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New Books in Irish Studies
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An author-interview #podcast channel in the NewBooksNetwork

Email us: NewBooksInIrishStudies@gmail.com
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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aearls.bsky.social
Fun to chat with Aidan for the channel!
leabhairnua.bsky.social New Books in Irish Studies @leabhairnua.bsky.social · Sep 10
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"
September 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
leabhairnua.bsky.social
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"
September 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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laurelwalsh.bsky.social
Book club, anyone? I need to read this book! 🥰❤️🥰
August 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
leabhairnua.bsky.social
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
August 5, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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valtglas.bsky.social
I enjoyed that, hope you will too!
leabhairnua.bsky.social 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
June 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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jonathangheaney.bsky.social
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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@sociologyireland.bsky.social @isa-rc22.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 8:27 AM
leabhairnua.bsky.social
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
June 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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aidanbeatty.com
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
www.irishtimes.com
April 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
leabhairnua.bsky.social
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"
April 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM
leabhairnua.bsky.social
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
April 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
leabhairnua.bsky.social
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"
January 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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aidanbeatty.com
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
January 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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aidanbeatty.com
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
January 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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aidanbeatty.com
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
January 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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ciaranon.bsky.social
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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January 13, 2025 at 10:41 AM
leabhairnua.bsky.social
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)
January 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
leabhairnua.bsky.social
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
November 11, 2024 at 6:07 PM
leabhairnua.bsky.social
Talking about gendered bodies, abortion and the 8th Amendment with Aideen O'Shaugnessy

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September 21, 2024 at 3:47 PM
leabhairnua.bsky.social
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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September 15, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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adamrothman.bsky.social
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/
July 5, 2024 at 11:28 PM
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kevinkosullivan.bsky.social
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. 🗃️
leabhairnua.bsky.social 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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@manchesterup.bsky.social
July 1, 2024 at 10:04 AM
leabhairnua.bsky.social
Talking with Laurence Geary about famines, Catholicism and agrarian violence

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July 1, 2024 at 10:02 AM
leabhairnua.bsky.social
Talking with Shahmima Akhtar about race, commodified Irishness and international exhibitions

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@manchesterup.bsky.social
July 1, 2024 at 10:00 AM
leabhairnua.bsky.social
Ari Barbalat talks with @aidanjbeatty.bsky.social
about Irish Questions and Jewish Questions

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April 15, 2024 at 4:00 PM
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aidanbeatty.com
"The Party is Always Right" is now available for pre-order from @plutobooks.bsky.social and will be out in the world in September

www.plutobooks.com/978074534872...
Cover of "The Party is Always Right" book
April 11, 2024 at 3:47 PM