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19/01/2026

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12/12/2025

We're very proud of our colleague Joe! Well done 🥰

The Ghosts of Rome by Professor Joseph O’Connor, Frank McCourt Chair of Creative Writing at University of Limerick, has been announced as the 2025 An Post Irish Book of the Year.

Speaking about his most recent accolade, Professor O'Connor said: “It's a special moment for UL Creative Writing because my friend and colleague, the great Donal Ryan, won this award last year, and our former MA in Creative Writing student, Gráinne O'Brien, was shortlisted for it this year."

Congratulating Professor O’Connor on his Irish Book of the Year Award, Dr Sandra Joyce, Dean of UL's Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, said: “This remarkable achievement is a testament to his exceptional talent, creativity and contribution to literature."

Read now at the link in comments.

23/10/2025

Great to see work on early modern by graduate student Emma Barrett published on RTÉ Brainstorm!

The Witch of Edmonton offers a socio-economic commentary on the hypocritical and gendered roots of the witch phenomenon

23/10/2025

Our colleague Prof Tina Morin writes about scary stories for kids in The Conversation US University of Limerick

These stories have to be read aloud to scare friends or read under the covers with a flashlight.

16/09/2025

07/03/2025

Professor Joseph O’Connor, Frank McCourt Chair in Creative Writing at UL, speaks to Arena on RTÉ Radio 1 and reads from his latest novel 'The Ghosts of Rome', the second in the trilogy and follow up to 'My Father's House'.

Joseph also highlights the upcoming UL Creative Writing Festival (9-12 April), which features a stellar line-up of Ireland’s literary talent, including Marian Keyes, Liz Nugent, Paul Muldoon, Paul Lynch and UL's own award winning Donal Ryan.

Listen here: https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22493893/

27/02/2025

Our graduate researcher Eimear Ryan will read from her novel-in-progress, Arcadia, in Glenveagh National Park where she is writer-in-residence

Reading & talk with writer-in-residence Eimear Ryan

Writer Eimear Ryan will read from her novel-in-progress, Arcadia, based on the life and death of Glenveagh owner, Arthur Kingsley Porter this Sunday 23rd of February at 3:00 PM in Glenveagh National Park Visitor Centre. She will discuss the process of writing and researching the novel, what first drew her to the subject, and the various problems and contradictions she has encountered while writing about this elusive figure.

The Glenveagh residency is in association with the Glebe Gallery, the Regional Cultural Centre and funded by Creative Ireland.

Bio: Eimear Ryan is the author of a novel, Holding Her Breath (Penguin Sandycove, 2021), and a memoir, The Grass Ceiling (Penguin Sandycove, 2023). She is a co-founder and editor at Banshee Press. From Co. Tipperary, she now lives in Cork city, where she lectures in creative writing at University College Cork.

25/02/2025

Congratulations to our dear colleague Professor Michael Griffin, who was at studios in London recently to talk to Melvyn Bragg for an 'In Our Time' episode on Oliver Goldsmith! He was joined by Profs David O'Shaughnessy & Judith Hawley
University of Limerick

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss this influential and prolific 18th-century Irish writer.

18/02/2025

Our colleague, the poet Emily Cullen, has published a new poem, 'Harmonia', in The Orphic Review. We're also thrilled that Deirdre Devally, MA Creative Writing alumna, has a poem in the same issue: 'Summer Solstice'! Congratulations to you both! University of Limerick

Online literary and art journal with a focus on poetry, Ireland based.

14/01/2025

We're hiring! Glucksman Chair in Contemporary Writing in English:

09/12/2024

Well done, Jack!

In today's Irish Times, Elizabeth MacBride reviews Your Own Dark Shadow edited by Jack Fennell. It's a stand-out collection of classic Irish stories that helps fill in some of the gaps in our horror history!