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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 9h
Thanks for the kind endorsement Tim
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 11h
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 12h
It is a fresh and thought-provoking collection that will enhance our understanding of the Irish Revolution and its broader international impact through an Antipodean lens.
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 12h
🔗 Preorder at www.ucdpress.ie/page/detail/... New Zealand’s Irish Revolution examines the dominion’s relationship with Ireland, discussing notions of ‘home’, diaspora, identity, and belonging, and reveals new details about the lives and ideas of Irish residents and their descendants.
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New Zealand’s Irish Revolution
Offering original New Zealand perspectives on the Irish Revolution from the third Home Rule crisis to the establishment of the Irish Free State, this collection explores the political, social, and cul...
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 12h
All welcome to the Dublin launch of New Zealand’s Irish Revolution edited by Lisa Marr and Rory Sweetman ⏰ 5pm to 6.30pm sharp 🗓️ Tuesday, 20 October 2026 📍 New Zealand Embassy, Level 3, 2–4 Merrion Row, Dublin, D02 YN56 👥 RSVP at ucdpress@ucd.ie
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 14h
...and was the ninth Ireland Professor of Poetry from 2022 to 2025, a position jointly held across UCD, Queen's University Belfast, and Trinity College Dublin. www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...
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Ulysses Medal: Renowned poet Paul Muldoon awarded UCD's highest honour
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 14h
A long-time faculty member at Princeton University until he retired in 2025, he also held the position of Professor of Poetry at Oxford University from 1999 to 2004...
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 14h
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 14h
In addition to his poetry, Paul has published notable works of criticism, children’s literature, opera libretti and song lyrics, and has written for radio and television.
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 14h
“His compositional style, the wayward power of his critical voice and his commitment to collaborative process have all changed how we engage with the written word.”
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 14h
“In awarding the Ulysses Medal, UCD recognises the exceptional impact of his work internationally, and the extent to which his linguistic inventiveness not only brings new energies to the writing of poetry but reinvigorates the English language itself.
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 14h
“In Muldoon’s work we find language in its most elusive yet direct form, revealing to us the transformative power of thought and, despite the darkness of our present moment, a strange yet unmistakable joy.
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 14h
Delivering the citation for Paul, Associate Professor Lucy Collins, UCD School of English, Drama and Film, described him as “a writer of immense versatility and formal mastery” who had a long and distinguished career “as a poet, essayist, librettist and performer”.
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 14h
Previous recipients include Nobel Laureate and Godfather of AI Professor Geoffrey Hinton (2024); Booker Prize-winning Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood (2018); and world-leading philosopher and social theorist Professor Jürgen Habermas (2010).
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 14h
Inaugurated in 2005, as part of the University’s 150th anniversary celebrations, to highlight the ‘creative brilliance’ of its most famous alumnus, James Joyce, the UCD Ulysses Medal is awarded to individuals whose work has made an outstanding global contribution.
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 14h
“I re-read it every couple of years. In some sense, of course, read it for the first time because, with any great work of art, there's always a sense of adventure. One realises something, one discovers something each time one goes back to it. So it's a terrific thrill really to have this medal.”
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 14h
“And also, of course, because of my adoration of James Joyce and his great representation of Ulysses. It's probably my favourite book."
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 14h
“I'm absolutely thrilled to have this medal. It's very meaningful to me because of UCD itself and what a great institution it is,” said Paul.
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 14h
...and became one of the youngest members of the Belfast Group, a gathering of poets that would play a defining role in the development of contemporary Irish poetry.
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 14h
Born in County Armagh in 1951, he studied English at Queen’s University Belfast, where he met future Nobel Laureate and fellow Ulysses Medal awardee Seamus Heaney...
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 14h
One of the most acclaimed poets of his generation, Paul is the author of more than a dozen collections of poetry, and has received numerous major literary honours, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Griffin International Poetry Prize.
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 14h
💙💛 Described as "the most significant English-language poet born since the Second World War”, writer and poet Paul Muldoon has received the UCD Ulysses Medal, the highest honour the University can bestow. @artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social #poetry
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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For over 20 years, Emmet O'Connor published a wide array of books on Irish socialist and wider Labour history - & forthcoming from @ucdpress.bsky.social is his WAR TO THE DEATH! centered on events in Civil War era Waterford. Preorder here - €23 with delivery included! thebookshop.ie/emmet-o-conn...
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is Emmets 7th book with UCD Press Out 15 October Link here to preorder www.ucdpress.ie/page/detail/...
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War to the Death!
In War to the Death! The Waterford Farm Strikes of 1922 and 1923, leading labour historian Emmet O’Connor delves into an intense local movement during a time of constitutional upheaval in Ireland. Bet...
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It marked a turning point for the entire Labour movement, gutting the radical spirit of the post 1917 years, discrediting the parliamentary Labour Party, and destroying trade unionism in Ireland’s major industry. War to the Death! is an engaging & essential read for the historians & general reader
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As Liberty Hall put it, it was ‘war to the death’. In December 1923 the strike of 1,500 labourers and over 500 others affected by sympathetic lockouts finally collapsed. A selfless solidarity crumbled with the withdrawal of strike pay.
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
... Infantry Corps and imposed martial law to help the WFA ‘hold the ring’. Some farmers went further, inflicting a ‘white terror’ on union parish secretaries. A doctrinaire conservative, Keane repeatedly refused pleas for compromise, knowing that he was bleeding the union white.
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Over seven months, east Waterford was turned into a war zone. To supplement extensive picketing and transport blockades, workers resorted to incendiarism and varieties of sabotage. As agriculture was to be central to Free State economic policy, the government deployed two battalions of the Special
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The long-suffering labourers were equally resolved to defend their far from generous living standards and had a redoubtable champion in ITGWU organiser James ‘Dongaree’ Baird. What followed was a miniature civil war, with clashes of ‘Red Guards’ and ‘White Guards’.
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Under the astute leadership of Sir John Keane, and buttressed by the restoration of stable government, the Waterford Farmers’ Association returned to the fray in 1923, determined not only to slash wages, but to smash trade unionism on the land, and put an end to Irish ‘Bolshevism’.
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Buoyed by four years of steady growth and inspired by revolution at home and abroad, the Irish Trade Union Congress pledged to ‘hold the harvest’ of wage gains. Two of the biggest conflicts occurred in Waterford, where farm labourers won a headline victory in resisting reductions in 1922.
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In War to the Death! The Waterford Farm Strikes of 1922 and 1923, leading labour historian Emmet O’Connor delves into an intense local movement during a time of constitutional upheaval in Ireland. Between August 1921 and December 1923 boom yielded to slump and employers struggled to cut wages.
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Our thanks to RTÉ Culture @rte.ie for sharing the extract from Marian Keyes and the Politics of Commercial Fiction, the new book by Dr. Maria Butler 📰 Read at www.rte.ie/culture/2026/0930/1592395-marian-keyes-and-the-politics-of-commercial-fiction/ ⏰ Coming next week! Preorder at ucdpress.ie
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🎙️ 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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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
thank you @ucddublin.bsky.social for the kind endorsement of our new book Lives and the Dream by @mgtkell.bsky.social
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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
Lives and the Dream by Margaret Kelleher is available in bookshops nationwide and at ucdpress.ie
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So sorry for your loss Leeann❤️
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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
💭 Want to read more on this topic? Preorder your copy of Marian Keyes and the Politics of Commercial Fiction by Maria Butler (out October) at www.ucdpress.ie/page/detail/...
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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
Discover Dublin’s heritage buildings featuring the stained glass of Earley Studios, including St Kevin’s Church and Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church. @dublinbookfest.bsky.social
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Stroll through Dublin’s colourful streets with Michael Earley, whose new book The Stained Glass of Earley Studios: 1864–1975 (November 2026) looks back on the studios’ history.
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
With its beginnings in 1864, Earley Studios grew to become the largest stained glass studio in Ireland. Aiming to exclusively serve the requirements of Catholic patrons, the studio contributed greatly to the dominant stained glass aesthetic of Irish stained glass in the early 20th century.
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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
Find copies of the book in the MoLI – @molimuseum.bsky.social bookshop or online at www.ucdpress.ie
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We're still thinking about the inspiring speeches given by MoLI Director David Cleary, Laureate for Irish Fiction Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, and author Margaret Kelleher.
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Thanks to UCD President Orla Feely; Vice-President for Research, Innovation & Impact Professor Kate Robson Brown; and Vice-President for Strategy and External Engagement Triona McCormack for their support at the launch of Mary and Padraic Colum by @mgtkell.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social
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