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"Race Politics & Irish America" (Oxford UP bit.ly/3XKj0nn) Winner: 2025 Sharon Harris Book Award. Excerpt: bit.ly/3FuH1sa Podcast: bit.ly/3ZT7pnW Juanita Casey "Horse of Selene" Afterword: bit.ly/3QTOlSo Page: https://english.uconn.edu/person/mary-burk .. more

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · May 1

Thanks to @uconnhumanities.bsky.social & the Sharon Harris Award committee for this honor!

University of Connecticut Humanities Institute @uconnhumanities.bsky.social · May 1

We are honored to announce the Sharon Harris Book Award winners for 2025. The award committee has chosen Mary Burke’s *Race, Politics, and Irish America* (@oxunipress.bsky.social) and Frank Costigliola’s *Kennan: A Life Between Worlds* (@princetonupress.bsky.social). Congrats!!

The 2025 Sharon Harris Book Award | Humanities Institute

The award committee has named Mary Burke’s Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History and Frank Costigliola’s Kennan: A Life Between Worlds co-reci ...

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 4h

That had #OscarWilde lived, he would have returned to Dublin and put a fire under Irish Revival literature

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 12h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 7h

"While the liberal arts, like all fields in higher education, face significant struggles, the study of English at the University of Minnesota continues to offer robust artistic and intellectual training for the world in which we live." www.startribune.com/uofm-liberal...

Counterpoint | Actually, English majors are thriving at the University of Minnesota

"As the chair of the English department, past English chair, and assistant dean of curriculum and instruction at the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities, we often find reports of the demise of ...

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 8h

Believe it or not, it's already time to think about MSA 2026 in Loughborough, UK. The conference will meet July 1-4, and proposals for panels, papers, roundtables, workshops, and seminars is December 1. Please note this MUCH earlier deadline. The CFP is here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

An image of a Tarot card empress with a crown of stars on a mustard yellow background. The text says: Weird Modernism, BAMS/ MSA 26, 1-4 July 2026. Loughborough University, UK

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 9h

🎉 Today marks the birthday of Irish writer and political activist Rosamond Jacob.

In her biography of Jacob, published by UCD Press, Dr Leeann Lane (@lloislanel.bsky.social) considers the legacy of this fringe figure.

Get a copy of Rosamond Jacob: Third Person Singular at www.ucdpress.ie

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 9h

...to use spellcheck?

misspelled query re: college application

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 11h

The consolations of autumn

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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 12h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 1d

Pick one! Once and for all!

Joyce
Faulkner

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 1d

The latest @irishtimes.com fiction in translation column by Catherine Taylor is now online for subscribers 👇

Fiction in translation: The Midnight Timetable; The Woman Dies; The Ferryman & His Wife; My Name Is Stramer; Wolf Moon’ and The Loft

Books by Bora Chung (Korea), Japan (Aoko Matsuda), Frode Grytten (Norway), Mikołaj Łoziński (Poland), Julio Llamazares (Spain) and Marlen Haushofer (Austria)

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 1d

can confirm @oxfordacademic.bsky.social discount for books displayed @moderniststudies.bsky.social works!

"Race, Politics & Irish America" book discount in cart image

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 1d

yup!

Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 1d

Honora is such a common 19th-c Irish first name....

Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 1d

It's humbling when a reviewer summarizes your work better than you can..
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Mary M. Burke, Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History

Stephen Butler; Mary M. Burke, Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History, American Literary History, Volume 37, Issue 1, 1 March 2025, Pages 269–

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 1d

We’ve outsourced editing now

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinating to learn of Brian Friel’s Translations being staged in Senegal.

Ireland's iconic play 'Translations' hits Dakar stage • FRANCE 24 English

YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English

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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 1d

"The chancellor approved it"

🫧 Spark Elation 🫧 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“a supply chain attack”

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 2d

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

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Neil Hegarty @neilhegarty.bsky.social · 2d

'In Fermanagh, the almost total disappearance of greys and re-emergence of red squirrels is being largely put down to pine martens.' This is a great story.

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Pine martens on the move in Northern Ireland

One of Northern Ireland's rarest native mammals have been turning up in some unusual places.

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Felicity Keefe @felicitykeefe.bsky.social · 4d

Another large painting from the studio this week - wild winter lakes and misty hillsides.

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 5d

Far from the Maudlin Crowd?

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🕷TarantulaMask🎃 @octopusmask.bsky.social · 5d

One drive is where I accidentally save things to sometimes and then the file is lost for ever.

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 5d

I'll speak on dramatist George Kelly (Princess Grace's uncle), critic Mary McCarthy, & Irish America @moderniststudies.bsky.social on Friday

Theatre critic and novelist Mary McCarthy

Neglected Irish American playwright, George Kelly (1887-1974), Pulitzer Prize-winning uncle of Grace Kelly (Princess Grace of Monaco)

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 5d

I'll be heading to Belfast for the last of my New Arcana launches, introduced by the wonderful Stephen Sexton, at No Alibis Books, on the 21st October. Free but ticketed- get yours here!

noalibis.com/event/poetry...

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 5d

CFP: 18th International Conference on Medieval & Renaissance Scottish Language, Literature, & Culture
1–4 July, @bristoluni.bsky.social

Deadline: 14 Nov 2025. See link for details 👇
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Call for Papers

18th International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language, Literature, and Culture (ICMRSLLC)

University of Bristol, 1-4 July 2026

We are delighted to invite papers for the 18th International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language, Literature, and Culture (ICMRSLLC), first established in 1975. We welcome proposals for papers that discuss any aspects of medieval and renaissance Scottish language, literature, and culture, and papers that reflect on these fields from different time periods, languages, and places.

Keynote speakers:
Roderick Lyall (Emeritus Professor of Literatures in English, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Anna Groundwater (Principal Curator, National Museums Scotland)
Steven Reid (Professor of Early Modern Scottish History and Culture, University of Glasgow)

You may submit either an individual paper proposal (in which case the organisers will compile proposals into panels); or a complete panel of 3 papers at 20 minutes each. The conference also welcomes alternative panel formats (e.g. roundtables, flash panels, work in progress sessions), but these will need to managed by the proposer and proposed in full, with details of all participants.

Individual papers: 20 minutes
Panel sessions (typically featuring 3 papers with time for questions, or in alternative formats): 90 minutes.

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 5d

In the depths of the internet I just ran across a subgenre of Irish fanfic that re-writes Thomas Hardy novels and sets them in Ireland

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 5d

Really excited to see these proofs for @lydiacooper.bsky.social’s and my special issue of Studies in the Novel on Disease and Disability in the Novel

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 6d

FINALLY Rod Stewart gets his Nobel

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Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 6d

Going to tell me students this was Baudrillard.

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David Allen Lambert @dlgenealogist.bsky.social · 7d

Are you related directly, a niece or nephew or a first or second cousin of a United States commissioned Union #CivilWar Officer? Please contact me regarding a special project. RT

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Enda o Dowd @endaodowd.bsky.social · 7d

Really awful news. The best bookshop in dublin. Website still up - booksupstairs.ie

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‘Really shocking’: Independent Dublin bookstore damaged in arson attack

Books Upstairs manager hopes to partially open the D’Olier Street store later on Monday

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