Professor of Modern English @ucc.ie | Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Secretary @ria.ie | Irish Romanticism: a Literary History @universitypress.cambridge.org
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Claire Connolly
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The open letter regarding industry and applied bias in Research Ireland's strategy is still open for signing ...
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My letter to Minister Lawless about Research Ireland's decision to devolve the awarding of doctoral scholarships & postdoctoral fellowships to universities. A disastrous move. Please consider raising this issue in your own institutions and with elected representatives and the media.
Cardiff was once a great university, and U of Wales once a visionary university system. This is grim, the senior management and bosses at Cardiff are (rich) vandals, and the Cardiff uni in Kazakhstan stuff is like a David Lodge novel
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Join Professor Mary-Ann Constantine of the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the birth of the Welsh naturalist and travel writer, Thomas Pennant.
the Women’s History Association of Ireland (WHAI) has teamed up with the Women’s History Network to offer a joint annual book prize which awards £500 for an author’s first single-authored monograph in women’s or gender history. Entries close on 31 July 2026. womenshistorynetwork.org/womens-histo...
#WorldOceansDay.
‘No daughter of mine will leave home except as a married woman’. Born on Valentia Island, self-taught marine biologist Maud Delap was the first person to successfully breed jellyfish in captivity. Our colleague Angela Byrne has put together a short reel about her life.
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A great find in the British Library: "A Handy Book of Reference for Irishwomen", published in conjunction w 1881 Irish Exhibition at London Olympia ☘️
Edited by Helen Blackburn, Valentia Island-born suffragist, & backed by Mary Power Lalor, philanthropist, Catholic & Unionist landlord in Tipperary/1
We are delighted to announce that the WHN has teamed up with the Women’s History Association of Ireland to offer a joint annual book prize which awards £500 for an author’s first single-autho…
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Martin Shipton A Cardiff University lecturer has written a bleak account of working in an institution diminished by financial cuts and job losses. In a piece first published by voice.cymru, the worker...
Poor peonies are doing their best to withstand rain and wind #speirgorm
Also I feel very much like I was just at an Enterprise Ireland announcement, not a Research Ireland one. Major focus on industry, commercialisation of research, turning scientists into entrepreneurs, creating a talent pipeline for industry, and an overriding theme of fairly ill-defined "scale".
Romanticism folks, I am looking for new contributors for The Year's Work in English Studies (YWES).
YWES is an annual review of scholarly work. It's the largest & most comprehensive work of its kind.
I am looking for two people to join the poetry team and one person to take over drama.
