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Tadhg Ó hErodáin / Tim Heron @timheron.bsky.social · 1d

Dear all,
I'm excited to share the CFP for the annual SOFEIR conference which I'm organising on 26-27 March 2026 in Strasbourg. The theme is "Irish Exceptionalism". You'll find the CFP here:

www.sofeir.fr/cfp-irish-ex...

CFP Irish Exceptionalism – SOFEIR conference – University of Strasbourg, 26-27 March 2026 – SOFEIR

www.sofeir.fr

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Tamara Radak @tamararadak.bsky.social · Jun 6

Final panel of #ISTR2025 now with fellow feminist interventionist @ciaralynnmurphy.bsky.social's excellent and engaging paper on "'Get Your Brits Out': Performing Stereotypes of Irish Nationalism Through Subversive Aesthetics"
www.nme.com/news/music/k...

KNEECAP share garage-inspired new single 'Love Making' and announce US tour

Kneecap have shared a garage-inspired new single 'Love Making' and announced a US tour - find dates and tickets here.

www.nme.com

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Anne Cousson @acousson.bsky.social · Jun 6

#SAES2025 @tadhgheron.bsky.social présente son bilan sur la veille documentaire et les réseaux sociaux

Dans un amphithéâtre, 10 personnes sont assises au bureau sur l'estrade. Le slide à l'écran a pour titre "Réseaux sociaux & veille documentaire"

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Tadhg Ó hErodáin / Tim Heron @timheron.bsky.social · Dec 8

We need a softness rooted in the fierce desire for radical equality. We need a gentleness grounded in the firm commitment to collective care. We need a tenderness that rests on the steadfast struggle for total emancipation.

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Claire Dubois @clairedubois.bsky.social · Dec 2

Submissions for the next special issue of Etudes Irlandaises on Children and the Youth in Ireland are expected by 1 June 2025.

journals.openedition.org/etudesirland...

No. 51-1, spring 2026: Children and the Youth in Ireland

Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes Children and the Youth in Ireland...

journals.openedition.org

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Julien Gossa @juliengossa.cpesr.fr · Nov 30

[ #VeilleESR ] Même question, deux réponses.

« le refus du président de l’Université de Strasbourg d’autoriser la tenue d’une conférence à laquelle participerait Rima Hassan portait atteinte à la liberté d’expression. » - TA de Strasbourg

strasbourg.tribunal-administratif.fr/decisions-de...

Université de Strasbourg : l’interdiction de la conférence de Rima Hassan est illégale. - Tribunal administratif de Strasbourg

Par une ordonnance du 26 novembre 2024, les juges des référés du tribunal administratif de Strasbourg, réunis en formation collégiale, ont jugé que le refus du président de l’Université de Strasbourg ...

strasbourg.tribunal-administratif.fr

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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · Nov 26

Great many people show support to our colleague in Anglophone Studies, Dr Maboula Soumahoro, whose specialism in critical race analyses in France & US is well known. EU Parliament cancelled her intervention follwing sustained pressure from the far-right.
Collective✊🏾
www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...

Madame la présidente du Parlement européen, reprogrammez la conférence de Maboula Soumahoro sur l’antiracisme !

Dans une lettre ouverte à Roberta Metsola, plusieurs centaines d’intellectuels et de personnalités dénoncent le report, sous la pression d’élus d’extrême droite, d’une intervention de la chercheuse Ma...

www.liberation.fr

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iman 🪂🔻🔻 @imanisthere.bsky.social · Nov 16

Reporting on genocide is harmful to bluesky? @safety.bsky.app I only post images and reporting by verified journalists how on earth is that interpreted into breaking the law or being harmful to others on my own timeline?

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Adèle B. Combes @adelebcombes.bsky.social · Nov 30

Le budget 2025 des universités françaises met la qualité de notre enseignement supérieur en danger comme jamais auparavant.

Signons la pétition !
chng.it/8LjbQpRkbt

#universitésendanger #recherche #science

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Karina Bénazech Wendling @karinabwendling.com · Nov 27

#Irishstudies #AcademicSky
#History #radicalism #Ireland
With my colleagues (@tadhgheron.bsky.social & others), we are pleased to share a call for contributions to an edited volume on Radicalism, radicalisation and deradicalisation from 1798 to the present day.
Please RT. Many thanks.

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Tadhg Ó hErodáin / Tim Heron @timheron.bsky.social · Nov 21

Back after a long break, and happy to see a lot of new faces here. Hi everyone!

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Mathias Valverde @vlvde.bsky.social · Jan 23

#VeilleESR

Ada Reichhart @adarht.bsky.social · Jan 23

📢 The ERC Starting Grant WE-COOP project is recruiting 1 Postdoc & 1 Research Assistant !
Join us @ the University of Strasbourg to work on an exciting Participatory Research crisscrossing the topics of #Gender #Labour and #Democracy
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/186240
www.unistra.fr/fileadmin/up...

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Irish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social · Jan 22

"Walking as Methodology: Tracing post-conflict Belfast on foot"
Blog Post by Dr Elizabeth DeYoung for
@livunipress.bsky.social: liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2024/01/19/w... Don't forget to register for our FREE event with Dr Deyoung on 1 February: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the...

Walking as Methodology: Tracing post-conflict Belfast on foot

Only 20 years old when she first set foot on Northern Irish soil as part of a university exchange, Elizabeth DeYoung (now Dr. DeYoung) spent months getting accustomed to the paths, people, and pubs of...

liverpooluniversitypress.blog

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EFACIS @efacis.bsky.social · Jan 16

Don't miss out on episode 46 of our Irish Itinerary Podcast with the wonderful Sheila Armstrong!

And stay tuned for a new episode this Thursday.

www.efacis.eu/podcast

#irishwriting #irishstudies #novel #shortstory

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Susanne Mohr @susannemohr7.bsky.social · Nov 15

Don't try to phish a linguist. 🤨 They will notice that your use of sentence initial 'please' is West African not Irish & that (as the German you're pretending to be) you wouldn't address someone by their first name straight away. So FYI, there's phishing emails in the name of EFACIS circulating.

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · Nov 23

The Irish Studies in Europe special issue "Stage Irish: Performance, Identity, Cultural Circulation" that I co-edited with Dieter Fuchs & Tamara Radak in 2021 has been made available to the public by EFACIS

Read the full PDF @ this 🔗 www.efacis.eu/sites/defaul...
(Individual chapter PDFs in the 🧵👇)

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Jessica Bundschuh @jessicabundschuh.bsky.social · Dec 15

It has been our pleasure to have Helen Cullen at the University of Stuttgart for two creative writing workshops: Ecologies of Sound & Readings of Form. Thanks to the EFACIS Irish itinerary, the Dept of English Literatures & the School for Talents. Helen's tips on revision were genius!

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EFACIS @efacis.bsky.social · Jan 17

For all PhD students in Irish Studies

Come and join the first EFACIS #PhD Lunch Break of the new year on 30 January!

All info at fb.me/e/8ak4dsrMJ

#PhDtalk #PhDlife #IrishStudies

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The International Flann O’Brien Society @flannobriensoc.bsky.social · Jan 19

The following article in the Irish University Review is free to read for the rest of January!

3. Stan Erraught, "'I was listening … but did not succeed in hearing you’: Flann O’Brien, Ralph Cusack, and the Absurdities of Silent Musical Experience"

🔗👉 www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · Jan 22

Alongside the three lectureships currently advertised, UCC French Department is also recruiting a Professor! Please share widely. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DFI276/p...

Professor (Scale 2) in French at University College Cork

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Professor (Scale 2) in French on jobs.ac.uk!

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Karina Bénazech Wendling @karinabwendling.com · Jan 22

The CFP for our study day on Radicalism is on Calenda.
Comparative approaches are welcome too.
Feel free to share!
calenda.org/1126434

Radicalism, Radicalisation and De-radicalisation in Ireland from 17...

This study day will bring together established and young researchers to explore the complex and rich history of radicalism, radicalisation and de-radicalisation in Ireland from 1798 to the present ...

calenda.org

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social · Jan 19

Want to know more about the discoveries relating to Thomas Cromwell's Book of Hours, now on display in the Wren? This blog post will tell you everything, from the link with Holbein's portrait to how Raman spectroscopy was used to identify the jewels in the binding. Not to be missed! t.ly/ot3RS

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · Jan 18

Starring Cillian Murphy and Eileen Walsh and directed by Tim Mielants from a screenplay by Enda Walsh, the film is an adaptation of Claire Keegan’s novel of the same name which was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

New Cillian Murphy film to open Berlin Film Festival next month

'We are looking forward to launching this ‘quiet’ yet quite exceptional film.'

www.irishexaminer.com

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Tadhg Ó hErodáin / Tim Heron @timheron.bsky.social · Jan 18

Vous aimez Vivienne Westwood, le stylisme ou la culture #punk ? Écoutez ce documentaire sur la créatrice iconoclaste britannique sur @franceculture.bsky.social samedi soir à 17h! J'y interviens pour parler des liens entre Westwood et le punk.

www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

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Tadhg Ó hErodáin / Tim Heron @timheron.bsky.social · Jan 18

Merci, à toi aussi !

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