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Rosemary Kelly

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⚔️ Medievalist and bookseller. Sometimes poet. 29. 📍 PhD student in UCC's School of English and Digital Humanities working on genre & masculinities in Old English Literature. 📖 Editor in Chief for Apardjón Journal for Scandinavian Studies.

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Rosemary Kelly @rosemaryk96.bsky.social · Nov 13

Hello all who have recently joined #medievalsky! 👋🏻 Just sharing my open access article on Beowulf translations and issues of nationalism and masculinity.
search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3...

Hwaet! how we have heard tales sung: How nineteenth‐century translation constructs hyper‐aggressive masculine identities in 'Beowulf'

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Rosemary Kelly @rosemaryk96.bsky.social · 3d

This year I decided to dress as the scariest thing I could think of. 🎃
#PhDSky #AcademicSky #MedievalSky

A young woman with glasses (clear frames), brown curly hair, and a black t-shirt. She has paper stuck to her t-shirt that reads "reviewer two feedback"

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Rosemary Kelly @rosemaryk96.bsky.social · 16d

Had a lovely weekend selling books at the Irish Discworld Convention. I even met a few fellow lovers of medieval literature! 📚🧙🏻‍♂️

Rosemary Kelly @rosemaryk96.bsky.social · 18d

Selling books at the Discworld Convention in Cork International Hotel today. 🧙🏻‍♂️

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NorseInCork @norseincork.bsky.social · Oct 1

Published a short piece in 'The Conversation' about Kash Patel's use of the white-supremacist dog whistle 'see you in Valhalla'. For my uncensored feelings on the subject, please just see the image below.

theconversation.com/see-you-in-v...

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Rosemary Kelly @rosemaryk96.bsky.social · Oct 3

I think I'll have to put Taylor Swift in my thesis acknowledgements at this stage.

Rosemary Kelly @rosemaryk96.bsky.social · Oct 2

It's become a rite of passage every year when teaching that I am mistaken for a first year.
They think I'm ✨ young ✨ ! #AcademicSky

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NorseInCork @norseincork.bsky.social · Sep 25

4-year funded PhD in Old Norse-Viking Studies at UCC, working on the Literature & Art strand of the NorseMap Project. www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc...

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · Sep 17

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

The new TOC from academia dot edu.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

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Rosemary Kelly @rosemaryk96.bsky.social · Sep 18

Up and at em! A wet and early start to my day with a 9am tutorial. Onto the second year of my PhD. 💪🏻 #academicsky #phdsky

Rosemary Kelly @rosemaryk96.bsky.social · Sep 5

I submitted my MA dissertation SIX years ago. 🤯

Rosemary Kelly @rosemaryk96.bsky.social · Sep 3

It's a weird and embarrassing hill to die on, that your reason for thinking the new Frankenstein is bad is because it's faithful to the novel? Jesus wept.
www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is all show and little substance – review

Jacob Elordi is a very sympathetic monster in this visually stunning but thematically lacking film, which co-stars Oscar Isaac and Mia Goth

www.independent.co.uk

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Rosemary Kelly @rosemaryk96.bsky.social · Aug 25

Just one week left until the deadline for volume 4! Any queries can be passed onto myself and the editorial team via our social media and/or journal email. 👇🏻 #MedievalSky #AcademicSky

Apardjón Journal for Scandinavian Studies @apardjon1.bsky.social · Aug 25

CFP REMINDER!

Just a reminder that there is one week left until our deadline for Volume 4 of Apardjón - 1 September 2025. We are especially interested in interdisciplinary approaches within the field of Viking and medieval Scandinavia. Full details are in our CFP. #MedievalSky

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Rosemary Kelly @rosemaryk96.bsky.social · Aug 9

Shout out to Hachette for sending me a copy of 'The House of Wolf' by Tony Robinson which will be published in September.
"An earthy, entertaining and gloriously witty recreation of Alfred the Great and the making of England". One happy little bookseller here. 😁 #Booksky

A blue paperback book called The House of Wolf by Tony Robinson. It has the outline of a wolf in black and the title is written in gold.

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Rosemary Kelly @rosemaryk96.bsky.social · Aug 8

This small medieval church (built circa 1300) in Monkstown became a graveyard in the 1650s, when the first owners of Monkstown Castle died. It's now abandoned but it's a great spot for some peace in the evenings. #SpeirGorm #HistorySky #MedievalSky

Rosemary Kelly @rosemaryk96.bsky.social · Aug 4

Just a reminder of our call for papers for volume 4. We're open access and peer-reviewed! 👇🏻 #MedievalSky #AcademicSky #PhDSky

Apardjón Journal for Scandinavian Studies @apardjon1.bsky.social · Aug 4

Not long until the deadline for volume 4 of Apardjón! We are open for submissions until 1 September 2025. We are especially interested in interdisciplinary approaches within the field of Viking and Medieval Scandinavia. We are also open to relevant book reviews. See our CFP below! #MedievalSky

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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · Jul 28

📢 Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky!
📜 Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week...
📖Old English Online
📲 oldenglish.info
✍️Tom Birkett
💻Victoria Koivisto-Kokko
©️University College Cork

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Rosemary Kelly @rosemaryk96.bsky.social · Jul 27

We are actually cooked as a species if you're using generative ai to "heal childhood trauma"???????

Rosemary Kelly @rosemaryk96.bsky.social · Jul 24

RIP scribes of medieval Arthurian literature. You would have loved Booktok. #medievalsky #booksky

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Rosemary Kelly @rosemaryk96.bsky.social · Jul 14

My great granduncle was called the three century man, having lived from 1897-2001. He played in the Cork senior hurling team. My favourite story is him stubbornly navigating the roads of Cork to get to matches, as they were blocked off by Black and Tans.
Anyway, UP CORK.

Rosemary Kelly @rosemaryk96.bsky.social · Jul 11

Shout out to my sister for the photo that sums my holidays up: sunny days and I'm glued to a book.

Rosemary Kelly @rosemaryk96.bsky.social · Jul 6

I have a complete draft of my first chapter! I'm going to have the BEST nap tomorrow. #PhDSky #AcademicSky

Rosemary Kelly @rosemaryk96.bsky.social · Jul 2

Proquest's AI research assistant is currently suggesting old articles from The Sun. Somehow I don't think almost ten year old paparazzi pics are relevant to Old English renditions of Alexander the Great. 🤨

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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · Jun 30

Historians (professional and lay) make a dark age. Very little else does 🤷🏻‍♀️

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · Jun 30

Question for historians: what makes a Dark Age?

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Rosemary Kelly @rosemaryk96.bsky.social · Jun 27

Probably better off! Someone with a good 500K followers was promoting some kind of LLM called character ai. It generates fictional characters that you can talk to? Or something like that. She claimed it cures her reading slump. 🙈 She has since deleted the post in question.

Rosemary Kelly @rosemaryk96.bsky.social · Jun 27

Idk if you've heard about the controversy on booktok this week with a creator doing a paid ad for an ai tool? It's a rabbit hole you need to fall down.

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