Liz Quirke
@lizquirke.bsky.social
Lecturer in Creative Writing @ucc | Poet @salmonpoetry | 🏳️🌈 Mom @ Juno & Nova | Lover of certain women and tiny dogs
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I was precarious for a long time & in three different countries. I have a lot to say on the topic, so it's nice to start saying some of this tomorrow at the International Postgraduate Conference in Irish Studies, Centre for Irish Studies, CU Prague.
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Keynote Event: ECR & Career Building Panel – The International Postgraduate Conference in Irish Studies
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September 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I was precarious for a long time & in three different countries. I have a lot to say on the topic, so it's nice to start saying some of this tomorrow at the International Postgraduate Conference in Irish Studies, Centre for Irish Studies, CU Prague.
irishpostgradprague.ff.cuni.cz/programme/ke...
irishpostgradprague.ff.cuni.cz/programme/ke...
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NEW on our website | Liz Quirke @lizquirke.bsky.social's essay 'The fear of stepping into focus' the latest instalment in our This So Called Writing Life series (edited by Olivia Fitzsimons @oneflawediris.bsky.social)
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September 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
NEW on our website | Liz Quirke @lizquirke.bsky.social's essay 'The fear of stepping into focus' the latest instalment in our This So Called Writing Life series (edited by Olivia Fitzsimons @oneflawediris.bsky.social)
stingingfly.org/2025/09/09/t...
stingingfly.org/2025/09/09/t...
"How long is my minus life,
nonexistence so much resembles immortality." - Anna Swir
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nonexistence so much resembles immortality." - Anna Swir
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Woman Unborn
Ten years before, a hundred and fifty years before, I walk, my steps thump, a fantastic journey through epochs in which there was no me. I walk still further, what an echo, my steps thump through my m...
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September 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
"How long is my minus life,
nonexistence so much resembles immortality." - Anna Swir
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48637/...
nonexistence so much resembles immortality." - Anna Swir
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48637/...
Essay wherein I talk about poetry, queer motherhood and my body and consider the writing of my third collection. Thanks for @stingingfly.bsky.social stingingfly.org/2025/09/09/t...
The fear of stepping into focus – The Stinging Fly
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September 12, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Essay wherein I talk about poetry, queer motherhood and my body and consider the writing of my third collection. Thanks for @stingingfly.bsky.social stingingfly.org/2025/09/09/t...
Frank O'Hara poem for the end of a long week. "oh Lana Turner we love you get up......":
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Poem [Lana Turner has collapsed!]
Lana Turner has collapsed!
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September 12, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Frank O'Hara poem for the end of a long week. "oh Lana Turner we love you get up......":
poets.org/poem/poem-la...
poets.org/poem/poem-la...
The poet Ellen Dillon read at O’Bhéal go Béal tonight to a packed house. What an artist. Master of craft and scholar of poetry. Proof that good writing takes time and effort. Excited for her next book. Properly achieved poetry tonight. No short cuts.
September 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The poet Ellen Dillon read at O’Bhéal go Béal tonight to a packed house. What an artist. Master of craft and scholar of poetry. Proof that good writing takes time and effort. Excited for her next book. Properly achieved poetry tonight. No short cuts.
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me on @cmatbaby.bsky.social’s EURO-COUNTRY and why it gives voice to a distressingly normalised post-recession malaise. i hope you read!
The emblem of modern Ireland? Not fiddles and Guinness but a soulless shopping plaza | Emer McHugh
The singer CMAT dances around a retail centre in a video for her new album. It is the elegy those of us who grew up in the post-Celtic tiger recession have been craving, says Irish writer Emer McHugh
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August 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
me on @cmatbaby.bsky.social’s EURO-COUNTRY and why it gives voice to a distressingly normalised post-recession malaise. i hope you read!
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♦️ Job opportunity at UCC! ♦️ 5-year Lecturer in Old English position, commencing in September. This will be a great opportunity for someone to join a thriving department, and to really put their own mark on the discipline. Please share widely!
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www.ucc.ie/en/future-hu...
Lecturer in Old English | University College Cork
UCC wishes to appoint a scholar with a proven commitment to excellence in teaching and research to the role of Lecturer in Old English.
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June 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
♦️ Job opportunity at UCC! ♦️ 5-year Lecturer in Old English position, commencing in September. This will be a great opportunity for someone to join a thriving department, and to really put their own mark on the discipline. Please share widely!
www.ucc.ie/en/future-hu...
www.ucc.ie/en/future-hu...
Nice to see a firm stance by a university: Trinity College Dublin board votes to cut ties with Israeli universities and companies
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
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Trinity College Dublin board votes to cut ties with Israeli universities and companies
University will no longer facilitate Erasmus+ exchange agreements with Israeli colleges
www.irishtimes.com
June 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Nice to see a firm stance by a university: Trinity College Dublin board votes to cut ties with Israeli universities and companies
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
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Great @irishtimes.com of Elaine Feeney by @lauraslattery.bsky.social who is always so thoughtful and insightful in her reading and questions and really captures both Elaine and her lively, immediate and resonant novel here.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book... @biblioasis.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book... @biblioasis.bsky.social
Elaine Feeney on her new novel: ‘I was pushing a sort of Chekhov dinner party in the west of Ireland’
The author of Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way on her ‘first Irish family saga’, why she left teaching, and the politics of the domestic space
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June 2, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Great @irishtimes.com of Elaine Feeney by @lauraslattery.bsky.social who is always so thoughtful and insightful in her reading and questions and really captures both Elaine and her lively, immediate and resonant novel here.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book... @biblioasis.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book... @biblioasis.bsky.social
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Amid political attacks and funding cuts, some U.S. students are changing their college and graduate school plans and heading to other countries. We spoke with the incoming class.
Some Students Weigh Leaving the U.S. for College
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May 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Amid political attacks and funding cuts, some U.S. students are changing their college and graduate school plans and heading to other countries. We spoke with the incoming class.
Great buzz at the Stinging Fly launch
May 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Great buzz at the Stinging Fly launch
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Thank you @lizquirke.bsky.social for insightful & fun introductions & questions for Pádraig Ó Tuama & myself. Loved reading to a full house @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social International Poetry Festival. A wonderful festival - inspiring & generous. @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
Really enjoyed moderating the event with @janeclarke.bsky.social & Pádraig Ó Tuama last night at Cork International Poetry Festival. Onwards to Dublin for the Stinging Fly launch! Hup!
May 17, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Thank you @lizquirke.bsky.social for insightful & fun introductions & questions for Pádraig Ó Tuama & myself. Loved reading to a full house @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social International Poetry Festival. A wonderful festival - inspiring & generous. @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
Really enjoyed moderating the event with @janeclarke.bsky.social & Pádraig Ó Tuama last night at Cork International Poetry Festival. Onwards to Dublin for the Stinging Fly launch! Hup!
May 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Really enjoyed moderating the event with @janeclarke.bsky.social & Pádraig Ó Tuama last night at Cork International Poetry Festival. Onwards to Dublin for the Stinging Fly launch! Hup!
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Are you excited for our Summer 2025 issue launch? if so, you're in luck!
You can pre-order the new issue now ahead of the launch @ILFDublin on May 17th.
preorder here: stingingfly.org/product/summ...
You can pre-order the new issue now ahead of the launch @ILFDublin on May 17th.
preorder here: stingingfly.org/product/summ...
May 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Are you excited for our Summer 2025 issue launch? if so, you're in luck!
You can pre-order the new issue now ahead of the launch @ILFDublin on May 17th.
preorder here: stingingfly.org/product/summ...
You can pre-order the new issue now ahead of the launch @ILFDublin on May 17th.
preorder here: stingingfly.org/product/summ...
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‘There’s a war on academia’: US faces brain drain of its brightest and best teachers and students
‘There’s a war on academia’: US faces brain drain of its brightest and best teachers and students
Europe may benefit as Trump’s campaign against Ivy League colleges is causing academics to consider emigrating
www.irishtimes.com
May 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
‘There’s a war on academia’: US faces brain drain of its brightest and best teachers and students
Hammering out the last wrinkles in a few notes on Thom Gunn’s Lament for this colloquium tomorrow. Looking forward to a bit of kite flying.
May 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Hammering out the last wrinkles in a few notes on Thom Gunn’s Lament for this colloquium tomorrow. Looking forward to a bit of kite flying.
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The Sun's Return by Lorna Shaughnessy
Lorna is a poet, translator, editor and researcher. She has published five books of poetry, most recently Lark Water (Salmon Poetry, 2021) and is co-founding editor of Macha Press.
Find Poetry Day Poems across @irishrail.bsky.social services.
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Lorna is a poet, translator, editor and researcher. She has published five books of poetry, most recently Lark Water (Salmon Poetry, 2021) and is co-founding editor of Macha Press.
Find Poetry Day Poems across @irishrail.bsky.social services.
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April 24, 2025 at 8:56 AM
The Sun's Return by Lorna Shaughnessy
Lorna is a poet, translator, editor and researcher. She has published five books of poetry, most recently Lark Water (Salmon Poetry, 2021) and is co-founding editor of Macha Press.
Find Poetry Day Poems across @irishrail.bsky.social services.
ℹ️ poetryday.ie
Lorna is a poet, translator, editor and researcher. She has published five books of poetry, most recently Lark Water (Salmon Poetry, 2021) and is co-founding editor of Macha Press.
Find Poetry Day Poems across @irishrail.bsky.social services.
ℹ️ poetryday.ie
Happy to have a ghostly aul poem in this beaut!
#PIR145 Cover Reveal!📒👀
Poetry Ireland Review Issue 145, edited by Victoria Kennefick, is now is now available for pre-order!
📦 Pre-order online via our website: www.poetryireland.ie/publications...
Funded by The Arts Council Ireland & National Lottery through Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
Poetry Ireland Review Issue 145, edited by Victoria Kennefick, is now is now available for pre-order!
📦 Pre-order online via our website: www.poetryireland.ie/publications...
Funded by The Arts Council Ireland & National Lottery through Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
April 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Happy to have a ghostly aul poem in this beaut!
Excellent Circus image for the next @stingingfly.bsky.social edition, fitting too that my poem is part of the period of my life I refer to as “running away with the ….” Looking forward to the publication/launch/festivities
April 7, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Excellent Circus image for the next @stingingfly.bsky.social edition, fitting too that my poem is part of the period of my life I refer to as “running away with the ….” Looking forward to the publication/launch/festivities
Ordering a copy immediately!
About to read some super gay poems and accompanying essays, thanks to the genius of @notquitehydepark.bsky.social. 🖤❤️
April 6, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Ordering a copy immediately!
Catching up on reading and loving this @ellafrears.bsky.social essay on Judy Grahn. A tribal elder gave me the JG reader eight years ago and I’ve been quietly obsessed since. Good punning in this essay as well 👌
April 5, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Catching up on reading and loving this @ellafrears.bsky.social essay on Judy Grahn. A tribal elder gave me the JG reader eight years ago and I’ve been quietly obsessed since. Good punning in this essay as well 👌
I have a poem in the current issue of Impossible Archetype, a journal of LGBTQ+ poetry, called Gin Weekend, part of my next collection, the divorce book
March 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I have a poem in the current issue of Impossible Archetype, a journal of LGBTQ+ poetry, called Gin Weekend, part of my next collection, the divorce book
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I'm stealing Donal's photo here but just want to say thanks to @lizquirke.bsky.social for a really lovely intro at UCC yesterday for the conference on Ireland and Transnational Solidarities it was an honour to be invited.
The brilliant @sarahmaintains.bsky.social reading her beautiful socially engaged poetry. A fitting end to what has been an incredibly rich conference. And a vital reminder that everything we are doing now is against the backdrop of a genocide, wars of aggression, violent repression and social crises
March 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I'm stealing Donal's photo here but just want to say thanks to @lizquirke.bsky.social for a really lovely intro at UCC yesterday for the conference on Ireland and Transnational Solidarities it was an honour to be invited.