Orlaith Darling
Research Ireland postdoc @ UCD in contemporary literature, affect, and late capitalism | Previously postdoc @ JLU Giessen | PhD @ Trinity College Dublin | Tuirseach, traochta agus cáite amach | Free Palestine
Work @ https://orlaithdarling.com
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- Reminder to get those abstracts in for our sad girl summer conference!
- ⏱️FOUR MORE WEEKS to submit your abstract to @darlingorlaith.bsky.social and Fionnula Simpson for their upcoming 8-9 June 'Bad Feelings: Sadness and Gender in Contemporary Culture' conference, a research project funded by the UCD Humanities Institute's Seed Funding Scheme.
- Reposted by Orlaith DarlingOn Friday 16 January we will be hosting a one-day conference on LABOUR POLITICS IN WEST BELFAST, 1918-83. Free event - all welcome (in-person and online). www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...
- Reposted by Orlaith Darling⏱️FOUR MORE WEEKS to submit your abstract to @darlingorlaith.bsky.social and Fionnula Simpson for their upcoming 8-9 June 'Bad Feelings: Sadness and Gender in Contemporary Culture' conference, a research project funded by the UCD Humanities Institute's Seed Funding Scheme.
- Just saw a student wearing a barbour jacket and a mullet and don't know what to think
- Reposted by Orlaith DarlingWho's Here? 👋 A warm welcome to: Dr Audrey Borowski (Cambridge) Dr Elizabeth Sarah Coles (Pompeu Fabra) Dr Sheila Crane (Virginia) Dr @darlingorlaith.bsky.social (UC Dublin) Dr @kareemestefan.bsky.social (Cambridge) Dr @fernandag.bsky.social (Cambridge) Dr Jan Kerkmann (Freiburg) 1/2
- Reposted by Orlaith DarlingToday is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
- www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48078... I will be hosting a reading group on the work of Lauren Berlant Oct.-Nov. @crasshlive.bsky.social. Berlant's writing on sentimentality and the public sphere has lots to say to the current moment we're living through + anyone in Cambridge should please join us!
- Send in your abstracts for the Sadness + Gender conference we're holding in June 2026! We have some fantastic keynote speakers and specialist panels lined up and would love to see you all in Dublin! #cfp @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @molimuseum.bsky.social
- www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/about/events... I will be a visiting fellow at @crasshlive.bsky.social and Wolfson College from Oct-Dec. Come see me talk about my new project at Wolfson Humanities Society! I believe the event will also be MS Team-ed @ucdhumanities.bsky.social
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- Tune in to hear me talk about Research Ireland postdocs (formerly the IRC)
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- Like everyone, I am listening to obscene amounts of Oasis recently and would like to have a moment of appreciation for Liam's incredible diction (a fraught topic between myself and my childhood singing teacher)
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- www.litencyc.com/php/speople.... New Literary Encyclopedia entry on Sally Rooney just dropped. A real joy to think about her oeuvre, and a real challenge to fit it into concise entry!
- Call out to drop me your favourite love poems🥰
- Reposted by Orlaith DarlingWould you like to contribute to the public consultation about the Basic Income for the Arts? 💡 Fill out this survey from Minister O’Donovan at the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
- Thrilled that Fionnula and myself have been granted generous funding by @ucdhumanities.bsky.social to run this conference. Anyone interested in women's lit/mental health/disability studies keep your eyes peeled for CfP!
- 'Bad Feelings: Sadness and Gender in Contemporary Culture' - @darlingorlaith.bsky.social and Fionnula Simpson 'Craft: Activism, Literature, Labour' - Katherine Fama and Benjamin Anderson 'Energy, Creativity, Sustainability' - Derval Conroy, Jane Grogan, and Jeanne Riou
- Reposted by Orlaith DarlingWe're pleased to announce funding awarded to 6 projects catalysing research across the CAH Research Strands. The projects are funded by the HI Seed Funding Scheme: CAH Research Strands 2025-2026. We're delighted these projects can be realised and look forward to collaborating with the project leads.
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- Leafing through old Irish poetry anthologies to look for wedding readings is renewing my gratitude to a later generation of Irish writers, editors, and publishers for championing gender representation. Mad to think that efforts from the recent past (within my lifetime) including one woman poet...
- spending a day in bed reading Brandon Taylor's Substack all day and calling it research: summer 2025 vibes
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- Dublin and Dublin-adjacent people! If anyone knows of any nice wedding venues that can host 240-ish people, please let me know!
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- F*ck the L*bour Government.
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- I find myself having somehow gone through a decade of education in English Literature without having read John Steinbeck. Currently finishing (and loving and weeping over) Grapes of Wrath, and would love recs on where to go next!
- Feeling the pernicious effects of my (warranted, I think) over-excitement (which is to say overindulgence) in a newly discovered Gluten Free stout yesterday. No more will I gaze longingly at friends' pints 🥰🍻
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- Anyone interested in literary narratives of social mobility and higher education in literature -- submit to my panel for Association for the Study of Arts in he Present conference 2025! asap16.exordo.com/panels/30/co...
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