Neil Sammells

Larkin’s father died on 26 March 1948. A week the following Sunday it snowed in Warwick. This beautiful elegy was never printed in the poet’s lifetime and yet, arguably, it is his first great poem.

Published today. I’m in there somewhere, in distinguished company. Indispensable if not, alas, inexpensive…global.oup.com/academic/produ…

📚New Book Available to Review📚 Medieval Dublin XX edited by Seán Duffy If you are interested in reviewing this examination of life in medieval Dublin, please contact us via DM or email us at I.studies@bathspa.ac.uk - we look forward to hearing from you!

📚 Book Available to Review 📚 After the Train: Irishwomen United and a Network of Change, edited by Evelyn Conlon and Rebecca Pelan If you are interested in reviewing this book, please contact us via DM or email us at I.studies@bathspa.ac.uk - we would love to hear from you!

New Book Available Anthologisation and Irish Short Fiction: Magnitudes of Telling by Paul Delaney If you are interested in reviewing this original study of short fiction in Ireland, please contact us via DM or email us at I.studies@bathspa.ac.uk - we’d love to hear from you!

📚New Book Available to Review📚 Rethinking Feminism in Ireland by Camilla Fitzsimons If you are interested in reviewing this enlightening book, please contact us via DM or email us at I.studies@bathspa.ac.uk - we look forward to hearing from you!

@Kate_Hext @rowenamezzo Due out in a couple of weeks. I’m in there somewhere…

🎉 Our Oxford Handbook, currently being copyedited by the incomparable @rowenamezzo who I hope will eat champagne-dipped strawberries throughout.

Twitter is mostly people shouting at each other. Bluesky appears populated by academics huddling together for solace and safety, talking to themselves ( but not much to each other...)

@MadameGilflurt Bluesky bends over backwards -not forwards -to provide us all with a safe space…I’m so glad I wasn’t forced to see it…

I posted this on B'sky too and it was first labelled as adult content, then mysteriously deleted. What on earth?!?

Smut alert! This super saucy tile was discovered at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese after a fire in 1962. A little something to gaze at as you munch on a ploughman’s! Via the Museum of London

📚Book Review Opportunity📚 Public History in Ireland edited by Leonie Hannan and Olwen Purdue If you are interested in reviewing this introduction into Ireland’s complex history, please contact us via DM or email us at I.studies@bathspa.ac.uk - we are excited to hear from you!

📚Book Review Opportunity📚 Cathal Brugha ‘An Indomitable Spirit’ by Daithí Ó Corráin and Gerard Hanley If you are interested in reviewing this portrayal of a crucial Irish figure, please contact us via DM or email us at I.studies@bathspa.ac.uk - we would love to hear from you!

Book Review Opportunity Iran in Finnegans Wake by Hamid Farahmandian If you are interested in reviewing this book uncovering the intricate influences embedded within Joyce’s work, please contact us via DM or email us at i.studies@bathspa.ac.uk - we would love to hear from you!

✨New Book Available to Review✨ Screen Workers and the Irish Film Industry by Denis Murphy DIGITAL COPY ONLY If you are interested in reviewing please contact us via DM or email us at i.studies@bathspa.ac.uk - we would love to hear from you!📚

Angst Postecoglou…

✨Book Review Opportunity✨ Women and Work in Ireland: A Half Century of Attitude and Policy Change by Margret Fine-Davis DIGITAL COPY ONLY If you are interested in reviewing please contact us via DM or email us at i.studies@bathspa.ac.uk - we would love to hear from you!

📚New Book Available to Review📚 The Medieval Irish Kings and the English Invasion by Seán Ó Hoireabhárd If you are interested in reviewing please contact us via DM or email us at i.studies@bathspa.ac.uk - we look forward to hearing from you!

📚Book Review Opportunity📚 Narrating Irish Female Development, 1916–2018 by Jane Elizabeth Dougherty DIGITAL COPY ONLY If you are interested in reviewing this feminist narratology, please contact us via DM or email us at i.studies@bathspa.ac.uk - we’d love to hear from you!

Book available for review: Irish Literature in Transition, 1700-1780, edited by Moyra Haslett. Get in touch via DM or email if interested! #irishstudies

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