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Liz Quirke

@lizquirke.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Creative Writing @ucc | Poet @salmonpoetry | 🏳️‍🌈 Mom @ Juno & Nova | Lover of certain women and tiny dogs

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Georgina Nugent @georginanugent.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I was precarious for a long time & in three different countries. I have a lot to say on the topic, so it's nice to start saying some of this tomorrow at the International Postgraduate Conference in Irish Studies, Centre for Irish Studies, CU Prague. irishpostgradprague.ff.cuni.cz/programme/ke...
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Keynote Event: ECR & Career Building Panel – The International Postgraduate Conference in Irish Studies
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The Stinging Fly @stingingfly.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
NEW on our website | Liz Quirke @lizquirke.bsky.social's essay 'The fear of stepping into focus' the latest instalment in our This So Called Writing Life series (edited by Olivia Fitzsimons @oneflawediris.bsky.social) stingingfly.org/2025/09/09/t...
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Liz Quirke @lizquirke.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
"How long is my minus life, nonexistence so much resembles immortality." - Anna Swir www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48637/...
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Woman Unborn
Ten years before, a hundred and fifty years before, I walk, my steps thump, a fantastic journey through epochs in which there was no me. I walk still further, what an echo, my steps thump through my m...
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Liz Quirke @lizquirke.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Essay wherein I talk about poetry, queer motherhood and my body and consider the writing of my third collection. Thanks for @stingingfly.bsky.social stingingfly.org/2025/09/09/t...
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The fear of stepping into focus – The Stinging Fly
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Liz Quirke @lizquirke.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Frank O'Hara poem for the end of a long week. "oh Lana Turner we love you get up......": poets.org/poem/poem-la...
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Poem [Lana Turner has collapsed!]
Lana Turner has collapsed!
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Liz Quirke @lizquirke.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
The poet Ellen Dillon read at O’Bhéal go Béal tonight to a packed house. What an artist. Master of craft and scholar of poetry. Proof that good writing takes time and effort. Excited for her next book. Properly achieved poetry tonight. No short cuts.
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emer mchugh’s the devils @emer.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
me on @cmatbaby.bsky.social’s EURO-COUNTRY and why it gives voice to a distressingly normalised post-recession malaise. i hope you read!
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The emblem of modern Ireland? Not fiddles and Guinness but a soulless shopping plaza | Emer McHugh
The singer CMAT dances around a retail centre in a video for her new album. It is the elegy those of us who grew up in the post-Celtic tiger recession have been craving, says Irish writer Emer McHugh
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NorseInCork @norseincork.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
♦️ Job opportunity at UCC! ♦️ 5-year Lecturer in Old English position, commencing in September. This will be a great opportunity for someone to join a thriving department, and to really put their own mark on the discipline. Please share widely! www.ucc.ie/en/future-hu...
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Lecturer in Old English | University College Cork
UCC wishes to appoint a scholar with a proven commitment to excellence in teaching and research to the role of Lecturer in Old English.
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Liz Quirke @lizquirke.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Nice to see a firm stance by a university: Trinity College Dublin board votes to cut ties with Israeli universities and companies www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
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Trinity College Dublin board votes to cut ties with Israeli universities and companies
University will no longer facilitate Erasmus+ exchange agreements with Israeli colleges
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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Great @irishtimes.com of Elaine Feeney by @lauraslattery.bsky.social who is always so thoughtful and insightful in her reading and questions and really captures both Elaine and her lively, immediate and resonant novel here. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book... @biblioasis.bsky.social
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Elaine Feeney on her new novel: ‘I was pushing a sort of Chekhov dinner party in the west of Ireland’
The author of Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way on her ‘first Irish family saga’, why she left teaching, and the politics of the domestic space
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/05/2025
Amid political attacks and funding cuts, some U.S. students are changing their college and graduate school plans and heading to other countries. We spoke with the incoming class.
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Some Students Weigh Leaving the U.S. for College
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Liz Quirke @lizquirke.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Great buzz at the Stinging Fly launch
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Jane Clarke @janeclarke.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Thank you @lizquirke.bsky.social for insightful & fun introductions & questions for Pádraig Ó Tuama & myself. Loved reading to a full house @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social International Poetry Festival. A wonderful festival - inspiring & generous. @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
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Liz Quirke @lizquirke.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Really enjoyed moderating the event with @janeclarke.bsky.social & Pádraig Ó Tuama last night at Cork International Poetry Festival. Onwards to Dublin for the Stinging Fly launch! Hup!
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The Stinging Fly @stingingfly.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Are you excited for our Summer 2025 issue launch? if so, you're in luck! You can pre-order the new issue now ahead of the launch @ILFDublin on May 17th. preorder here: stingingfly.org/product/summ...
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 07/05/2025
‘There’s a war on academia’: US faces brain drain of its brightest and best teachers and students
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‘There’s a war on academia’: US faces brain drain of its brightest and best teachers and students
Europe may benefit as Trump’s campaign against Ivy League colleges is causing academics to consider emigrating
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Liz Quirke @lizquirke.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Hammering out the last wrinkles in a few notes on Thom Gunn’s Lament for this colloquium tomorrow. Looking forward to a bit of kite flying.
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Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann @poetryireland.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The Sun's Return by Lorna Shaughnessy Lorna is a poet, translator, editor and researcher. She has published five books of poetry, most recently Lark Water (Salmon Poetry, 2021) and is co-founding editor of Macha Press. Find Poetry Day Poems across @irishrail.bsky.social services. ℹ️ poetryday.ie
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Liz Quirke @lizquirke.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Happy to have a ghostly aul poem in this beaut!
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Liz Quirke @lizquirke.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Excellent Circus image for the next @stingingfly.bsky.social edition, fitting too that my poem is part of the period of my life I refer to as “running away with the ….” Looking forward to the publication/launch/festivities
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Liz Quirke @lizquirke.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Ordering a copy immediately!
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Liz Quirke @lizquirke.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Catching up on reading and loving this @ellafrears.bsky.social essay on Judy Grahn. A tribal elder gave me the JG reader eight years ago and I’ve been quietly obsessed since. Good punning in this essay as well 👌
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Liz Quirke @lizquirke.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
I have a poem in the current issue of Impossible Archetype, a journal of LGBTQ+ poetry, called Gin Weekend, part of my next collection, the divorce book
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Sarah Clancy @sarahmaintains.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
I'm stealing Donal's photo here but just want to say thanks to @lizquirke.bsky.social for a really lovely intro at UCC yesterday for the conference on Ireland and Transnational Solidarities it was an honour to be invited.
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Liz Quirke @lizquirke.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Chairing a reading by @sarahmaintains.bsky.social shortly as part of the Ireland and Transnational Solidarities Conference at @ucc.ie
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Liz Quirke @lizquirke.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
My baby baby bear, my youngest, turned 9 this week. A kid whose naming poem demanded a four part sequence. Here is part iv of “Nova” from my debut collection, The Road, Slowly by @salmonpoetry.bsky.social
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Liz Quirke @lizquirke.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Today at UCC Library in the Creative Zone! Come celebrate World Poetry Day with our students and staff!
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Liz Quirke @lizquirke.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Doing a dive into Anne Carson essays ahead of teaching tomorrow www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Anne Carson · Gloves on!
So,​ your life. There it is before you – possibly a road, a ribbon, a dotted line, a map – let’s say you’re...
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Liz Quirke @lizquirke.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Went searching the park to find my poem. @poetryireland.bsky.social
Halfway Home poem in Tramore Valley Park
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