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#irishliterature — Public Fediverse posts
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Claire-Louise Bennett is a British writer settled in Galway, and Checkout 19 (2021) is her book about a girl who falls in love with reading and becomes a writer herself. There is barely a plot. Sentences spiral and double back, like listening to someone think. Funny, sad and singular, and one of the New York Times best books of the year.
https://choosingeurope.eu/2026/09/30/checkout-19-%f0%9f%87%ae%f0%9f%87%aa-ireland/
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Hi folks. I’m on the hunt for four issues of the literary journal The Green Book: Writings on Irish Gothic, Supernatural & Fantastic Literature, edited by Brian J. Showers (https://swanriverpress.ie/the-green-book/)
The numbers I’m looking for are 1, 2, 6 and 10.
If anyone has copies of these they’d be willing to part with, I’d be really grateful.
Any boosts would also be appreciated. Thank you!
#Bookstodon #TheGreenBook #IrishLiterature #GothicLiterature #FantasticLiterature #SwanRiverPress #BrianJShowers #BookWantList @bookstodon
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"Queering 20th-century Irish Women's Writing" by Naoise Murphy collects Dorothy Macardle, Kate O'Brien, Elizabeth Bowen & Molly Keane - "uneasy Moderns" whose work she reads thru the lens of #QueerStudies & #PostcolonialStudies, unsettling narratives of progress
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Let's look at 3 new books in our collection in #IrishStudies!
Molly Ferguson's "Banshees, Hags & Changelings" examines #folklore transformed into contemporary Irish literature by feminist writers who employ a range of folkloric figures -
https://www.europesays.com/ie/704782/ You can now buy stamps celebrating modern Irish literature #AnPost #ClaireKeegan #ColmToibin #Éire #EmmaDonoghue #Entertainment #IE #Ireland #IrishLiterature #Stamps
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"What leads an artist dedicated to an ideal of artistic autonomy to repudiate that ideal, committing themselves to solidarity with the perpetrators of genocide?"
Michael G. Cronin on John Banville and the politics of literature under neoliberalism: https://www.anclogan.ie/art-for-the-markets-sake-john-banvilles-false-autonomy/
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Ukrainian War Writers Join Literary Project Linking Ukraine and Ireland | Ukraine news https://www.byteseu.com/2342809/ #Conflicts #DublinLiteraryWorkshop #IrishLiterature #News #Russia #RussiaUkraineWar #RussiaUkraine #RussianInvasionOfUkraine #RussoUkrainianWar #Ukraine #UkrainianWriters
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Ukrainian War Writers Join Literary Project Linking Ukraine and Ireland | Ukraine news
The Dublin program will bring veteran authors, emerging Ukrainian writers, and Irish colleagues together to turn wartime experience…
#Ukraine #UA #Europe #Europa #EU #News #dublinliteraryworkshop #irishliterature #ukrainianwriters
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Ukrainian War Writers Join Literary Project Linking Ukraine and Ireland | Ukraine news
The Dublin program will bring veteran authors, emerging Ukrainian writers, and Irish colleagues together to turn wartime experience…
#Conflict #Conflicts #War #dublinliteraryworkshop #irishliterature #News #Russia #russiaukraine #RussiaUkraineWar #RussianinvasionofUkraine #Russo-UkrainianWar #Ukraine #ukrainianwriters
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https://www.europesays.com/3236872/ Ukrainian War Writers Join Literary Project Linking Ukraine and Ireland | Ukraine news #Conflicts #DublinLiteraryWorkshop #IrishLiterature #News #Russia #RussiaUkraine #RussiaUkraineWar #RussianInvasionOfUkraine #RussoUkrainianWar #Ukraine #UkrainianWriters
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"He was perhaps less a political radical than a bohemian individualist, resentful of authority and restive with institutional restraints."
Terry Eagleton on the politics of James Joyce: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n13/terry-eagleton/starveling-rabblement
#JamesJoyce #IrishLiterature #literature #books #Mastodaoine
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Been looking forward to this one
#books #reading #IrishLiterature #MaryCostello #BookCovers #novels
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Roddy Doyle: On Tedium and The Shadow of Joyce
Why does Roddy Doyle find James Joyce comparisons boring? Dublin writer Roddy Doyle feels constant talk about Joyce limits new writers and is 'tedious' for his work.
#roddydoyle #jamesjoyce #dublinwriters #irishliterature #literarycriticism
https://newsletter.tf/roddy-doyle-dublin-james-joyce-comparisons-boring/
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Dublin writer Roddy Doyle says constant talk about James Joyce is 'boring'. He feels it makes it hard for new writers to show their own unique style, a common problem for many artists.
#roddydoyle #jamesjoyce #dublinwriters #irishliterature #literarycriticism
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Eavan Boland and the emergence of a poetic self
I picked up Object Lessons (1995) by Eavan Boland (1944–2020) thinking it was a memoir, but it’s more focused than that: a meditation on the emergence of her identity as a poet, specifically a woman poet and an Irish poet.
This identity is further complicated by her emigration from Ireland as a five-year-old girl when her father, a diplomat, took up work in London in the mid-20th century:
Hardly anything else that happened to me as a child was as important as this: that I left one country and came to another. That an ordinary displacement made an extraordinary distance between the word place and the word mine.
In England, everyday words reinforced her sense of difference and lack: ‘They [the other children at school] could say “orchard” instead of “garden” with the offhand grace imparted by nine-tenths of the law. I could not.’ But it would be an Irish English word that crystallized her alienation:
The inevitable happened. One day my tongue betrayed me out of dream and counterfeit into cold truth. I was in the cloakroom at school in the middle of the afternoon. A winter darkness was already gathering through one of the stubborn fogs of the time. A teacher was marshaling children here and there, dividing those who were taking buses from those who were being collected. “I amn’t taking the bus,” I said. I was six or seven then, still within earshot of another way of speaking. But the English do not use that particular construction. It is an older usage. If they contract the verb and the negative, they say, “I’m not.”
Without knowing, I had used that thing for which the English reserve a visceral dislike: their language, loaded and aimed by the old enemy. The teacher whirled around. She corrected my grammar; her face set, her tone cold. “You’re not in Ireland now” was what she said.
This account elaborates on Boland’s description of the incident in her poem ‘An Irish Childhood in England: 1951’, which I excerpted in a 2014 post about the Irish use of amn’t.
In her mid-teens Boland returned to live in Ireland and began to explore the inchoate sense of Irishness from which she felt semi-estranged:
Language. At first this was what I lacked. Not just the historic speech of my country. I lacked that too, but so did others. This was a deeper loss; I returned to find that my vocabulary of belonging was missing. The street names, the meeting places—it was not just that I did not know them. It was something more. I had never known them. I had lost not only a place but the past that goes with it and, with it, the clues from which to construct a present self.
I had to learn a new sensory idiom. A fog in the mouth, for example, which was different from the London one: less gritty, with more of an ocean aftertaste. An unkempt greenness on the streets. A drizzle which was interseasonal, constant. Different trees. Different birds.
Nurturing this idiom, she found, years later, that ‘language can reclaim location’, a beautifully concise expression of this insight.
It was not just Irish English with which Boland familiarized herself. In her final year in school she was struggling with Latin, resentful of its difficulty. Then came a turning point:
It was something about the economy of it all: the way the ablative absolute gathered and compressed time. One day, again figuratively, it was a burdensome piece of grammar. The next, with hardly any warning, it was a messenger with quick heels and a bright face. I hardly knew what had happened. I began to respect, however grudgingly, the systems of a language which could make such constructs that, although I had no such words for it, they stood against the disorders of love or history. They had left the mouth of the centurion and entered the mind of a Sicilian farm worker. They had forged alliances and named stars. And at that point of my adolescence, where the words I wrote on a page were nothing but inexact, the precision and force of these constructs began to seem both moving and healing.
As Boland developed her poetic ability and her confidence in its effect, she found herself entering a heavily male tradition. There were pivotal encounters with avatars of that tradition: with Padraic Colum at an elevator; with Patrick Kavanagh in a café in Dublin (his style of speech ‘shy and apocalyptic’).
But the constraints of history and structural intransigence pressed tight:
Gradually the anomaly of my poetic existence was clear to me. By luck, or its absence, I had been born in a country where and at a time when the word woman and the word poet inhabited two separate kingdoms of experience and expression. I could not, it seemed, live in both. As the author of poems I was an equal partner in Irish poetry. As a woman—about to set out on the life which was the passive object of many of those poems—I had no voice. It had been silenced, ironically enough, by the very powers of language I aspired to and honored.
Object Lessons abounds in eloquent, carefully honed ideas about womanhood and nationhood and the complications of a poetic self at their intersections. For this post I’ve selected just a few language-themed passages; if they appeal to you, you’ll enjoy Boland’s book.
#amnT #books #EavanBoland #gender #HibernoEnglish #identity #Ireland #IrishBooks #IrishEnglish #irishLiterature #IrishPoetry #languageAndGender #literature #poetry #words #writers #writing -
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Cautious sorts will be asking, "Nudged how?", and that'd be better decided by listening. Though "more of the world as lived in by the Gaffer and other worthies of The Shire" might give a start.
The following hashtag is just to scare off the weak of heart. And give bragging rights to the brave. (Yes, technically it's literature. But ... well look at the video ... harmless right?)
#IrishLiterature
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Not many literature audiobooks that are sufficiently enthralling in 30 second walk-bys.
But Niall Williams' Faha books, "The History of the Rain", "This Is Happiness" and "Time of the Child" have this property for me.
#NiallWilliams #IrishLiterature #Bookstadon #Meaning #Narrative
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"Seekers of Wonder" by Elena E. Sottilotta pioneers the comparison of women's roles in Italian & #IrishFolklore & #FairyTales 1870-1920 collected / written by #WomenWriters Laura Gonzenbach, Grazia Deledda, #JaneWilde & #AugustaGregory
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https://www.europesays.com/2579416/ What our own stories of emigration teach us about today’s immigrants #immigrant #IrishEmigration #IrishLiterature #NearAndFar #OneWorld #opinion #voices
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𝙍𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬: "𝘼 𝙋𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 𝙈𝙖𝙣" 𝙗𝙮 𝙅𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝙅𝙤𝙮𝙘𝙚 -
If we allow the novel to work on its own terms, and quit asking it to meet our expectations of a common coming-of-age story, we can find that the style itself reveals the experience we seek.
https://waywordsstudio.com/general/reviews/a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-man/
#bookreviews #literature #books #bookworm #read #book #readreadread #jamesjoyce #fiction #autobiography #irishliterature #modernism #streamofconsciousness
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce https://hokkaidomarket.net/books-info.php?item=1491 #CLASSIC #BOOKS #BOOKSHOP #FICTION #LITERATURE #IRISHLITERATURE #IRELAND #bookstodon
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I have compiled a list of Ulster Cycle materials, including prose narratives (mostly what is in the Ulidia 1994 list) but also dindshenchas articles, some poems, and items from Cóir Anmann. There were 75 titles on the original Ulidia list, and over 200 here, so I hope that it will help lead people to some of the lesser known stories, poems, and other bits and pieces. It's available on Knowledge Commons (a wonderful and non-profit alternative to academia.edu, you can follow them @hello). The titles all link directly to CODECS for information about editions, translations, etc. (Thank you to @codecs for being such a fantastic resource!) I hope people will find it useful. It's just a first version and there will certainly be many changes and additions needed in future, but I think it's in a state to be of some interest and use, at least. Corrections and suggestions are very welcome!
https://works.hcommons.org/records/bdb7a-50d66
#UlsterCycle #IrishLiterature #MedievalLiterature #MedievalIrishLiterature #CelticStudies
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Ireland can’t escape Big Daddy
We Irish are experiencing what I can only describe as some sort of cultural tumescence. There’s an undeniable…
#Ireland #IE #Europe #Europa #EU #anti-migrantprotest #ireland #irishliterature #Kneecap #patriotism
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A review of a book about a book about a writer
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n16/seamus-perry/beaverosity#books #literature #JamesJoyce #IrishLiterature #writers #RichardEllmann
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Archaeoethnologica: The Finn Cicle - Book / O Ciclo de Finn - Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/07/o-ciclo-de-finn-livro.html
#CelticStudies #epic #irishliterature #celts #Mythology #celticmythology #Medieval #books #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: The Finn Cicle - Book / O Ciclo de Finn - Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/07/o-ciclo-de-finn-livro.html
#CelticStudies #epic #irishliterature #celts #Mythology #celticmythology #Medieval #books #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: The Finn Cicle - Book / O Ciclo de Finn - Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/07/o-ciclo-de-finn-livro.html
#CelticStudies #epic #irishliterature #celts #Mythology #celticmythology #Medieval #books #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: The Finn Cicle - Book / O Ciclo de Finn - Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/07/o-ciclo-de-finn-livro.html
#CelticStudies #epic #irishliterature #celts #Mythology #celticmythology #Medieval #books #openaccess
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RIP, Maeve Kelly https://tramppress.com/maeve-kelly/
Her book of short stories "Orange Horses" is one of the strongest collections I've ever read: https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2018/05/31/savouring-each-preposition/
#MaeveKelly #writers #IrishLiterature #books #ShortStories #writing
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Black Diamond: yuppie life in the new South Africa
https://khanya.wordpress.com/2019/05/16/black-diamond-yuppie-life-in-the-new-south-africa/
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Archaeoethnologica: People, Prehistory & the Past - Book / Gente, Pré-história e Passado - Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/06/gente-pre-historia-e-passado-livro.html
#Archaeology #Protohistory #Prehistory #MedievalArchaeology #megalithism #BronzeAge #Ireland #celts #irishliterature #memory #epic #epigraphy #IronAge #book #JohnWaddell
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Archaeoethnologica: People, Prehistory & the Past - Book / Gente, Pré-história e Passado - Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/06/gente-pre-historia-e-passado-livro.html
#Archaeology #Protohistory #Prehistory #MedievalArchaeology #megalithism #BronzeAge #Ireland #celts #irishliterature #memory #epic #epigraphy #IronAge #book #JohnWaddell
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Archaeoethnologica: People, Prehistory & the Past - Book / Gente, Pré-história e Passado - Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/06/gente-pre-historia-e-passado-livro.html
#Archaeology #Protohistory #Prehistory #MedievalArchaeology #megalithism #BronzeAge #Ireland #celts #irishliterature #memory #epic #epigraphy #IronAge #book #JohnWaddell
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For #Bloomsday, here are my drawings of Joyce himself and also of Flann O’Brien who, well-refreshed, was one of the originators of Bloomsday in 1954.
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On the way home, frustrated by the frequency of requests, Joyce and Beckett are making for toilet stops, the carriage driver decides not to wait for Beckett's to return from the toilet, and left him “ingloriously abandoned on the outskirts of Paris”. 2/2
#Ireland #IrishLiterature #JamesJoyce #Ulysses #Bloomsday #SamuelBeckett #Paris #Versailles #OnThisDay
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On 16 June 1924 friends send Joyce, who is in hospital, a bouquet of white and blue hydrangeas. He writes in his notebook: “Today 16 of June 1924 twenty years after. Will anybody remember this date?”
#IrishLiterature #JamesJoyce #Ulysses #Bloomsday #Dublin #OnThisDay
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16 June is Bloomsday, a commemoration and celebration of the life of James Joyce during which the events of Ulysses (set on 16 June 1904) are relived. Joyce chose the date because it was the date of his first outing with Nora Barnacle when they walked to Ringsend.
#IrishLiterature #JamesJoyce #Ulysses #Bloomsday #Dublin #Ringsend #OnThisDay
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William Butler Yeats was born in Sandymount in County Dublin on 13 June 1865. He was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer. One of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature, he was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival. In December 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation".
#Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishLiterature #Poetry #WBYeats #OnThisDay
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Christy Brown was born on 5 June 1932 in Crumlin, Dublin. He had 22 siblings of whom 9 died in infancy. He was an Irish writer and painter who had cerebral palsy and was able to write or type only with the toes of one foot.
His most recognised work is an autobiography, My Left Foot (1954). It was later made into a 1989 film of the same name, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Brown.
#Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishLiterature #ChristyBrown #Dublin #CerebralPalsy #DanielDayLewis #OnThisDay
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Anne Enright describing a retired couple: "They rubbed against each other until they had rubbed themselves away."
#books #reading #AnneEnright #IrishBooks #IrishLit #IrishLiterature