professional shakespeare opinion haver, theatre historian, shoegaze fan, film dyke. she/her. my book is called IRISH SHAKESPEARES: GENDER, SEXUALITY, & PERFORMANCE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (out Oct). all my opinions are great actually x
Next time someone asks you the bad faith question “Have any women come forward?”, here you are.
socmotI despise Substack and have previously said I will never read it (and I don't). But I will break my rule just for this eally disturbing piece of writing by Neko Case, who was / is in a band, The New Pornographers, who were supported by The Frames in 2002. nekocase.substack.com/p/in-what-fu...
Friends, my book—No Place for Home: Terror and Race in Literature After 9/11—has a cover! I’m so pleased with what Rachel Moeller and the design team at @uminnpress.bsky.social came up with! The book will be out in Spring 2027 and that I’ll post a pre-order link once it’s available! 1/2
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
Buy my friend's sure-to-be-excellent book if you're interested in Irish studies, drama studies, or their intersection!
emerand if you like that, well this is coming just in time for halloween
i love the odyssey discourse. i haven’t read the poem or seen the movie. i saw minions 3 in imax twice. im free ❤️
An Irish writer has been named alongside 12 other authors on the longlist for the 2026 Booker Prize. 28-year-old Djamel White is the youngest writer on this year's longlist with his first novel All Them Dogs. jrnl.ie/7115737
Irish author makes the Booker Prize 2026 longlist with his debut novel28-year-old Djamel White is the youngest author to feature on the longlist with his first novel All Them Dogs.jrnl.ie
Not only was she loudly right about everything and reviled for it, in 2017 O'Connor donated 30 years worth of clothes and makeup to trans girls in Ireland.
Irish Literary TimesRemembering Sinéad O'Connor, who died three years ago, on July 26, 2023. Photo by Andreas Larsson. #sineadoconnor
Okay one more odyssey post. Really loved the movie. But I for one am willing to stop rescuing Matt Damon. At some point we’re just going to have to collectively agree that if Matt Damon gets lost again we just have to let him go.
Back in 1988 John Healy published his memoir The Grass Arena about his life as a wino turned chessmaster. This August the sequel, The Glass Cage, is published. To coincide with this @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social screen my 2011 documentary about Healy. Please share if you can ifi.ie/film/from-th...
FROM THE VAULTS: BARBARIC GENIUS + Q&A - Irish Film InstituteSCREENING MONDAY 17th AUGUST Paul Duane’s intimate portrait charts the unpredictable life of John Healy – award-winning author, internationally distinguished chess player and erstwhile alcoholic vagra...ifi.ie
Once again for all of FIFA’s money they’ve still spectacularly failed to match the grandeur of the 2014 World Bowls Championship.
Just accidentally called him Ringo Spice, as if the other three are John Spice, George Spice, and Paul Spice
The Google Books preview of the Routledge Companion to World-Literature and the Environment is online early. I have a chapter in here on Water and Waste in Palestinian Literature, which discusses speculative fiction and nature writing as new genres in this context. books.google.co.uk/books?id=HxD...
The Routledge Companion to World-Literature and the EnvironmentThe Routledge Companion to World‐Literature and the Environment takes a broad, global overview of the history, present and potential futures of environmental and literary studies, demonstrating that w...books.google.co.uk