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Mary M. Burke
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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!
uconnhumanities.bsky.social 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
antique item found at the back of a drawer
telephone pad

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 1d
if you happen to be in NYC on Dec 5...
maryburke.bsky.social Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 9d
Contributors to a collection on @tramppress.bsky.social I’m editing w/ Tara Harney-Mahajan discuss Tramp's fiction & Recovered Voices series @ #IrishStudies Seminar CUNY, NYC, Dec 5. Registration / full info: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
stack of books related to Tramp Press (Tramp Press author editions and books on contemporary publishing)

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

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 1d
@lydiacooper.bsky.social’s and my special issue of @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social is out now. Such a joy to work with one of my best friends on this amazing set of articles muse.jhu.edu/issue/55993
Project MUSE - Studies in the Novel-Volume 57, Number 4, Winter 2025
muse.jhu.edu

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 1d
Baudrillard's travel writing on America is the book I dd not know I wanted

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 1d
first time I saw one after moving to the American continent I asked the person next to me, "are you seeing that too?"

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 1d
A bilingual Dano-Norwegian/northern Sámi catechism from 1728, afaik the first printed book in Northern Sámi
book title page in gothic print, dano-norwegian and sami facing one another

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Will Canoe-Sick @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 1d
My brother and I have just been granted parental permission to be in charge of Thanksgiving dinner for the first time this year. (We’re 41 and 46, respectively)

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 2d
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 2d
The pedant's dream job
fact checker New Yorker job ad

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 2d
nope
maryburke.bsky.social Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · Apr 21
"You boy! Is it safe to come out yet?"
Cat peers from between bars of open upstairs window at cat on the old urban street who looks up toward the other animal

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The Stinging Fly @stingingfly.bsky.social · 2d
Applications for the 2026 TSF Poetry Workshop are open and close on Tuesday 2nd December at 5pm Irish time.

More information on how to apply here: stingingfly.org/poetry-works...

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 3d
The Last Man???

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 3d
Come and apply to be the Professor of Bibliography & Modern Book History @engfacoutreach.bsky.social & @jesusoxford.bsky.social (and work closely with us @bodleian.ox.ac.uk). Following a long line of great scholars: Don McKenzie, Kathryn Sutherland, & Dirk van Hulle ... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 3d
Nature: Winter is a time of slowing down, resting, conserving energy and recovering for the year ahead

Capitalism: NOW IS THE TIME TO SELL SELL SELL, EXTENDED OPENING HOURS, CHECK OUT OUR SALES, BUY EVERYTHING WE SAY YOU NEED FOR AN ELABORATE LABOUR-INTENSIVE FESTIVAL, WORK YOURSELF TO THE BONE

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 5d
1988 adaptation of Bram Stoker's peculiar novel...starring a blue Hugh Grant
Lair of the White Worm DVD film adaptation of Bram Stoker novel

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 5d
oooh...what a great detail

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 5d
no, thank you!!

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 5d
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Meet the grandson of an Irish nationalist who became mayor of NY
Zohran Mamdani will be New York's youngest mayor in more than a century - the youngest before him was the grandson of an Irish nationalist and largely forgotten
www.rte.ie

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 5d
As I work on finalizing the upcoming #ScholarSunday thread, we're also going to be collecting public scholarship from across 2025 for a year-end mega-thread. Check out the call & submit favorites (including your own work!) for inclusion in that thread, thanks! 🗃️

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 5d
Alert for #Irishwriters

www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
Professor in Religion and Literature, and Creative Writing - HigherEdJobs
Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.
www.higheredjobs.com

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Marc de Faoite @marcdefaoite.bsky.social · 5d
AI is to art what UPFs (Ultra Processed Foods) are to cooking. You CAN consume them, but the process by which they are made and the satisfaction and benefits that they give are not the same.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFit...
Why AI "Art" Feels So Wrong
YouTube video by Thomas Flight
www.youtube.com

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 6d
This has brought up a question I actually don't know - when did the specific form "the fae" become so popular in English?

OED has "Faerie" going back to Spenser, "fey" as "fairylike" in 1823, and there's obviously "Morgan le Fay" from French, but can't find much for "the fae" til quite recently!
lethalityjane.bsky.social ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 6d
Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time
Post from Threads user "missjenbeck" Romantasy question: are the fae open source? I had only known them from SJM books, but didn't expect to see them in Quicksilver!

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 6d
Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time
Post from Threads user "missjenbeck" Romantasy question: are the fae open source? I had only known them from SJM books, but didn't expect to see them in Quicksilver!

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 7d
A west of Ireland #painting. "Sligo Mountains" was finished and sold last year. It came out of cycle trips along the Sligo coast when I enjoyed being escorted by the Ox Mountains towards Ballysadare and Sligo town. I've also been up into them by those woods yonder. Beautiful. #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear
Landscape format in loose acrylics on canvas. Beyond wispy fluffy long pale, almost white, grass are several black birds, likely rooks, on a low single wire fence either side of a lone post right of centre in the bottom foreground. Brilliantly sunlit fields, crossed with a stone wall, are behind causing the wire, fence post and birds to be silhouetted. Behind the stone wall on the left edge is craggy green hillock with horizontal grass ridges with sunlit edges. A flat-ish hill of darker green fields, edged with dark green hedgerows, is further back beyond a dip and running across the full painting. It is topped with a small pale house with a narrow mass of dark green trees behind it. Beyond further, sloping down from the top right corner to the left edge halfway up where there is a pine wood of smoky purple, green and blue, is a craggy mountain of dark blues, violets and pale salmon where the sun hits mostly along the undulating sloping top. All under a pale teal sky. Signed bottom right in red, Liam Daly

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Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · 7d
Now instead of simply reading the abstract for an academic article I have to contend with multiple pop-ups from adobe asking me if I want an AI summary and I cannot stress enough how much I DO NOT WANT this.

@adobe.com has made a useful product less useful with an annoying and redundant feature

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Ciara Murphy @ciaralynnmurphy.bsky.social · 7d
An incredibly stupid decision if it comes to pass. And a big disappointment for the cafes.

www.independent.ie/regionals/we...