richard alan barlow
@richardalanbarlow.bsky.social
Associate Lecturer at the University of St Andrews: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/english/people/rab44/
Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: https://academic.oup.com/book/44829?login=false
Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: https://academic.oup.com/book/44829?login=false
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Hi everyone! This year I’m starting a new job @standrewsenglish.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social and a new role as a Trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation. I’ll be dividing my time between St Andrews, Dundee, and Limerick. Hope to see some of you around!
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Our students aren’t being heard.
“students aren't told anything at all."
"You really have to dig for all the information - online, on the website, through emails... unless you have the time to sit and dig through emails, you don't know what's going on," she says.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“students aren't told anything at all."
"You really have to dig for all the information - online, on the website, through emails... unless you have the time to sit and dig through emails, you don't know what's going on," she says.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How is the dispute at Dundee University affecting students?
Students say they are feeling the effects across studios, classrooms and workshops.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Our students aren’t being heard.
“students aren't told anything at all."
"You really have to dig for all the information - online, on the website, through emails... unless you have the time to sit and dig through emails, you don't know what's going on," she says.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“students aren't told anything at all."
"You really have to dig for all the information - online, on the website, through emails... unless you have the time to sit and dig through emails, you don't know what's going on," she says.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Now available for pre-order: W. B. Yeats’s Rapallo Notebooks (IYS 9.2, 2025).
This special print edition guides readers through the Rapallo Notebooks as both artifacts and reflections of Yeats’s creative process.
See the attached flier for details! Additional information coming soon.
This special print edition guides readers through the Rapallo Notebooks as both artifacts and reflections of Yeats’s creative process.
See the attached flier for details! Additional information coming soon.
November 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Now available for pre-order: W. B. Yeats’s Rapallo Notebooks (IYS 9.2, 2025).
This special print edition guides readers through the Rapallo Notebooks as both artifacts and reflections of Yeats’s creative process.
See the attached flier for details! Additional information coming soon.
This special print edition guides readers through the Rapallo Notebooks as both artifacts and reflections of Yeats’s creative process.
See the attached flier for details! Additional information coming soon.
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📣 REMINDER – Thursday
The National 1798 Rebellion Centre and UCD Press
are pleased to invite you to celebrate
Bloody Summer: A New History of the 1798 Rebellion
⏰ 6pm, Thur, 13 Nov
📍 The National 1798 Rebellion Centre, Enniscorthy
Guest Speaker: Kevin Whelan
ALL WELCOME
RSVP ucdpress@ucd.ie
The National 1798 Rebellion Centre and UCD Press
are pleased to invite you to celebrate
Bloody Summer: A New History of the 1798 Rebellion
⏰ 6pm, Thur, 13 Nov
📍 The National 1798 Rebellion Centre, Enniscorthy
Guest Speaker: Kevin Whelan
ALL WELCOME
RSVP ucdpress@ucd.ie
November 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
📣 REMINDER – Thursday
The National 1798 Rebellion Centre and UCD Press
are pleased to invite you to celebrate
Bloody Summer: A New History of the 1798 Rebellion
⏰ 6pm, Thur, 13 Nov
📍 The National 1798 Rebellion Centre, Enniscorthy
Guest Speaker: Kevin Whelan
ALL WELCOME
RSVP ucdpress@ucd.ie
The National 1798 Rebellion Centre and UCD Press
are pleased to invite you to celebrate
Bloody Summer: A New History of the 1798 Rebellion
⏰ 6pm, Thur, 13 Nov
📍 The National 1798 Rebellion Centre, Enniscorthy
Guest Speaker: Kevin Whelan
ALL WELCOME
RSVP ucdpress@ucd.ie
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Call for Papers: 5th World Congress of Scottish Literatures: Scotland Along the New Silk Road (17-20 June 2027, Nanjing Normal University, China). Deadline for submissions: 30 November 2026.
Call for Papers: 5th World Congress of Scottish Literatures: Scotland Along the New Silk Road (17-20 June 2027)
The Fifth World Congress of Scottish Literatures will be held at Nanjing Normal University in Nanjing, China, on 17-20 June 2027. Being China’s first city designated as a “UNESCO City of Literature…
scotlit-iassl.org
November 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Call for Papers: 5th World Congress of Scottish Literatures: Scotland Along the New Silk Road (17-20 June 2027, Nanjing Normal University, China). Deadline for submissions: 30 November 2026.
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Call for Papers: 'Regional Perspectives, Planetary Reach. Themes, Genres, Forms of Narration in Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction', 28-29 May 2026, Università di Napoli L'Orientale. Deadline for proposals: 10 January 2026. sites.google.com/view/irsconf...
November 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Call for Papers: 'Regional Perspectives, Planetary Reach. Themes, Genres, Forms of Narration in Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction', 28-29 May 2026, Università di Napoli L'Orientale. Deadline for proposals: 10 January 2026. sites.google.com/view/irsconf...
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Call for Papers: 'Regional Perspectives, Planetary Reach. Themes, Genres, Forms of Narration in Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction', 28-29 May 2026, Università di Napoli L'Orientale. Deadline for proposals: 10 January 2026. @iassl.bsky.social @asls.org.uk
sites.google.com/view/irsconf...
sites.google.com/view/irsconf...
November 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Call for Papers: 'Regional Perspectives, Planetary Reach. Themes, Genres, Forms of Narration in Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction', 28-29 May 2026, Università di Napoli L'Orientale. Deadline for proposals: 10 January 2026. @iassl.bsky.social @asls.org.uk
sites.google.com/view/irsconf...
sites.google.com/view/irsconf...
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'Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival' is now available for pre-order from @edinburghup.bsky.social in paperback and with a 30% discount with the code PAPER30. Coming in December! 🎁
Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival
Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival
edinburghuniversitypress.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:18 AM
'Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival' is now available for pre-order from @edinburghup.bsky.social in paperback and with a 30% discount with the code PAPER30. Coming in December! 🎁
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Missed it the first time? Good news — the event below has been rescheduled for Thursday 13 November! You can still register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/david-who-...
November 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Missed it the first time? Good news — the event below has been rescheduled for Thursday 13 November! You can still register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/david-who-...
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Very useful starting point: here's my slide for the Research Methods class:
November 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Very useful starting point: here's my slide for the Research Methods class:
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Very happy with this cover for ‘Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955’, which features a detail from Evie Hone’s stained glass window 'Four Green Fields'. This window was originally shown at the New York's World Fair in 1939, but is now found in Government Buildings on Merrion Street
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Very happy with this cover for ‘Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955’, which features a detail from Evie Hone’s stained glass window 'Four Green Fields'. This window was originally shown at the New York's World Fair in 1939, but is now found in Government Buildings on Merrion Street
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We are co-hosting on 3 Dec. a conference on 'From Boundary Commission to Border Poll? A Century of the Irish Border'. This is a free event, but registration is required (by 26 Nov.). Info at: www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...
November 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM
We are co-hosting on 3 Dec. a conference on 'From Boundary Commission to Border Poll? A Century of the Irish Border'. This is a free event, but registration is required (by 26 Nov.). Info at: www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...
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You don’t have to mourn war criminals. You don’t have to issue condolences to their families.
You don’t have to launder their legacies.
Save your grief for the innocents they killed, maimed or tortured without ever seeing justice served to their executioners.
You don’t have to launder their legacies.
Save your grief for the innocents they killed, maimed or tortured without ever seeing justice served to their executioners.
November 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
You don’t have to mourn war criminals. You don’t have to issue condolences to their families.
You don’t have to launder their legacies.
Save your grief for the innocents they killed, maimed or tortured without ever seeing justice served to their executioners.
You don’t have to launder their legacies.
Save your grief for the innocents they killed, maimed or tortured without ever seeing justice served to their executioners.
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The book isn’t out until January in Ireland and March in the States, but if you’d like a copy eventually here is the pre-order discount code. I’ll share it again and have some launches planned in Bellaghy, Belfast and Dublin for late Feb/ early March. Do come along, I’d be glad to see you.
October 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The book isn’t out until January in Ireland and March in the States, but if you’d like a copy eventually here is the pre-order discount code. I’ll share it again and have some launches planned in Bellaghy, Belfast and Dublin for late Feb/ early March. Do come along, I’d be glad to see you.
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We're delighted to announce that, after a very successful first year, RIISS will be hosting a further New Voices ECR Visiting Fellow in 2026. Applications are open until 5th December 2025.
www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-e...
www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-e...
New Voices ECR Visiting Fellowship
www.abdn.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
We're delighted to announce that, after a very successful first year, RIISS will be hosting a further New Voices ECR Visiting Fellow in 2026. Applications are open until 5th December 2025.
www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-e...
www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-e...
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🌄 Scotland’s landscapes are layered with history — from Gaelic medieval society to Romanticism and militarism.
Join Prof Aonghus MacKechnie for If a landscape “speaks”, can we hear it?
📆 Mon 10 Nov, 6:30pm
📍 Edinburgh + Zoom
🎟 £6 / £2 students – book: buff.ly/6ZepKtJ
Join Prof Aonghus MacKechnie for If a landscape “speaks”, can we hear it?
📆 Mon 10 Nov, 6:30pm
📍 Edinburgh + Zoom
🎟 £6 / £2 students – book: buff.ly/6ZepKtJ
November 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🌄 Scotland’s landscapes are layered with history — from Gaelic medieval society to Romanticism and militarism.
Join Prof Aonghus MacKechnie for If a landscape “speaks”, can we hear it?
📆 Mon 10 Nov, 6:30pm
📍 Edinburgh + Zoom
🎟 £6 / £2 students – book: buff.ly/6ZepKtJ
Join Prof Aonghus MacKechnie for If a landscape “speaks”, can we hear it?
📆 Mon 10 Nov, 6:30pm
📍 Edinburgh + Zoom
🎟 £6 / £2 students – book: buff.ly/6ZepKtJ
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Another @erskineproject.bsky.social article is out: 'The Visual Dimension of Ruaraidh Erskine's Scottish Magazines'! It is a rare pleasure to be part of such a lavish and carefully curated publication, and I am grateful to the SSAH ssah.org.uk for the possibility to contribute to their journal.
An article on 'The Visual Dimension of Ruaraidh Erskine's Scottish Magazines' by @poncarova.bsky.social has just appeared in the Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History 30 (2025-26) ssah.org.uk, discussing artworks by Stewart Carmichael, Andrew Scott Rankin, Hugh Munro, and Haldane MacFall.
November 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Another @erskineproject.bsky.social article is out: 'The Visual Dimension of Ruaraidh Erskine's Scottish Magazines'! It is a rare pleasure to be part of such a lavish and carefully curated publication, and I am grateful to the SSAH ssah.org.uk for the possibility to contribute to their journal.
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The recording of the 13th EFACIS Roundtable Discussion is now available on our YouTube channel!
Rewatch this brilliant workshop on Celibacy in Irish Women Writing at youtu.be/c2rNcLC3_q8?...
Rewatch this brilliant workshop on Celibacy in Irish Women Writing at youtu.be/c2rNcLC3_q8?...
EFACIS Roundtable Discussion 13: Workshop on Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing
YouTube video by EFACIS YouTube
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November 3, 2025 at 9:03 AM
The recording of the 13th EFACIS Roundtable Discussion is now available on our YouTube channel!
Rewatch this brilliant workshop on Celibacy in Irish Women Writing at youtu.be/c2rNcLC3_q8?...
Rewatch this brilliant workshop on Celibacy in Irish Women Writing at youtu.be/c2rNcLC3_q8?...
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The deadline for the joint BAMS/ MSA conference is fast approaching! It's exactly one month away on December 1, 2025. Please note it's the same deadline for panels, papers, roundtables, and workshop/ seminar proposals. You can propose in-person or online panels/ roundtables (but not hybrids).
Believe it or not, it's already time to think about MSA 2026 in Loughborough, UK. The conference will meet July 1-4, and proposals for panels, papers, roundtables, workshops, and seminars is December 1. Please note this MUCH earlier deadline. The CFP is here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
November 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The deadline for the joint BAMS/ MSA conference is fast approaching! It's exactly one month away on December 1, 2025. Please note it's the same deadline for panels, papers, roundtables, and workshop/ seminar proposals. You can propose in-person or online panels/ roundtables (but not hybrids).
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as a smaller, digital-only journal that is diamond open access and charges no author-processing fees (thanks @openlibhums.org!), we can promise that we will be able to make a decision about your submission much faster than traditional print journals.
We've refreshed out author guidelines for submissions to our journal, including new guidance for anyone looking to submit an interview. We'd love to hear from you!
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c21.openlibhums.org/site/authorg...
Author Guidelines
c21.openlibhums.org
October 31, 2025 at 11:18 AM
as a smaller, digital-only journal that is diamond open access and charges no author-processing fees (thanks @openlibhums.org!), we can promise that we will be able to make a decision about your submission much faster than traditional print journals.
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Went to see guitar legend Steve Gunn at the Hug and Pint in Glesga last night. Was unreal 💯
October 25, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Went to see guitar legend Steve Gunn at the Hug and Pint in Glesga last night. Was unreal 💯
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Call for Papers: ‘Our three-voiced country’: Twentieth-century cross-currents in Gaelic and other Scottish writing. The 2026 annual conference of the Association for Scottish Literature will be held at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig on 26–28 June.
2026 ASL Annual Conference - Sabhal Mòr Ostaig
‘Our three-voiced country’: Twentieth-century cross-currents in Gaelic and other Scottish writing
www.smo.uhi.ac.uk
October 22, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Call for Papers: ‘Our three-voiced country’: Twentieth-century cross-currents in Gaelic and other Scottish writing. The 2026 annual conference of the Association for Scottish Literature will be held at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig on 26–28 June.
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The XXX International James Joyce Symposium will be held in beautiful Kraków next June. See you there?! Here's the call for papers: conference.pais.edu.pl
XXX INTERNATIONAL JAMES JOYCE SYMPOSIUM – Kraków, Poland 15–19 June 2026
conference.pais.edu.pl
September 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The XXX International James Joyce Symposium will be held in beautiful Kraków next June. See you there?! Here's the call for papers: conference.pais.edu.pl