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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 11h

Reflecting on all I learned at the fantastic Vienna conference on theorizing "Scandal"
In my talk, I discussed the "scandal" of the 1851 census that revealed 400,000 "surplus" unmarried women, and the cultural debate it produced about female celibacy via William Rathbone Greg and Frances Power Cobbe

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 2d

🚨TODAY!🚨
"Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" Online Roundtable
Monday 13 October @6pm Irish Time
Details: www.efacis.eu/content/efac...
Registration Link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
All Welcome!

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 6d

* Topics include representations of celibacy in Edna O'Brien (Maureen O'Connor), Mary Lavin (Anne Fogarty, Fae McNamara), Norah Hoult (Kate Sullivan), L.T. Meade (Michelle Witen), Molly Keane (Julyan Oldham), & contexts of post-revolutionary period (Leeann Lane) and the Marriage Bar (Deirdre Foley)

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 6d

✨This coming Monday!✨
"Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" an Online EFACIS Roundtable Discussion!

A fantastic line-up (*see 👇) discussing representations of celibacy (unmarried, widowed, virgin, queer characters) in Irish women's life & writing

Details & registration: www.efacis.eu/content/efac...

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The International Flann O’Brien Society @flannobriensoc.bsky.social · 9d

Elliott Mill's just-published article presents the complex experience of being a writer in the changing landscape of mass communication and entertainment in postwar Dublin. Check out his open-access work on O'Brien's multiple, contrasting perspectives on the radio here!

Playing the Game: Brian O’Nolan’s Broadcast Media Positions

This essay seeks to enrich and complicate the evermore detailed picture which we have of O'Nolan as a cross-media writer. In particular, this essay attends to the conversation between O’Nolan’s effort...

parishreview.openlibhums.org

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 13d

Congratulations Maebh (and Matt)!

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Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social · 15d

We are hugely honoured to have won the 2025 MSA Book Prize for The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonization, Radical Campuses and Modernism. Thank you to everyone involved. It was a huge joy to work on such a wonderful period in Pacific writing.

Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 15d

It's time to announce the winners of the 2025 MSA Book Prize: Maebh Long and Matthew Hayward for The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonization, Radical Campuses, and Modernism. Congratulations! @maebhlong.bsky.social, Matthew, and @columbiaup.bsky.social

The Rise of Pacific Literature | Columbia University Press

In the 1960s and 1970s, the staff and students of two newly founded universities in the Pacific Islands helped foster a golden age of Oceanian literature. At... | CUP

cup.columbia.edu

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Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social · 21d

The first article in the Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies 9.1 is out! Zan Cammack’s work is great start to the issue on Flann and the Radio, which features a truly excellent cover. A+ work guest editors @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social and Joseph LaBine!

parishreview.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...

The Cover for 9.1 Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies features a cartoon by Micheal O Nuallain. It shows a man under a tree about to smash a radio with an axe.

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 20d

Thanks for coming Tamara :)

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Tamara Radak @tamararadak.bsky.social · 20d

Always a pleasure hearing a talk by @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social, this time on Frances Power Cobbe and the Victorian Feminist Celibacy Movement #Scandal2025

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 20d

Vienna #Scandal conference opens with a brilliant keynote address by Sharon Marcus on "The Structure of Scandal"

Theorises scandals as porous, proliferating, unpredictable events that expose contradictions through the fascinating case of media reporting on the 1936 Mary Astor Divorce Trial & Diary

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Tobias W. Harris @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social · 22d

It's very exciting to see our special issue of the Parish Review dedicated to Flann O'Brien and RADIO appear with its first article, broadcast by Zan Cammack!

Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 23d

I'm excited to read this special issue of the @theparishreview.bsky.social on "Flann O'Brien and the Radio", edited by @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social and Joseph LaBine!

The first article is Zan Cammack's "Sonic Materiality in Brian O’Nolan’s Fiction"

Available to read here:🔗👉 doi.org/10.16995/pr....

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 23d

I'm excited to read this special issue of the @theparishreview.bsky.social on "Flann O'Brien and the Radio", edited by @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social and Joseph LaBine!

The first article is Zan Cammack's "Sonic Materiality in Brian O’Nolan’s Fiction"

Available to read here:🔗👉 doi.org/10.16995/pr....

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 27d

Check out the latest @efacis.bsky.social newsletter for information on our upcoming Roundtable on "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing"

Register for the online event (Monday 13 October, 6pm Irish Time) here - all are welcome!
🔗👉 us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · Sep 5

Join us 13 October (6pm Irish Time) for an EFACIS Roundtable Discussion on "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing", a special issue I'm editing for Humanities

Topics will range from the marriage bar and unmarried revolutionary women to Edna O'Brien, Mary Lavin, & more!

🔗👉 www.efacis.eu/content/efac...

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richard alan barlow @richardalanbarlow.bsky.social · Jun 24

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Finnegans Wake: untangling its histories of humans, the animal world and the environment

In a time when our relationship with the natural world is an increasingly pressing issue, Finnegans Wake is as relevant now as it was a century ago

www.irishtimes.com

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · Sep 9

✨"Fizzing with ideas, 'Finnegans Wake: Human and Nonhuman Histories' offers a revitalizing contribution to Wake studies"✨

Grateful to @woganchris.bsky.social + @modernistudies.bsky.social for this attentive & generous review of our 2024 collection!

modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/b...

Book Review: Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories

9th September 2025 Christopher Wogan, University of York Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories, ed. Richard Barlow and Paul Fagan (Edinburgh University Press, 2024) Published in 2024, the t…

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · Sep 5

Join us 13 October (6pm Irish Time) for an EFACIS Roundtable Discussion on "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing", a special issue I'm editing for Humanities

Topics will range from the marriage bar and unmarried revolutionary women to Edna O'Brien, Mary Lavin, & more!

🔗👉 www.efacis.eu/content/efac...

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Sonja Tiernan @sonjatiernan.bsky.social · Aug 26

Join us for a special event to mark the landmark 50th volume of Saothar: Journal of Irish Labour History, a refereed journal dedicated to the study of Irish working-class history … Co-edited by myself, Mary Muldowney, John Cunningham and Brian Hanley.
dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/event/specia...

Special Event To Mark Publication Of 50th Volume Of Saothar – Dublin Festival of History

dublinfestivalofhistory.ie

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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · Aug 26

We're delighted to share that the CFP for the joint @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference, Weird Modernisms, is now live!

1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social

More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/

Image of 'The Empress' tarot card by Pamela Coleman Smith, depicting a figure with long hair, crown, and sceptre. Text: Weird Modernisms, BAMS/MSA 26, 1-4 July 2026, Loughborough University, UK.

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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · Jul 2

Call for Papers, please share! “Power Couples? Collaborations at work and at home, c.1750-1914” workshop to be held at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany 11-13 May 2026. Deadline for expression of interest 1 Sep 2025. Please see more info in the attached & email me if any questions.

Screen shot of word document detailing information about the “power couples” conference. Please email z.thomas@bham.ac.uk for more info.

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Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies @theparishreview.bsky.social · Jul 27

The Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies is sad to learn of the death of Breandán Ó Conaire, author of the pioneering 1986 study "Myles na Gaeilge".
Read Breandán's 2018 TPR article on O’Nolan’s Irish language background for free via @openlibhums.bsky.social: parishreview.openlibhums.org/article/id/3...

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Katie MacLean @katiemaclean.bsky.social · Jul 22

RRR Journal is now accepting abstracts for our 2026 Conference! I’m thrilled to be hosting at my home institution as the journal's incoming Editor in Chief.

With generous BAVS funding, we’re also offering travel bursaries up to £100 for eligible PGR & ECR delegates.

📅 Abstract Deadline: 22 Sept

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Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social · Jul 16

Get your abstracts in! Join the amazing abstracts already submitted, the fantastic keynotes lined up from Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social, Ida Milne @idamilne.bsky.social and Robert Sullivan and an author talk from the great Emma Donoghue @emmadonoghue.bsky.social

CFP: ISAANZ 27 | Health, Wellness and Care

31 July 2025. Submissions are invited for ISAANZ 27 Health, Wellness and Care. As the emergency measures of the pandemic fade into memory, but the virus transitions into an endemic part of our medi…

isaanz.org

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · Jul 16

The keynote address will draw on my @researchireland.ie project "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing, 1860s-1950s"

I'm really honoured to have been invited and especially pleased to be part of a fantastic line-up of confirmed speakers, including Ida Milne, Robert Sullivan & Guest Writer Emma Donoghue

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