Dr Eibhear Walshe introducing UCC Writer in Residence Ian Maleney at the UCC Creative celebration of the university’s artists in residence for 2024.

Including a new poem from me 🌈🌈

Dr Eibhear Walshe introduces The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Writer in Residence English UCC Ian Maleney for his first public reading.

Congratulations to PhD candidate Lucy Holme - Roberts on winning the Cúirt New Writing Prize for Poetry!

Bestselling author John Connolly speaks as part of the English department Research Series about attitudes to genre fiction. John also examines the cultural, historical and political reasons why genre scepticism may have been particularly persistent in Ireland until recently.

It's almost time for UCCBookends24, our fantastic annual postgraduate conference. Closing date for proposals is March 22nd, and the event is open to MA, PhD and postdoctoral researchers. College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences

This evening, join our MA in Creative Writing students at ⁦Ó Bhéal⁩ facebook.com/share/cGpbBJRv…

Louise Glück

Capricorns do whatever you want to do it's your season

Happy Christmas sean lyons 🎄all the best to you and yours! 🎅🏻

Launching tonight! Congratulations to Books Ireland & editor Ruth McKee

‘One man goes looking for his wife and child. The other man goes looking for god. And god says, I can’t help you.’ Mike McCormack on a book that’s really hard to talk about #ThisPlagueOfSouls Dublin Book Festival

‘Rather than write myself into existing systems, I write to find things out and perhaps persuade myself to give things up’

Read 'What form does queerness take?' by Nicole Jashapara, with contributions from Lola Olufemi, Nat Raha and Pear Nuallak
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Experimental sound artist Vicky Langan is giving a guest talk to our BA English “Special Topics in Literature and Culture” students about her multi-disciplinary practice and deep connection to the arts community in Cork.

Well, we're doing it folks...

Submissions for issue 17 (spring/summer 2024) are open until midnight IST tonight. Click below for submission guidelines! 🎃

bansheelit.com/submit

There’s nothing worse
than feeling bad and not
being able to tell you.

Frank O’Hara, Nocturne

Our staff had a great time meeting students at today's #UCCOpenDay

your eyelids’ flutter which says

we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms

—E. E. Cummings, born #OTD in 1894

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Overheard at the UCC Open Day: “will we go into the library and look at all the books?! It’s class inside there!” ❤️📚