Gillian Wright @gwrightbham.bsky.social Professor of English and Irish Literature, University of Birmingham. Editing, Aphra Behn, contemporary and early modern Irish literature.
Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social Working on archaeology, heritage, memory, and knowing the past as Prof in Radical Humanities at UC Cork. Specializes in post/conflict and post/colonial contexts inc fieldwork in Ireland and Caribbean. Unapologetic focus on social justice.
Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca Professor, English/Gender & Women’s Studies Dalhousie. He/him. Speaking only for myself (sometimes not even!)
The Broadview Anthology of Science Fiction: https://broadviewpress.com/product/the-broadview-anthology-of-science-fiction/
http://jasonhaslam.ca
florinatufescu.bsky.social @wildelady.bsky.social Literary scholar &
Translator working from French/English/Romanian/Spanish/Swedish into English/Romanian
Author of Oscar Wilde's Plagiarism: The Triumph of Art over Ego (Irish Academic Press)
Passionate about Peace, Beauty & Knowledge
Ask me anything:)
"Studies in Hogg and His World" @studiesinhogg.bsky.social Peer-reviewed print journal.
James Hogg (1770-1835) #EttrickShepherd, poet, novelist, essayist. Submissions: Dr. Holly Faith Nelson at Holly.Nelson@twu.ca
#ScottishRomanticism https://jameshoggblog.blogspot.com/
Hannah Doherty Hudson @hdhudson.bsky.social Working on a book about how magazines organize info. C18 & C19 Brit lit prof, WPA, Romanticist, periodicalist, historian of books & publishing, #MinervaPress scholar, Austenite. 250 yrs of genre fiction. First book: http://tinyurl.com/k4fb35ur (she/her).
Jerry 🔜 #TIFF26 @jeratthemovies.bsky.social Interests include motion pictures, film, and cinema. Opinions included. Toronto.
David Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Leeds, UK. Working on culture and environmental crisis. Writing a book about birds, loss, and restoration. Worried parent. Luddite. Opinions my own. Reposts ≠ endorsement.
Corinne McSpedon @corinnemcspedon.bsky.social Writer and editor. Oral history projects about nursing, women’s health, and the environment.
Dr Lauren Cullen @laurenicullen.bsky.social writes about 19th/20th literature and culture, animals, and the environment.
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at UBC
📍Vancouver / London / Oxford
Christopher Powers @powersglobal.bsky.social International Educator, Assistant Vice President for International Initiatives, Towson University, Baseball Fan, He/him, All views my own
Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social 🇵🇸 / ❤️☀️💚
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Megan Eve @meganeve.eurosky.social Existential non-thinker. Librarian. Winging life terribly - winging eyeliner better. Directed by two void cats. Never serious. Likes wine, whining, naps, & annoying myself. Described as "Eeyore as a scarecrow" & being "a bit whimsy in my goth"🔮🌙 she/her
Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com Helping you 🫵 make sense of higher education 🎓 Follow for the latest news, opinions, jobs and resources.
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Ruairidh McKay | Ruairidh MacAoidh @rumckay.bsky.social Expat translator/lecturer | classical guitarist | optimist |GD/EN/DE/ES
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction." – E. F. Schumacher
@cballard-biblio.bsky.social @cballard-biblio.bsky.social Dr of Literature. Love books, material culture and social history. Teaching at University of Limerick. Research areas: Irish women writers; Victorian era; books and reading experience in fiction
www.linkedin.com/in/dr-colleen-ballard-353475141
Petra Johana Poncarová @poncarova.bsky.social petrajohanaponcarova.com | Research, poetry & translation between Gaelic, Czech & English | Rannsachadh, bàrdachd & eadar-theangachadh eadar Gàidhlig, Seicis & Beurla
@barrydevine.bsky.social @barrydevine.bsky.social 
Dr Gavin Hughes FRHistS FRGS @drgavinhughes.bsky.social Short misadventurer in archaeology, mischievous military historian, author, broadcaster, relentless miniature painter & collector. Follows cricket but doesn't understand it. Looks a little like Asterix 🙂 Rep @Pastpreservers; TCD, SDUC, NI, Wales, Co. Down!
Pádhraic Quinn @quinnpadhraic.bsky.social 2025 Irish Book Awards Winner for New Irish Writing Best Short Story
2025/26 London Library Emerging Writer
https://m.independent.ie/entertainment/new-irish-writing/new-irish-writing-all-the-birch-trees-were-waving-by-padhraic-quinn/a1765826609.html
@acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social 
Niamh Cullen @niamhcullen.bsky.social Lecturer @ QUB history. Twentieth century Italy, history of emotions, family, motherhood. Creative approaches to history. Essays and stories in the Dublin Review @londonmagazine, Tangerine magazine
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
https://niamhcullenwriter.com/
Arabella | Juniper Divination @juniperdivination.com Irish folklore, divination, & chaos magic
JuniperDivination.com
Aoife O'Leary McNeice @aoifeolearymcneice.bsky.social History postdoc at University of Galway/Ollscoil na Gaillimhe
Working on a more-than-human history of hydro-electricity on the Rivers Lee, Erne & Liffey. Finishing a book on global giving & the Irish Famine.
she/they
https://aoifeolearymcneice.com/
Sheena Hyland @sheenahyland.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Educational Development. University College Dublin.
Interests include philosophy, education, humans
she/her 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Views own
Ignacio Rivero Covelo @neuronacho.bsky.social Neuroscientist-ish at some university
Dr Mary McGill @mary-mcgill.bsky.social Research Ireland fellow at the University of Galway, exploring women's experiences of gender-based online abuse in the Irish third level sector.
To share your experience email: gboastudy@universityofgalway.ie
Website: https://tinyurl.com/bdhxunsr
@ronandaly.bsky.social @ronandaly.bsky.social 
Xavier Aldana Reyes @xaldanareyes.bsky.social Reader in English Literature and Film •
International Gothic Association co-president (2022-2026) • Manchester #Gothic Centre founding member • #Horror Studies book series editor • Profile: https://tinyurl.com/2czvabnz
Chris Wells @cjwells9991.bsky.social PhD Student English Literature:James Joyce Queer Modernism
https://sheffield.ac.uk/english/postgraduate/phd/christopher-wells
Bridget Whelan @bridgetwhelan.bsky.social Reader, writer, tutor, London Irish living in Brighton & Hove. Passionate about British and Irish history, creative writing, community education, Leonard Cohen, my sons. Not in that Order.
https://bridgetwhelan.com/
@ilovelimerick.bsky.social @ilovelimerick.bsky.social 
Lucy Burke @lucyburkemcr.bsky.social Academic (literary & cultural disability studies/medical humanities), Green New Deal podcast https://www.gndmedia.co.uk Wellcome Trust Advisory Committee, North Manchester & Kreiz Breizh.
John Lannon @jclannon.bsky.social Likes people, plants, Africa and football. Dislikes racism, oppression, intolerance and militarization
Bill Kerrigan @billkerrigan.bsky.social Student of Ireland | Small-Time Nonprofit Program Mgr | Family History | Art Nerd
Mo Moulton @momoulton.bsky.social Professor of Modern British & Irish History at the University of Birmingham (UK). he/him. Writing and researching to answer the timeless question: how do cooperatives and capitalism and trans theory and queer kinship fit together?
Martina Chicco @m-a-r-t-i.bsky.social Aosta Valley 🏔️
Short fiction and cats lover 📚
She/Her
University English @univeng.bsky.social Represents university and college English depts in the UK
Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social literature prof, book historian, cultural sociologist, anti-work communist gadfly
https://carleton.ca/english/people/brouillette-sarah/
Paula Krebs @paulakrebs.bsky.social Executive Director of the MLA. Book reader. Bike rider. Please renew your membership! www.mla.org/Membership/About-Membership
Thinking Gender Justice @thinkinggender2026.bsky.social Official account for "Thinking Gender Justice: Oppression, Resistance, Liberation," the second conference of the Centre for Gender, Feminisms and Sexualities (CGFS), University College Dublin, taking place 17-19 June 2026.
Máiréad Casey @maireadcasey.bsky.social Research interests: horror, gender, genre, sexuality onscreen, representations of sexual violence, demon possession
Demi Wilton @demiwilton.bsky.social Lecturer in Literature @ Birmingham City University. Environmental Displacement & World-Literature.
EDI Officer for ASLE-UKI
Dr Leeann Lane @lloislanel.bsky.social Associate Professor, School of History and Geography, Dublin City University.
#SighleHumphreys #MaryMacSwiney #DorothyMacardle #RosamondJacob
Corgis 🦊
Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social Shelleyan 🍂 | Co-editor, Romantic Trees: The Literary Arboretum | Lecturer in English Literature | amandablakedavis.com
Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social Assoc. Prof., McGill English | Book: WRITING BACKWARDS (Columbia UP) | Articles: The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, LARB, Public Books, Post45, PMLA, and MELUS | Next Up: The History of High School English |📍Montreal
Juan Meneses @dissentum.bsky.social Global + postcolonial + comp lit, theory; translator. Assoc. prof. Views/prons: his. Books (@uminnpress.bsky.social): Resisting Dialogue: Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent / Ed. Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination
Ginevra Bianchini @bianchiniginevra.bsky.social PhD Student at Trinity College Dublin | Gender Studies | Critical Race Studies | Dog mum 🐶 | LOTR enthusiast | (she/her) 🏳️🌈 | Funded by @researchireland.bsky.social
Síle Winstanley @sheilawinstanley.bsky.social Sub basic proficiency in Teeline shorthand speed| lots of drama| English Lit & English Lang tutor| broadcast journalist| carer| strategic messaging & comms| foundation governor|
lucyestone.bsky.social @lucyestone.bsky.social Assistant Professor, School of English, Dublin City University 📚 | medical humanities, forced migration and children's literature | PhD on Judith Kerr and Tomi Ungerer
Ann O’Sullivan @osullivanannie.bsky.social Law Librarian with wanderlust living in Dublin 🍉 @biall.org.uk @laibluesky.bsky.social @aslibraries.bsky.social #repealedthe8th #vitaminsea
Valentina López Liendo @vlopezliendo.bsky.social she/her · post-doc @sfb1671.bsky.social at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social · home & belonging in U.S. literature, culture & its institutions · views are my own
Markus Wright @exacerby.bsky.social Following far-right politics, extremism and other fun stuff
Lynda Pendent Clause @lyndapendentclause.bsky.social Libraries! Libraries for everyone! 
Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social a home of brilliant writing from across the decades and around the world (follow @dauntbooks.bsky.social for all things Daunt Books *shops*) 
Palesfenian 🇮🇪❤️🇺🇦🇵🇸🇪🇺 @iamamnot.bsky.social Dublin
Cis He/Him
Probably a reply guy if i think hard about it
Rónán @rmconroy.bsky.social Cuma ann nó as. Health researcher during my lifetime, now musicology graduate. Organist and choir director for Christ Church Catheral group of parishes in Dublin. Wikipedia editor now past 1,800 edits.
sé/é/a+h/t gairmeach a Rónáin
Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social Over 30 years in commercial art and more than 20 as a published author – mostly children's and young adult. No hope of ever getting a proper job. Lifelong nerd who's concerned about climate change. No AI slop wanted. He/Him. http://oisinmcgann.com/
Juliette Bretan @jcbretan.bsky.social Researcher, writer, and broadcaster on East-Central Europe, culture, history, and politics. Words in The TLS, The Public Domain Review and more; on BBC Radio 3.
juliettebretan.com
Tadhg Carey @tadhgcarey.bsky.social Writer: Westmeath Artist Bursary Award, Freedom to Write awardee, Southword, The Stony Thursday Book, Skylight 47, Honest Ulsterman & others. Cúirt International Festival of Literature New Writing Showcase 2024. Highly Commended Fool for Poetry Chapbook.
Dr Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social New here: Historian of 18th-century politics, Empire, and ideas | Edmund Burke | Whig culture.
Think tanker, Demos | Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen | Adviser, House of Lords.
Words: Engelsberg Ideas, The Critic, The London Magazine.
Marius @mariusbax.bsky.social Norwegian film and cultural industries researcher who cares more about distribution than most people. Looking for work.
Rides bikes, plays hockey and tabletoprpgs.
Non-academic toots in Norwegian.
Gabriel Hankins @gabrielh.bsky.social Digital literary and cultural studies, modernism, psychoanalysis, horror. Editor, Cambridge Elements in Digital Literary Studies. New book: Cambridge Introduction to Digital Humanities http://bit.ly/4ftBuUV
Laura Rattray @drlaurarattray.bsky.social Reader in American Literature, University of Glasgow. All things Edith Wharton, US women's writing, modernism, 1930s, Transatlantic Literary Women
𝙳𝚛. 𝙹. 𝙲𝚕𝚊𝚛𝚔 𝙿𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚜 @jclarkpowers.bsky.social From Davidson to Wake
To McClennan to Chatham to Harnett
To Genève to l'Ain to Wake to Louth
www.jclarkpowers.ie
Niamh Kirk @niamhkirk.bsky.social Associate Prof in Social Media and Data Communication. Sci-fi and fantasy nerd, impatient gardener, dog worshiper. Sharing my thoughts at theharrier.ie. Portfolio at niamhkirk.com
Mary Mullen @marymullen.bsky.social Yesterday's pickles
British Association for American Studies @officialbaas.bsky.social Official Bluesky Account for the British Association for American Studies (BAAS). We promote, support & encourage the study of the United States in the UK. Posts by the Social Media team.
Lulu 🇪🇺🇫🇷🌻 @lcvr60.bsky.social PhD Candidate at École des Ponts and the CIRED laboratory, specialized in place-based industrial policies. Policy advisor for an association of local elected officials.
@colm-keegan.bsky.social @colm-keegan.bsky.social 
Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (LCIS) @lcis-leuven.bsky.social LCIS is a research centre which aims to foster, promote and disseminate research on Ireland in a European context. The manifold relations between Ireland and the rest of Europe are investigated by researchers from different disciplines.
con questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🏳 @racheledini.bsky.social Lurcher mum+newly redundant lecturer in US literature.Writes on waste, gender, housework, appliances, ads, politics of nostalgia. Looking for new collaborators
Books: http://tinyurl.com/3rf4fr & http://tinyurl.com/3er6t3h9
Founder http://literarywaste.com
Mike Spillane @spillanemike.com Cork
Love cycling, cargo bikes, public transport, beer, pizza, bread, cheese
Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955 (Liverpool University Press, April 2026)
JoyceJamesJoyce @joycejamesjoyce.bsky.social Just posting the words of James Joyce, that's me. 
Drs. Mark Beumer @markbeumer.bsky.social Historian of Medicine | PhD-Candidate Charles University, First Faculty of Medicine, Institute for History of Medicine and Foreign Languages | Voorzitter @medhistoddemoulin.bsky.social | Directeur @kleiohistoria.bsky.social
Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social "Love dares you to care for the people on the edge of the night."
Irish journalist based in Stockholm, covering the world. 
laura-blaise @blaisinsquad.bsky.social she/her | represented by zoë waldie at RCW | #EndDP | 🇵🇸🫀🔮🌙
An Post Irish Book Awards @irishbookawards.bsky.social 🍀 Ireland's biggest celebration of Irish books & authors. Follow on #APIBA
linktr.ee/irishbookawards
Aaron Hunter @aaronhunter.bsky.social Movie doctor: Trinity College Dublin
Women and New Hollywood, Polly Platt, Hal Ashby
he/him, dad, drummer
Lauren Mallon @lauren-mallon.bsky.social PhD Researcher | Geographer, Intersectional Feminist, Planner & Policy Nerd | Foundation Chartered Manager (fCMgr) | RT /= endorsement
📍Belfast
Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
Dan Wall @kindabluesky.bsky.social English Dept., Aberdeen University. Scottish and Irish Lit., Romantic & C19th fiction, poetry, biography and periodicals; Co-Director, AU Centre for the Novel. Wannabe culinary innovator & occasional wanderer o'er vales and hills. He/him. Views own.
University of Aberdeen Centre for the Novel @aucfn.bsky.social The Centre for the Novel is a research centre dedicated to the study of the novel in all its forms, based at the University of Aberdeen. Visit our homepage here:
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/llmvc/research/novel/
Ailish Brassil @ailishb.bsky.social PhD candidate in English @ UCC 👩🏻💻📖
DCU Alumna. 👩🏻🎓
Postgrad Officer - Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature.
Reviewer/book admin for Children’s Books Ireland. 📚
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Irish Modern Dance Theatre /John Scott @imdtjohnscott.bsky.social HYPERACTIVE Mermaid Arts Centre Sept 30. Cloud Study,Festival Racconti di Altre Danze, Livorno , Italy. Strategically funded: @artscouncilireland.bsky.social, Culture Ireland, Dublin City Council and Denis O’Brien
Gemma Curto @gemmacurto.bsky.social Affiliated Researcher @Sheffield Uni, PhD English Literature ∣Researching intersections between contemporary literature, scientific methodologies and unpredictability in ecological systems ∣Climate&Energy ∣ASLE-UKI PG/ECR Officer ∣#envhum #envlit #litsci
Dr. Chase A. Thompson @chaseathompson.bsky.social Podcaster, Historian, Writer, living in Salinas, California. Check out the Interesting Pod: https://pod.link/1826088946. Doctoral degree in counseling, pursuing a history PhD. I love hiking, mystery reading, & eating cereal in perilously unhealthy volumes.
Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
nazaretranea.com | https://www.instagram.com/nazareterreese?igsh=MWdyNmNpNHcxcjVwNg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
English Studies @englishstudies.bsky.social Peer-reviewed journal focusing on Literature, Language and Culture of English-speaking world, eight issues a year, founded in 1919, published by @tandfresearch.bsky.social
Dr Alison Killilea @grendelsmam.bsky.social PhD in reception history of Beowulf; production editor for Lonely Planet; friend to rats #freepalestine
Dr Tim Rideout @drtimrideout.bsky.social Father of daughters, health services leader, chair of school governors, academic Gothicist, literary interviewer, crime fiction lover, Doctor Who fan (he/him/his)
https://www.precariousgothic.com
Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Poet. Speaker. Educator. Performer. Adult, YA, and Children's poetry. Occasionally picture books. Lots of posts about churches. Unapologetically trans (he/him) jayhulme.com
Federica Palazzi @federicapalazzi.bsky.social Learning design & game design for women's Gothic and supernatural lit: Irish Gothic women writers in London (PhD) • Educator, dance-movement therapist & musician • www.wordsoming.com
THE SOE and British Culture @covertcultures.bsky.social The SOE, Covert Action, and the British Cultural Imaginary: @LeverhulmeTrust funded project based at @READEnglish, Durham University: https://soeandbritishculture.webspace.durham.ac.uk/
Rachel McCarthy @rachel-mc.bsky.social PhD Researcher - CASCADE Horizon MSCA doctoral network