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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 @universitypress.cambridge.org

https://research.ucc.ie/en/persons/claire-connolly/

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · Jan 3
Thanks to @martindoyle.bsky.social and Mary Miniham @irishtimes.com for taking my piece on heavy coats and ragged people for today’s paper - with a shoutout for new @universitypress.cambridge.org book on #IrishRomanticism #speirgorm
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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 9h
Sea was cold but sauna was hot and sun was (briefly) shining - Oysterhaven this evening #speirgorm #seasauna
Sun setting on the coast Coastal sunset Blue sky Wall, sea, house in the distance

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Kasia @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social · 5d
Very excited to be part of this collection of essays on 19C Ireland that @marymullen.bsky.social and @cookiegoth.bsky.social put together and the fact that it’s got such a striking cover doesn’t hurt either!
Race, Violence, and Form: Reframing Nineteenth-Century Ireland | Home
Renée Fox is Associate Professor of Literature and Jordan-Stern Presidential Chair for Dickens and Nineteenth-Century Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk

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English, University of Limerick @ulenglish.bsky.social · 6d
Our colleague Prof @drtinamorin.bsky.social reviews the latest book by @claireconnolly.bsky.social for @irishtimes.com. Congratulations both! www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Irish Romanticism: A Literary History by Claire Connolly – A lively tradition that still has much to teach us
Claire Connolly’s ambitious study captures well both the gradual development of Irish Romanticism and its ‘copiousness’
www.irishtimes.com

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 7d
Some colleagues in my old department in Trondheim are recruiting a PhD candidate in Gender Studies and/or STS on the "Imagining Positive Energy Futures" project. 3 years, fully funded. Norway's a good place to do a PhD and Trondheim's a nice place to live!
PhD candidate within Gender Studies and/or STS: Imagining Positive Energy Futures (294972) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Job title: PhD candidate within Gender Studies and/or STS: Imagining Positive Energy Futures (294972), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Sunday, March 15, 2026
www.jobbnorge.no

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Paul O'Donovan @paulodonovan.bsky.social · 7d
Signs of spring after the deluge. Snowdrop, Primrose, Witch Hazel and scented Daphne. #timelinecleanse
A single snowbell A wild primrose Yellow Witch Hazel flowers Pink Daphne with bees

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 8d
See you there Nadia!

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 8d
Checking out some of Dakar's amazing public art on the campus of UCAS and at the Place du Souvenir Africain.

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Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social · 8d
Cool photograph of a half-finished St Finbarr’s in Cork! @nlireland.bsky.social L_IMP_0134
Facade of St Finbarr’s without towers or spires

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Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social · 8d
Cover reveal of my new book and a link to pre-order. You’re welcome 🤓https://www.lilliputpress.ie/products/a-hosting-interviews-with-irish-writers-1991-2025
The cover of A Hosting: Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2025 by Martin Doyle

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neil guthrie @nguthrie.bsky.social · 8d
Five pastel portraits by William Parry (1742-1791), c1770, almost certainly members of Sir William Watkins Wynn's Cycle Club, a late, sentimentalist #Jacobite group that met at Sir William's house in Wales. At Bonhams, London, est. £3,000-5,000 #c18th #c18 #18thc
Half-length portraits of gents in black or red coats; hair a mix of wigs, powdered and unpowdered coiffed natural hair (one bad pageboy cut with curls at the sides). Images are within ovals but the sheets are rectangular.

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 8d
Thanks Tina !

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 9d
'Pilot Boat, Moelfre, Anglesey.' (c1970) Writing about why he started to paint, Kyffin Williams said it was record the land, the people and natural history. I never intended to produce works of art but if this did happen by chance, it was all to the good.'

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Tina Morin @drtinamorin.bsky.social · 9d
In case you didn't catch it in last Saturday's print edition, my review of Irish Romanticism: A Literary History by Claire Connolly is now up on the Irish Times website.

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Irish Romanticism: A Literary History by Claire Connolly – A lively tradition that still has much to teach us
Claire Connolly’s ambitious study captures well both the gradual development of Irish Romanticism and its ‘copiousness’
www.irishtimes.com

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 9d
Talk:
Deidre Shauna Lynch (English, Harvard)
"Papyromania: Women, Books, and Scraps in the Long Eighteenth Century"
Thursday, March 26, 7.50pm GMT
In-person: UConn Humanities Institute
More info and register to join online below

uconn-cmr.webex.com/webappng/sit...

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Tina Morin @drtinamorin.bsky.social · 9d
I very much look forward to welcoming Dr. Peter Hession to @unioflimerick.bsky.social as our inaugural O'Malley Fellow!

www.ul.ie/news/inaugur...
Inaugural recipient of the O’Malley Fellowship: Advancing Irish Studies joins 'remarkable community of scholars' in University of Limerick
Dr Peter Hession is the first appointee of the new University of Limerick O’Malley Fellowship: Advancing Irish Studies, supported by the Irish American Cultural Institute. Dr Hession, a historian curr...
www.ul.ie

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 9d
'One of the great joys of being in Clonakilty for so long is seeing generations come through the door.'

Our Bookshop of the Month is Kerr’s Bookshop in West Cork.

faber.co.uk/journal/independent-bookshop-of-the-month-kerrs-bookshop/

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Secret Life of Books Podcast @slobpodcast.bsky.social · 9d
In this thrilling bonus episode, Sophie talks to @richove.bsky.social about how the Oxford’s Bodleian came to own the manuscript of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. To see the manuscript, go to the Digital Bodleian: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/53fd...
@bodleian.ox.ac.uk #Frankenstein

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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bsky.social · 11d
The @uk.theconversation.com are launching their new series on little-known but highly influential scientists with my piece on Frank Malina. It covers his time as an early pioneer of Rocket Science and as highly influential Artist later: doi.org/10.64628/AB....
My unsung hero of science: Frank Malina – fearless rocket engineer, groundbreaking artist and communist ‘traitor’
The first in a new series dedicated to little-known but highly influential scientists.
doi.org

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 12d
Great to catch up Dónal, hope the trip and the research continues to prosper ...

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 18d
Jane Austen with a side of tinned meat - more Barbara Pym please and more @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social - thanks @irishtimes.com @martindoyle.bsky.social

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 19d
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Angela Wright @angelawright1794.bsky.social · 19d
Delighted to receive the hard copy of Jimmy Packham’s fabulous Coastal Gothic, 1719-2020 from our Cambridge Elements in the Gothic
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Coastal Gothic, 1719-2020 by Jimmy Packham

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Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social · 19d
Is there anything better than unfolding a really cool old map? (Pencil for scale) #skystorians @nlireland.bsky.social
Catholic map of ireland 1859

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 20d
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 20d
Hellebore and Snowdrop
‘Wild Flowers’ (1957)
Artists: Edith Hilder, Rowland Hilder
Botanical study of the flowers for an identification guide with a loose watercolour backdrop of winter trees and ploughed fields

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 21d
That would be fab!

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 21d
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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 21d
😂 Is that an Edgeworthia I spy behind you?!

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Jay Roszman is on sabbatical. @jayroszman.bsky.social · 22d
A 3 year JRF at Magdalene and Notre Dame in Irish Studies – sounds like a pretty great opportunity for someone.
‘Parnell’ Stipendiary Research Fellowship in Irish Studies Competition at University of Cambridge
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a ‘Parnell’ Stipendiary Research Fellowship in Irish Studies Competition on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 23d
One of those publications that slipped out without me noticing

A contribution (amongst others) to reflections on the new Digital Bibliography of Welsh Writing in English

I'm C18th-ing, but see also Charlotte Williams on Black Welsh writing, @francescabrooks.bsky.social on Welsh modernism and more!
Ten Pathways into the Digital Bibliography of Welsh Writing in English
This multi-authored paper draws attention to the new, digital bibliography of Welsh writing in English, the English-language literature of Wales. Hosted at the website of the Association for Welsh Wri...
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