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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!

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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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 9h

The latest @irishtimes.com fiction in translation column by Catherine Taylor is now online for subscribers 👇

Fiction in translation: The Midnight Timetable; The Woman Dies; The Ferryman & His Wife; My Name Is Stramer; Wolf Moon’ and The Loft

Books by Bora Chung (Korea), Japan (Aoko Matsuda), Frode Grytten (Norway), Mikołaj Łoziński (Poland), Julio Llamazares (Spain) and Marlen Haushofer (Austria)

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 9h

can confirm @oxfordacademic.bsky.social discount for books displayed @moderniststudies.bsky.social works!

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 10h

yup!

Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 10h

Honora is such a common 19th-c Irish first name....

Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 10h

It's humbling when a reviewer summarizes your work better than you can..
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Mary M. Burke, Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History

Stephen Butler; Mary M. Burke, Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History, American Literary History, Volume 37, Issue 1, 1 March 2025, Pages 269–

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 13h

We’ve outsourced editing now

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 19h

Fascinating to learn of Brian Friel’s Translations being staged in Senegal.

Ireland's iconic play 'Translations' hits Dakar stage • FRANCE 24 English

YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English

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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 22h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 22h

"The chancellor approved it"

🫧 Spark Elation 🫧 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 22h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“a supply chain attack”

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

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Neil Hegarty @neilhegarty.bsky.social · 1d

'In Fermanagh, the almost total disappearance of greys and re-emergence of red squirrels is being largely put down to pine martens.' This is a great story.

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Pine martens on the move in Northern Ireland

One of Northern Ireland's rarest native mammals have been turning up in some unusual places.

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 4d

Far from the Maudlin Crowd?

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🕷TarantulaMask🎃 @octopusmask.bsky.social · 4d

One drive is where I accidentally save things to sometimes and then the file is lost for ever.

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 4d

I'll speak on dramatist George Kelly (Princess Grace's uncle), critic Mary McCarthy, & Irish America @moderniststudies.bsky.social on Friday

Theatre critic and novelist Mary McCarthy

Neglected Irish American playwright, George Kelly (1887-1974), Pulitzer Prize-winning uncle of Grace Kelly (Princess Grace of Monaco)

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 4d

I'll be heading to Belfast for the last of my New Arcana launches, introduced by the wonderful Stephen Sexton, at No Alibis Books, on the 21st October. Free but ticketed- get yours here!

noalibis.com/event/poetry...

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 4d

CFP: 18th International Conference on Medieval & Renaissance Scottish Language, Literature, & Culture
1–4 July, @bristoluni.bsky.social

Deadline: 14 Nov 2025. See link for details 👇
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Call for Papers

18th International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language, Literature, and Culture (ICMRSLLC)

University of Bristol, 1-4 July 2026

We are delighted to invite papers for the 18th International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language, Literature, and Culture (ICMRSLLC), first established in 1975. We welcome proposals for papers that discuss any aspects of medieval and renaissance Scottish language, literature, and culture, and papers that reflect on these fields from different time periods, languages, and places.

Keynote speakers:
Roderick Lyall (Emeritus Professor of Literatures in English, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Anna Groundwater (Principal Curator, National Museums Scotland)
Steven Reid (Professor of Early Modern Scottish History and Culture, University of Glasgow)

You may submit either an individual paper proposal (in which case the organisers will compile proposals into panels); or a complete panel of 3 papers at 20 minutes each. The conference also welcomes alternative panel formats (e.g. roundtables, flash panels, work in progress sessions), but these will need to managed by the proposer and proposed in full, with details of all participants.

Individual papers: 20 minutes
Panel sessions (typically featuring 3 papers with time for questions, or in alternative formats): 90 minutes.

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 4d

In the depths of the internet I just ran across a subgenre of Irish fanfic that re-writes Thomas Hardy novels and sets them in Ireland

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 4d

Really excited to see these proofs for @lydiacooper.bsky.social’s and my special issue of Studies in the Novel on Disease and Disability in the Novel

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 5d

FINALLY Rod Stewart gets his Nobel

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Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 5d

Going to tell me students this was Baudrillard.

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David Allen Lambert @dlgenealogist.bsky.social · 6d

Are you related directly, a niece or nephew or a first or second cousin of a United States commissioned Union #CivilWar Officer? Please contact me regarding a special project. RT

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Enda o Dowd @endaodowd.bsky.social · 6d

Really awful news. The best bookshop in dublin. Website still up - booksupstairs.ie

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‘Really shocking’: Independent Dublin bookstore damaged in arson attack

Books Upstairs manager hopes to partially open the D’Olier Street store later on Monday

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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 6d

Delightful doodles of some pipe smoking Georgians found by Maddock Fellow Danielle Magnusson on the works of Ben Jonson, printed in 1616 #Readers #Epigrams

Bottom corner of a 17th century book showing drawings

Title page of 'Epigrammes' by Ben Jonson, showing doodles at the bottom of the page

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Books Upstairs @booksupstairs.bsky.social · 6d

A small fire at the front of the bookshop was started last night after rubbish bags that were awaiting collection were set on fire. The guards don’t have reason at this time to believe it was a targeted attack. Thankfully the damage was limited and everyone is safe. We are open for business as usual

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Little Deer Comics @littledeercomics.bsky.social · 6d

❤️
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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 7d

it's quite a resource!

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Laura Rocklyn @lauralostintime.bsky.social · 7d

While in #Thornton this weekend to attend the #TheBrontëSociety AGM, I paid my first visit to the #BrontëBirthplace and had the magical experience of spending the weekend sleeping in the room where the #BrontëSisters slept as small children, and exploring the house in which they were born.

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Anne O'Leary @anneoleary.bsky.social · 7d

New blog post: an up-to-date list of Irish literary journals anneolearyblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/i...

Irish literary journals 2025/2026

By far the most-read post on this blog has been a very simple one – a list of Irish literary magazines. The original post I compiled in 2022, and an updated version in 2023, have clocked up o…

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 8d

The official program for the 2025 MSA Conference in Boston is now live! (And it looks beautiful.) You can access it at the link below or on the homepage of the MSA website.

www.moderniststudies.org

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 8d

Paris Review Visiting Professor of Literature at BPI

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 8d

Not "Brontë" on the plaque...interesting

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