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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 · 1d

Far from the Maudlin Crowd?

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🕷TarantulaMask🎃 @octopusmask.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 👇
icmrsllc2026.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/call-for-pap...

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 3d

FINALLY Rod Stewart gets his Nobel

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Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 3d

Going to tell me students this was Baudrillard.

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David Allen Lambert @dlgenealogist.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 4d

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

www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

‘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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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 4d

Delightful doodles of some pipe smoking Georgians found by Maddock Fellow Danielle Magnusson on the works of Ben Jonson, printed in 1616 #Readers #Epigrams

Bottom corner of a 17th century book showing drawings

Title page of 'Epigrammes' by Ben Jonson, showing doodles at the bottom of the page

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Books Upstairs @booksupstairs.bsky.social · 4d

A small fire at the front of the bookshop was started last night after rubbish bags that were awaiting collection were set on fire. The guards don’t have reason at this time to believe it was a targeted attack. Thankfully the damage was limited and everyone is safe. We are open for business as usual

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Little Deer Comics @littledeercomics.bsky.social · 4d

❤️
booksupstairs.ie

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

it's quite a resource!

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Laura Rocklyn @lauralostintime.bsky.social · 4d

While in #Thornton this weekend to attend the #TheBrontëSociety AGM, I paid my first visit to the #BrontëBirthplace and had the magical experience of spending the weekend sleeping in the room where the #BrontëSisters slept as small children, and exploring the house in which they were born.

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Anne O'Leary @anneoleary.bsky.social · 4d

New blog post: an up-to-date list of Irish literary journals anneolearyblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/i...

Irish literary journals 2025/2026

By far the most-read post on this blog has been a very simple one – a list of Irish literary magazines. The original post I compiled in 2022, and an updated version in 2023, have clocked up o…

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 5d

The official program for the 2025 MSA Conference in Boston is now live! (And it looks beautiful.) You can access it at the link below or on the homepage of the MSA website.

www.moderniststudies.org

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

Paris Review Visiting Professor of Literature at BPI

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

Not "Brontë" on the plaque...interesting

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 6d

Designed these wedding for the lovely Linda and Shane - they wanted to combine elements of their homelands of Fenit and west Kerry, including the lighthouse and Macha na Bó, in a celebration of rural and maritime life and the coming together of two beautiful parts of the Kingdom.

Photograph of the wedding invitations against a red background with a scattering of rose petals.

#SpéirGhorm #SpéirGorm #Ireland #Art #TraditionalArt

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Katy Hayes @katyhayze.bsky.social · 6d

Also, my review of Waking The Feminists book from @ucdpress.bsky.social in today's Irish Independent @independent.ie . Lovely stormy day to go out to Coffee Shop and #buyapaper

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Karina Bénazech Wendling @karinabwendling.com · 6d

I wrote a book and it's now out in the world.
#monograph #history #Ireland
www.honorechampion.com/fr/editions-...

DE LA BIBLE IRLANDAISE AU SOUPÉRISME : ÉDUCATION, MISSIONS PROTESTANTES ET NATIONALISME EN IRLANDE (1800-1853) - KARINA BÉNAZEC

www.honorechampion.com

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NAVSA 2025 @navsa2025.bsky.social · 7d

#NAVSA2025 is running special digital panels on Fri, Nov 7 and Sat Nov 8! Registration is FREE but required: tinyurl.com/hy2zhe2y

NAVSA 2025: Aftermaths // Digital Pre-Session Registration

Attendance at the NAVSA 2025 digital pre-sessions is free but you must register in order to receive zoom links for both dates (Friday, November 7th and Saturday, November 8th). Please register if you ...

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 7d

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

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Victorian Popular Fiction Association @vpfa.bsky.social · 8d

🚨Call for Papers!
❓Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities: A VPFA Study Day
🗺️Loughborough University
📅27 March 2026
💷 FREE
For full CfP: victorianpopularfiction.org/studyday/for...
Contact the organiser Anne-Marie Beller (@braddonite.bsky.social) at [email protected] for more information

Mentally ill patients dancing at a ball at Somerset County Asylum. Process
print after a lithograph by K. Drake, ca. 1850/1855.
https://wellcomecollection.org/works/xswz3swa

CFP: Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities
A VPFA Study Day
Loughborough University, 27 March 2026

The Health Humanities and Victorian popular fiction intersect in revealing ways, offering insights into how 19th-century literature shaped and reflected contemporary understandings of health, illness, and the body. Popular narratives not only mirrored anxieties surrounding public health and medical progress but also contributed to shaping public perceptions of health and healing. Health Humanities approaches re-examine these texts to uncover how cultural narratives and literary representations influenced attitudes toward physical and mental well-being, gendered experiences of illness, and the ethics of care in an age of rapid scientific change.

Health Humanities is a particularly useful approach to sensation fiction because it illuminates the ways in which these emotionally charged, often morally ambiguous narratives explore and interrogate concepts of the body, illness, and mental health. Sensation fiction, with its focus on secrets, trauma, nervous disorders, and abnormal psychological states, frequently dramatizes the anxieties of Victorian society surrounding health, gender, and identity. By applying the lens of Health Humanities, scholars can uncover how these texts reflect and shape contemporary medical discourse. Interdisciplinary approaches also highlight how sensation fiction critiques institutional medicine, domestic care practices, and the pathologization of women’s experiences. Ultimately, Health Humanities allows us to see sensation fiction not just as entertainment, but as a culturally significant form that negotiates the meanings of illness, morality, and human vulnerability in a rapidly changing world.

20-minute papers are invited on any aspect of the health humanities and sensation fiction. Topics may include, but are not limited to the following:

• Madness, Hysteria, and the Sensation Heroine
• The Role of Doctors and Medical Authority in Se…

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

Let's pretend this can be explained

"How it works: The cat" ladybird book cover

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Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social · 9d

There are a few of these floating around out there. Please be careful.

Advance review copy of my novel Dooneen, out from Fitzcarraldo Editions next year.

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 10d

It's time to announce the winners of the 2025 MSA Book Prize: Maebh Long and Matthew Hayward for The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonization, Radical Campuses, and Modernism. Congratulations! @maebhlong.bsky.social, Matthew, and @columbiaup.bsky.social

The Rise of Pacific Literature | Columbia University Press

In the 1960s and 1970s, the staff and students of two newly founded universities in the Pacific Islands helped foster a golden age of Oceanian literature. At... | CUP

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