Patrick Lonergan
@pflonergan.bsky.social
Drama and Theatre Studies, Irish literature, Shakespeare, Ecocriticism. Works at University of Galway. Latest book: _Theatre Revivals for the Anthropocene_ published Cambridge 2023.
Please join us at @ria.ie to celebrate the publication of Lucy McDiarmid's _Slightly Magical: Irish Poetry and the Long 1990s_. We'll be joined by Theo Dorgan, Paula Meehan, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, and Edna Longley. Registration is free but places are limited.
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Book a ticket – Recent Irish Poetry: a roundtable with poets and critics – The Royal Irish Academy
Recent Irish Poetry: a roundtable with poets and critics – The Royal Irish Academy, Mon 8 Dec 2025 - An evening of readings and discussion at the Royal Irish Academy.
In late 2025, Lucy McDiarmid Hon ...
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November 6, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Please join us at @ria.ie to celebrate the publication of Lucy McDiarmid's _Slightly Magical: Irish Poetry and the Long 1990s_. We'll be joined by Theo Dorgan, Paula Meehan, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, and Edna Longley. Registration is free but places are limited.
www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...
www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...
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We're really honoured that the Department of Drama and Theatre Studies at @uniofgalway.bsky.social is hosting a symposium to mark our 50th anniversary.
'Druid at 50: People, Place & Performance' will take place this Friday, 7 November, on the university campus.
'Druid at 50: People, Place & Performance' will take place this Friday, 7 November, on the university campus.
November 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
We're really honoured that the Department of Drama and Theatre Studies at @uniofgalway.bsky.social is hosting a symposium to mark our 50th anniversary.
'Druid at 50: People, Place & Performance' will take place this Friday, 7 November, on the university campus.
'Druid at 50: People, Place & Performance' will take place this Friday, 7 November, on the university campus.
Please join us at University of Galway next week for this one-day event about @druidtheatre.bsky.social, which features panels from academics and practitioners throughout the day. Registration is free but spaces are limited - and filling up quickly.
www.eventbrite.ie/e/druid-at-5...
www.eventbrite.ie/e/druid-at-5...
Druid at 50: People, Place & Performance
Join us as we celebrate 50 years of Druid magic, exploring the essence of people, place, and performance with a day long symposium.
www.eventbrite.ie
October 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Please join us at University of Galway next week for this one-day event about @druidtheatre.bsky.social, which features panels from academics and practitioners throughout the day. Registration is free but spaces are limited - and filling up quickly.
www.eventbrite.ie/e/druid-at-5...
www.eventbrite.ie/e/druid-at-5...
Fantastic selection of recent Irish writing here -
We are happy to share our New Writing from Ireland 2025 catalogue, which showcases a selection of the finest Irish writing published each year.
You can read it here: www.literatureireland.com/books/new-wr...
You can read it here: www.literatureireland.com/books/new-wr...
October 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Fantastic selection of recent Irish writing here -
Very happy that my new article has just been published in _Green Letters_ - "‘To Know How It Ends/And Still Begin to Sing It Again’: Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown, the Climate Crisis, and Recursive Ecodramaturgies"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘To Know How It Ends/And Still Begin to Sing It Again’: Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown, the Climate Crisis, and Recursive Ecodramaturgies
Hadestown is a musical play that is preoccupied with the importance of cycles, both in life and in art. That characteristic is evident musically, theatrically, thematically and dramaturgically – as...
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October 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Very happy that my new article has just been published in _Green Letters_ - "‘To Know How It Ends/And Still Begin to Sing It Again’: Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown, the Climate Crisis, and Recursive Ecodramaturgies"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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📣 📣 The CFP for IASIL 2026 is now LIVE! 📣 📣
Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU) Budapest – 6-10 July 2026
Translating Ireland
The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday, November 28, 2025.
#IrishStudies #Translation #IrishLiterature
Full CFP:
www.iasil.org/2025/09/conf...
Pls share
Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU) Budapest – 6-10 July 2026
Translating Ireland
The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday, November 28, 2025.
#IrishStudies #Translation #IrishLiterature
Full CFP:
www.iasil.org/2025/09/conf...
Pls share
CONFERENCE 2026: Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU) Budapest – 6-10 July 2026 – International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures
www.iasil.org
September 15, 2025 at 9:18 AM
📣 📣 The CFP for IASIL 2026 is now LIVE! 📣 📣
Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU) Budapest – 6-10 July 2026
Translating Ireland
The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday, November 28, 2025.
#IrishStudies #Translation #IrishLiterature
Full CFP:
www.iasil.org/2025/09/conf...
Pls share
Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU) Budapest – 6-10 July 2026
Translating Ireland
The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday, November 28, 2025.
#IrishStudies #Translation #IrishLiterature
Full CFP:
www.iasil.org/2025/09/conf...
Pls share
I was delighted to interview Lisa McInerney yesterday as part of ASLE-UKI at @uniofgalway.bsky.social
The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE-UKI) conference in Galway is concluding with novelist Lisa McInerney reading from her Cork novels and in conversation with Patrick Lonergan. A fabulous end to a fantastic conference! @asleuki.bsky.social
August 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I was delighted to interview Lisa McInerney yesterday as part of ASLE-UKI at @uniofgalway.bsky.social
Charlie Byrnes here in #galway has created this beautiful window of Irish theatre books and posters, most of them from @druidtheatre.bsky.social!
July 15, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Charlie Byrnes here in #galway has created this beautiful window of Irish theatre books and posters, most of them from @druidtheatre.bsky.social!
July 14, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Strongly recommending @gatetheatredublin.bsky.social's production of THE PILLOWMAN. Lovely balance of cruelty and tenderness in the acting, design, direction - confirming my hunch that this is Martin McDonagh's best play.
Will be going again for definite.
Will be going again for definite.
July 10, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Strongly recommending @gatetheatredublin.bsky.social's production of THE PILLOWMAN. Lovely balance of cruelty and tenderness in the acting, design, direction - confirming my hunch that this is Martin McDonagh's best play.
Will be going again for definite.
Will be going again for definite.
A Bluesky welcome to AEDEI, the Spanish Association of Irish Studies
Welcome to the new official AEDEI account on Bluesky! We’ll be using this channel to share the latest news on our association and everything Irish Studies related 🍀🍀
July 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
A Bluesky welcome to AEDEI, the Spanish Association of Irish Studies
Come and work with us in Drama and Film in Galway - newly advertised role covering at least 2 areas in performance studies, screen studies, acting, stage and screen design, playwriting, directing/devising, practice-based research, or short-form filmmaking.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNJ402/l...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNJ402/l...
Lecturer (B) in Performance Practices at University of Galway
Explore an exciting academic career as a Lecturer (B) in Performance Practices. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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June 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Come and work with us in Drama and Film in Galway - newly advertised role covering at least 2 areas in performance studies, screen studies, acting, stage and screen design, playwriting, directing/devising, practice-based research, or short-form filmmaking.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNJ402/l...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNJ402/l...
A bit of Galway in Dublin - Macnas bringing Con Mór to the Phoenix park for Bloom
June 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
A bit of Galway in Dublin - Macnas bringing Con Mór to the Phoenix park for Bloom
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Fantastic day at the @ria.ie, learning about intersectional and interdisciplinary #ecological practices and reflecting on what the #Arts and #Humanities do and can do. Many thanks to all organisers, particularly @pflonergan.bsky.social, and all speakers!
May 28, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Fantastic day at the @ria.ie, learning about intersectional and interdisciplinary #ecological practices and reflecting on what the #Arts and #Humanities do and can do. Many thanks to all organisers, particularly @pflonergan.bsky.social, and all speakers!
I'm a couple of years late to it but am exceptionally impressed by Audrey Magee's the Colony. Feels thematically important but also so precise on the small details of ordinary lives.
April 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I'm a couple of years late to it but am exceptionally impressed by Audrey Magee's the Colony. Feels thematically important but also so precise on the small details of ordinary lives.
Excited that, as part of @druidtheatre.bsky.social's 50th birthday we're publishing two new books - an anthology of plays with @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social and a new history of the company (written by me) with @lilliputpress.bsky.social
www.druid.ie/about/news/d...
www.druid.ie/about/news/d...
Druid's 50th anniversary season | Druid Theatre
Druid to mark its 50th anniversary with a double bill of Synge’s Riders to the Sea and Shakespeare’s Macbeth in Galway this July, followed by a Dublin transfer of Macbeth and a New York transfer of...
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April 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Excited that, as part of @druidtheatre.bsky.social's 50th birthday we're publishing two new books - an anthology of plays with @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social and a new history of the company (written by me) with @lilliputpress.bsky.social
www.druid.ie/about/news/d...
www.druid.ie/about/news/d...
Would agree with most of the @irishtimes.com review of @irishnationalopera.bsky.social's FLYING DUTCHMAN - Francis O'Connor's designs are stupendously good, the direction was carefully balanced between intimacy and excess, and two male leads were outstanding.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/stag...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/stag...
The Flying Dutchman review: INO’s marriage of music and drama draws you into Wagner’s retelling of a legend
Rachael Hewer directs a vibrant production featuring Giselle Allen as Senta and Jordan Shanahan as the Dutchman
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March 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Would agree with most of the @irishtimes.com review of @irishnationalopera.bsky.social's FLYING DUTCHMAN - Francis O'Connor's designs are stupendously good, the direction was carefully balanced between intimacy and excess, and two male leads were outstanding.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/stag...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/stag...
In Galway next Monday? Do come along to the O'Donoghue Centre to hear Caitriona McLoughlin deliver the annual Siobhan McKenna lecture. She'll also present the McKenna scholarship award and will launch Charlotte McIvor and Ian Walsh's Contemporary Irish Theatre: Histories and Theories.
Siobhán McKenna Lecture featuring keynote Caitríona McLaughlin
We are delighted to announce Caitríona McLaughlin, Artistic Director and Co-Director of the Abbey as the Siobhán McKenna lecture keynote.
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March 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
In Galway next Monday? Do come along to the O'Donoghue Centre to hear Caitriona McLoughlin deliver the annual Siobhan McKenna lecture. She'll also present the McKenna scholarship award and will launch Charlotte McIvor and Ian Walsh's Contemporary Irish Theatre: Histories and Theories.
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Shortlist out tomorrow⬇️
The inaugural Climate Fiction Prize shortlist to be announced on Wednesday 19th March, below is the longlist. "The Morningside", which I adored, brilliantly and subtly imagines a near future with a higher ocean.
March 18, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Shortlist out tomorrow⬇️
I'm very happy that our @ria.ie committee on Languages, Literature, Culture and Communications is organising this seminar and workshop - 'The Climate Crisis - What Can the Arts and Humanities Do?'
More information soon but registration is already open!
www.ria.ie/events/the-c...
More information soon but registration is already open!
www.ria.ie/events/the-c...
The Climate Crisis: what can the arts and humanities do? - Royal Irish Academy
Conference and workshop exploring how Arts and Humanities scholarship can understand and respond to the climate crisis. The Arts and Humanities have always played a crucial role in inspiring and respo...
www.ria.ie
March 12, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I'm very happy that our @ria.ie committee on Languages, Literature, Culture and Communications is organising this seminar and workshop - 'The Climate Crisis - What Can the Arts and Humanities Do?'
More information soon but registration is already open!
www.ria.ie/events/the-c...
More information soon but registration is already open!
www.ria.ie/events/the-c...
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Three-year postdoc at Cambridge on 'Ireland and the "ends" of the British Empire'. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50601/
Research Assistant/Research Associate - Ireland and the - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Assistant/Research Associate - Ireland and the in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge.
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March 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Three-year postdoc at Cambridge on 'Ireland and the "ends" of the British Empire'. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50601/
Theatre Ireland now sadly gone, as is ITM. I agree with Barry about the need for a replacement, not least because of the huge gap in the historical record since 2008. Future historians will know more about theatre in the 1810s and 1910s than they will about the 2010s - is that the legacy we want?
Recently catalogued - a run of Theatre Ireland magazine, issue 1 in 1982 and ran until 1993. If only such a thing (or later Irish Theatre Magazine) were such a thing today.
March 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Theatre Ireland now sadly gone, as is ITM. I agree with Barry about the need for a replacement, not least because of the huge gap in the historical record since 2008. Future historians will know more about theatre in the 1810s and 1910s than they will about the 2010s - is that the legacy we want?
I got my copy of this new collection from Stinging Fly a few days ago - Every One Still Here by Liadan Ní Chuinn.
I didn't intend to read it immediately - but glanced at the first page and have been hooked ever since - it's just so surprising, engrossing & original
I didn't intend to read it immediately - but glanced at the first page and have been hooked ever since - it's just so surprising, engrossing & original
Today is the day!
Every One Still Here is now available to purchase in all good bookshops and on our website.
stingingfly.org/product/ever...
Every One Still Here is now available to purchase in all good bookshops and on our website.
stingingfly.org/product/ever...
March 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I got my copy of this new collection from Stinging Fly a few days ago - Every One Still Here by Liadan Ní Chuinn.
I didn't intend to read it immediately - but glanced at the first page and have been hooked ever since - it's just so surprising, engrossing & original
I didn't intend to read it immediately - but glanced at the first page and have been hooked ever since - it's just so surprising, engrossing & original
Loved Emmet Kerwan's ACCENTS in Galway last night (script published by @methuendrama.bsky.social)
February 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Loved Emmet Kerwan's ACCENTS in Galway last night (script published by @methuendrama.bsky.social)