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🎙️ Tune in to author Margaret Kelleher on Arena (@rteradio1.bsky.social). In this interview, Margaret Kelleher discusses her new book Mary and Padraic Colum: Lives and the Dream 📘 🎧 Listen back here: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

👩‍🎓📕 "Margaret Kelleher, with a fluency and captivating style already on ample display in her Maamtrasna Murders (2018), has brought this singular couple back to life and shown how, in matters of intellectual courage, tenacity and depth of feeling, they demand to be our contemporaries."

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Mary and Padraic Colum - Lives and the Dream: Bringing a singular literary duo back to life

Margaret Kelleher seeks to introduce new readers to the work of this successful intellectual couple

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@mariankeyes.bsky.social is a tremendously talented and warm and funny and generous person, and her writing and her books have had a huge impact on the lives of women and men all over the world.

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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In a new review for The Irish Times, Professor Michael Cronin praises Mary & Padraic Colum: Lives and the Dream, a joint biography by Professor Margaret Kelleher, Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at UCD School of English, Drama & Film. @mgtkell.bsky.social @ucdpress.bsky.social

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Forgotten power couple of Irish literature. In Lives and the Dream Kelleher has brought this singular couple back to life and shown how in matters of intellectual courage, tenacity, and depth of feeling, they demand to be our contemporaries Wonderful REVIEWS in Irish Times & Irish Examiner

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

UCD Press author Maria Butler (@mariabutler.bsky.social) has a fantastic piece in the Irish Examiner this week about Marian Keyes and women’s commercial fiction. Our thanks to @deshocks.bsky.social and @irishexaminer.bsky.social for sharing this article. 📰 www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

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Marian Keyes' writing is a powerful force for social change

Women's commercial fiction — or chick lit as it is dismissively called — helps to shape society in subtle ways, writes Dr Maria Butler

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🚨 Last Tickets Remaining! Join UCD Press author Michael Earley for a stained glass walking tour during Dublin Book Festival 2026! 📆 Thursday 5 Nov. ⏰ 1:00 pm 📍 Departing from St Kevin’s Church, Harrington Street, Dublin 8, D08 V8W5 🎟️ €15, Book Required – dublinbookfestival.com/event/the-st...

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The Stained Glass of Earley Studios - LAST TICKETS REMAINING - Dublin Book Festival

Join a walking tour, as part of Dublin Book Festival, with Michael Earley, focusing on the stained glass windows of Earley Studios

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A few more photos from last Thursday's launch of Mary and Padraic Colum because we're still celebrating! It was great to see so many new and familiar faces, including some University College Dublin and Museum of Literature Ireland colleagues. 📸 Mark Stedman

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Our deepest gratitude to all who attended yesterday evening's launch of Mary and Padraic Colum at the Museum of Literature Ireland with marvelous speeches from Éilís Ní Dhuibhne and author Margaret Kelleher, followed by a live song performance. It was wonderful to see the book in so many hands!

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thanks to Museum of Literature Ireland @molimuseum.bsky.social for a stunning launch for our new book Lives and the Dream by Margaret Kelleher @mgtkell.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social Available in bookshops nationwide and at the Moli Bookshop and www.ucdpress.ie

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🔎 Another look at Mary & Padraic Colum: Lives and the Dream by Margaret Kelleher The first joint biography of the Colums, this book is a story of lives and dreams that deserves to be heard and celebrated. Find a copy in bookshops nationwide or internationally at www.ucdpress.ie/page/detail/...

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The five-decade love story of an Irish literary power couple. Thanks to @irishtimes.com @martindoyle.bsky.social for this stunning double-page spread highlighting our biography on this fascinating power couple Mary and Padraic Colum: Lives and the Dream by @margaretkeller.bsky.social is OUT NOW

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

📣 We could not be more excited for Dublin Book Festival 2026! UCD Press author Maria Butler will join an exciting panel of Irish authors to discuss her new book, Marian Keyes and the Politics of Commercial Fiction. 🗓️ Sunday, 8 Nov. ⏰ 11.00 am 📍Royal Irish Academy of Music 🎟️ €8 Booking Required

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

📰 Our thanks to the Ticket magazine in the Irish Times for this feature of Mary and Padraic Colum: Lives and the Dream by Margaret Kelleher The book is available in bookshops nationwide and internationally at www.ucdpress.ie

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The full programme for DBF2026 is live! We are very much looking forward to attending and participating in the wide selection of author events, walking tours, book launches, and more in this year’s lineup in venues across Dublin from 4–8 November. @dublinbookfest.bsky.social

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Dublin Book Festival 2026 Programme Revealed - Dublin Book Festival

Today, we were thrilled to announce the full programme for Dublin Book Festival 2026, now up on our website to browse and get booking. This one is a special one for us as we celebrate our 20 years, an...

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It is in the world and it is a thing of beauty! 'This highly original account of the extraordinarily rich and varied lives of Mary and Padraic Colum is not just welcome, but, given the magnitude of their legacy, an urgent rectification' Barry McCrea University of Notre Dame In bookshops next week

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Dr Leeann Lane @lloislanel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Thank you to Alex for interviewing me for this podcast. @ucdpress.bsky.social

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

UCD Press are pleased to invite you to the Dublin launch of Mary & Padraic Colum by Margaret Kelleher ⏰ 6.30 pm, 🗓️ Thurs., 17 Sept 2026 Museum of Literature Ireland Guest Speaker Éilís Ní Dhuibhne Laureate for Irish Fiction ALL WELCOME 🎟️ Free via Eventbrite 🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/mary-padra...

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IrishPhilosophy @irishphilosophy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Padraic Colum's 1910 article on feminism, rebutting criticisms using the writings of St Paul, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. irishphilosophy.com/2013/07/08/p...

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Everyday Irish Philosophy: Padraig Colum on feminism – Irish Philosophy

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

❓Who were the Colums? Mary Colum was an influential reviewer and critic, feared for her rapier wit by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. Her husband Padraic Colum was a successful author of children’s stories, a poet, playwright and essayist, and like Mary a political activist.

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

🥁 COVER REVEAL The Stained Glass of Earley Studios, 1864–1975 by Michael Earley 🔗Preorder now at www.ucdpress.ie/page/detail/...

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

It is with deep sadness that we say goodbye to one of our dear authors, colleagues and friends. James Quinn has written several books for UCD Press and was always an absolute joy to work with. Diligent and humble in his work, he is a great loss to our history community in Ireland. RIP James

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

📚 Three new UCD Press books are publishing in the autumn! All available on www.ucdpress.ie for preorder. 🌐 Visit our website more info on each title, and keep an eye on this space for more books to be announced soon.

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

‘The editors of this work, Tomás Finn and Tony Varley, have to be congratulated…’ Our thanks to Eamonn Slater and Historia Agraria for a generous review of Inside Rural Ireland, edited by Tomás Finn and Tony Varley.

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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The 3 forthcoming titles from @ucdpress.bsky.social : Marian Keyes and the Politics of Commercial Fiction from @mariabbutler.bsky.social , Mary and Padraic Colum from @mgtkell.bsky.social and New Zealand's Irish Revolution from Lisa Marr & Rory Sweetman Order here - thebookshop.ie/ucd-press/?s...

Marian Keyes is one of Ireland’s most important fiction authors but is often not celebrated as such. This groundbreaking study seeks to challenge the existing narrative on Keyes and opens a window to her extraordinary writings for future readers.

n the histories of 20th-century Irish literature and of New York literary circles, Mary & Padraic Colum are unjustly forgotten. Margaret Kelleher’s meticulous and long-overdue excavation is the first joint biography of the Colums.
Mary & Padraic Colum: Lives and the Dream follows a five-decade love story, which was a chronicle of the cultural and political foment of early 20th-century Ireland, James Joyce’s émigré circle in 1930s Paris, and the hotbed intellectual and literary life of New York from World War I to the 1960s.

Interrogating rare and previously untouched primary sources, the contributors capture an array of New Zealand outlooks on the political, social, and cultural evolution of Ireland from 1912 to 1923.

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

🔔 Coming this autumn! Marian Keyes and the Politics of Commercial Fiction by Maria Butler 🔗 Preorder at ucdpress.ie/page/detail/...

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

'The influence of Katherine Hughes on the spread and development of the [Self-Determination for Ireland League] movement cannot be overstated.' 💡 Learn more about Katherine Hughes in New Zealand's Irish Revolution, edited by Lisa Marr and Rory Sweetman. 🔗 Preorder: www.ucdpress.ie/page/detail/...

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

🥁 COVER REVEAL New Zealand's Irish Revolution This fresh and thought-provoking collection offers original New Zealand perspectives on the Irish Revolution from the third Home Rule crisis to the establishment of the Irish Free State. ⏰Out September 2026 🔗Preorder: www.ucdpress.ie/page/detail/...

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

🔔 Coming September 2026! In the histories of 20th-century Irish literature and of New York literary circles, Mary & Padraic Colum are unjustly forgotten. Margaret Kelleher’s meticulous and long-overdue excavation is the first joint biography of the Colums. 🔗 Preorder: ucdpress.ie/page/detail/...

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

📣 COVER REVEAL Mary and Padraic Colum: Lives and the Dream The first joint biography of Mary and Padraic Colum by Margaret Kelleher, the author of The Maamtrasna Murders. A story of lives and dreams that deserves to be heard. ✨ Coming to bookstores this September! 🔗 Preorder now at ucdpress.ie

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

⭐️ Reminder for 20% off ⭐️ A Summer of Irish Literature 🌼Through the end of July, get a discount on a selection of books about Irish literature and language to celebrate Ireland's extraordinary literary heritage. 📚 Find more titles under Special Offers at www.ucdpress.ie

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

It was a lovely and sunny Friday evening for the launch of Celibacy in Irish Women’s Writing in The James Joyce Centre ☀️ Two UCD Press authors, Leeann Lane (Mary MacSwiney, Dorothy Macardle, Rosamond Jacob) and Anne Fogarty (co-editor of Voices on Joyce) are contributors to the special collection 👏

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

🎉 Happy birthday to renowned historian, Joe Lee! A Tract for Our Times, edited by Miriam Nyhan Grey (2024) honours Lee’s contribution to historical scholarship with essays from leading historians of modern Ireland. 🔗 Find the book in shops nationwide or at www.ucdpress.ie/page/detail/...

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

⚽Following the World Cup or Wimbledon this summer? Check out our books on sports, covering a range of topics from football hooliganism to nationalism and identity to Irish history. 🏆Find these books and more on www.ucdpress or bookshops nationwide

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

🎧Listen back to the Irish History Podcast episode on the Maamtrasna Murders Bestselling UCD Press author Margaret Kelleher joined host Fin Dwyer to discuss the shocking events that inspired her book, The Maamtrasna Murders (2018). Find the full episode here: shows.acast.com/irishhistory...

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Many thanks to the staff at the National Print Museum for such an engaging and informative guided tour. An inspiring print museum no publisher should miss. Take a look at our bookshelf. Can you spot traces of how our typefaces have changed over time? #printinireland #printhistory #irishhistory

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

🌈 #QueerHistory: Margaret Skinnider is perhaps best known as the female rebel who was wounded commanding a military action in the 1916 Rising. However, Mary McAuliffe’s detailed biography re-evaluates the queer revolutionary’s long and politically active life.

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

‘Our histories are not errors. They are evidence.’ 💡We have been so inspired by the wonderful range of topics and insightful presentations at the second Thinking Gender Justice conference hosted by the UCD Centre for Gender Feminisms & Sexualities this week! @ucdspswsj.bsky.social

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

🎩 Happy Bloomsday from UCD Press 🧼🍋 16 June marks the day immortalised in James Joyce's Ulysses 📖 We’re offering 20% off all of our books about James Joyce through the end of June as part of our ‘Summer of Irish Literature’ special offer at www.ucdpress.ie #bloomsday #jamesjoyce #bloomsdayfestival

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Happy Yeats Day 🖼️ 13 June marks the birthday of renowned Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats. To celebrate, find a small selection of books about W. B. Yeats 20% off as a part of the ‘Summer of Irish Literature’ special offer on our website. 📚 Browse more books on www.ucdpress.ie

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

🔔 BACK IN STOCK The reprint of Ireland’s Rivers has landed! Get your copy on our website or bookshops nationwide 🌊 www.ucdpress.ie/page/detail/...

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Happy Pride Month from UCD Press 🌈 Queer Whispers is among a small selection of books in our catalogue that examine LBGTQ+ voices.

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Women’s History Association of Ireland @whaireland.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

And we are off. First up Prof Bernadette Whelan speaking on Sinead de Valera

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Women’s History Association of Ireland @whaireland.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

First day of conference and things are looking good here at Mary I. The wheather is lovely this morning.

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Women’s History Association of Ireland @whaireland.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Up now, our ECR Clinic on pathways to publication. Thanks to Noelle @ucdpress.bsky.social for helping out this morning

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Warm welcoming atmosphere here at the Summer Conference @whaireland.bsky.social 2026 at Mary Immaculate University Limerick We have a stand near the teas and coffees so pop by for a chat about book ideas and grab our flyer on Women in History. @ucdgender.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social

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Dr. Owen O'Shea @owenoshea.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

A most enjoyable morning in conversation with the wonderful Catriona Crowe at Listowel Writers' Week about my book on politics in Kerry after the Civil War. Lovely to be part of such a special festival in lovely Listowel with such a fabulous buzz in town 📚 📖 @ucdpress.bsky.social

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Happy Poetry Day Ireland from UCD Press! 🧺☀️🕶 The theme for 2026 is HOME 🏡 Have a poetic summer and enjoy our Poet’s Chair Series and Hold Open the Door in the sunshine🌿 Browse our full poetry collection at www.ucdpress.ie/page/results... #PoetryDayIreland #IrishPoetry @poetryireland.bsky.social

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

🎧 Listen to @owenoshea.bsky.social discussing From Bullets to Ballots with The Irish Nation Lives. 🔔 TOMORROW – Owen O'Shea and Catriona Crowe will discuss how Irish politics evolved after the Civil War for Listowel Writers' Week. 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxZB... 🎟️ writersweek.ie/project/expl...

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