Emeritus Professor of English and Irish Literature. Editor, Irish Studies Review.
Joined February 2009
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Neil Sammells retweeted
Apr 26
Larkin’s father died on 26 March 1948. A week the following Sunday it snowed in Warwick. This beautiful elegy was never printed in the poet’s lifetime and yet, arguably, it is his first great poem.
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9 Sep 2025
Published today. I’m in there somewhere, in distinguished company. Indispensable if not, alas, inexpensive…global.oup.com/academic/prod…
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Neil Sammells retweeted
27 Aug 2025
📚New Book Available to Review📚
Medieval Dublin XX edited by Seán Duffy
If you are interested in reviewing this examination of life in medieval Dublin, please contact us via DM or email us at I.studies@bathspa.ac.uk - we look forward to hearing from you!
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Neil Sammells retweeted
12 Aug 2025
📚 Book Available to Review 📚
After the Train: Irishwomen United and a Network of Change, edited by Evelyn Conlon and Rebecca Pelan
If you are interested in reviewing this book, please contact us via DM or email us at I.studies@bathspa.ac.uk - we would love to hear from you!
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Neil Sammells retweeted
11 Aug 2025
New Book Available
Anthologisation and Irish Short Fiction: Magnitudes of Telling by Paul Delaney
If you are interested in reviewing this original study of short fiction in Ireland, please contact us via DM or email us at I.studies@bathspa.ac.uk - we’d love to hear from you!
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Neil Sammells retweeted
9 Aug 2025
📚New Book Available to Review📚
Rethinking Feminism in Ireland by Camilla Fitzsimons
If you are interested in reviewing this enlightening book, please contact us via DM or email us at I.studies@bathspa.ac.uk - we look forward to hearing from you!
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Neil Sammells retweeted
10 Nov 2024
Twitter is mostly people shouting at each other. Bluesky appears populated by academics huddling together for solace and safety, talking to themselves ( but not much to each other...)
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Neil Sammells retweeted
17 Apr 2025
📚Book Review Opportunity📚
Public History in Ireland edited by Leonie Hannan and Olwen Purdue
If you are interested in reviewing this introduction into Ireland’s complex history, please contact us via DM or email us at I.studies@bathspa.ac.uk - we are excited to hear from you!
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Neil Sammells retweeted
15 Apr 2025
📚Book Review Opportunity📚
Cathal Brugha ‘An Indomitable Spirit’ by Daithí Ó Corráin and Gerard Hanley
If you are interested in reviewing this portrayal of a crucial Irish figure, please contact us via DM or email us at I.studies@bathspa.ac.uk - we would love to hear from you!
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Neil Sammells retweeted
9 Apr 2025
🎉 Our Oxford Handbook, currently being copyedited by the incomparable @rowenamezzo who I hope will eat champagne-dipped strawberries throughout.
7 Apr 2025
It does feel a little decadent to be dipping strawberries into a champagne cocktail, but then I have been immersed in the world of the wonderful Oscar Wilde recently with work, so something must have rubbed off!… 😊@Kate_Hext
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Neil Sammells retweeted
22 Jan 2025
Book Review Opportunity
Iran in Finnegans Wake by Hamid Farahmandian
If you are interested in reviewing this book uncovering the intricate influences embedded within Joyce’s work, please contact us via DM or email us at i.studies@bathspa.ac.uk - we would love to hear from you!
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Neil Sammells retweeted
14 Jan 2025
✨New Book Available to Review✨
Screen Workers and the Irish Film Industry by Denis Murphy
DIGITAL COPY ONLY
If you are interested in reviewing please contact us via DM or email us at i.studies@bathspa.ac.uk - we would love to hear from you!📚
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Neil Sammells retweeted
17 Dec 2024
✨Book Review Opportunity✨
Women and Work in Ireland: A Half Century of Attitude and Policy Change by Margret Fine-Davis
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Neil Sammells retweeted
16 Dec 2024
📚New Book Available to Review📚
The Medieval Irish Kings and the English Invasion by Seán Ó Hoireabhárd
If you are interested in reviewing please contact us via DM or email us at i.studies@bathspa.ac.uk - we look forward to hearing from you!
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Neil Sammells retweeted
15 Dec 2024
📚Book Review Opportunity📚
Narrating Irish Female Development, 1916–2018 by Jane Elizabeth Dougherty
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If you are interested in reviewing this feminist narratology, please contact us via DM or email us at i.studies@bathspa.ac.uk - we’d love to hear from you!
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Neil Sammells retweeted
27 Nov 2024
Book available for review: Irish Literature in Transition, 1700-1780, edited by Moyra Haslett. Get in touch via DM or email if interested! #irishstudies
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Neil Sammells retweeted
18 Nov 2024
Sex, drugs and cucumber sandwiches:
How Oscar Wilde's Plays Helped to Create the Modern Rebel. A talk by by Kate Hext, on Friday 22nd November 2024. Book your place for £7 now.
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Neil Sammells retweeted
14 Nov 2024
Come (online) and hear me talk about sex, drugs and cucumber sandwiches on Friday 22nd November: gordon-russell-design-museum…
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