DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Thanks, Jo. I appreciate the support. 010
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Thanks, Hilary. It means a lot. 000
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I had a wonderful evening at the Maidstone Literary Festival last night, where I was fortunate enough to win the 2026 poetry competition and to read the winning poem. Many thanks to the judges and the organisers. I am very grateful for my work being recognised in this way #nationalpoetryday 4170
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It was such an honour to read my poetry at Maidstone Literature Festival tonight on #nationalpoetryday and to be among so many gifted poets at the sold out poetry night. Many thanks to everyone involved in organising the event. #MaidstoneLitFest 071
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialJohn Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Think I asked this a while back but it anyone has any reading on auctioning the goods of the dead in 16th- and 17th-century London, and/or the role of bellmen and criers around deaths and auctions, I'd be very grateful for recommendations! 22024
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026New article just published in ‘Èire-Ireland’ Journal on the queer Irish novel and death in the Irish diaspora #IrishStudies #queerliterature #queernovel #Irishdiaspora 063
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Legacy of Slavery - My family and Bristol 59334
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialJune Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 20/09/2026My story 'Púca1' is over the line for 'Ag Dul Siar', an anthology published January 2027 by Hotel Doolin and Banner Books, to mark its 20th anniversary. Includes work from writers, musicians, artists, photographers, folklorists and cultural figures, whose work speaks to the spirit of the place. 1228
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 25/09/2026I turned up at Waterstones in Worthing to sign some new stock of QUEER ORIGINS and was absolutely bowled over to be greeted by this in prime position in the shop window! It's so uplifting when booksellers get behind one's book. 💜🌈📚🦋🗃️ #book #books #booksky #authors #reading #histsci #queerhistory 1487
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is how I mark work now. I always did but in the past would have let more slide. Now I insist, ‘where did you get this information?’. If that’s not legible the grade slides. 130
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I’ve been wrestling with the villanelle form and am afraid it has broken me! It really doesn’t allow for any give! Anyway, here’s a poem about the oldest tree in Ireland (or so I was told). #villanelle #Kildare #Maynooth #Cromabú #poetry 020
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026LinkedIn is a necessary evil but that doesn’t make it any less evil. The AI posts with the template ‘something something - here’s the why - drivel drivel’ are shocking to behold. 010
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Just so awful and unrelenting. I am so sorry. 000
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026What a nice surprise - my contributor copy of Eighteenth-Century Ireland / Iris an dá chultúr Volume 41 2026 arrived. Belinda wants me to read it all in one go! #18thcentury #irishstudies 0232
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialDr Eleanor Shaw @eleanorshaw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Fancy coming to work with me at the British Library? Part time for 18 months, collecting oral histories about covid and thinking about covid commemoration. www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/jobs/job/228...nationalmuseums.org.ukJobs - National Museum Directors' Council WebsiteAssociation of directors and chief executives of the UK's national museums, galleries, libraries and archives. 512099
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Of course AI could wipe out humans. Just look at who created it. 040
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialRebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026It's happening! 'Killjoy Comedy: Willful Women and 1750s Fiction' is coming out with @uvapress.bsky.social in February 2027. @sinsleyh.bsky.social says it is 'a ROMP'. I am *floored* @bsecs.bsky.social @asecsoffice.bsky.social #18thcentury #c18th www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10256/ 186414
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026It’s all just so dead behind the eyes 140
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026What a light. Complete solidarity with this woman. 081
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialJane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Solidarity with this Piddington resident ♥️✊ #Newsnight 721802539
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialJoel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The new issue of Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr is out now and open access (not sure if this is temporary or not). Use the link below to view the special anniversary issue. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/10.3828/...liverpooluniversitypress.co.ukContents | Eighteenth-Century Ireland 41,This article surveys writings on the history of eighteenth-century Ireland over the first forty years of the journal Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá Chultúr. Commissioned to mark the journal’s fortieth anniversary, it adopts a cautiously ... 14331
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Leading a creative writing workshop on Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726) in Special Collections at Kent, writing objects and subjects big and small. Wed 28 Oct, 2pm until 4pm, Templeman Library. Email D.kavanagh@kent.ac.uk to reserve a place. #CreativeWriting #GulliversTravels 11610
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialBSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026***BREAKING NEWS*** We have extended the deadline on our #CFP by 5 days to give those of you that missed our early deadline another chance! New deadline: 20 September 2026 Get writing! #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...bsecs.org.ukBSECS Annual ConferenceBSECS Annual Conference: the annual meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is Europe's largest and most prestigious annual conference 01524
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Saints are changing gender left right and centre. 0130
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialDaniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes: 13598709
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialJessica R Valdez @jrvaldez.bsky.social · 14/09/2026We're hiring in the long eighteenth century at LSU. Please spread the word and let me know if you have any questions. It's a wonderful department to work in! lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0210...lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.comAssistant Professor - 18th-Century British LiteratureAll Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre... 05152
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialNoah Chaskin @chaskin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Any of my disability studies folks have a favorite reading to introduce students to chronic illness and/as disability? (I use Susan Wendell's "Unhealthy Disabled" and it is good, but I'm doing a lot of updating this semester.) 101
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialThe Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 13/09/2026The five-decade love story of a forgotten Irish literary power coupleirishtimes.comThe five-decade love story of a forgotten Irish literary power couplePadraic Colum’s death made front-page news in the New York Times in 1972, while F Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway feared his wife Mary’s rapier wit 054
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Oh no hope you feel better soon 000
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Sainsbury’s have a good range of things that are like mince pies but better. 110
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026New article out now in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (vol. 41): '"A picture presented to all our Senses": Vision in Gulliver's Travels and Michael Clancy's Memoirs'. doi.org/10.3828/eci....doi.org‘A picture presented to all our Senses’: Vision in Gulliver’s Travels (1726) and Michael Clancy’s Memoirs (1750) | Eighteenth-Century IrelandSir, Some Friend of mine lent me a Comedy, which I am told was written by you: I read it carefully, and with much Pleasure, on Account both of the Characters, and the Moral. I have no Interest with the People of the Play-house, else I should gladly ... 0107
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I always just think a lack of graduate jobs or job placements seems like a government problem not a university problem. 0100
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Ours started with a cafe Nero - now the former bookshop is 100% cafe Nero. 120
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Launch for Issue 19 of The Alchemy Spoon: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-launch... Register for a ticket. Online event. September 17th 7.30pm GMT #newpoetry #poetryreadings @thealchemyspoon.bsky.socialeventbrite.comThe launch of Issue 19 of The Alchemy SpoonReadings from selected posts and an open mic 010
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialChris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary' 9259941594
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialKatherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social · 08/09/2026A very quick turn around because of paperwork, but we're hiring a one year post in Modern British History! Please have a look and share widely with anyone interested! Happy to take informal queries at the email in the job posting! www.winchester.ac.uk/About-Us/Wor...winchester.ac.ukWork with us - University of WinchesterExplore the University of Winchester and discover your new career. We have a variety of positions in academic and professional services. Work with us. 21433
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026But small boats stopping isn’t going to do sweet F-all for those at Dover Port. They must know that on some level. 020
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026And the crossings do need to be stopped because they are dangerous and lives have been tragically lost. That action needs to go hand in hand with the opening of safe and legal routes to asylum/migration. The system is clearly broken. 170
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I am disconcerted by the scenes in Dover and just left thinking that even if small boat crossings were somehow stopped forever today this wouldn’t materially impact upon any of the black cladded ‘protestors’ one jot. Scapegoating is about distraction. It’s a dead end. 1111