Paul Fagan
@pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social
Research Fellow at LMU Munich│Leader of Irish Research Council project 'Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing 1860-1950s'│Co-Founder of @flannobriensoc.bsky.social and @theparishreview.bsky.social
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🚨DEADLINE EXTENSION!🚨
The deadline for submissions to "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" - an open-access special issue from Humanities - has been extended to *30 January 2026*!!
All submissions welcome! Contact me for any queries you might have
CFP and Details here 👇 www.mdpi.com/journal/huma...
The deadline for submissions to "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" - an open-access special issue from Humanities - has been extended to *30 January 2026*!!
All submissions welcome! Contact me for any queries you might have
CFP and Details here 👇 www.mdpi.com/journal/huma...
I had a great time at the 27th ISAANZ Conference in Dunedin, where I had the honour of delivering the opening keynote address ("Celibacy, Care, and Queer Kinship from Frances Power Cobbe to Kate O’Brien") and of launching Marion Quirici's brilliant new book "Fitness for Freedom".
November 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
I had a great time at the 27th ISAANZ Conference in Dunedin, where I had the honour of delivering the opening keynote address ("Celibacy, Care, and Queer Kinship from Frances Power Cobbe to Kate O’Brien") and of launching Marion Quirici's brilliant new book "Fitness for Freedom".
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Such a pleasure to have @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social at Otago, and what a brilliant opening keynote he gave!
Delighted to be at the Dunedin Centre for Irish & Scottish studies for the ISAANZ Conference on “Health, Wellness & Care” organised by @maebhlong.bsky.social
I'm honoured to deliver the conference's opening keynote address on "Celibacy, Care, Queer Kinship: From Frances Power Cobbe to Kate O'Brien"
I'm honoured to deliver the conference's opening keynote address on "Celibacy, Care, Queer Kinship: From Frances Power Cobbe to Kate O'Brien"
November 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Such a pleasure to have @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social at Otago, and what a brilliant opening keynote he gave!
Delighted to be at the Dunedin Centre for Irish & Scottish studies for the ISAANZ Conference on “Health, Wellness & Care” organised by @maebhlong.bsky.social
I'm honoured to deliver the conference's opening keynote address on "Celibacy, Care, Queer Kinship: From Frances Power Cobbe to Kate O'Brien"
I'm honoured to deliver the conference's opening keynote address on "Celibacy, Care, Queer Kinship: From Frances Power Cobbe to Kate O'Brien"
November 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Delighted to be at the Dunedin Centre for Irish & Scottish studies for the ISAANZ Conference on “Health, Wellness & Care” organised by @maebhlong.bsky.social
I'm honoured to deliver the conference's opening keynote address on "Celibacy, Care, Queer Kinship: From Frances Power Cobbe to Kate O'Brien"
I'm honoured to deliver the conference's opening keynote address on "Celibacy, Care, Queer Kinship: From Frances Power Cobbe to Kate O'Brien"
I really enjoyed the latest episode of "Radio Myles: The Flann O'Brien Podcast" in which Katherine Ebury (one of my favourite O'Brien scholars) discusses law, the death penalty and necropolitics in "Two in One" (one of my favourite O'Brien texts)! Listen here👇
radiomyles.substack.com/p/11-katheri...
radiomyles.substack.com/p/11-katheri...
11. Katherine Ebury: Flann O’Brien, death and the law
Katherine and Toby dissect death in 'Two in One' before exploring Irish executions, reading Achille Mbembe's necropolitics and turning to Flann, the energy humanities, and the geological turn.
radiomyles.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I really enjoyed the latest episode of "Radio Myles: The Flann O'Brien Podcast" in which Katherine Ebury (one of my favourite O'Brien scholars) discusses law, the death penalty and necropolitics in "Two in One" (one of my favourite O'Brien texts)! Listen here👇
radiomyles.substack.com/p/11-katheri...
radiomyles.substack.com/p/11-katheri...
I'm thrilled to be launching Marion Quirici's brilliant "Fitness For Freedom: Disability, Degeneration & Modern Irish Writing" at this month's ISAANZ conference. A compelling intervention that will be invaluable to work on disability in Irish and modernist studies. Insist your library orders a copy!
November 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I'm thrilled to be launching Marion Quirici's brilliant "Fitness For Freedom: Disability, Degeneration & Modern Irish Writing" at this month's ISAANZ conference. A compelling intervention that will be invaluable to work on disability in Irish and modernist studies. Insist your library orders a copy!
🚨DEADLINE EXTENSION!🚨
The deadline for submissions to "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" - an open-access special issue from Humanities - has been extended to *30 January 2026*!!
All submissions welcome! Contact me for any queries you might have
CFP and Details here 👇 www.mdpi.com/journal/huma...
The deadline for submissions to "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" - an open-access special issue from Humanities - has been extended to *30 January 2026*!!
All submissions welcome! Contact me for any queries you might have
CFP and Details here 👇 www.mdpi.com/journal/huma...
November 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
🚨DEADLINE EXTENSION!🚨
The deadline for submissions to "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" - an open-access special issue from Humanities - has been extended to *30 January 2026*!!
All submissions welcome! Contact me for any queries you might have
CFP and Details here 👇 www.mdpi.com/journal/huma...
The deadline for submissions to "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" - an open-access special issue from Humanities - has been extended to *30 January 2026*!!
All submissions welcome! Contact me for any queries you might have
CFP and Details here 👇 www.mdpi.com/journal/huma...
Thanks to everyone who made the @efacis.bsky.social Roundtable for our forthcoming special issue on "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" such an engaging and rewarding discussion!
For those who missed it, the full roundtable can be watched on EFACIS's YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2rN...
For those who missed it, the full roundtable can be watched on EFACIS's YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2rN...
EFACIS Roundtable Discussion 13: Workshop on Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing
YouTube video by EFACIS YouTube
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November 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Thanks to everyone who made the @efacis.bsky.social Roundtable for our forthcoming special issue on "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" such an engaging and rewarding discussion!
For those who missed it, the full roundtable can be watched on EFACIS's YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2rN...
For those who missed it, the full roundtable can be watched on EFACIS's YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2rN...
Very cool audio conference report by @maebhm.bsky.social from this summer's International Flann O'Brien Society conference in Strabane - both helping and exacerbating my FOMO for having missed it.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...
10. The Society in Strabane
Podcast Episode · Radio Myles: the Flann O'Brien Podcast · 15/10/2025 · 38m
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October 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Very cool audio conference report by @maebhm.bsky.social from this summer's International Flann O'Brien Society conference in Strabane - both helping and exacerbating my FOMO for having missed it.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...
Exciting to read the program for ISAANZ 27: "Health, Wellness and Care "(20-22 Nov, University of Otago); so many fascinating engagements with the conference's theme!
I'm very honoured to be delivering the opening keynote on "Celibate Care in Kate O’Brien’s The Ante-Room"
isaanz.org/cfp-isaanz-2...
I'm very honoured to be delivering the opening keynote on "Celibate Care in Kate O’Brien’s The Ante-Room"
isaanz.org/cfp-isaanz-2...
CFP: ISAANZ 27 | Health, Wellness and Care
31 July 2025. Submissions are invited for ISAANZ 27 Health, Wellness and Care. As the emergency measures of the pandemic fade into memory, but the virus transitions into an endemic part of our medi…
isaanz.org
October 16, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Exciting to read the program for ISAANZ 27: "Health, Wellness and Care "(20-22 Nov, University of Otago); so many fascinating engagements with the conference's theme!
I'm very honoured to be delivering the opening keynote on "Celibate Care in Kate O’Brien’s The Ante-Room"
isaanz.org/cfp-isaanz-2...
I'm very honoured to be delivering the opening keynote on "Celibate Care in Kate O’Brien’s The Ante-Room"
isaanz.org/cfp-isaanz-2...
Reflecting on all I learned at the fantastic Vienna conference on theorizing "Scandal"
In my talk, I discussed the "scandal" of the 1851 census that revealed 400,000 "surplus" unmarried women, and the cultural debate it produced about female celibacy via William Rathbone Greg and Frances Power Cobbe
In my talk, I discussed the "scandal" of the 1851 census that revealed 400,000 "surplus" unmarried women, and the cultural debate it produced about female celibacy via William Rathbone Greg and Frances Power Cobbe
October 15, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Reflecting on all I learned at the fantastic Vienna conference on theorizing "Scandal"
In my talk, I discussed the "scandal" of the 1851 census that revealed 400,000 "surplus" unmarried women, and the cultural debate it produced about female celibacy via William Rathbone Greg and Frances Power Cobbe
In my talk, I discussed the "scandal" of the 1851 census that revealed 400,000 "surplus" unmarried women, and the cultural debate it produced about female celibacy via William Rathbone Greg and Frances Power Cobbe
🚨TODAY!🚨
"Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" Online Roundtable
Monday 13 October @6pm Irish Time
Details: www.efacis.eu/content/efac...
Registration Link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
All Welcome!
"Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" Online Roundtable
Monday 13 October @6pm Irish Time
Details: www.efacis.eu/content/efac...
Registration Link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
All Welcome!
October 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
🚨TODAY!🚨
"Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" Online Roundtable
Monday 13 October @6pm Irish Time
Details: www.efacis.eu/content/efac...
Registration Link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
All Welcome!
"Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" Online Roundtable
Monday 13 October @6pm Irish Time
Details: www.efacis.eu/content/efac...
Registration Link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
All Welcome!
✨This coming Monday!✨
"Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" an Online EFACIS Roundtable Discussion!
A fantastic line-up (*see 👇) discussing representations of celibacy (unmarried, widowed, virgin, queer characters) in Irish women's life & writing
Details & registration: www.efacis.eu/content/efac...
"Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" an Online EFACIS Roundtable Discussion!
A fantastic line-up (*see 👇) discussing representations of celibacy (unmarried, widowed, virgin, queer characters) in Irish women's life & writing
Details & registration: www.efacis.eu/content/efac...
October 9, 2025 at 9:35 AM
✨This coming Monday!✨
"Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" an Online EFACIS Roundtable Discussion!
A fantastic line-up (*see 👇) discussing representations of celibacy (unmarried, widowed, virgin, queer characters) in Irish women's life & writing
Details & registration: www.efacis.eu/content/efac...
"Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" an Online EFACIS Roundtable Discussion!
A fantastic line-up (*see 👇) discussing representations of celibacy (unmarried, widowed, virgin, queer characters) in Irish women's life & writing
Details & registration: www.efacis.eu/content/efac...
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Elliott Mill's just-published article presents the complex experience of being a writer in the changing landscape of mass communication and entertainment in postwar Dublin. Check out his open-access work on O'Brien's multiple, contrasting perspectives on the radio here!
Playing the Game: Brian O’Nolan’s Broadcast Media Positions
This essay seeks to enrich and complicate the evermore detailed picture which we have of O'Nolan as a cross-media writer. In particular, this essay attends to the conversation between O’Nolan’s effort...
parishreview.openlibhums.org
October 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Elliott Mill's just-published article presents the complex experience of being a writer in the changing landscape of mass communication and entertainment in postwar Dublin. Check out his open-access work on O'Brien's multiple, contrasting perspectives on the radio here!
Reposted by Paul Fagan
We are hugely honoured to have won the 2025 MSA Book Prize for The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonization, Radical Campuses and Modernism. Thank you to everyone involved. It was a huge joy to work on such a wonderful period in Pacific writing.
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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September 30, 2025 at 9:34 PM
We are hugely honoured to have won the 2025 MSA Book Prize for The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonization, Radical Campuses and Modernism. Thank you to everyone involved. It was a huge joy to work on such a wonderful period in Pacific writing.
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The first article in the Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies 9.1 is out! Zan Cammack’s work is great start to the issue on Flann and the Radio, which features a truly excellent cover. A+ work guest editors @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social and Joseph LaBine!
parishreview.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...
parishreview.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...
September 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The first article in the Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies 9.1 is out! Zan Cammack’s work is great start to the issue on Flann and the Radio, which features a truly excellent cover. A+ work guest editors @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social and Joseph LaBine!
parishreview.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...
parishreview.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...
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Always a pleasure hearing a talk by @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social, this time on Frances Power Cobbe and the Victorian Feminist Celibacy Movement #Scandal2025
September 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Always a pleasure hearing a talk by @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social, this time on Frances Power Cobbe and the Victorian Feminist Celibacy Movement #Scandal2025
Vienna #Scandal conference opens with a brilliant keynote address by Sharon Marcus on "The Structure of Scandal"
Theorises scandals as porous, proliferating, unpredictable events that expose contradictions through the fascinating case of media reporting on the 1936 Mary Astor Divorce Trial & Diary
Theorises scandals as porous, proliferating, unpredictable events that expose contradictions through the fascinating case of media reporting on the 1936 Mary Astor Divorce Trial & Diary
September 25, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Vienna #Scandal conference opens with a brilliant keynote address by Sharon Marcus on "The Structure of Scandal"
Theorises scandals as porous, proliferating, unpredictable events that expose contradictions through the fascinating case of media reporting on the 1936 Mary Astor Divorce Trial & Diary
Theorises scandals as porous, proliferating, unpredictable events that expose contradictions through the fascinating case of media reporting on the 1936 Mary Astor Divorce Trial & Diary
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It's very exciting to see our special issue of the Parish Review dedicated to Flann O'Brien and RADIO appear with its first article, broadcast by Zan Cammack!
I'm excited to read this special issue of the @theparishreview.bsky.social on "Flann O'Brien and the Radio", edited by @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social and Joseph LaBine!
The first article is Zan Cammack's "Sonic Materiality in Brian O’Nolan’s Fiction"
Available to read here:🔗👉 doi.org/10.16995/pr....
The first article is Zan Cammack's "Sonic Materiality in Brian O’Nolan’s Fiction"
Available to read here:🔗👉 doi.org/10.16995/pr....
September 23, 2025 at 12:18 PM
It's very exciting to see our special issue of the Parish Review dedicated to Flann O'Brien and RADIO appear with its first article, broadcast by Zan Cammack!
I'm excited to read this special issue of the @theparishreview.bsky.social on "Flann O'Brien and the Radio", edited by @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social and Joseph LaBine!
The first article is Zan Cammack's "Sonic Materiality in Brian O’Nolan’s Fiction"
Available to read here:🔗👉 doi.org/10.16995/pr....
The first article is Zan Cammack's "Sonic Materiality in Brian O’Nolan’s Fiction"
Available to read here:🔗👉 doi.org/10.16995/pr....
September 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I'm excited to read this special issue of the @theparishreview.bsky.social on "Flann O'Brien and the Radio", edited by @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social and Joseph LaBine!
The first article is Zan Cammack's "Sonic Materiality in Brian O’Nolan’s Fiction"
Available to read here:🔗👉 doi.org/10.16995/pr....
The first article is Zan Cammack's "Sonic Materiality in Brian O’Nolan’s Fiction"
Available to read here:🔗👉 doi.org/10.16995/pr....
Check out the latest @efacis.bsky.social newsletter for information on our upcoming Roundtable on "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing"
Register for the online event (Monday 13 October, 6pm Irish Time) here - all are welcome!
🔗👉 us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Register for the online event (Monday 13 October, 6pm Irish Time) here - all are welcome!
🔗👉 us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
September 18, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Check out the latest @efacis.bsky.social newsletter for information on our upcoming Roundtable on "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing"
Register for the online event (Monday 13 October, 6pm Irish Time) here - all are welcome!
🔗👉 us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Register for the online event (Monday 13 October, 6pm Irish Time) here - all are welcome!
🔗👉 us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Reposted by Paul Fagan
Join us 13 October (6pm Irish Time) for an EFACIS Roundtable Discussion on "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing", a special issue I'm editing for Humanities
Topics will range from the marriage bar and unmarried revolutionary women to Edna O'Brien, Mary Lavin, & more!
🔗👉 www.efacis.eu/content/efac...
Topics will range from the marriage bar and unmarried revolutionary women to Edna O'Brien, Mary Lavin, & more!
🔗👉 www.efacis.eu/content/efac...
September 5, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Join us 13 October (6pm Irish Time) for an EFACIS Roundtable Discussion on "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing", a special issue I'm editing for Humanities
Topics will range from the marriage bar and unmarried revolutionary women to Edna O'Brien, Mary Lavin, & more!
🔗👉 www.efacis.eu/content/efac...
Topics will range from the marriage bar and unmarried revolutionary women to Edna O'Brien, Mary Lavin, & more!
🔗👉 www.efacis.eu/content/efac...
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✨"Fizzing with ideas, 'Finnegans Wake: Human and Nonhuman Histories' offers a revitalizing contribution to Wake studies"✨
Grateful to @woganchris.bsky.social + @modernistudies.bsky.social for this attentive & generous review of our 2024 collection!
modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/b...
Grateful to @woganchris.bsky.social + @modernistudies.bsky.social for this attentive & generous review of our 2024 collection!
modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/b...
Book Review: Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories
9th September 2025 Christopher Wogan, University of York Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories, ed. Richard Barlow and Paul Fagan (Edinburgh University Press, 2024) Published in 2024, the t…
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September 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
✨"Fizzing with ideas, 'Finnegans Wake: Human and Nonhuman Histories' offers a revitalizing contribution to Wake studies"✨
Grateful to @woganchris.bsky.social + @modernistudies.bsky.social for this attentive & generous review of our 2024 collection!
modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/b...
Grateful to @woganchris.bsky.social + @modernistudies.bsky.social for this attentive & generous review of our 2024 collection!
modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/b...
Join us 13 October (6pm Irish Time) for an EFACIS Roundtable Discussion on "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing", a special issue I'm editing for Humanities
Topics will range from the marriage bar and unmarried revolutionary women to Edna O'Brien, Mary Lavin, & more!
🔗👉 www.efacis.eu/content/efac...
Topics will range from the marriage bar and unmarried revolutionary women to Edna O'Brien, Mary Lavin, & more!
🔗👉 www.efacis.eu/content/efac...
September 5, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Join us 13 October (6pm Irish Time) for an EFACIS Roundtable Discussion on "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing", a special issue I'm editing for Humanities
Topics will range from the marriage bar and unmarried revolutionary women to Edna O'Brien, Mary Lavin, & more!
🔗👉 www.efacis.eu/content/efac...
Topics will range from the marriage bar and unmarried revolutionary women to Edna O'Brien, Mary Lavin, & more!
🔗👉 www.efacis.eu/content/efac...
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Join us for a special event to mark the landmark 50th volume of Saothar: Journal of Irish Labour History, a refereed journal dedicated to the study of Irish working-class history … Co-edited by myself, Mary Muldowney, John Cunningham and Brian Hanley.
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Special Event To Mark Publication Of 50th Volume Of Saothar – Dublin Festival of History
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August 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Join us for a special event to mark the landmark 50th volume of Saothar: Journal of Irish Labour History, a refereed journal dedicated to the study of Irish working-class history … Co-edited by myself, Mary Muldowney, John Cunningham and Brian Hanley.
dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/event/specia...
dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/event/specia...