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History at Queen's University Belfast @qubhistory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We have heard the very sad news that Nini Rodgers died yesterday, after a period spent in a nursing home. Her former colleagues in the School remember her fondly, while others will have known Nini through her ground-breaking research on the history of slavery and Ireland.

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Chris Cusack @fearfuljoycuit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Out now: the special issue of Éire-Ireland on death and the Irish diaspora I guest-edited with the excellent @sophcocooper.bsky.social. Featuring eleven fascinating essays on all sorts of deathy stuff. Absolutely delighted with how the project turned out. 💀https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/57682

The cover of Éire-Ireland 61.1-2, featuring an engraving by Irish painter John Lavery which shows a man and a woman in a sort of punt. The woman is propelling the boat with a pole.

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Chris Cusack @fearfuljoycuit.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I've a poem in this issue: www.abridged.zone/marisol-mend.... Abridged is always worth your time -- excellent mag.

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Marisol Mendez / Chris Cusack | Abridged Zone

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Chris Cusack @fearfuljoycuit.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

“The apocalypse is cheaper than therapy” —a student in my course on the end times

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

raise your hand if wikipedia has higher standards than your own university

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

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Chris Cusack @fearfuljoycuit.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Publishing this week. Really thrilled with the result.

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I love how this reads as if Ralph Vaughan Williams’ was intent on reviving the dead villagers and creating an undead horde of zombie folk singers.

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Tina Morin @drtinamorin.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

My contributor’s copy of this fine collection arrived today. Thank you to the editors, @fearfuljoycuit.bsky.social, Bridget English, and @drreznicek.bsky.social, for including me!

A book on a desk. The book features the title The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature and the names of its editors. The cover image is A Funeral Procession (1900), by Charles Alfred Mills.

A page of the book with the title ‘Why do you bring your dead bodies littering here?’ The Corpse and the Comic Gothic in Romantic-era Irish Women’s Writing.

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Chris Cusack @fearfuljoycuit.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

“The apocalypse is cheaper than therapy” —a student in my course on the end times

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

📚 Recently published | The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature is available now! This is the first book to centre on the figure of the corpse in Irish literature, and it ranges from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. Discover more here ⬇️ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

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Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Fans of early 19th century Irish history! Gather round! We have a lovely event on @ullibrary.bsky.social on 22 Jan (next week) on the world behind the Ordnance Survey maps - free and all are most welcome. Just book your place via this link & tell your friends! forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Programme for the event, featuring David Fleming, Niamh NicGhabhann, Rebecca O’Regan, Joseph Curran, Jay Roszman and Cat Porter

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Wendy Erskine @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Putting it out there!

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Chris Cusack @fearfuljoycuit.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I miss the days when expensive academic books were at least well-made, rather than crappy print-on-demand units that have weak bindings, use terrible paper, and smell weird.

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Jeroen Dera @jjmdera.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Wil je promoveren op jongeren die wél lezen in tijden van digitalisering en ontlezing? Ik zoek twee promovendi binnen mijn Vidi-project 'Anatomy of the #Bookish'! Solliciteren kan tot 1 maart. www.ru.nl/werken-bij/v...

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Promovendus: literaire cultuur onder jongeren | Radboud Universiteit

Als Promovendus in literaire cultuur onder jongeren werken bij Faculteit der Letteren? Bekijk hier de vacature!

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Chris Cusack @fearfuljoycuit.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I miss the days when expensive academic books were at least well-made, rather than crappy print-on-demand units that have weak bindings, use terrible paper, and smell weird.

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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

English academic friends: @deborahlam.bsky.social and I have been gushing to each other about how much we love THE POCKET INSTRUCTOR for teaching inspo. are there any other good teaching exercise collections out there that we've been sleeping on? i have Showalter and Collier

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Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland @ssnci.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

We are delighted that Catriona Kennedy will give the @ssnci.bsky.social annual lecture on 'Women & Irish politics in the age of revolution'!! It will be held @nlireland.bsky.social on 22 January. For more see www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...

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Amazon, aristocrat or democrat?

Women and Irish politics in the age of revolution

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

One of the best literary journals anywhere, outside and in, is @winterpapers.bsky.social. Their open submissions period for the 2026 issue is 14-28 February. Everything will be read and replied to early August. The editing is excellent: acute & sympathetic. Have a go! winterpapers.com/submissions

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Winter Papers Submissions

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Chris Cusack @fearfuljoycuit.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Finalising the syllabus tomorrow. Give me all your suggestions!

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Chris Cusack @fearfuljoycuit.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

It's terrifying just how swiftly search engines have become completely unusable. Just layer upon layer of AI shite.

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Chris Cusack @fearfuljoycuit.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Been considering for years to refocus my research, just so I can spend a few weeks at the CCI!

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Sarah Roddy @seroddy.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

We are delighted to announce that we'll be hosting the SSNCI conference in Maynooth next June. Call for papers attached. Please spread far and wide!

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Emily Rowe @emilyrowe1.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Barnabe Rich explaining that "bookes are like cheese"

Bookes are like Cheese, that is neuer well seasoned to euery mans tast; for one will say it is too salt, another wil say it is too fresh, a thirde will say it is to tart, another thinkes it to be too milde; one will haue it too hard, another too soft, another too tough, another too brittle, it neuer pleaseth euery mans tast; no more do Bookes.

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Chris Cusack @fearfuljoycuit.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

One of the 10 or so articles I really want to write but just don’t have time for is about Moby-Dick. It truly is a splendid thing. Also, its longueurs are absolutely essential to its overall effect.

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Chris Cusack @fearfuljoycuit.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Because of budget cut mathing, my course on the apocalypse will go from seven 3-hour seminars to twelve 2-hour seminars. Which 21st-century books, films, series should I definitely include? Particularly looking for a replacement for Good Omens that engages equally explicitly with Revelation.

Screenshot of the header of the syllabus for my course Apocalypse, Always: Representing the Latest End Times. The image used is Albrecht Dürer's 1498 woodcut The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

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Chris Cusack @fearfuljoycuit.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

This was excellent – just my kind of book. I knew some of Tanning’s art, but had no idea she could write as well as paint. I bought it on the strength of it being a Virago Modern Classic, and as usual that label delivered the goods.

The cover of the 2019 Virago edition of Dorothea Tanning’s novel Chasm: A Weekend, showing a detail from Tanning’s oil painting Tempête en jaune: a face in yellow, red, and orange tones with eyes half closed and half-opened mouth.

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Chris Cusack @fearfuljoycuit.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Enjoyed the first few pages. Looking forward to reading the full thing!

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 02/01/2026

today’s entry in Things Lincoln Didn’t Say

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

In what's now become an annual tradition, I've written another piece for The Gist about how and why I hate A.I. On a bubble about to burst, a future rotted to its core, and the limits of the Mrs Doyle Theory of artificial intelligence. www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-2...

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Guest Gist: 2026, Our Already Rotting Future

Seamus O'Reilly warns of AI maximum bubbledrive this year.

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Chris Cusack @fearfuljoycuit.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Really wanted to finish one more book before the end of the year, but forgot I’d promised to bake my tried and tested lemon poppy seed cake for tonight (about to bedrizzle this thing). On the plus side, we now have cake.

Photo of a loaf of cake fresh out of the oven. Drizzle to follow.

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Chris Cusack @fearfuljoycuit.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Some of Sergei Dovlatov’s work remains untranslated. This is an outrage.

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Chris Cusack @fearfuljoycuit.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

If one of your resolutions is to buy fewer books in 2026, just buy loads in December instead! Follow me for more budgeting tips.

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Chris Cusack @fearfuljoycuit.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Out in February from @livunipress.bsky.social: The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature. The book started as a lockdown tweet. Delighted that it’s finally done! With Bridget English and @drreznicek.bsky.social

Cover of The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature, showing a water colour of mourners carrying a coffin towards a ruined church, with a man looking on in the foreground and two windswept, rather Beckettian trees in the background.

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Chris Cusack @fearfuljoycuit.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

In Paris, a couple of tourists once asked me if I could direct them to the Eiffel Tower. Which we were standing in front of. In their defence, it was snowing heavily.

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Chris Cusack @fearfuljoycuit.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

My resolutions for 2026: - finish the fucking monograph

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Chris Cusack @fearfuljoycuit.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Finishing the year with a few short books to bring my 2025 list to a round number.

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Our 2025 titles are all part of our bumper book sale. Save up to 50% on a wide range of #poetry direct from us: ninearchespress.com/shop Support #indiepublishing

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

He ys ridinge a horse He ys emerald and svelte He will get reallye weirde If you lie about beltes The Greene Knighte Ys Cominge To Toun

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