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🎭 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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Just in to stock from @ucdpress.bsky.social , the first major history of the 1798 Rising in over 30 years, with a host of fresh perspectives - Bloody Summer - A new History of the 1798 Rebellion by James Quinn. #irishhistory
November 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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The Ireland Chair of Poetry & UCD Press are delighted to announce Talking Heads: Writings from the Ireland Chair of Poetry by Paul Muldoon, Ireland Professor of Poetry 2022–2025.

Launching Nov 30 at MoLI. Available in bookshops nationwide from Nov 2025.

Pre-order:
www.ucdpress.ie/page/detail/...
November 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
ALL WELCOME to the launch of Talking Heads by Paul Muldoon

1 to 3pm sharp,
Sunday, 30 Nov. 2025
Physics Theatre of
MoLI – Museum of Literature Ireland,
86 St Stephen’s Green
Dublin,
D02 XY43

Guest Speaker
Professor Margaret Kelleher

🎟️ Free, booking required – www.eventbrite.ie/e/talking-he...
November 20, 2025 at 10:42 AM
‘This is well worth the read, not just for theatre lovers, but for women and for anyone interested in recent social history.’

📰 Our thanks to Anne Cunningham for including this positive review of WTF Happened in First Chapter

🔗 www.meathchronicle.ie/2025/11/02/a...
November 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
📚 Located in Dublin? Visit your local bookshop to pick up a signed copy of From Bullets to Ballots by @owenoshea.bsky.social!

✍️ Find them in @booksupstairs.bsky.social
Connolly Books
@gutterbookshop.bsky.social
@hodgesfiggis.bsky.social
Dubray Grafton St
November 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
ALL WELCOME to the launch of From Bullets to Ballots: Politics and Electioneering in Post-Civil War Kerry, 1923–33 by @owenoshea.bsky.social

7pm, Friday, 28 Nov. 2025
O’Mahony’s Booksellers
Castle Street,
Tralee,
V92 RX64

Guest Speaker
Norma Foley TD

RSVP at ucdpress@ucd.ie
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Great theatre changes how we see our lives. Great campaigning changes how we see our future. When the Abbey Theatre's 2016 centenary programme announced just a handful of women artists, it triggered something extraordinary: a nationwide movement for gender equality in Irish theatre.
WTF Happened: The legacy and impact of #WakingTheFeminists
Great theatre changes how we see our lives. Great campaigning changes how we see our future.
www.rte.ie
November 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
✨ Talking Heads by Paul Muldoon has arrived!

Introducing the latest installment in The Poet’s Chair Series, available now in bookshops nationwide or online via www.ucdpress.ie/page/detail/...
November 17, 2025 at 12:53 PM
'A gorgeously illustrated multi-voice account...

A clever double whammy of teaching while documenting...'

Thank you @irishtimes.com @martindoyle.bsky.social for a warm review of WTF HAPPENED

Congratulations @sarahdurcan.bsky.social @lianbell.bsky.social and all the WTF activists
November 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Delighted to lay my grubby little hands on this from James Quinn and @ucdpress.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
We are very grateful to the National 1798 Rebellion Centre for hosting yesterday evening’s special event in Enniscorthy to celebrate the publication of Bloody Summer by James Quinn.

Wexford historian Kevin Whelan spoke about author James Quinn’s significant contributions to this historical period.
November 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
The National 1798 Rebellion Centre and UCD Press welcome all to celebrate

Bloody Summer: A New History of the 1798 Rebellion

⏰ 6pm TODAY
📍 The National 1798 Rebellion Centre, Enniscorthy

Guest Speaker Kevin Whelan

ALL WELCOME
RSVP ucdpress@ucd.ie

Read more here
wexfordweekly.com/2025/11/06/e...
Exciting event coming to Wexford for history lovers | Wexford Weekly
An exciting event will be taking place in Wexford soon... On Thursday, 13 November, the National 1798 Rebellion Centre will be hosting an event in celebration of historian James Quinn's new book, Bloo...
wexfordweekly.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Humbled by the attendance at my book launch last night

Thanks to the team at @booksupstairs.bsky.social for hosting and to the team at @ucdpress.bsky.social for arranging.

Very grateful to Professor Diarmaid Ferriter for doing the honours.

Kerry launch in a few weeks.

ucdpress.ie
November 12, 2025 at 9:25 AM
‼️ TOMORROW

The National 1798 Rebellion Centre and UCD Press are pleased to invite you to celebrate

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

⏰ 6pm, Thur, 13 Nov
📍 The National 1798 Rebellion Centre, Enniscorthy

Guest Speaker: Kevin Whelan

ALL WELCOME
RSVP ucdpress@ucd.ie
November 12, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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To cap a very lovely (despite the weather) day, it’s great to be at the launch of Owen o’Shea’s book ‘From Bullets to Ballots; politics and electioneering in post civil war Kerry, 1923-1933’. Available from @ucdpress.bsky.social 👇🏼#spèirghorm #speirgorm

www.ucdpress.ie/page/detail/...
November 11, 2025 at 6:57 PM
A very warm thanks to the staff at Books Upstairs for hosting us tonight, and to all the attendees who ventured out in the rain to celebrate the launch of Owen O’Shea’s From Bullets to Ballots with us at this beautiful bookshop!
November 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
📣 REMINDER – Thursday

The National 1798 Rebellion Centre and UCD Press
are pleased to invite you to celebrate

Bloody Summer: A New History of the 1798 Rebellion

⏰ 6pm, Thur, 13 Nov
📍 The National 1798 Rebellion Centre, Enniscorthy

Guest Speaker: Kevin Whelan

ALL WELCOME

RSVP ucdpress@ucd.ie
November 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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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
‼️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
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
‼️ 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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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
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