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Elizabeth Boyle
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Historian/writer • @maynoothuniversity.ie • executive committee @mediumaevum.bsky.social • board member @dublinnorthwest.bsky.social • Fierce Appetites (Penguin, 2022) • rep'd by Robert Caskie • extreme metal fan • she/her
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"How can prose that is so simple ... pulse with such feeling? How can it be so littoral, incarnating the light and spray and tidal tempos of these seascapes with such power? And how can a novelist make a reader feel so lost and so found at the same time? It is strange. A strange miracle."
Vaim by Jon Fosse review – the Nobel laureate performs a strange miracle
In the Norwegian master’s latest example of ‘mystical realism’, one man makes a dreamlike, hypnotic voyage through life
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November 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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aliceraw.bsky.social
Call for Papers! Fissures: Gender and Political Crisis #medievalsky #Fissures2026
Fissures: Gender and Political Crisis 17-18 September 2026 Pembroke College, University of Cambridge Gendered work on medieval popular politics has tended to revolve around the exceptional. This workshop explores how studies of gender can reconfigure discourses of medieval political community. We ask how attending to gendered bodies and identities might help us better understand the fissures in political culture in medieval Europe. Marking, for example, women’s participation as either absent or rare confines their involvement to the historical margins. How did literary as well as non-literary texts from various genres, ranging from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, engage with gendered political action? How did ideas of gender stabilise or destabilise political performances? We invite abstracts for 25-minute papers, as well as expressions of interest for participation. We welcome papers with a historical, literary, or interdisciplinary focus. Potential topics could include but are not limited to: • Frameworks for understanding non-normative gender expressions in political spaces. • Studies of politics at the intersection of gendered, queer, or trans methodologies. • Histories of masculinities in political community. • Emotion and/or Affect • Weaponized/defensive gender • Manoeuvring bodies through political crisis • Inclusion and exclusion • Different sites of political discourse, such as domestic and non-violent conflict. Collectively, the papers will interrogate the role of gender in political discourse. Selected papers may be considered for inclusion in an edited volume. Means-based bursaries for speakers may be available by further application. Please submit a title and abstract of no more than 200 words to Alice Raw (ar889@cam.ac.uk) and Abbie Fray (abigail.fray@unibe.ch) by 16 January 2026.
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
thecelticist.bsky.social
I never thought I would see the day when Ireland would have a female president who isn't called Mary. This is a great day for women everywhere who aren't called Mary!
November 11, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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#Historians, mark your calendars!

Our 2026 Summer Conference will be held on 13-15 July at @royalholloway.bsky.social. The Call for Papers will open in January 2026.

#churchhistory #Skystorians #cfp
November 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM
thecelticist.bsky.social
“Stylistically, Flesh is all bone. Szalay has always been a master of the flinty, spare sentence but in this novel he has pared things back even more brutally.”

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David Szalay wins 2025 Booker prize for ‘dark’ Flesh
The judges ‘had never read anything quite like it’, says panel chair Roddy Doyle, announcing the Hungarian-British author’s novel as the winner of the £50,000 award
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November 11, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Senior Librarian role in Oxford👇 www.asc.ox.ac.uk/fellow-libra...
Fellow Librarian | All Souls College
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November 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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What a special moment this was for @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social Over a hundred sanctuary runners gathered to wish President Higgins and Sabina a fond farewell. We were so honoured to have him as a patron.

#SpeirGorm
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Michael D Higgins, with his wife Sabina, has left Áras an Úachtaráin for the final time as president.

He was given a guard of honour by members of the Sanctuary Runners, a charity of which he is patron.

The President’s term of office ends at midnight.

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November 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
thecelticist.bsky.social
"Crass were also politically radical, and several cases were brought against them ..., first for blasphemy ... Later, their 1983 Falklands protest How Does It Feel (To Be the Mother of 1,000 Dead) prompted Tory MP Timothy Eggar to try ... to prosecute them under the obscene publications act."
‘We never had much fun – we were angry’: Eve Libertine on life with anarcho-punk pioneers Crass
Accused of obscenity and sued by police and Tory MPs, Libertine outraged the establishment as part of Crass. Now she’s back – and she hasn’t mellowed with age
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November 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Léacht reachtúil na Scoile do 2025
SCS Statutory Lecture for 2025
Gregory Toner, QUB
The historian at work in Lebor Gabála
Friday 14 November
UCD, Theatre R, Newman Building
Mar chuid de Thionól 2025 / Part of Tionól 2025
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Poster advertising lecture `The historian at work in Lebor Gabála'.
November 7, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Global Irish Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship at Notre Dame University. This is open exclusively to scholars of any nationality with a PhD from institutions outside the US, UK, Canada, and Ireland. Scholars working in any area of Irish Studies are encouraged to apply. apply.interfolio.com/176805
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November 9, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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The deadline to submit an abstract has been extended by one week!
November 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
thecelticist.bsky.social
Sunday dinner with my Syrian family, always the best conclusion to a weekend. ❤️
An array of Syrian dishes (rice dishes, salads, lamb, stuffed cabbage leaves and stuffed vine leaves), spread out on the floor. Two people's hands are visible reaching in to serve the food.
November 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Last youth centre in one of England’s most deprived coastal areas faces closure
Pie Factory Music in Ramsgate, Kent, runs creative projects and provides a range of support services, but the building that houses the centre is due to be sold off in February
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November 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire

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‘Google Maps’ for Roman roads reveals vast extent of ancient network
Nature - A high-resolution digital map nearly doubles the known length of the ancient road network.
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November 9, 2025 at 10:08 AM
thecelticist.bsky.social
Sorry to hear of the death of Charlie Doherty, of History at UCD, a noted scholar of early medieval Irish hagiography, ecclesiastical history, and the concept of the "monastic town". Condolences to his family & friends & former students & colleagues.
#Spéirghorm
#MedievalSky

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Death Notice of Charles Doherty (Tallaght, Dublin) | rip.ie
The death has occurred of Charles Doherty of Tallaght, Dublin Ireland, on 07/11/2025. You can view the full death notice and add your condolences here.
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November 8, 2025 at 11:30 PM
thecelticist.bsky.social
"With Trump in power, my truth needs to be shouted loud, to combat the racism, the anti-trans and homophobic mindsets.” He pauses. “I want to be provocative. I have relatives who are Christian people, and it’s absolutely my intention to ruin their Thanksgiving dinner with this book."
‘I was the only out queer guy in rock’: Faith No More’s Roddy Bottum
The keyboard player on his heroin overdose, how Kurt Cobain wanted to be gay and why his memoir will ruin his Christian relatives’ Thanksgiving dinner
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November 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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davidstifter.bsky.social
The fourth speaker from Early Irish Maynooth was Tiago De Oliveira Veloso Silva (supervisors @niamhwycherley.bsky.social @thecelticist.bsky.social) with the historical talk "Giving while taking: the freedom of Clonard and aggressive patronage", funded by a @researchireland.ie Pathway Grant.
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November 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Four of our own students presented their research. Yesterday it was River Atwood Tabor (supervisors @thecelticist.bsky.social & Barry Lewis, @scs-dias.bsky.social) who spoke about "In the grove of the Llatai: The avifaunal poems of Dafydd ap Gwilym".
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November 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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In the past two days, the Maynooth Early Irish postgraduate students organised the *Widame Conference for Postgraduate Scholars in Celtic Studies @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social. We had the pleasure to welcome speakers from universities in six countries.
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November 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
thecelticist.bsky.social
Some really nice insights into the writing process here: the early germs of ideas, the writing and rewriting, the editing and re-editing, & having the strength to abandon 100,000 words when you know they're going nowhere and start all over again.

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‘I had a year to write it from scratch’: the 2025 Booker finalists on the stories behind their novels
A newspaper report about a missing girl, the memory of a midwinter emergency … Susan Choi, Andrew Miller, David Szalay and others on what inspired their shortlisted books
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November 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Goddard spacecraft engineer: "I think it just kind of speaks to the atmosphere of the agency and the nation, where people are like, 'Well, laws don't matter for the people at the top anymore.'"
NASA is sinking its flagship science center during the government shutdown — and may be breaking the law in the process, critics say
"There is just a general acknowledgement that a lot of what is happening is illegal…"
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November 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
thecelticist.bsky.social
"Sometimes challenging, yet I could feel my own evolution in slow, but real time. It was painful, as though scrubbing centuries of skin, ash, debris, from an unearthed vessel coming at last into its own."

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Taking Stock: Patti Smith Looks Back on Everything
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November 7, 2025 at 8:09 PM
thecelticist.bsky.social
"Food remnants show bones of fish from the Pacific Ocean, cotton, fruit and vegetables such as sweet potato, avocado, maize, squash and chili pepper. Trade appears to have thrived in open-air markets – much as they do in modern Peru – said Ordoñez."

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Archaeologists discover how oldest American civilisation survived a climate catastrophe
Experts find artefacts left behind in Caral showing how population survived drought without resorting to violence
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November 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
thecelticist.bsky.social
"It’s a big book," he said, "but Garner is such good company – funny, original, clever, self-lacerating, always interesting – that we didn’t want the story to end."

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Helen Garner’s diaries win 2025 Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction
Tracing the author’s life from bohemian Melbourne in the 70s to the breakdown of her marriage in the 90s, How to End a Story was praised by judges for ‘taking the diary form to new heights’
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November 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM
thecelticist.bsky.social
For those unfamiliar with grindcore, Wormrot are most famous for the set they played to Biquette, the goat rescued from a French slaughterhouse. For those of us more familiar with grindcore, Wormrot are famous for being Wormrot & that is beyond awesome. They were fucking brilliant tonight in Dublin!
An infamous photo of the vocalist of Wormrot playing a gig in a French squat with a white goat named Biquette standing front and centre in the audience. Live gig photo of Wormrot in Dublin this evening. A classic photo of a member of Wormrot playing in front of the goat, Biquette, who lived in a squat in France. Biquette seems to be enjoying the gig.
November 4, 2025 at 11:50 PM