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The International Flann O’Brien Society @flannobriensoc.bsky.social · 2d

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...

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Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social · 2d

Auckland university is hiring a Lecturer (that’s Assistant Prof for all you Americans) in English, specialising in the long nineteenth century, to a permanent position commencing before Semester 1, 2026 (or by negotiation). Focus is nineteenth century fiction - details below!

Lecturer - English

Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandThe University of Auckland is New Zealand’s pre-eminent University, with a turnover of $1.1bn, including research revenue of over $...

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Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks Sean!

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Thanks Paul! We’re really looking forward to hanging out in November!

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Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you Susan!

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Thank you!

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The International Flann O’Brien Society @flannobriensoc.bsky.social · 6d

Einat Adar reviews 'Dissonant Waves', Sam Dolbear and Esther Leslie’s monograph on Ernst Schoen, pioneer of early radio. Available open access now in the Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies 9.1!

Review of Sam Dolbear and Esther Leslie, <em>Dissonant Waves: Ernst Schoen and Experimental Sound in the Twentieth Century</em> (Goldsmiths Press, 2023)

Dissonant Waves tells the life story of Ernst Schoen, a pioneer of early radio and the Leader of the Programming Department at Südwestdeutsche Rundfunkdienst AG (SWZ), the Frankfurt regional radio sta...

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Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social · 7d

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.

Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 7d

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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Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social · 9d

I do like the fact it has Irish subtitles, though. Reading those distract from how bad it is!

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Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social · 29d

Registration for the Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand conference is now live! Join us in Dunedin in November for excellent papers and discussion.

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…

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Joe Culley @therealculls.bsky.social · 13d

A quick reminder that The Parish Review is open to all, saor in aisce.

Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social · 13d

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!

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The Cover for 9.1 Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies features a cartoon by Micheal O Nuallain. It shows a man under a tree about to smash a radio with an axe.

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Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social · 13d

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!

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The International Flann O’Brien Society @flannobriensoc.bsky.social · 16d

Zan Cammack’s article on Flann O’Brien’s comic engagements with the acoustic environment of early twentieth-century Ireland is OUT NOW! in the Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies. On air twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, do not adjust your dials! 📻

Sonic Materiality in Brian O’Nolan’s Fiction

This article argues that Brian O’Nolan’s fiction consistently stages sound as a material force, one that becomes most tangible at the moment of its mediation. Drawing on theories of sonic materiality ...

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Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social · 29d

Registration for the Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand conference is now live! Join us in Dunedin in November for excellent papers and discussion.

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…

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Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social · Sep 3

So wonderful to be in conversation with our 2025 Writing Fellow at the Centre of Irish and Scottish Studies. Nicole Flattery shared excellent insights into her works and we got an advance peak into her forthcoming novel! Thanks as always to Dunedin City Library and UNESCO Dunedin City of Literature

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Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social · Aug 29

Ooh, amazing news, Wendy! Well done you!

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Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social · Aug 29

Thank you, Liam! Great energy from the crowd too. Glad you got a copy of the books - they sold out!

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Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social · Aug 28

I so enjoyed chatting with the wonderful Nicole Flattery on Write Spot. Thanks to the great team at OAR and Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature!

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Write Spot with Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature - Otago Access Radio

Write Spot takes a look at how our city is embracing its City of Literature status with Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature director Nicky Page and Special Guests.

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The International Flann O’Brien Society @flannobriensoc.bsky.social · Aug 27

It’s always a good time to have your books professionally handled. Beware amateurs or biblioquacks who can leave your books stressed and their plots in array.

Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · Aug 25

Maybe they had engaged a book handling service like the one proposed by Brian O’Nolan writing as Flann O’Brien writing as Myles na Gopaleen

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Flann O’Brien’s Book Handling Enterprise

Flann O’Brien was a pen name of Brian O’Nolan, an Irish author who is most famous for three novels, At Swim Two Birds, The Third Policeman and the Dalkey Archive. He also wrote a column for the Iri…

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Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social · Aug 27

Thank you so much, Liam! We’re honoured to be shortlisted!

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Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social · Aug 21

I'm so delighted to hear that Robert Sullivan (Ngāpuhi, Kāi Tahu) has been confirmed as the new Poet Laureate. Robert is a brilliant poet and we're lucky to have him as one of the keynote speakers at our Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand conference. Comhghairdeas Robert, ka pai!

Robert Sullivan confirmed as new Poet Laureate

The National Library - Te Puna Maa-tauranga O Aotearoa - has just announced Robert Sullivan will take over as Poet Laureate.

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · Aug 9

. @maebhlong.bsky.social & Matthew Hayward trace the rise of #PacificLiterature in the 1960s & 1970s in anti-colonial teaching at the University of Papua New Guinea & the University of the South Pacific, taking inspirations from a variety of influences, esp global #Modernism s

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Holding the book "The Rise of Pacific Literature" by Maebh Long and Matthew Hayward in front of a tree with green apples

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Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social · Aug 8

I had wet calves for about a decade…

Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · Aug 8

The youth are learning the consequences of early 2000’s fashion

A picture of a girl wearing a pair of long, oversized jeans. The bottom 10-12 inches of the jeans from hem up are soaking wet

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Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social · Aug 3

Lovely conversation between Nicole Flattery, the 2025 Irish Writing Fellow at the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, Uni of Otago, and Ali Boyne, of Dunedin Public Libraries. There will be a public event at the Library later in August - watch this space!

A Conversation with Nicole Flattery: CISS Irish Writers Fellow — NB: August '25

Ali catches up with Nicole Flattery, the University of Otago’s Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies Irish Writers Fellow, ahead of her fellowship in August.

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The International Flann O’Brien Society @flannobriensoc.bsky.social · Jul 26

The International Flann O’Brien Society is sad to hear of the death of Breandán Ó Conaire. In addition to research on Flann O’Brien, Breandán conducted important work on Tomás Ó Criomhthain, Seán Ó Ríordáin, Máirtín Ó Cadhain and Douglas Hyde. We mourn him and the loss to his family and community.

Death Notice of Breandán Ó Conaire (Portmarnock, Dublin) | rip.ie

The death has occurred of Breandán Ó Conaire of Portmarnock, Dublin Ireland, on 21/07/2025. You can view the full death notice and add your condolences here.

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