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Stephan Flores @floresspflores67.bsky.social · 5d

Asst.Prof.TT job opening in global anglophone lit. with great colleagues at U. Idaho uidaho.peopleadmin.com/postings/496...

Regular Faculty - Global Anglophone Literature

The Department of English at the University of Idaho invites applications for a full-time Assistant Professor of Global Anglophone Literature. This tenure-track position will begin Fall 2026 with a 2/...

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British Association for Irish Studies (BAIS) @bairishstudies.bsky.social · 9d

The 2025 BAIS Essay Prize winner, written by Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social is now available to read on Irish Studies Review!
doi.org/10.1080/0967...

“I took the left turn for eternity”: otherworlds, afterlives, and discursive storytelling traditions in Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman and Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Graveyard Clay

This essay explores Flann O’Brien’s posthumously published The Third Policeman (1967) and Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s 1949 Irish language novel Cré na Cille (Graveyard Clay) through their use of literary o...

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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 22d

Happy 40th birthday to one of my favorite albums of all-time, Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love 💜

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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · Sep 8

Now that it’s in print, if you’re feeling like reading about two of my favorites (O’Brien & Ó Cadhain) and their wild wild stories, check out my little article in Irish Studies Review 🚲🪦

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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · Jul 14

Thanks a ton!! 🙏

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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · Jul 14

Thank you all!!! ✨✨✨

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The International Flann O’Brien Society @flannobriensoc.bsky.social · Jul 13

Fantastic to see Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social win the British Association for Irish Studies @bairishstudies.bsky.social essay prize for her challenge to the ways 'narrative theory has conceived of afterlife stories as unnatural, oppositional, or dependent on a privileged realist norm'

British Association for Irish Studies (BAIS) @bairishstudies.bsky.social · May 15

Essay Prize:

Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social (@york.ac.uk ):'"I took the left turn for eternity": Otherworlds, Afterlives, and Discursive Storytelling Traditions in Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman and Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Cré ne Cille / Graveyard Clay'

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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · Jul 6

Belated, but what a good time the @flannobriensoc.bsky.social conference in Strabane was 🚲

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The International Flann O’Brien Society @flannobriensoc.bsky.social · Jul 4

💥New publication alert!💥 "‘Our own good Editor’: Brian O’Nolan, Niall Montgomery and the Drafts of the Cruiskeen Lawn" by @maebhlong.bsky.social, @jessiepb.bsky.social & Marie Theunisz out now! Check their article out for new insights into the co-authorship of Cruiskeen Lawn.

‘Our own good Editor’: Brian O’Nolan, Niall Montgomery and the Drafts of the Cruiskeen Lawn

Although the Niall Montgomery papers housed at the National Library of Ireland shows that Montgomery contributed to the Cruiskeen Lawn, researchers without access to Dublin have been unable to identif...

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Tony Mastrogiorgio @tonymastro.bsky.social · Jun 25

It makes me feel better about the state of the world to know that at this moment people are gathering to talk about Flann O’Brien. (No doubt as truly true Gaelic Gaels who speak in true Gaelic Gaelic about the truly Gaelic language.)

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

Strabane has been putting up with an influx of Flanneurs with exceptional patience and hospitality

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · Jun 23

Read the superb programme for the 8th International Flann O’Brien Conference, this week in Strabane!
With talks on diverse aspects of "Home, Heritage & Origins" in O'Brien's writing; screenings; exhibitions & tours of O'Brien's home town
Registration & schedule👉 www.alley-theatre.com/whats-on/25-...

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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · Jun 24

Hello to Strabane and hello to the one and only Brian O’Nolan 👋

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · Jun 6

Dolly Parton

Dolly on stage c. early 1970s. Huge hair and a pink jumpsuit. I think the man right behind her in a Nudie suit is Porter Wagoner.

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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · Jun 18

Fiancé decided to join me on my upcoming Ryanair flight to Belfast and got dropkicked from the seat next to me at the very last minute due to a tech glitch. Got on social media and this is the first thing I saw 🤣

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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · Jun 16

Footage of Bloomsday - June 16, 1954 (50 years after the events of Ulysses). Celebrated by Brian O’Nolan (Flann O’Brien), Patrick Kavanagh, Anthony Cronin, John Ryan, Tom Joyce, & Con Leventhal. Started at the Martello tower and didn’t get far. Happy Bloomsday!!

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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · May 15

Love when the pals win together 🤝

British Association for Irish Studies (BAIS) @bairishstudies.bsky.social · May 15

Niamh MacGloin (@york.ac.uk ), ‘Language and the Anxiety of Belonging in London-Irish Literature’

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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · May 15

big fan of BAIS ✨✨✨

British Association for Irish Studies (BAIS) @bairishstudies.bsky.social · May 15

Essay Prize:

Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social (@york.ac.uk ):'"I took the left turn for eternity": Otherworlds, Afterlives, and Discursive Storytelling Traditions in Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman and Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Cré ne Cille / Graveyard Clay'

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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · Apr 16

Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez visited my home (red) state of Montana on their Fighting Oligarchy tour today. They filled the stadium with a crowd of 7,500 and an overflow of 1,500. Nearing 1% of Montana’s population.