It's my book birthday🥳! '#Shakespeare, #memory, and modern Irish literature' is published today by @ManchesterUP. Please order it for your libraries! Too many people to thank (read the acknowledgements!) but here's a 🧵with some highlights (hint: it's all about dismemory) 1/

Can’t wait!

@eoin_price Slightly surprised you’ve not heard back. But imagine that is editor-specific rather than press

@Asda what’s up with this clearly very non-smooth peanut butter?

RT @elaine_canning: 💚📚📚

@eoin_price @Orlandocreature #understatement

@TheBookerPrizes longlist has been announced, and Samantha Harvey's 'Orbital' has made the cut. I can't recommend this book highly enough--the best I've read over the last 12 months!

Very sad to hear about the passing yesterday of Edna O’Brien. One of my favourite novelists, and someone whose ‘scandal’ belied her genius. If you haven’t, go read ‘The Country Girls Trilogy’!

@eoin_price But only at the right time

@eoin_price You sound like Banners

Excited to share that I've signed a contract with @BloomsburyBooks to publish my next book, 'Guarding Death and Affirming Life in John Banville's Fiction'. Huge thanks to @AmyMartinOHNY! Can't wait (!) to dive into themes like ageing, murder, and the death-drive. Stay tuned! 📚✨

@ccdaniels65 Care to share your PB? Extraordinarily I’ve just started occasional running.

RT @elaine_canning: This is fabulous to receive - thanks a million @RuthGilligan @IrishTimesBooks @BloomsburyBooks @BloomsburyAcad & all th…

@EllenMackers Yes!

@eoin_price Think OFS hold the data

And @ManchesterUP have just announced their summer sale! You can get my book here ( for HALF PRICE by using the code SUN50 at the checkout.

@cjdenial I don't have the factual details for this, but apocryphally: Amid Labour MP arguments after the 1945 election as to who should become PM, Clement Attlee's wife, Violet, bundled her husband into a car and got him to the palace first to receive the request from HM George VI.

RT @lejhouston: An amazing array of #IrishStudies scholarship being recognised at next week's @BAIrishStudies Embassy Reception. Congratula…