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Claire Connolly
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Professor of Modern English @ucc.ie | Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Secretary @ria.ie | Irish Romanticism: a Literary History @cambridgeup.bsky.social 2026

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 1d
Heading in the same direction @tlrhub.bsky.social
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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 1d
Off to @tlrhub.bsky.social for what should be a fascinating conference on Ireland and the American Revolution organised by @joelherman.bsky.social and @timvrti.bsky.social with support from @historytcd.bsky.social and @virtualtreasury.bsky.social

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Ireland and the American Revolution - Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute | Trinity College Dublin
A-two day conference exploring the role of Ireland and its people in the American Revolution, will take place in Trinity Long Room Hub on Thursday, 9 October and Friday, 10 October.
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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 1d
Off to @tlrhub.bsky.social for what should be a fascinating conference on Ireland and the American Revolution organised by @joelherman.bsky.social and @timvrti.bsky.social with support from @historytcd.bsky.social and @virtualtreasury.bsky.social

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Ireland and the American Revolution - Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute | Trinity College Dublin
A-two day conference exploring the role of Ireland and its people in the American Revolution, will take place in Trinity Long Room Hub on Thursday, 9 October and Friday, 10 October.
www.tcd.ie
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Irish Studies at Boston College @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social · 1d
Rituals of Migration offers snapshots of Irish migrants on the move in the 19th and 20th centuries

On October 16, we will host a panel with the book's co-editor, Kevin Kenny, and 3 #BCIRishStudies alumni in the publication: Jill Bender, Hidetaka Hirota, & Gráinne McEvoy
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Eoin Lettice @eoinlettice.bsky.social · 1d
Great see that our UCC Arboretum and ITEN tree resources being used by pupils in Gaelscoil Pheig Sayers, Cork this week. Check out www.tree-explorers.ie to find out more. #TreesUCC @researchireland.ie
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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 2d
2 doctoral positions on the '(Dis)Empowered Communities: A Comparative Study of Decommissioning Nuclear Sites' project led by Davide Orsini at the @carsoncenter.bsky.social

Deadline: 30 November

#histtech #envhist #energyhistory #nuclearhistory

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Two Funded Doctoral Positions: Project on Nuclear Decommissioning - Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society - LMU Munich
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 3d
As the History Representative for ACIS, I have the distinct privilege to chair the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book. If you, or someone you know, has a book copyrighted in 2025 in Irish Studies please do consider submitting! Details here. 🗃️ #speirgorm
Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book | American Conference for Irish Studies – An Chomhdháil Mheiriceánach do Léann na hÉireann
Don Murphy, husband of ACIS Past President Maureen Murphy, was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, and died in New York on March 2, 1986. He received his bachelor of electrical engineering degree and his…
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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 3d
Looks gorgeous! And will order pronto.
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 4d
It’s real!!
I just got my first copy of Ghosts Behind Glass and it is beautiful. You all really need to order your copies. You will not regret it. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Author holding copy of book Page with birds on left, text on right Double page spread with a photo of diorama Chapter 3 Cursed treasures on left, lion on right
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Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social · 4d
Join us tomorrow for our first research seminar of the year! Our very own Prof Mary Fairclough will be presenting a paper titled ‘Mary Wollstonecraft: Apostrophe, Prayer and Voice’.
🗓️ Tuesday 7 October, 5pm
📍 HG/09, Heslington Hall
More info: www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
Mary Wollstonecraft: Apostrophe, Prayer and Voice - Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York
Mary Fairclough develops a new approach to Mary Wollstonecraft's rhetoric of devotional feeling.
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Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social · 4d
Auckland university is hiring a Lecturer (that’s Assistant Prof for all you Americans) in English, specialising in the long nineteenth century, to a permanent position commencing before Semester 1, 2026 (or by negotiation). Focus is nineteenth century fiction - details below!
Lecturer - English
Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandThe University of Auckland is New Zealand’s pre-eminent University, with a turnover of $1.1bn, including research revenue of over $...
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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 6d
It’s a great exchange. Andrews later published his ‘Notes for a future edition of Brian Friel’s Translations’ in The Irish Review, listing more errors.
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Dorothy Cashman @irishcookbooks.bsky.social · 7d
It being National Potato Day per Bord Bia, a recipe courtesy of a Scot, Elizabeth Craig, and her Art of Irish Cooking.
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A recipe for Irish Potato Mash which adds in apple sauce, and cloves if liked, at the end. Cover image of Craig’s Art of Irish Cooking.
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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 8d
Today’s Greenhouse lunch was packed! The main event was to celebrate our colleague Marie-Theres Fojuth, who was just awarded funding from the Research Council of Norway for her project «Into the Fjords: Blue Museums as Arenas of Learning about Vulnerable Ecosystems». Congratulations!
Woman holding a plant standing in front of bookcases full of books
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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 9d
More here: www.ria.ie/blog/two-wom...
Two women and the Royal Irish Academy - Royal Irish Academy
In this month’s Library Blog post, Turlough O’Riordan of the Dictionary of Irish Biography, looks at the issues surrounding the election of women to the Royal Irish Academy in the nineteenth and twent...
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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 9d
Clare O’Halloran gave an @ria.ie talk in 2018 which explained the implications of the 1919 Sex Disqualification Act for the Academy’s slow willingness to admit women members m.soundcloud.com/the-royal-ir...
‘Learned societies and the problem of women’
Listen to ‘Learned societies and the problem of women’ by The Royal Irish Academy playlist on desktop and mobile.
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Kevin Burke @kevburkeie.bsky.social · 10d
Ciaran Ferrie's piece in @irishexaminer.bsky.social nails the Govts capitulation on the Speed Limit Review. Identifying the urban roads that should be 50km (arterial) and 30km (everywhere else) is a relatively simple technical exercise with a small bit of guidance. Absolute cowardice.
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Women's Studies, UCC @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social · 11d
Do check out this wonderful UCC event on Global & Comparative Perspectives on Gender-Based Violence on October 15!
Poster of UCC event with QR registration code
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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 11d
Join us at the Royal Irish Academy on 2 and 3 October for a two-day conference exploring all aspects of the Book of Lecan.

Book your tickets now: www.ria.ie/events/libra...
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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 11d
I hope I can get to see this !
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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 12d
Boston-area friends, if you're in the vicinity of Harvard tomorrow, please come to @harvardbookstore.bsky.social for a conversation about novels, LLMs, public opinion polls, collages, cut-ups, and patchwork with me and @tomcomitta.bsky.social. It will be a wild ride--hope you can join us for it!
Poster showing Tom Comitta (big photo) and Deidre Lynch (smaller one) and the covers of their two new novels: Patchwork and People's Choice Literature. Monday, September 29th, 7 p.m., Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, MA
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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 12d
I saw Poor Things in that cinema - had the screen entirely to myself.
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Godwin_lives @pamelaclemit.bsky.social · 13d
On the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Stockton & Darlington Railway (#OTD 1825), here’s my memoir of growing up on the East Coast Main Line, where I witnessed of the demise of the steam age. #Railway200

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New Post: A Railway Memoir in Archipelago
This piece by Pamela Clemit was first published in Archipelago, 2.2 (Spring 2023), 152-61. The essay is a recollection of her early childhood years as a station master’s daughter, and an eleg…
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Irish Humanities Alliance @irishhumanities.bsky.social · 14d
A strong start to our Irish Scottish Cultural and Diplomatic Relations event @ria.ie with Prof @murrayp.bsky.social of @sahavoice.bsky.social
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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 14d
Excellent, will email
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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 14d
@paulodonovan.bsky.social and I are going in February!
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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 15d
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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 15d
There is a whole genre of Not Cork commentary!
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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 15d
And the Maria Edgeworth centre are celebrating Belinda @225 this spring www.mariaedgeworthcentre.com
Maria Edgeworth Centre | Interactive History in Edgeworthstown
Explore the Interactive Historical and Literary Tours of Edgeworthstown in Ireland with us, Maria Edgeworth Centre. Book now visit us today!
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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · 15d
Are you a grad student, untenured faculty member, or an independent scholar doing research in Romantic-era literature and culture? There's still time to apply for a Pforzheimer Award!

Apply by Nov. 1 to be considered.

Find more information here: www.k-saa.org/pforzheimera...
Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr, Award — K-SAA
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Robbie @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · 15d
Manuscript notes and character sketches written by Maria Edgeworth in planning her novels; some pages are extended by sewn-on scraps of paper. Amazing to see these, and the original case she stored them in!
Small notebooks with fine handwriting
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