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Mary M. Burke
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"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 .. more

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · May 1
Thanks to @uconnhumanities.bsky.social & the Sharon Harris Award committee for this honor!
uconnhumanities.bsky.social University of Connecticut Humanities Institute @uconnhumanities.bsky.social · May 1
We are honored to announce the Sharon Harris Book Award winners for 2025. The award committee has chosen Mary Burke’s *Race, Politics, and Irish America* (@oxunipress.bsky.social) and Frank Costigliola’s *Kennan: A Life Between Worlds* (@princetonupress.bsky.social). Congrats!!
The 2025 Sharon Harris Book Award | Humanities Institute
The award committee has named Mary Burke’s Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History and Frank Costigliola’s Kennan: A Life Between Worlds co-reci ...
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Suzanne Walsh @zanbreathnach.bsky.social · 2d
Amongst the Christmas chaos I heard a child on the street ask his mother where they were going, ‘Nowhere ’ she answered

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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 2d
'And what is a view? A view is where we are not. Where we are is never a view.'
Front cover of The Rose Garden: Short Stories, by Maeve Brennan, showing the author in front of a fireplace with a desk covered with books behind her

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 3d
Yes, he aged better than than anyone I have ever seen!

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 3d
"The Cream of Ulster: Rich and thick!" Always makes me laugh

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 3d
Death anniv. of famous Irish cricketer Samuel Beckett. (Few know he also wrote plays)
Samuel Beckett black and white portrait

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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 3d
I just spent six years writing a book. I learned how to use archives, how to handle secondary sources, how to structure a 140k-word argument. I fell so hard in love I went back to school for a PhD. Now people ask how I use LLMs to write or summarize and I can only think “You don’t value what I do.”

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3d
the way people talk about AI is like it's a stalker you ought to be nicer to
"AI is not going away," says a bluesky user

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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 3d
Livestream from Newgrange, worth seeing as sunlight is starting to light the tomb right now ☀️
Experience the Winter Solstice live from Newgrange
This rare phenomenon, which has captivated visitors for generations, marks the shortest day of the year
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Jamey @klocktower.org · 5d
I'm a high school teacher with a PhD that I earned while still teaching high school. When I was close to defending, lots of people asked me what I was going to do with my degree.

"I'll keep teaching high school," was my answer. "I'm not trying to take a pay cut."

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 6d
He was a bit of a pound shop J.R. Ewing, but I loved him!

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 6d
Luke Morgan will read @uconn.bsky.social in 2026, so excited to see this!
mollytwomey.bsky.social Molly Twomey @mollytwomey.bsky.social · 6d
Poem-a-day advent calendar 🎁 Day 18 is 'Pitch for Thicker than Water' from 'Blood Atlas' by @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social 🌹 @arlenhouse.bsky.social
Cover of Blood Atlas is a large brown ship coming out of the ocean. The cover is cream. PITCH FOR THICKER THAN WATER I have this idea for a screenplay: one day, the UN severs all familial ties on Earth, and people are free to choose relatives. Our hero, estranged from his son, endeavours to re-apply for the role of dad. But then, he hears news that his son has already filed for a new dad a teacher, sports coach, a friend's dad - and this breaks his heart. A plot twist occurs midway through our family feature when he considers where his own father is; the old fart is in a nursing home somewhere, staring at a dirty wall. So, our protagonist enrols as a janitor at this facility-a montage shows him cleaning shit along a narrow hall until he starts to steal moments of confused tranquillity in the old man's room, joining him to study a wall stain shaped like Dún Laoghaire's pier, where, one morning, the old man forced a 99 on them to numb a silent pain. The film ends as the son from the start, without warning, turns up with ice cream ... but real life isn't that breezy, I know. I just like that this dumb little script could allow three troubled men to admit they could have gone easy on each other, without knowing when, or knowing how.

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Molly Twomey @mollytwomey.bsky.social · 6d
Poem-a-day advent calendar 🎁 Day 18 is 'Pitch for Thicker than Water' from 'Blood Atlas' by @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social 🌹 @arlenhouse.bsky.social
Cover of Blood Atlas is a large brown ship coming out of the ocean. The cover is cream. PITCH FOR THICKER THAN WATER I have this idea for a screenplay: one day, the UN severs all familial ties on Earth, and people are free to choose relatives. Our hero, estranged from his son, endeavours to re-apply for the role of dad. But then, he hears news that his son has already filed for a new dad a teacher, sports coach, a friend's dad - and this breaks his heart. A plot twist occurs midway through our family feature when he considers where his own father is; the old fart is in a nursing home somewhere, staring at a dirty wall. So, our protagonist enrols as a janitor at this facility-a montage shows him cleaning shit along a narrow hall until he starts to steal moments of confused tranquillity in the old man's room, joining him to study a wall stain shaped like Dún Laoghaire's pier, where, one morning, the old man forced a 99 on them to numb a silent pain. The film ends as the son from the start, without warning, turns up with ice cream ... but real life isn't that breezy, I know. I just like that this dumb little script could allow three troubled men to admit they could have gone easy on each other, without knowing when, or knowing how.

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 6d
”Wuster” sauce!? Fantasti!

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 6d
You do not become a world builder by reading everything everyone else has to say about world building. You do it by the actual act of creating, the continuous and dedicated practice of the skill. You fail, you learn, you create again. This is what makes you a world builder.

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 6d
Amazing to think Keith Richards is 82 today. No idea what that is in human years.

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Caoimhín @yascaoimhin.bsky.social · 6d
The is a taxi driver in Ballaghadereen called Abdul. But locals call him Abdul Abhaile.

(“ag dul abhaile”is Irish for “going home”)

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Ida Tolgensbakk @idatolgensbakk.bsky.social · 6d
@ostfoldmuseene.bsky.social has written a nice piece on our dragon, so take a look! #academicsky
På dragejakt på Bygdøy - Østfoldmuseene
"Og jeg så en engel stige ned fra himmelen med nøkkelen til avgrunnen og en stor lenke i hånden. Han grep dragen, den gamle slangen, som er djevelen og Satan, og bandt ham for tusen år." (Bibelen, Jo...
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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 6d
Lecturer/Assistant Professor Hispanic Studies, UCD
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Lecturer/Assistant Professor Hispanic Studies at University College Dublin
An academic position as a Lecturer/Assistant Professor Hispanic Studies is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 7d
when someone shouts "Mary!" in a crowded room in Ireland, every woman over 70 and I look around. Given it is the name of at least two of your elderly aunties and at least one granny if you are Irish, it has become vanishingly rare

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 7d
flew to Ireland this week to buy the newest @stingingfly.bsky.social issue (almost true)

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 7d
In an alternative universe, THIS was the hottest 1990s couple

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❄️Spooky Sara❄️ @pashion.bsky.social · 7d
rock and roll photos
Episode aired Jul 22, 1991 .. Terry Wogan. It was usually broadcast live ... Madonna appeared in a special show, Wogan Meets Madonna, in 1991, in which Wogan interviewed her in Cannes. Its a photo of Terry Wogan a famous British talk show host sitting down with and next to Madonna the pop music artist she is looking at him with lust in her eyes rock and roll photos

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 7d
Could be Recovered, no?!

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Sam Sacks @ssacks.bsky.social · 11d
A recent used bookshop find I couldn't pass up. Avon did this rounded corners thing for a few years in the '60s. An article at the time claims (maybe jokingly) that it was to prevent dog-earing. I've seen Henry Roth's 'Call It Sleep' in this version. Show me yours if you have one!
Avon paperback of Muriel Spark's 'The Girls of Slender Means' with rounded corners. Images of cutout fashion figures on the cover.

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 11d
I'm delighted to announce that we've now sold over 100 sets of the new US edition of Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage. And I hope it's a special sign that the 100th set was purchased by none other than the superb writer Carmen Maria Machado.

Reading Pilgrimage 2026 starts in 19 days!
Two sets of the new US edition of Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage, published by Libroj Books

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 11d
Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Modern Irish, UCD

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Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Modern Irish at University College Dublin
Recruiting now: Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Modern Irish on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 11d
Defy the icy weather, Torontonians, and come to the Toronto Reference Library to celebrate Jane Austen's 250th with me and some very smart & funny Austenians: Alex Hernandez, Tom Keymer, Karen Vallihora. This coming Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in Beeton Hall at the Reference Library.
Portrait of Jane Austen in lace cap, blue dress, with birthday balloons. "Jane Austen 250th Anniversary Panel discussion." Toronto Public Library with photos of speakers and info' about venue and time : Toronto Reference Library, Beeton Hall, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesday Dec. 16th, 2025