Niamh Cullen
@niamhcullen.bsky.social
Lecturer @ QUB history. Twentieth century Italy, history of emotions, family, motherhood. Creative approaches to history. Essays and stories in the Dublin Review @londonmagazine, Tangerine magazine
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Also hoping to get to some of these this month #womenintranslation #witmonth
August 3, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Also hoping to get to some of these this month #womenintranslation #witmonth
A fun start to #witmonth with ‘to the moon’ by Jang Ryujin (translator Sean Lin Halbert) about a group of women who invest in cryptocurrency to escape corporate drudgery in Seoul
August 3, 2025 at 10:56 AM
A fun start to #witmonth with ‘to the moon’ by Jang Ryujin (translator Sean Lin Halbert) about a group of women who invest in cryptocurrency to escape corporate drudgery in Seoul
I just finished this brilliant new @stingingfly.bsky.social short story collection by Liadan Ni Chuinn - incredibly written and so original and thoughtful about generational memory and trauma, the troubles and what museums can/should display
April 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I just finished this brilliant new @stingingfly.bsky.social short story collection by Liadan Ni Chuinn - incredibly written and so original and thoughtful about generational memory and trauma, the troubles and what museums can/should display
No, they’ve got there …
April 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
No, they’ve got there …
Fresh knitted scarf, pattern and some yarn from Hedgehog Fibres. I love the difference blocking always makes
February 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Fresh knitted scarf, pattern and some yarn from Hedgehog Fibres. I love the difference blocking always makes
Exciting to see this very stylish new book arrive in the post today, with my chapter on ‘love in families’. Looking forward to reading the rest of it now!
January 29, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Exciting to see this very stylish new book arrive in the post today, with my chapter on ‘love in families’. Looking forward to reading the rest of it now!
And Andre Aciman’s very different, excellent My Roman Year. So evocative of 1960s Rome and of mid-twentieth century Mediterranean lives lived between places, cultures and languages
January 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
And Andre Aciman’s very different, excellent My Roman Year. So evocative of 1960s Rome and of mid-twentieth century Mediterranean lives lived between places, cultures and languages
Just finished, and loved, Hiroko Kawakami’s new novel - a strange, beautiful sort of robot prayer about the future of humanity
January 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Just finished, and loved, Hiroko Kawakami’s new novel - a strange, beautiful sort of robot prayer about the future of humanity
And I especially loved reading short story collections both new and not so recent
December 31, 2024 at 7:39 PM
And I especially loved reading short story collections both new and not so recent
I read some amazing non fiction too
December 31, 2024 at 7:38 PM
I read some amazing non fiction too
It seems almost impossible to choose my favourite fiction from this year, because I’ve read so much amazing stuff, but here is a selection
December 31, 2024 at 7:37 PM
It seems almost impossible to choose my favourite fiction from this year, because I’ve read so much amazing stuff, but here is a selection
I loved reading Ali Smith’s Gliff - about words, possibility and how tyrants only have power over us if we let them
December 31, 2024 at 5:40 PM
I loved reading Ali Smith’s Gliff - about words, possibility and how tyrants only have power over us if we let them
Such a beautiful winter day… happy Christmas
December 25, 2024 at 3:25 PM
Such a beautiful winter day… happy Christmas
And really looking forward to starting @susannacrossman.bsky.social ‘s memoir Home is where we Start as I’m starting to think about my new project on histories of radical parents, 1970s activism and new ideas about family
December 20, 2024 at 12:54 PM
And really looking forward to starting @susannacrossman.bsky.social ‘s memoir Home is where we Start as I’m starting to think about my new project on histories of radical parents, 1970s activism and new ideas about family
Just finished Vladivostok Circus by Elisa Shua Dusapin. Such a beautiful, evocative story about art, costumes, in-between places and circus people in wintertime.
December 20, 2024 at 12:50 PM
Just finished Vladivostok Circus by Elisa Shua Dusapin. Such a beautiful, evocative story about art, costumes, in-between places and circus people in wintertime.
Just finished @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social history of walking, Wanderlust. So many beautiful and fascinating threads about being a human in landscape and city streets, ‘unproductive’ time, walking, thinking and measuring ‘the body and the earth against each other’.
November 29, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Just finished @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social history of walking, Wanderlust. So many beautiful and fascinating threads about being a human in landscape and city streets, ‘unproductive’ time, walking, thinking and measuring ‘the body and the earth against each other’.
I’m co-organising a conference on ‘Infants and Institutions: Foundling homes and residential care for babies in twentieth-century Europe’ at the London Foundling Hospital, 15-16 May 2025. CFP attached - please share widely.
www.institutionsandinfantcare.org/about-2-1-1
www.institutionsandinfantcare.org/about-2-1-1
November 8, 2024 at 3:45 PM
I’m co-organising a conference on ‘Infants and Institutions: Foundling homes and residential care for babies in twentieth-century Europe’ at the London Foundling Hospital, 15-16 May 2025. CFP attached - please share widely.
www.institutionsandinfantcare.org/about-2-1-1
www.institutionsandinfantcare.org/about-2-1-1
Just finished this incredible short book. Not entirely sure what it was about, other than memory, connection and war trauma, and more like a series of interconnected prose poems. But after I finished I went back to the start and started reading again.
November 2, 2024 at 9:59 AM
Just finished this incredible short book. Not entirely sure what it was about, other than memory, connection and war trauma, and more like a series of interconnected prose poems. But after I finished I went back to the start and started reading again.
Recently finished @mauricejcasey.bsky.social Hotel Lux. Such a fascinating exploration of the intimate, intertwined lives of early twentieth-century radicals
November 1, 2024 at 2:56 PM
Recently finished @mauricejcasey.bsky.social Hotel Lux. Such a fascinating exploration of the intimate, intertwined lives of early twentieth-century radicals
Reading Rebecca Solnit’s memoir of becoming a writer and finding it so thoughtful about writing non fiction as an art form, and the challenges of establishing authority as a woman writer of non fiction.
October 25, 2024 at 10:06 PM
Reading Rebecca Solnit’s memoir of becoming a writer and finding it so thoughtful about writing non fiction as an art form, and the challenges of establishing authority as a woman writer of non fiction.
Was just at the women impressionists exhibition at the National Gallery, Dublin, and thinking about how, among many other things, Berthe Morisot makes visible the work of childcare that enables her to be an artist, by painting her daughter with her nanny.
September 28, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Was just at the women impressionists exhibition at the National Gallery, Dublin, and thinking about how, among many other things, Berthe Morisot makes visible the work of childcare that enables her to be an artist, by painting her daughter with her nanny.
Mi fa molto piacere vedere che il mio libro ‘Amore, onore e gelosia: una storia intima del miracolo economico italiano’ è disponibile anche in versione italiana www.francoangeli.it/Libro/978883...
June 14, 2024 at 9:35 AM
Mi fa molto piacere vedere che il mio libro ‘Amore, onore e gelosia: una storia intima del miracolo economico italiano’ è disponibile anche in versione italiana www.francoangeli.it/Libro/978883...
Very pleased to see that my book ‘Love, Honour and Jealousy: An Intimate History of the Italian Economic Miracle’ is now available in Italian translation!
June 14, 2024 at 9:31 AM
Very pleased to see that my book ‘Love, Honour and Jealousy: An Intimate History of the Italian Economic Miracle’ is now available in Italian translation!
Looking more like spring in northern Italy right now
April 5, 2024 at 8:14 AM
Looking more like spring in northern Italy right now