Dr. Hilary Lennon
@hilarylennon.bsky.social
Literary historian, teacher of literature, editor of Frank O'Connor's letters, working on a cultural history of Irish letter writing.
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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
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
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I'm thrilled to be launching Marion Quirici's brilliant "Fitness For Freedom: Disability, Degeneration & Modern Irish Writing" at this month's ISAANZ conference. A compelling intervention that will be invaluable to work on disability in Irish and modernist studies. Insist your library orders a copy!
November 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I'm thrilled to be launching Marion Quirici's brilliant "Fitness For Freedom: Disability, Degeneration & Modern Irish Writing" at this month's ISAANZ conference. A compelling intervention that will be invaluable to work on disability in Irish and modernist studies. Insist your library orders a copy!
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Exciting to read the program for ISAANZ 27: "Health, Wellness and Care "(20-22 Nov, University of Otago); so many fascinating engagements with the conference's theme!
I'm very honoured to be delivering the opening keynote on "Celibate Care in Kate O’Brien’s The Ante-Room"
isaanz.org/cfp-isaanz-2...
I'm very honoured to be delivering the opening keynote on "Celibate Care in Kate O’Brien’s The Ante-Room"
isaanz.org/cfp-isaanz-2...
CFP: ISAANZ 27 | Health, Wellness and Care
31 July 2025. Submissions are invited for ISAANZ 27 Health, Wellness and Care. As the emergency measures of the pandemic fade into memory, but the virus transitions into an endemic part of our medi…
isaanz.org
October 16, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Exciting to read the program for ISAANZ 27: "Health, Wellness and Care "(20-22 Nov, University of Otago); so many fascinating engagements with the conference's theme!
I'm very honoured to be delivering the opening keynote on "Celibate Care in Kate O’Brien’s The Ante-Room"
isaanz.org/cfp-isaanz-2...
I'm very honoured to be delivering the opening keynote on "Celibate Care in Kate O’Brien’s The Ante-Room"
isaanz.org/cfp-isaanz-2...
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Watercolour on Two Rivers handmade paper, the thick stuff. 79x56 cm.
November 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Watercolour on Two Rivers handmade paper, the thick stuff. 79x56 cm.
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OpenAI is a social arsonist - as Dr. Chris Gilliard reminds us - and the company's attempts to capture education with its "free" version of ChatGPT for teachers should, IMO, be met with vocal resistance and refusal if we as educators are to care for our students, their communities, and our planet.
November 20, 2025 at 12:42 AM
OpenAI is a social arsonist - as Dr. Chris Gilliard reminds us - and the company's attempts to capture education with its "free" version of ChatGPT for teachers should, IMO, be met with vocal resistance and refusal if we as educators are to care for our students, their communities, and our planet.
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NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
The Great AI Bubble
Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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This is the illustration accompanying Robert Pinsky's review of Seamus Heaney's Collected Poems in the New York Times... But who the fuck is it supposed to be?
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
This is the illustration accompanying Robert Pinsky's review of Seamus Heaney's Collected Poems in the New York Times... But who the fuck is it supposed to be?
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"Essential services are now digital by default, leaving many older people feeling locked out of their own lives."
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
Opinion: We’ve grown far too comfortable excluding older people from the digital world
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
"Essential services are now digital by default, leaving many older people feeling locked out of their own lives."
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
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Join us online for this year’s Breandán Ó Buachalla Lecture, organised with the support of @nlireland.bsky.social. The lecture, “The harp and the harper in Classical Irish Poetry” will be given by Dr Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh. Registration now open
www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...
www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...
Binn gotha na dtéad
The harp and the harper in Classical Irish Poetry
www.nli.ie
November 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Join us online for this year’s Breandán Ó Buachalla Lecture, organised with the support of @nlireland.bsky.social. The lecture, “The harp and the harper in Classical Irish Poetry” will be given by Dr Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh. Registration now open
www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...
www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...
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This lad.
(Troy Parrott, inner-city Dubliner, only in the team because Evan Ferguson is injured, scores two on Thursday to beat Portugal, says it's the best night of his life. Today he gets three to beat Hungary and put us through to the World Cup playoffs. Last-minute winner too. INCREDIBLE.)
(Troy Parrott, inner-city Dubliner, only in the team because Evan Ferguson is injured, scores two on Thursday to beat Portugal, says it's the best night of his life. Today he gets three to beat Hungary and put us through to the World Cup playoffs. Last-minute winner too. INCREDIBLE.)
Yup Sheriffer!
(Nice one, entire country is crying)
(Nice one, entire country is crying)
November 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
This lad.
(Troy Parrott, inner-city Dubliner, only in the team because Evan Ferguson is injured, scores two on Thursday to beat Portugal, says it's the best night of his life. Today he gets three to beat Hungary and put us through to the World Cup playoffs. Last-minute winner too. INCREDIBLE.)
(Troy Parrott, inner-city Dubliner, only in the team because Evan Ferguson is injured, scores two on Thursday to beat Portugal, says it's the best night of his life. Today he gets three to beat Hungary and put us through to the World Cup playoffs. Last-minute winner too. INCREDIBLE.)
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This year's Christmas cards feature An Cailleach, bringer of winter in Irish tradition. They're available to order at the link below and will begin shipping towards the end of November ❄️
www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
Cártaí Nollag / Christmas Cards - An Cailleach (Goddess Of Winter) — Ciaraíoch Art
Christmas cards featuring the Cailleach, the mythological figure in Irish, Scottish, and Manx tradition who summons winter. She is associated with storms, the landscape, and horned beasts like deer, ...
www.ciaraioch.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
This year's Christmas cards feature An Cailleach, bringer of winter in Irish tradition. They're available to order at the link below and will begin shipping towards the end of November ❄️
www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
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November 16, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Dublin City council covers an area where 600,000 people live. DCC has assigned 3 people to the derelict site levy team. There are €10.5mn of fines uncollected.
November 16, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Dublin City council covers an area where 600,000 people live. DCC has assigned 3 people to the derelict site levy team. There are €10.5mn of fines uncollected.
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New build 3-bed house price
June 2021
Clonard Wexford €175k
Carlow Town €199k
Sligo €175k
Portlaoise €212k
Nov 2025
Clonard Wexford €360k ⬆️106%
Carlow Town €330k (2bed) ⬆️66%
Sligo €270 (duplex) ⬆️54%
Portlaoise €370k⬆️ 75%
Construction tender inflation 2021-25 ≈⬆️28% (SCSI) so it’s not bricks/mortar
June 2021
Clonard Wexford €175k
Carlow Town €199k
Sligo €175k
Portlaoise €212k
Nov 2025
Clonard Wexford €360k ⬆️106%
Carlow Town €330k (2bed) ⬆️66%
Sligo €270 (duplex) ⬆️54%
Portlaoise €370k⬆️ 75%
Construction tender inflation 2021-25 ≈⬆️28% (SCSI) so it’s not bricks/mortar
November 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM
New build 3-bed house price
June 2021
Clonard Wexford €175k
Carlow Town €199k
Sligo €175k
Portlaoise €212k
Nov 2025
Clonard Wexford €360k ⬆️106%
Carlow Town €330k (2bed) ⬆️66%
Sligo €270 (duplex) ⬆️54%
Portlaoise €370k⬆️ 75%
Construction tender inflation 2021-25 ≈⬆️28% (SCSI) so it’s not bricks/mortar
June 2021
Clonard Wexford €175k
Carlow Town €199k
Sligo €175k
Portlaoise €212k
Nov 2025
Clonard Wexford €360k ⬆️106%
Carlow Town €330k (2bed) ⬆️66%
Sligo €270 (duplex) ⬆️54%
Portlaoise €370k⬆️ 75%
Construction tender inflation 2021-25 ≈⬆️28% (SCSI) so it’s not bricks/mortar
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Hot off the press release. My second book is a collection of interviews with Irish writers from Alice Taylor in 1991 to Sebastian Barry, Wendy Erskine, Colum McCann, Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín, John Banville, Emma Donoghue and Anna Burns in 2025. Out April from the Lilliput Press
November 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Hot off the press release. My second book is a collection of interviews with Irish writers from Alice Taylor in 1991 to Sebastian Barry, Wendy Erskine, Colum McCann, Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín, John Banville, Emma Donoghue and Anna Burns in 2025. Out April from the Lilliput Press
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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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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Creative imagination and analytic capacity do not always pair well. The accomplished author of fiction and the successful essayist are not necessarily interchangeable. Enright has put her writer’s gifts at the service of a genuine, sustained “ecstasy of attention”
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Attention by Anne Enright: Critical alertness fuelled by an ever-expanding curiosity
Substantive collection of essays covers a range of topics including Alice Munro, mother and baby homes, and the troubling intersection between life and art
www.irishtimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Creative imagination and analytic capacity do not always pair well. The accomplished author of fiction and the successful essayist are not necessarily interchangeable. Enright has put her writer’s gifts at the service of a genuine, sustained “ecstasy of attention”
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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October 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Just paid the aul' income tax for the year and consequently have about two beans left to rub together, so if you've been looking for a bit of Irish art now's a very good time to buy. It's this or train the crows to rob billionaires and I'm running out of cheese bribes
A cost-of-living crisis isn't the easiest time to sell art, but: www.ciaraioch.com is where you can support my work, with each archival-quality print on textured heavy paper being produced here in Ireland, shipping internationally in eco-friendly packaging, with free mini-treats in every order 🎁
November 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Just paid the aul' income tax for the year and consequently have about two beans left to rub together, so if you've been looking for a bit of Irish art now's a very good time to buy. It's this or train the crows to rob billionaires and I'm running out of cheese bribes
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We need to put pressure on our governments to pressure Israel to let this money go to Palestinians of Gaza. People from around the world donated millions of dollars to thousands of global organizations and none of it has made it to the people it was meant for
People gave a record amount of money to multiple organizations for the people of Gaza and all this money just sat there for the past 2 years because Israel blocked it. I hope this money gets distributed quickly now so that the people of Gaza don't have to beg anymore
news.un.org/en/story/202...
news.un.org/en/story/202...
Private donations boost UN support for war-torn Gaza
From celebrities to civil society, a growing number of people around the world are providing unprecedented support for UNRWA, the UN agency supplying a lifeline to two million Palestinians trapped in ...
news.un.org
November 3, 2025 at 6:46 AM
We need to put pressure on our governments to pressure Israel to let this money go to Palestinians of Gaza. People from around the world donated millions of dollars to thousands of global organizations and none of it has made it to the people it was meant for
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Love this piece by @ruthpadel.bsky.social in @financialtimes.com about the 'The Poems of Seamus Heaney', a new book of collected and previously unpublished poems released by @faberbooks.bsky.social @seamusheaneyestate.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/d562...
www.ft.com/content/d562...
Seamus Heaney: a new glimpse of his life and poetry
With previously uncollected or unpublished works, a definitive edition deepens our understanding of the Nobel laureate’s creative process
www.ft.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Love this piece by @ruthpadel.bsky.social in @financialtimes.com about the 'The Poems of Seamus Heaney', a new book of collected and previously unpublished poems released by @faberbooks.bsky.social @seamusheaneyestate.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/d562...
www.ft.com/content/d562...
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Here’s what Frederick Douglass had to say about Haiti:
“We owe much…to the anti-slavery societies at home and abroad; but we owe incomparably more to Haiti than to them all. I regard her as the original pioneer emancipator of the nineteenth century."
“We owe much…to the anti-slavery societies at home and abroad; but we owe incomparably more to Haiti than to them all. I regard her as the original pioneer emancipator of the nineteenth century."
November 25, 2023 at 11:26 AM
Here’s what Frederick Douglass had to say about Haiti:
“We owe much…to the anti-slavery societies at home and abroad; but we owe incomparably more to Haiti than to them all. I regard her as the original pioneer emancipator of the nineteenth century."
“We owe much…to the anti-slavery societies at home and abroad; but we owe incomparably more to Haiti than to them all. I regard her as the original pioneer emancipator of the nineteenth century."