21

Talking about gendered bodies, abortion and the 8th Amendment with Aideen O'Shaugnessy

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New Books in Irish Studies @leabhairnua.bsky.social · Sep 15

Talking with Jennifer Redmond and @marymcauliffe.bsky.social about their views on Irish history-writing, their recent work and how they first became interested in gender studies

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · Jul 5

Nice to see this recognition for my colleague Patrick O'Malley's book, The Irish and the Imagination of Race: White Supremacy across the Atlantic in the Nineteenth Century (UVA 2024) www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5964/

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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · Jul 1

Brilliant. Shahmima will be speaking at an event we're running in Galway this September on decolonising humanities research. Will post the details later in the summer. 🗃️

New Books in Irish Studies @leabhairnua.bsky.social · Jul 1

Talking with Shahmima Akhtar about race, commodified Irishness and international exhibitions

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New Books in Irish Studies @leabhairnua.bsky.social · Jul 1

Talking with Laurence Geary about famines, Catholicism and agrarian violence

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New Books in Irish Studies @leabhairnua.bsky.social · Jul 1

Talking with Shahmima Akhtar about race, commodified Irishness and international exhibitions

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