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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · Oct 10
🎭 Presenting: YOU with our latest book! How special it was to see so many smiling faces gathered together at the launch of WTF Happened.

Thanks to all who joined authors Sarah and Lian on Wednesday evening to celebrate this phenomenal book being published.
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Out now from @ucdpress.bsky.social is @owenoshea.bsky.social - From Bullets to Ballots thebookshop.ie/owen-o-shea-... ( the cover image shows Kerry's Fionán Lynch TD campaigning )
November 11, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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‼️TOMORROW

ALL WELCOME to the Dublin launch of From Bullets to Ballots by @owenoshea.bsky.social

🗓️ 6.30pm, Tuesday
11 November 2025
Books Upstairs,
17 D’Olier Street
Dublin 2,
D02 RX06

👥 Guest Speaker Professor Diarmaid Ferriter

RSVP ucdpress@ucd.ie @booksupstairs.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Join us at 6.30pm tomorrow where Diarmaid Ferriter will launch @owenoshea.bsky.social’s new history of Post-Civil War Kerry. All are welcome booksupstairs.ie/all-events/launch-from-bullets-to-ballots-by-owen-oshea/
November 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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A super event Women Writing History at the Main Hall @immaireland.bsky.social as part of the fabulous Dublin Book Festival @dublinbookfest.bsky.social

Thank you to @dublinbookfest.bsky.social & speakers @sineadgleeson.bsky.social
@clodaghfinn.bsky.social & writers Evelyn Conlon & Rebecca Pelan
November 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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‼️ TOMORROW

Only a handful of tickets left to ‘Women Writing History’ with Dublin Book Festival!

⏰ 11am
📌 IMMA
🗓️ Saturday, 8 November

Join us for a panel with Evelyn Conlon and Sinéad Gleeson in conversation with journalist Clodagh Finn

🎟️ Free – dublinbookfestival.com/event/women-...
November 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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owenoshea.bsky.social
Hope you can join me for the publication of my PhD research at @ucddublin.bsky.social on politics and elections in #Kerry in the decade after the Civil War

📅 Tuesday, 11 November, 6.30pm
🏙️ Books Upstairs, D'Olier Street, Dublin
📚 Guest speaker: Professor Diarmaid Ferriter

@ucdpress.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Our sincere thanks to @valerieflynn.bsky.social & @stingingfly.bsky.social for this glowing review of After the Train.

‘[A]n eye-opening and evocative mosaic of first-person reflections on the 1975-1977 feminist collective’.

🔗 stingingfly.org/review/after...
November 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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NEW: Valerie Flynn reviews After the Train edited by Evelyn Conlon and Rebecca Pelan and published by
@ucdpress.bsky.social

“[A]n eye-opening and evocative mosaic of first-person reflections on the 1975-1977 feminist collective”

stingingfly.org/review/after...
November 5, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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📣 REMINDER – Next Thursday

All welcome to a special event in celebration of

Bloody Summer: A New History of the 1798 Rebellion by James Quinn

⏰ 6pm, Thursday, 13 November
📍 The National 1798 Rebellion Centre, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford

Guest Speaker: Kevin Whelan

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November 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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💥 Hot off the printing press! We’re delighted to share that From Bullets to Ballots by Owen O’Shea is now available.

Get your copy at ucdpress.ie/page/detail/... or bookshops nationwide

@owenoshea.bsky.social @booksupstairs.bsky.social @omahonysbooks.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Delighted to host Dr Leeann Lane's fantastic exhibition on the afterlives of Cork republican women in Cregan Library until the 30th of this month!

It'll be travelling to the O'Reilly Library for display from the 1st of November.

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Image of Dr. Leeann Lane in front of her exhibition on the afterlives of cork republican women
October 8, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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📣 REMINDER

ALL WELCOME to the Dublin launch of From Bullets to Ballots: Politics and Electioneering in Post-Civil War Kerry, 1923–33

6.30pm, Tuesday
11 November 2025
Books Upstairs,
17 D’Olier Street
Dublin 2,
D02 RX06

RSVP ucdpress@ucd.ie
@owenoshea.bsky.social @booksupstairs.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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When you make it into Cork’s annual Christmas Holly Bough - when you know you know.
Thank you so much to Linda Kenny.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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✨THIS SATURDAY✨

Women Writing History

At 11am in IMMA on 8 November, join us during Dublin Book Festival for a panel with After the Train co-editor Evelyn Conlon and author Sinéad Gleeson in conversation with journalist Clodagh Finn

🎟️ Free – booking required dublinbookfestival.com/event/women-...
November 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
ucdpress.bsky.social
ALL WELCOME to a special event in celebration of

Bloody Summer: A New History of the 1798 Rebellion by James Quinn

🗓️ Thursday, 13 November, 6pm
The National 1798 Rebellion Centre,
Parnell Road, Mill Park Rd,
Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford Y21 PY03

Guest Speaker: Kevin Whelan

RSVP ucdpress@ucd.ie
November 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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✨ Next Saturday, join us during Dublin Book Festival for a panel with Evelyn Conlon (author and UCD Press co-editor of After the Train) and Sinéad Gleeson in conversation with Clodagh Finn

Women Writing History
Saturday, 8 November
11 am
IMMA, RHK

🎟️ dublinbookfestival.com/event/women-...
October 31, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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🗳️ In anticipation of the release of Dr Owen O'Shea's From Bullets to Ballots: Politics and Electioneering in Post-Civil War Kerry, 1923–33, this week’s #TBT also focuses on Kerry politics.

Find Land, Popular Politics and Agrarian Violence in Ireland at www.ucdpress.ie or bookshops nationwide
October 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Preorder From Bullets to Ballots

'The extent and nature of party organisation and membership, the language and conduct of election campaigns, and the role of newspapers in the political discourse at this time contributed greatly to what emerged from the ballot boxes.'

🔗 Out Nov. 25 www.ucdpress.ie
October 29, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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#IrishBookADay challenge: An Irish book discovered at a bookshop event. While planning #FeministBookFortnight, we discovered After the Train, a collection of first-person testimonials from women who did remarkable things. Would we be where we are today if Irish Women United hadn't existed? @UCDPress
A square poster about Irish Book Week. In the top left is the Irish Book Week logo. The large image is the cover of the novel Ordinary Saints. To the left, the descriptive text says, A writer of immense delicacy, perception, and heart. Funny and deeply moving. Nominated for numerous book prizes and book clubs. A must read! At the bottom is the logo for Sheelagh na Gig bookshop.
October 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Such an enjoyable afternoon signing books all over Dublin with these wonderful authors of After the Train, Rebecca Pelan and Evelyn Conlon @rebeccapelan

Get your signed copy here

Books Upstairs
Hodgesfm Figgis
Dubraybooks Grafton & Mary St
Connolly Books
Gutterbookshop

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October 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Seems appropriate to post the final chapter of Irish Women’s Speeches @ucdpress.bsky.social today. Powerful speech by @catherinegalway.bsky.social on the Mother & Baby home report Jan 2021.
October 24, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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A wonderful day of book signing all over Dublin city with the fabulous author of Mary MacSwiney @lloislanel.bsky.social @schoolhumandev.bsky.social

Get your signed copy in 🖊📕👏

@gutterbookshop.bsky.social
@dubraybooks.bsky.social
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@booksupstairs.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Lovely time signing books in Dublin bookshops with the wonderful @ucdpress.bsky.social team, Noelle Moran and Cait O’Neill
October 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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ALL WELCOME
to the Dublin launch of

From Bullets to Ballots: Politics and Electioneering in Post-Civil War Kerry, 1923–33
by Owen O’Shea

6.30pm, Tuesday
11 November 2025
Books Upstairs,
17 D’Olier Street
Dublin 2,
D02 RX06

RSVP ucdpress@ucd.ie

@owenoshea.bsky.social @booksupstairs.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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owenoshea.bsky.social
Excited to announce the launch of my new book by Prof Diarmaid Ferriter at Books Upstairs, Dublin on 11 November at 6.30pm.

The dramatic story of party politics in the Kerry constituency in the formative decade after the Civil War

Please share! See you there!

Published by @ucdpress.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 10:12 AM