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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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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 17h
With the internet becoming ever more unreliable, I wonder if anyone will publish known facts and general knowledge in a book or, rather, multiple books, everything in alphabetical order, safely printed on paper so it can’t be changed on the sly. Numbered spines would be a plus.

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 21h
indie film in search of a title. Any suggestions?

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 22h
was curious, but clicking from the US leads to this all-too-common message
Image of webpage header message: Due to the new tariffs implemented by the US administration, we have suspended sales to the US. Outstanding orders will still be fulfilled but we will not be accepting new orders from US customers, apologies. Due to Brexit, we are unable to send orders to EU countries, apologies."

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Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance (SAHA) @sahavoice.bsky.social · 22h
You can read more about our event on Irish-Scottish cultural diplomacy and relations on our website saha.scot

saha.scot/irish-scotti...
Irish-Scottish cultural diplomacy and relations | SAHA: The Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance
A joint initiative of Scottish Higher Education institutions, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities.
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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 22h
Swaying branch heavy with fruit and chonky squirrel snapped right after I took this. He was fine.
squirrel upside down on tree branch eating fruit

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 23h
It's #blackfriday here at the ILT: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (2nd Dublin edn.) Two single-sided black pages face each other at pp. 56-57.

"The ‘blackness’ is printed on both sides of the leaf with what appears to be a solid woodblock." The Laurence Sterne Trust

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 23h
Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1d
My colleague @ellawhiteley.bsky.social took this photo cos she thought the overall colour palette of the scene looked like an arthouse film and do you know what I agree.

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 1d
"but the next day we ate like Kings. Or at the very least, people from Dalkey"
That's when I burst out laughing!

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 1d
just finished the final layer of the trifle started yesterday for #Thanksgiving (ingreds in ALT)
Trifle dessert bowl. Fruit in an apricot jam and booze reduction, angel food cake, custard, whipped cream, and shaved chocolate

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 1d
aah...a Banville fan...Banville got my late (avid reader) dad started on detective fiction when he started publishing that! The left behind TBR pile is a lovely monument

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 2d
antique item found at the back of a drawer
telephone pad

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 3d
if you happen to be in NYC on Dec 5...
maryburke.bsky.social Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 12d
Contributors to a collection on @tramppress.bsky.social I’m editing w/ Tara Harney-Mahajan discuss Tramp's fiction & Recovered Voices series @ #IrishStudies Seminar CUNY, NYC, Dec 5. Registration / full info: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
stack of books related to Tramp Press (Tramp Press author editions and books on contemporary publishing)

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 3d
nice!

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 3d
@lydiacooper.bsky.social’s and my special issue of @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social is out now. Such a joy to work with one of my best friends on this amazing set of articles muse.jhu.edu/issue/55993
Project MUSE - Studies in the Novel-Volume 57, Number 4, Winter 2025
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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 3d
Baudrillard's travel writing on America is the book I dd not know I wanted

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 3d
first time I saw one after moving to the American continent I asked the person next to me, "are you seeing that too?"

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 4d
A bilingual Dano-Norwegian/northern Sámi catechism from 1728, afaik the first printed book in Northern Sámi
book title page in gothic print, dano-norwegian and sami facing one another

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Will Canoe-Sick @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 4d
My brother and I have just been granted parental permission to be in charge of Thanksgiving dinner for the first time this year. (We’re 41 and 46, respectively)

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 4d
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 4d
The pedant's dream job
fact checker New Yorker job ad

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 5d
nope
maryburke.bsky.social Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · Apr 21
"You boy! Is it safe to come out yet?"
Cat peers from between bars of open upstairs window at cat on the old urban street who looks up toward the other animal

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The Stinging Fly @stingingfly.bsky.social · 5d
Applications for the 2026 TSF Poetry Workshop are open and close on Tuesday 2nd December at 5pm Irish time.

More information on how to apply here: stingingfly.org/poetry-works...

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 5d
The Last Man???

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 5d
Come and apply to be the Professor of Bibliography & Modern Book History @engfacoutreach.bsky.social & @jesusoxford.bsky.social (and work closely with us @bodleian.ox.ac.uk). Following a long line of great scholars: Don McKenzie, Kathryn Sutherland, & Dirk van Hulle ... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 5d
Nature: Winter is a time of slowing down, resting, conserving energy and recovering for the year ahead

Capitalism: NOW IS THE TIME TO SELL SELL SELL, EXTENDED OPENING HOURS, CHECK OUT OUR SALES, BUY EVERYTHING WE SAY YOU NEED FOR AN ELABORATE LABOUR-INTENSIVE FESTIVAL, WORK YOURSELF TO THE BONE

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 7d
1988 adaptation of Bram Stoker's peculiar novel...starring a blue Hugh Grant
Lair of the White Worm DVD film adaptation of Bram Stoker novel

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 7d
oooh...what a great detail