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Lucy Collins

@lcollins232.bsky.social
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Reader. Writer. Not doing much Arithmetic. Associate Professor #UCD.

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Lucy Collins @lcollins232.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Wonderful jaunt to the Casimir Markievicz exhibition at @dublincastle.bsky.social - great insight into a generation of Irish artists and intellectuals. Love that photo of Constance and Althea Gyles smoking together! 👏🏻👏🏻 Great work @emilymfg.bsky.social and @katymilligan.bsky.social
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Lucy Collins @lcollins232.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Fantastic opportunity to catch up on a great gathering of essays on the many-faceted work of Eilis Ni Dhuibhne. Available until 1 August.
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Irish University Review @irishunireview.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Huge congratulations to Éilís Ní Dhuibhne on her appointment as the new Laureate for Irish Fiction! In May 2024, the IUR published a special issue dedicated to Ní Dhuibhne’s contributions to Irish literature and culture.
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Neil Hegarty @neilhegarty.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Very much enjoyed my conversation with Eoin McNamee at Cairde in sunny Sligo last night. And thanks to a great audience.
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Lucy Collins @lcollins232.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Not a bad sight to see when opening the UCD website… Great news from the Ireland Chair of Poetry @poetryireland.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 11/06/2025
Fulbright board members are resigning “rather than endorse unprecedented actions that we believe are impermissible under the law, compromise U.S. national interests and integrity, and undermine the mission" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...
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Fulbright Board Quits, Accusing Trump Administration of Political Interference
The board of the prestigious program told the State Department it had no right to cancel scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers.
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Nick Daly @nickdaly.eurosky.social · 11/06/2025
Following international law on genocide is optional, but you _must_ follow banking guidelines.
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Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann @poetryireland.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
🔔 UPDATE: The deadline to apply for the Poetry Ireland Librarian position has been EXTENDED to Sunday, June 8th at 5pm. Poetry Ireland are seeking a passionate, qualified Librarian to join their team! ✍️Learn more & apply: www.poetryireland.ie/news/poetry-... #JobFairy @libraryjobs.bsky.social
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Lauren O’Donovan @laurenodonovanw.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
It’s the week of launches — 3 in 4 days! Very much looking forward to visiting Dublin on Thursday to launch Ben and Rafael’s pamphlets 🚀 hopefully see you there 🐺 @poetryireland.bsky.social
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
As people voted for the Israeli entry in the Eurovision, this is what the Israeli state was doing #boycotteurovision #endthegenocide #gazagenocide
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Below is how it started, but this is how it’s going: a punishment that includes exclusion from democratic participation, handed down because of disrupting democratic so-called decorum. The crime of possible intimidation is punished with actual disenfranchisement
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New Zealand MPs who performed haka in parliament given unprecedented punishment
Co-leaders of Te Pāti Māori and its youngest member to be temporarily suspended from parliament after performance protesting controversial bill
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Lucy Collins @lcollins232.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Great review of @eireannmor.bsky.social’s new book with @carcanet.bsky.social - in less than a month we can get our hands on it! observer.co.uk/culture/book...
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Poetry book of the month: Mind your language
Éireann Lorsung’s vibrant debut delights in the slipperiness of the world and the words we use to capture it
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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Jane Clarke (@janeclarke.bsky.social) will be reading alongside poet and Poetry Unbound podcast host Pádraig Ó Tuama @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social's Cork International Poetry Festival on Thursday 15 May, 10pm, at Cork Arts Theatre. #corkpoetryfest www.corkpoetryfest.net/thursday.html
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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Digitizing the archives of Emily Dickinson, arguably the United States' most celebrated poet, "no longer serves the interest of the United States." h/t @pwallinga.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/pwal...
Screenshot from Emily Dickinson Museum's newsletter. Full text: Update: IMLS Grant Terminated

On April 9, the Emily Dickinson Museum received notice that a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, a federal agency, had been terminated the preceding day. In 2023, the Museum was awarded a grant of $117,000 by IMLS to digitize records related to its newly catalogued collection and to locate related information in other repositories with Dickinson family materials. The notice states, “IMLS has determined that your grant is unfortunately no longer consistent with the agency’s priorities and no longer serves the interest of the United States and the IMLS Program.” 



Our work to amplify Emily Dickinson’s revolutionary poetic voice – by opening her family homes to visitors, by interpretive and educational use of her family’s material legacy, by holding up her enduring poetry – continues with support from the Museum’s friends and our unending gratitude.
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Lucy Collins @lcollins232.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Please consider signing this #JusticeforPalestine: my.uplift.ie/petitions/st...
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Stop the Deportation, from Germany, of Two Irish Citizens for Palestine Solidarity
Roberta Murray and  Shane O’Brien are Irish activists facing deportation from Germany, ordered to leave by April 21, 2025. Two other activists, Cooper Longbottom (US) and Kasia Wlaszczyk (EU) hav...
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
I'm not a particularly fancy man, but I've been in academia a long time, and I don't recall "don't ever discuss material that's extraneous to the class" ever having been mentioned as a "core tenet" of academic freedom.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
bring us your poor, your tired, and your huddled masses so we can stuff them in an unmarked van and ship them to a slave labor camp in an undisclosed location
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UCD Digital Library @ucddigitallibrary.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
As the UCD Digital Library team work on the new access platform, we are getting to revisit some of our most popular collections. First up is G. & T. Crampton and our favourite image of the Tayto factory. #CramptonBuilt
G. & T. Crampton Photograph Archive: Tayto factory
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
‘I am floored’: Anne Enright on winning $175,000 Windham-Campbell Prize Booker Prize-winning author becomes eighth Irish writer to win one of the literary world’s most generous prizes www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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‘I am floored’: Anne Enright on winning $175,000 Windham-Campbell Prize
Booker Prize-winning author becomes eighth Irish writer to win one of the literary world’s most generous prizes
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International Yeats Society @intyeatssociety.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Join Dr. Rob Doggett and Dr. Barry Sheils for an engaging discussion about W.B. Yeats' poem "Lapis Lazuli!" Looking for more episodes of Yeats Conversations? Consider subscribing to our Youtube channel today! #Yeats #Poetry #IrishLiterature #SupportTheArts youtu.be/fbWJbMHnZa8
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Yeats's "Lapis Luzuli" (with Barry Sheils)
YouTube video by DrRobDoggett
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Lucy Collins @lcollins232.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
I love this beautiful piece. If anything turns me into a cat person, this will… 💕 #SundayMiscellany @gagebybell.bsky.social www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
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Tamburlaine the Great, by Amanda Bell
Two decades with a beloved pet, whose various scrapes and escapades didn't diminish affections
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Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Abundant Number vol.3 + bonus material, courtesy of @eireannmor.bsky.social. Includes teasers of exciting new things, including something that Éireann and I have planned for later this year
Abundant Number vol.3, a beautiful print, a flyer for Éireann Lorsung's forthcoming collection Pattern-Book (Carcanet, May 2025), and a flyer for the Dublin Small Press Fair 2025 (more info to come soon)
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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Horrific news from Gaza about Israeli massacre of innocents during Ramadan. Btw, all of you separating Ukraine and Gaza: Trump will respond to Israel's violation of ceasefire exactly as he will respond to Russia's. By supporting the aggressor.
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Emily Mark-FitzGerald @emilymfg.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Come work with me! We’re hiring a one-year 0.5FTE Teaching Fellow in Creative and Cultural Industries Practice. If you’re a creative with strong teaching skills you’d like to develop, within a collegial and supportive dept, do get in touch! Closes 11 March: universityvacancies.com/university-c...
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Teaching Fellow in Creative and Cultural Industries Practice, UCD School of Art History & Cultural Policy, Temp 0.5FTE | University Vacancies IrelandUniversity Vacancies Logo
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.
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Lucy Collins @lcollins232.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Celebrating the renaming of the Berkeley Library after Eavan Boland at @tcddublin.bsky.social tonight - beautiful speech by Paula Meehan capturing Boland’s commitment to writing and teaching 🎉 #Irishwomenpoets
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Ilya Kaminsky @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
"When we are a thousand miles away from poetry, we still participate in it by that sudden need to scream—the last stage of lyricism." --Emil Cioran
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Lucy Collins @lcollins232.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Interesting piece by @katymilligan.bsky.social on the great Norah McGuinness. Nice to hear about the Elizabeth Bowen connection too #IrishArtsReview #womenartists
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
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Dr Tapasya Narang @tapasyanarang.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Happens tomorrow. There is still time to book.
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Maeve O'Sullivan @maevedos.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I’m thrilled that my poem ‘I am not a Gardener’ is featured in The Irish Times today 🌺 It’s from my new collection ‘Where All Ladders Start’ (Alba Publishing), which is available in @booksupstairs.bsky.social in Dublin, Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop in Galway and from my website, www.maeveosullivan.com
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Dr Lauren Cassidy @laurencassidy.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I'm developing a creative anthology related to my research. Please share this Call for Submissions widely with anyone you think might be interested! Something mythic this way comes ... quareeire.wordpress.com
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Lucy Collins @lcollins232.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Speaks the accountant 😳
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 13/02/2025
"I've long wondered where my tax dollars are going but haven’t bothered to do the five minutes of research it would take to learn that all that information is already meticulously documented and tracked in numerous publicly available reports and websites."
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Finally, My Tax Dollars Are Being Used to Uncover Publicly Available Government Information
Under President Trump’s bold leadership, his administration is ushering in a new era of financial transparency in government. I’ve long wondered wh...
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Lucy Collins @lcollins232.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Join us at the National Library for a fascinating day of talks and discussions - please spread the word #literarystudies #diversity www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...
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Transforming the Canon
Diverse Perspectives in Literary Studies
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Alan Cleaver @postalpathsguy.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
I spend my days walking old postal paths in Britain that were once walked by rural postmen and women. In the evening, I handwrite letters.
Alan walking the old Postman's Path on the Isle of Harris in Scotland.
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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Good news in grim times. Presales are now available for Muttertongue: What is a word in utter space!! A romp through land, language, self, identity, expression, and form by Lillian Allen, Gary Barwin, and me. With an Afterword by Kaie Kellough. @garybarwin.bsky.social www.indigo.ca/en-ca/mutter...
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Muttertongue: What Is A Word In Utter Space Book By Lillian Allen,gregory Betts,gary Barwin, ('tp') | Indigo
Buy the book Muttertongue: what is a word in utter space by lillian allen,gregory betts,gary barwin at Indigo
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Lucy Collins @lcollins232.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
What a thoughtful and moving farewell for Michael Longley today. Every word (and note) in its right place.
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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
can’t believe they made Van Gogh teddy bears and gave them each 2 ears
Two perfectly normal teddies labelled Van Gogh Bear
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Front cover of Private Eye.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/01/2025
Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic. (posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The reasons we study poetry are: so we have supplies when needed so we know what language can do so we can say what we mean for beauty (difficulty) These are also the reasons that poetry is for everyone
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Dionne Warwick @dionnewarwick.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Happy MLK Day.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
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Ciara Daly @dalykeeks.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
We remember Elizabeth Corbet Yeats (1868-1940) who died #onthisday in 1940. Alongside running the Cuala press with her Sister Susan, she designed many prints for the press, including this one, with text by Stephen Gwynn 🎨 You can see more of her designs on digital collections doi.org/10.48495/wh247
Hand-coloured photoengraved print by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats titled 'Mother of my yearning'. Print depicts a thatched cottage with trees and stone walls in the foreground and mountains in the background. The text below the illustration is an excerpt from a poem by Stephen Gwynn titled 'Ireland'. The first two lines of text read "Mother of my yearning, love of all my longings,/Keep me in remembrance, long leagues apart."
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Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Not knowing when the Dawn will come #1619 Not knowing when the Dawn will come, I open every Door, Or has it Feathers, like a Bird, Or Billows, like a Shore — #Dickinson #EmilyDickinson
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Michael Waldron @michaelwaldron.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
‘The stained glass lantern may have been designed, if not assembled, by the artist Sarah Purser, who knew Yeats and his siblings and father.’ Delicate task of returning lantern that lit Yeats’s way up ‘the winding stair’ from the US to its Galway home www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Delicate task of returning lantern that lit Yeats’s way up ‘the winding stair’ from the US to its Galway home
A stained glass lantern owned by WB Yeats which wound its way across the Atlantic has been lovingly brought back to Ireland after almost 100 years
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Lucy Collins @lcollins232.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
If he reads poems that others have written, is that grounds for divorce? #askingforafriend
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