Sorry to read that the London Gate Theatre is closing. A few years ago, I wrote a little (in "Flann O'Brien: Acting Out") about its inaugural April 1979 production of "At Swim-Two-Birds", directed by founder Lou Stein, & its importance to Flann O'Brien's theatrical revival on the 1980s London stage.

Bertrom.@bertrom.bsky.social · 12h ago

If I dwell on those early years it was because the Gate, particularly during the mean and insular Thatcherite 80s, was proving that there was a world elsewhere and that it was possible to create infinite riches in a little room. apple.news/AmkmLoKzGQAq...

Out now! The Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies is packed with great work on the connections between O'Brien and Huxley, including a valuable introduction by guest editors @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social, Emily Reed and Claudia Olk. Thanks to the @openlibhums.org it is wholly free & open access.

Tobias W. Harris@tobias-w-harris.bsky.social · 4w ago

Pleased to announce a new issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies dedicated to interlocking threads in the work of Flann O'Brien and Aldous Huxley. This is the editorial introduction by Claudia Olk, Emily Louise and I: parishreview.openlibhums.org/article/id/3...

Check out Brian Ó Conchubhair's award-winning biography of Flann O'Brien/Brian O'Nolan. In all good bookshops!

Fintan Mallory@fintanmallory.com · last mo.

New biography of Flann O’Brien! By Brian Ó Conchubhair! It’s 700 pages!! And in Irish!!!

Very cool to receive the physical copy of "Joyce & Us", a special issue of Joyce Studies in Italy that features my article on "The Nonhuman Abject in Finnegans Wake" It considers representations of more-than-human life in Shem the Penman & Issy's Footnotes through Julia Kristeva's work on abjection

🚨OUT NOW🚨 "Splintered Selves: Writing Singleness and Widowhood in the Fiction of Mary Lavin and Janet McNeill" by Anne Fogarty Article #11 in our open-access special issue "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing"! Read it here: www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/15...

It was such a pleasure to work on this special issue. Do check out all the great humanities and social science contributions to immunology!

Hopkins Press@hopkinspress.bsky.social · last mo.

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 69.2, Spring 2026 Special Issue on Immunology Guest Editors: Maebh Long and Martin Willis tiny.one/mpksvwhh CONTRIBUTORS Lainie Friedman Ross Whitney Arnold Keir Waddington Elsa Richardson Matthew Hayward Mathieu Bokestael and more

Very cool to receive the physical copy of "Joyce & Us", a special issue of Joyce Studies in Italy that features my article on "The Nonhuman Abject in Finnegans Wake" It considers representations of more-than-human life in Shem the Penman & Issy's Footnotes through Julia Kristeva's work on abjection

Pleased to announce a new issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies dedicated to interlocking threads in the work of Flann O'Brien and Aldous Huxley. This is the editorial introduction by Claudia Olk, Emily Louise and I: parishreview.openlibhums.org/article/id/3...

Editors’ Introduction: Brian O’Nolan and Aldous Huxley

Drawing on the evidence that Aldous Huxley was an important context for Brian O'Nolan, this guest editorial introduces the present special issue and sets out a model for comparative scholarship using ...

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I was writing about Joyce's story "An Encounter" and wanted to find out what "a jerry hat with a high crown" (which the "queer old josser" is described as wearing) looks like. After some light Googling, I choose to believe this is what Joyce wants his reader to picture here.

Thanks to everyone who came out on a blazing hot Friday for the dual launch of the open-access special issue "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" and the accompanying podcast series "Unmarried Sisters" at The James Joyce Centre on Friday! @jamesjoycecentre.bsky.social

🚨OUT NOW: Article #9 in "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing"! "The Marriage Bar in Irish Life" by Deirdre Foley Combining oral history, manuscript sources and personal history, this article considers the impact of the Irish Marriage Bar across generations. Read it here: www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/15...

To mark the second anniversary of Edna O'Brien's passing, read Maureen O'Connor's wonderful article on "Edna O’Brien’s Neglected Widows and Spinsters", published as part of our Humanities open-access Special Issue "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" 🔗 www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/15...

"a tremendously exciting book...a real intellectual breakthrough that reinstates work on Joyce at the forefront of critical studies of modernism" I'm so thrilled by Enda Duffy's wonderful review of "Finnegans Wake: Human & Nonhuman Histories" in @mmodernity.bsky.social! muse.jhu.edu/verify?url=%...

The word of the summer is "unfortunately.." I recently applied for 8 positions: 7 desk rejections, 1 interview. Difficult to see a way forward for me in this field as of now. I'm interested to hear from anyone who successfully transitioned from academia who'd like to share their experiences & tips❤️🙏

Delighted to be speaking at this event - on the life & legacy of Eva Gore Booth, Lissadel, this comimg friday and saturday - all welcome. A suffragette, Labour actvist, poet, writer & sister of Countess Markievicz, it is fantastic that Gore Booth is remembered. www.independent.ie/county/sligo...

Eva Gore-Booth’s legacy as suffragist, trade union organiser and poet to be honoured at Lissadell House event

Conference will be held on Friday and Saturday July 24 and 25

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🔥OUT NOW🔥 "Sexual 'Non-Occurrence': Celibacy in Elizabeth Bowen’s Interwar Fiction" by Iva Dimovska Article #10 in "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing"! Read it here: www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/15...

Thanks to everyone who came out on a blazing hot Friday for the dual launch of the open-access special issue "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" and the accompanying podcast series "Unmarried Sisters" at The James Joyce Centre on Friday! @jamesjoycecentre.bsky.social

Boasting new research from leading experts in Irish women’s writing, the essays explore representations of unmarried and widowed women in writing in order to better understand the historical trajectories of the ‘female celibate’ as a political and cultural figure in Ireland.

Edited by Dr Paul Fagan, Celibacy in Irish Women’s Writing is an open-access Humanities special issue dedicated to less familiar feminist, queer, and activist versions of celibacy in Irish women’s movements and literature.

It was a lovely and sunny Friday evening for the launch of Celibacy in Irish Women’s Writing in The James Joyce Centre ☀️ Two UCD Press authors, Leeann Lane (Mary MacSwiney, Dorothy Macardle, Rosamond Jacob) and Anne Fogarty (co-editor of Voices on Joyce) are contributors to the special collection 👏

Looking forward to today's launch of "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing"! Where? The James Joyce Centre Dublin When? 5pm Who? Speakers Katherine Ebury, Paul Fagan, Anne Fogarty, Deirdre Foley, Fae McNamara & Maureen O'Connor Cost? Free event (but booking is essential) Refreshments? Will be provided!

🔥OUT NOW🔥 "Sexual 'Non-Occurrence': Celibacy in Elizabeth Bowen’s Interwar Fiction" by Iva Dimovska Article #10 in "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing"! Read it here: www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/15...

💥OUT NOW!💥 "‘I Hope Now You Will Do Something for Her, as She Is a Great Burden to Me’: The Impact of Economic Dependency on the Afterlives of Cork Single Women Active in the Irish Revolutionary Period" by Leeann Lane Article #8 in "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing"! 🔗 www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/15...

🚨OUT NOW: Article #9 in "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing"! "The Marriage Bar in Irish Life" by Deirdre Foley Combining oral history, manuscript sources and personal history, this article considers the impact of the Irish Marriage Bar across generations. Read it here: www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/15...

"a tremendously exciting book...a real intellectual breakthrough that reinstates work on Joyce at the forefront of critical studies of modernism" I'm so thrilled by Enda Duffy's wonderful review of "Finnegans Wake: Human & Nonhuman Histories" in @mmodernity.bsky.social! muse.jhu.edu/verify?url=%...

One week until the launch of "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" at The James Joyce Centre Dublin! Speakers include Katherine Ebury, Anne Fogarty, Maureen O'Connor, Deirdre Foley and Fae Mc Namara! Book your free ticket now: www.eventbrite.ie/e/launch-of-...

Please join us for the launch of "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing," a new special issue dedicated to the untold history of Ireland's unmarried women edited by @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social, on Friday, 10 July at 5pm. The event is free but booking is essential. www.eventbrite.ie/e/launch-of-...

To mark the centenary of radical poet, feminist & trade unionist Eva Gore-Booth, read @sonjatiernan.bsky.social's "Sex Is an Accident: Heterosexual Celibacy in the Political Writings of Eva Gore-Booth"; published in our special issue Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing! 🔗👉 www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/15...

💥OUT NOW!💥 "‘I Hope Now You Will Do Something for Her, as She Is a Great Burden to Me’: The Impact of Economic Dependency on the Afterlives of Cork Single Women Active in the Irish Revolutionary Period" by Leeann Lane Article #8 in "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing"! 🔗 www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/15...

Big Woolf news, critical edition of Flush-- this will be a great source for nonhuman relational thought in Woolf and modernism more generally. cup.org/4w8HjMS

Flush | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

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