Orlaith Darling
@darlingorlaith.bsky.social
Research Ireland postdoc @ UCD in contemporary literature, affect, and late capitalism | Previously postdoc @ JLU Giessen | PhD @ Trinity College Dublin | Tuirseach, traochta agus cáite amach | Free Palestine
Work @ https://orlaithdarling.com
Work @ https://orlaithdarling.com
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Send in your abstracts for the Sadness + Gender conference we're holding in June 2026! We have some fantastic keynote speakers and specialist panels lined up and would love to see you all in Dublin! #cfp @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @molimuseum.bsky.social
Just saw a student wearing a barbour jacket and a mullet and don't know what to think
October 13, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Just saw a student wearing a barbour jacket and a mullet and don't know what to think
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Who's Here? 👋
A warm welcome to:
Dr Audrey Borowski (Cambridge)
Dr Elizabeth Sarah Coles (Pompeu Fabra)
Dr Sheila Crane (Virginia)
Dr @darlingorlaith.bsky.social (UC Dublin)
Dr @kareemestefan.bsky.social (Cambridge)
Dr @fernandag.bsky.social (Cambridge)
Dr Jan Kerkmann (Freiburg)
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A warm welcome to:
Dr Audrey Borowski (Cambridge)
Dr Elizabeth Sarah Coles (Pompeu Fabra)
Dr Sheila Crane (Virginia)
Dr @darlingorlaith.bsky.social (UC Dublin)
Dr @kareemestefan.bsky.social (Cambridge)
Dr @fernandag.bsky.social (Cambridge)
Dr Jan Kerkmann (Freiburg)
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Who’s Here? Introducing CRASSH Fellows in Michaelmas Term 2025 - CRASSH
A brief introduction to new fellows joining CRASSH this term.
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Who's Here? 👋
A warm welcome to:
Dr Audrey Borowski (Cambridge)
Dr Elizabeth Sarah Coles (Pompeu Fabra)
Dr Sheila Crane (Virginia)
Dr @darlingorlaith.bsky.social (UC Dublin)
Dr @kareemestefan.bsky.social (Cambridge)
Dr @fernandag.bsky.social (Cambridge)
Dr Jan Kerkmann (Freiburg)
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A warm welcome to:
Dr Audrey Borowski (Cambridge)
Dr Elizabeth Sarah Coles (Pompeu Fabra)
Dr Sheila Crane (Virginia)
Dr @darlingorlaith.bsky.social (UC Dublin)
Dr @kareemestefan.bsky.social (Cambridge)
Dr @fernandag.bsky.social (Cambridge)
Dr Jan Kerkmann (Freiburg)
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48078...
I will be hosting a reading group on the work of Lauren Berlant Oct.-Nov. @crasshlive.bsky.social. Berlant's writing on sentimentality and the public sphere has lots to say to the current moment we're living through + anyone in Cambridge should please join us!
I will be hosting a reading group on the work of Lauren Berlant Oct.-Nov. @crasshlive.bsky.social. Berlant's writing on sentimentality and the public sphere has lots to say to the current moment we're living through + anyone in Cambridge should please join us!
Lauren Berlant: A Michaelmas Reading Group - CRASSH
In an early talk about Cruel Optimism, Lauren Berlant describes their critical object: namely, the “desire”, which they perceive as endemic to capitalism, “to have a cluster of feelings in lieu of hav...
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk
October 3, 2025 at 9:10 AM
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48078...
I will be hosting a reading group on the work of Lauren Berlant Oct.-Nov. @crasshlive.bsky.social. Berlant's writing on sentimentality and the public sphere has lots to say to the current moment we're living through + anyone in Cambridge should please join us!
I will be hosting a reading group on the work of Lauren Berlant Oct.-Nov. @crasshlive.bsky.social. Berlant's writing on sentimentality and the public sphere has lots to say to the current moment we're living through + anyone in Cambridge should please join us!
Send in your abstracts for the Sadness + Gender conference we're holding in June 2026! We have some fantastic keynote speakers and specialist panels lined up and would love to see you all in Dublin! #cfp @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @molimuseum.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Send in your abstracts for the Sadness + Gender conference we're holding in June 2026! We have some fantastic keynote speakers and specialist panels lined up and would love to see you all in Dublin! #cfp @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @molimuseum.bsky.social
www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/about/events... I will be a visiting fellow at @crasshlive.bsky.social and Wolfson College from Oct-Dec. Come see me talk about my new project at Wolfson Humanities Society! I believe the event will also be MS Team-ed @ucdhumanities.bsky.social
Wolfson College Cambridge: Everything’s Fine, Nothing’s Fine: The Sad Girl Novel
Why are so many millennial women so sad?
www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk
September 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/about/events... I will be a visiting fellow at @crasshlive.bsky.social and Wolfson College from Oct-Dec. Come see me talk about my new project at Wolfson Humanities Society! I believe the event will also be MS Team-ed @ucdhumanities.bsky.social
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Clare Moriarty: I’ve cracked the afterschool childcare problem. It has cheap coffee, wifi and over-excited toddlers
Clare Moriarty: I’ve cracked the afterschool childcare problem. It has cheap coffee, wifi and over-excited toddlers
As Dua Lipa pulsed through the soft play centre in Kildare, and I tried to write a lecture on Descartes’ sixth Meditation, I finally experienced the real distinction of mind and body
www.irishtimes.com
September 15, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Clare Moriarty: I’ve cracked the afterschool childcare problem. It has cheap coffee, wifi and over-excited toddlers
Tune in to hear me talk about Research Ireland postdocs (formerly the IRC)
IASIL ECR: Research Ireland Postdoc Information Session
6-7pm [Irish time] September 11, 2025, ONLINE
Thanks to @lnhowley.bsky.social
Please share #IrishStudies #ECR #Postgrad #IrishResearch
sign up & more info:
www.iasil.org/2025/09/iasi...
PS - MENTORS we want you (see more at the link)
6-7pm [Irish time] September 11, 2025, ONLINE
Thanks to @lnhowley.bsky.social
Please share #IrishStudies #ECR #Postgrad #IrishResearch
sign up & more info:
www.iasil.org/2025/09/iasi...
PS - MENTORS we want you (see more at the link)
IASIL ECR: Research Ireland Postdoc Information Session – International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures
www.iasil.org
September 11, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Tune in to hear me talk about Research Ireland postdocs (formerly the IRC)
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srael is no longer seeking approval for issuing bonds through Ireland's Central Bank.
Despite the pathetic Irish Government refusing to formally stop authorising Israeli bonds, the concerted pressure of a popular campaign here led to this outcome.
www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...
Despite the pathetic Irish Government refusing to formally stop authorising Israeli bonds, the concerted pressure of a popular campaign here led to this outcome.
www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...
Irish Central Bank will no longer approve Israeli bonds
The latest bond prospectus issued by Israel has been approved by Luxembourg and not the Central Bank in Ireland.
www.rte.ie
September 1, 2025 at 10:37 AM
srael is no longer seeking approval for issuing bonds through Ireland's Central Bank.
Despite the pathetic Irish Government refusing to formally stop authorising Israeli bonds, the concerted pressure of a popular campaign here led to this outcome.
www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...
Despite the pathetic Irish Government refusing to formally stop authorising Israeli bonds, the concerted pressure of a popular campaign here led to this outcome.
www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...
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Entirely man-made famine.
August 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Entirely man-made famine.
Like everyone, I am listening to obscene amounts of Oasis recently and would like to have a moment of appreciation for Liam's incredible diction (a fraught topic between myself and my childhood singing teacher)
August 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Like everyone, I am listening to obscene amounts of Oasis recently and would like to have a moment of appreciation for Liam's incredible diction (a fraught topic between myself and my childhood singing teacher)
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Fellowship from Bloomsbury for early career academics who are Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...
Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship 2025 - Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship scheme aims to help early career academics get their book idea into a form which is ready for publication.
www.bloomsbury.com
August 22, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Fellowship from Bloomsbury for early career academics who are Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...
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New Literary Encyclopedia entry on Sally Rooney just dropped. A real joy to think about her oeuvre, and a real challenge to fit it into concise entry!
New Literary Encyclopedia entry on Sally Rooney just dropped. A real joy to think about her oeuvre, and a real challenge to fit it into concise entry!
Sally Rooney
Background
Sally Rooney is the author of poetry, short stories, essays,...
www.litencyc.com
August 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
www.litencyc.com/php/speople....
New Literary Encyclopedia entry on Sally Rooney just dropped. A real joy to think about her oeuvre, and a real challenge to fit it into concise entry!
New Literary Encyclopedia entry on Sally Rooney just dropped. A real joy to think about her oeuvre, and a real challenge to fit it into concise entry!
Call out to drop me your favourite love poems🥰
August 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Call out to drop me your favourite love poems🥰
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Would you like to contribute to the public consultation about the Basic Income for the Arts? 💡
Fill out this survey from Minister O’Donovan at the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
Fill out this survey from Minister O’Donovan at the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
Basic Income for the Arts public consultation
ec.europa.eu
August 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Would you like to contribute to the public consultation about the Basic Income for the Arts? 💡
Fill out this survey from Minister O’Donovan at the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
Fill out this survey from Minister O’Donovan at the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
Thrilled that Fionnula and myself have been granted generous funding by @ucdhumanities.bsky.social to run this conference. Anyone interested in women's lit/mental health/disability studies keep your eyes peeled for CfP!
'Bad Feelings: Sadness and Gender in Contemporary Culture' - @darlingorlaith.bsky.social and Fionnula Simpson
'Craft: Activism, Literature, Labour' - Katherine Fama and Benjamin Anderson
'Energy, Creativity, Sustainability' - Derval Conroy, Jane Grogan, and Jeanne Riou
'Craft: Activism, Literature, Labour' - Katherine Fama and Benjamin Anderson
'Energy, Creativity, Sustainability' - Derval Conroy, Jane Grogan, and Jeanne Riou
August 11, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Thrilled that Fionnula and myself have been granted generous funding by @ucdhumanities.bsky.social to run this conference. Anyone interested in women's lit/mental health/disability studies keep your eyes peeled for CfP!
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We're pleased to announce funding awarded to 6 projects catalysing research across the CAH Research Strands. The projects are funded by the HI Seed Funding Scheme: CAH Research Strands 2025-2026. We're delighted these projects can be realised and look forward to collaborating with the project leads.
August 7, 2025 at 10:26 AM
We're pleased to announce funding awarded to 6 projects catalysing research across the CAH Research Strands. The projects are funded by the HI Seed Funding Scheme: CAH Research Strands 2025-2026. We're delighted these projects can be realised and look forward to collaborating with the project leads.
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"There is no case since WW2 of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled"
Famine expert Alex de Waal on Israel deliberately starving an entire civilian population
Famine expert Alex de Waal on Israel deliberately starving an entire civilian population
July 21, 2025 at 8:38 AM
"There is no case since WW2 of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled"
Famine expert Alex de Waal on Israel deliberately starving an entire civilian population
Famine expert Alex de Waal on Israel deliberately starving an entire civilian population
Leafing through old Irish poetry anthologies to look for wedding readings is renewing my gratitude to a later generation of Irish writers, editors, and publishers for championing gender representation. Mad to think that efforts from the recent past (within my lifetime) including one woman poet...
July 21, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Leafing through old Irish poetry anthologies to look for wedding readings is renewing my gratitude to a later generation of Irish writers, editors, and publishers for championing gender representation. Mad to think that efforts from the recent past (within my lifetime) including one woman poet...
spending a day in bed reading Brandon Taylor's Substack all day and calling it research: summer 2025 vibes
July 1, 2025 at 9:12 AM
spending a day in bed reading Brandon Taylor's Substack all day and calling it research: summer 2025 vibes
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Seeing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social win thanks to grassroots support by young activists (yay @demsocialists.bsky.social) makes this middle aged guy living on the prairie so freaking happy. Let a thousand similar flowers all over the US bloom.
June 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Seeing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social win thanks to grassroots support by young activists (yay @demsocialists.bsky.social) makes this middle aged guy living on the prairie so freaking happy. Let a thousand similar flowers all over the US bloom.
Dublin and Dublin-adjacent people! If anyone knows of any nice wedding venues that can host 240-ish people, please let me know!
June 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Dublin and Dublin-adjacent people! If anyone knows of any nice wedding venues that can host 240-ish people, please let me know!
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As has been typical for some time, the paper of global finance is to the left of the US liberal party.
Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...
May 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As has been typical for some time, the paper of global finance is to the left of the US liberal party.
F*ck the L*bour Government.
May 2, 2025 at 10:53 AM
F*ck the L*bour Government.
