History & Geography building, Santiago University, Gallicia (sigh)
Mary M. Burke
@maryburke.bsky.social
"Race Politics & Irish America" (Oxford UP bit.ly/3XKj0nn) Winner: 2025 Sharon Harris Book Award. Excerpt: bit.ly/3FuH1sa Podcast: bit.ly/3ZT7pnW Juanita Casey "Horse of Selene" Afterword: bit.ly/3QTOlSo Page: https://english.uconn.edu/person/mary-burk
library of Cathedral at Santiago (a camino terminus, Gallicia)
renovation of friend’s 1930s Dublin house uncovered this wallpaper
It’s syllabus prep season, and I’m thinking about what a privilege and benefit it must be for those academics who get to directly tie their teaching / syllabi to their research / writing. 1/5
I’ve enjoyed reading this about @hookland.bsky.social - one for fans of Essex weirdness, JG Ballard, Dr Who …
'I am now writing on Saturday, 2nd of August, seated quietly in Mr Curran’s bookroom in his rural retreat, 4 miles from Dublin… ' My co-authored piece on William Godwin’s six-week visit to Ireland in the summer of 1800, hosted by the Irish Patriot lawyer John Philpot Curran, is now on open access:
‘A nation in its last moments’: William Godwin’s visit to Ireland, 1800 - History Ireland
Godwin’s letters have left us an eyewitness account of aspects of Irish social and political life at a critical moment in the country’s history. In June 1800 the Irish ‘patriot’ MP and barrister John ...
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The overwhelm is real. “258 books we’re for looking forward to before the end of the year”
So many good looking people in Copenhagen that I stand out as exotic and therefore to them, even better looking than them.
🐳 You’re God damned right @hesterblum.bsky.social & I made a TWENTY-FIVE EPISODE PODCAST just about 𝐌𝐎𝐁𝐘-𝐃𝐈𝐂𝐊. Subscribe now at exploringthegreats.com/moby-dick & enjoy our thrilling trailer:
A genre I know nothing about, but this one could be...interesting
Here on E Street, we are heartbroken over the death of Glen Hansard. We met in Ireland many years ago and he was always nothing but a great musician, a good friend and a generous and gracious man. Always positive, smiling and ready to sing. God bless him and his loved ones. Bruce
In pre-AI days, a "Guardian journalist" (essay mill fraudster) would email Irish Studies folks "can you tell me in 2000 words why Yates is a great writer?" (and the like). Ah, innocent times.
Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
I didn’t know much about Glen Hansard’s music when I saw him perform for the first time, and he was one of the best live performers I’ve ever seen. Absolutely masterful control over the crowd.
This looks good and important. And it's open access! #Archives #AcademicSky
Ciara Breathnach@ciarab.bsky.social · 2mo agoSo this was a nice surprise to wake up to, thanks to all Cambridge University Press & Assessment and series editor @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social Delighted that it is Open Access doi.org/10.1017/9781... @researchireland.ie @ucc.ie
I have been into @treadwells-books.bsky.social and signed a huge pile of ‘Hookland Fragments’ and inserted dozens of Right To Reside cards, so there are definitely back in stock if you want a copy from one of my favourite bookshops.
There's new info on opportunities for students in Irish Studies on our website! Check out this call for internship applications from the American Irish Historical Society acisweb.org/announcement...
American Irish Historical Society Internship | American Conference for Irish Studies – An Chomhdháil Mheiriceánach do Léann na hÉireann
Applications are open for the American Irish Historical Society’s Fall Internship program. The program is a competitive application, providing training for undergraduate and graduate students who…
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Call for interns! Applications are open for the American Irish Historical Society's Fall Internship program. The program is a competitive application, providing training for undergraduate and… | ...
Call for interns! Applications are open for the American Irish Historical Society's Fall Internship program. The program is a competitive application, providing training for undergraduate and graduat...
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The judges called it “a mouthy, ballsy and bracingly unsentimental portrait of west Dublin gangland, set well off the beaten track of the city’s usual literary landmarks”. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Booker Prize 2026: Irish debutant features on longlist alongside Marlon James, Douglas Stuart and more
Djamel White’s gangland novel All Them Dogs is up against former winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart as well as Elizabeth Strout and nine others
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'Sits somewhere between Joan Didion and Louis Theroux' – Amy Liptrot The Most Normal Woman Woman by Roisin Kiberd will be published next month! Preorder now from your favourite book slinger. www.kennys.ie/shop/the-mos... booksupstairs.ie/product/the-... www.dubraybooks.ie/product/the-...
It’s two years today since the inimitable Edna O’Brien and Éibhear Walshe both left us. We are the better for having had them so long in our midst and Irish letters continues to benefit from their words and thought.
Join us on Teams for a chat about this month's poetry collection, 'District and Circle', by Seamus Heaney 📅 Friday, 31 July at 1pm: https://www.nli.ie/exhibitions-events/online-book-club-district-and-circle-1 This book club is for everyone, you don't need to be a poetry expert!
Online Book Club | District and Circle
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It’s US publication day for #FewAndFarBetween I’d like to say a huge thank you to Emily, Ellie and all @scribnerbooks.bsky.social who’ve done such a great job in bringing this book in the world. Dying to see snaps in the wild, if you’re in a US bookstore or library and spot it, fire a snap my way.
