Paul Fagan
@pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social
Research Fellow at LMU Munich│Leader of Irish Research Council project 'Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing 1860-1950s'│Co-Founder of @flannobriensoc.bsky.social and @theparishreview.bsky.social
I had a great time at the 27th ISAANZ Conference in Dunedin, where I had the honour of delivering the opening keynote address ("Celibacy, Care, and Queer Kinship from Frances Power Cobbe to Kate O’Brien") and of launching Marion Quirici's brilliant new book "Fitness for Freedom".
November 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
I had a great time at the 27th ISAANZ Conference in Dunedin, where I had the honour of delivering the opening keynote address ("Celibacy, Care, and Queer Kinship from Frances Power Cobbe to Kate O’Brien") and of launching Marion Quirici's brilliant new book "Fitness for Freedom".
Delighted to be at the Dunedin Centre for Irish & Scottish studies for the ISAANZ Conference on “Health, Wellness & Care” organised by @maebhlong.bsky.social
I'm honoured to deliver the conference's opening keynote address on "Celibacy, Care, Queer Kinship: From Frances Power Cobbe to Kate O'Brien"
I'm honoured to deliver the conference's opening keynote address on "Celibacy, Care, Queer Kinship: From Frances Power Cobbe to Kate O'Brien"
November 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Delighted to be at the Dunedin Centre for Irish & Scottish studies for the ISAANZ Conference on “Health, Wellness & Care” organised by @maebhlong.bsky.social
I'm honoured to deliver the conference's opening keynote address on "Celibacy, Care, Queer Kinship: From Frances Power Cobbe to Kate O'Brien"
I'm honoured to deliver the conference's opening keynote address on "Celibacy, Care, Queer Kinship: From Frances Power Cobbe to Kate O'Brien"
I'm thrilled to be launching Marion Quirici's brilliant "Fitness For Freedom: Disability, Degeneration & Modern Irish Writing" at this month's ISAANZ conference. A compelling intervention that will be invaluable to work on disability in Irish and modernist studies. Insist your library orders a copy!
November 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I'm thrilled to be launching Marion Quirici's brilliant "Fitness For Freedom: Disability, Degeneration & Modern Irish Writing" at this month's ISAANZ conference. A compelling intervention that will be invaluable to work on disability in Irish and modernist studies. Insist your library orders a copy!
🚨DEADLINE EXTENSION!🚨
The deadline for submissions to "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" - an open-access special issue from Humanities - has been extended to *30 January 2026*!!
All submissions welcome! Contact me for any queries you might have
CFP and Details here 👇 www.mdpi.com/journal/huma...
The deadline for submissions to "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" - an open-access special issue from Humanities - has been extended to *30 January 2026*!!
All submissions welcome! Contact me for any queries you might have
CFP and Details here 👇 www.mdpi.com/journal/huma...
November 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
🚨DEADLINE EXTENSION!🚨
The deadline for submissions to "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" - an open-access special issue from Humanities - has been extended to *30 January 2026*!!
All submissions welcome! Contact me for any queries you might have
CFP and Details here 👇 www.mdpi.com/journal/huma...
The deadline for submissions to "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" - an open-access special issue from Humanities - has been extended to *30 January 2026*!!
All submissions welcome! Contact me for any queries you might have
CFP and Details here 👇 www.mdpi.com/journal/huma...
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
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
October 15, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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
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
🚨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!
"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!
October 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
🚨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!
"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!
✨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...
"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...
October 9, 2025 at 9:35 AM
✨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...
"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...
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
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
September 25, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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
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
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....
The first article is Zan Cammack's "Sonic Materiality in Brian O’Nolan’s Fiction"
Available to read here:🔗👉 doi.org/10.16995/pr....
September 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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....
The first article is Zan Cammack's "Sonic Materiality in Brian O’Nolan’s Fiction"
Available to read here:🔗👉 doi.org/10.16995/pr....
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...
Register for the online event (Monday 13 October, 6pm Irish Time) here - all are welcome!
🔗👉 us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
September 18, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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...
Register for the online event (Monday 13 October, 6pm Irish Time) here - all are welcome!
🔗👉 us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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...
Topics will range from the marriage bar and unmarried revolutionary women to Edna O'Brien, Mary Lavin, & more!
🔗👉 www.efacis.eu/content/efac...
September 5, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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...
Topics will range from the marriage bar and unmarried revolutionary women to Edna O'Brien, Mary Lavin, & more!
🔗👉 www.efacis.eu/content/efac...
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
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
July 16, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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
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
I was thrilled to contribute a short piece about "Celibate Romance" to the upcoming @molimuseum.bsky.social exhibition "Happy Ever After: Falling in Love with Irish Romance Fiction" (4 July–9 Nov), curated by Paige Reynolds
You're invited to the MoLI launch on 4 July!
Deets: moli.ie/exhibitions/...
You're invited to the MoLI launch on 4 July!
Deets: moli.ie/exhibitions/...
June 26, 2025 at 8:21 AM
I was thrilled to contribute a short piece about "Celibate Romance" to the upcoming @molimuseum.bsky.social exhibition "Happy Ever After: Falling in Love with Irish Romance Fiction" (4 July–9 Nov), curated by Paige Reynolds
You're invited to the MoLI launch on 4 July!
Deets: moli.ie/exhibitions/...
You're invited to the MoLI launch on 4 July!
Deets: moli.ie/exhibitions/...
Having a great time at this year's @flannobriensoc.bsky.social Conference in Strabane!
June 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Having a great time at this year's @flannobriensoc.bsky.social Conference in Strabane!
For the programme of this week's International Flann O'Brien Society Conference in Strabane, see: www.alley-theatre.com/whats-on/25-...
June 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
For the programme of this week's International Flann O'Brien Society Conference in Strabane, see: www.alley-theatre.com/whats-on/25-...
To mark the opening of the 8th @flannobriensoc.bsky.social conference, here's the prog for the 1st ever Flann O'Brien symposium, in Dublin 1986. With remarks from Evelyn O'Nolan, Hugh Kenner, John Ryan, Anthony Cronin, John Wyse Jackson & readings from Paul Muldoon, Cyril Cusack, Michael Longley etc
June 25, 2025 at 10:49 AM
To mark the opening of the 8th @flannobriensoc.bsky.social conference, here's the prog for the 1st ever Flann O'Brien symposium, in Dublin 1986. With remarks from Evelyn O'Nolan, Hugh Kenner, John Ryan, Anthony Cronin, John Wyse Jackson & readings from Paul Muldoon, Cyril Cusack, Michael Longley etc
Read the superb programme for the 8th International Flann O’Brien Conference, this week in Strabane!
With talks on diverse aspects of "Home, Heritage & Origins" in O'Brien's writing; screenings; exhibitions & tours of O'Brien's home town
Registration & schedule👉 www.alley-theatre.com/whats-on/25-...
With talks on diverse aspects of "Home, Heritage & Origins" in O'Brien's writing; screenings; exhibitions & tours of O'Brien's home town
Registration & schedule👉 www.alley-theatre.com/whats-on/25-...
June 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Read the superb programme for the 8th International Flann O’Brien Conference, this week in Strabane!
With talks on diverse aspects of "Home, Heritage & Origins" in O'Brien's writing; screenings; exhibitions & tours of O'Brien's home town
Registration & schedule👉 www.alley-theatre.com/whats-on/25-...
With talks on diverse aspects of "Home, Heritage & Origins" in O'Brien's writing; screenings; exhibitions & tours of O'Brien's home town
Registration & schedule👉 www.alley-theatre.com/whats-on/25-...
✨Call for Abstracts✨
"James Joyce in Relation: Gender, Labour, Legacy"
Special Issue of Feminist Modernist Studies
Edited by @georginanugent.bsky.social & Ronan Crowley
Invites feminist, queer and intersectional approaches to Joyce's women contemporaries
🔗👇 think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
"James Joyce in Relation: Gender, Labour, Legacy"
Special Issue of Feminist Modernist Studies
Edited by @georginanugent.bsky.social & Ronan Crowley
Invites feminist, queer and intersectional approaches to Joyce's women contemporaries
🔗👇 think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
June 19, 2025 at 11:58 AM
✨Call for Abstracts✨
"James Joyce in Relation: Gender, Labour, Legacy"
Special Issue of Feminist Modernist Studies
Edited by @georginanugent.bsky.social & Ronan Crowley
Invites feminist, queer and intersectional approaches to Joyce's women contemporaries
🔗👇 think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
"James Joyce in Relation: Gender, Labour, Legacy"
Special Issue of Feminist Modernist Studies
Edited by @georginanugent.bsky.social & Ronan Crowley
Invites feminist, queer and intersectional approaches to Joyce's women contemporaries
🔗👇 think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
Very cool to receive an advance copy of "Terminal 1: Arrivals", the 1st trade edition of Niall Montgomery's poetry. Congratulations and thanks to the editor Joseph LaBine! I hope this will lead to renewed interest in Montgomery as a poet
Dublin Launch on Fri 20 June: www.flatsinglespress.com/events
Dublin Launch on Fri 20 June: www.flatsinglespress.com/events
June 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Very cool to receive an advance copy of "Terminal 1: Arrivals", the 1st trade edition of Niall Montgomery's poetry. Congratulations and thanks to the editor Joseph LaBine! I hope this will lead to renewed interest in Montgomery as a poet
Dublin Launch on Fri 20 June: www.flatsinglespress.com/events
Dublin Launch on Fri 20 June: www.flatsinglespress.com/events
Delighted my proposal has been accepted for this cool conference on "Scandal!" @univie.ac.at in Sept!
My talk, "The Scandal of the ‘Odd Woman’: Frances Power Cobbe & the Emergence of the Victorian Feminist Celibacy Movement", draws on my @researchireland.ie project Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing
My talk, "The Scandal of the ‘Odd Woman’: Frances Power Cobbe & the Emergence of the Victorian Feminist Celibacy Movement", draws on my @researchireland.ie project Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing
June 3, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Delighted my proposal has been accepted for this cool conference on "Scandal!" @univie.ac.at in Sept!
My talk, "The Scandal of the ‘Odd Woman’: Frances Power Cobbe & the Emergence of the Victorian Feminist Celibacy Movement", draws on my @researchireland.ie project Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing
My talk, "The Scandal of the ‘Odd Woman’: Frances Power Cobbe & the Emergence of the Victorian Feminist Celibacy Movement", draws on my @researchireland.ie project Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing
I'm thrilled to have a chapter on "Teaching the Wakean Sentence" in "Teaching James Joyce in the 21st Century", available for pre-order from @floridapress.bsky.social
Congrats to the eds @seveneccles.bsky.social & @ellenscheible.bsky.social
Ask your library to order a copy!
upf.com/book.asp?id=...
Congrats to the eds @seveneccles.bsky.social & @ellenscheible.bsky.social
Ask your library to order a copy!
upf.com/book.asp?id=...
June 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I'm thrilled to have a chapter on "Teaching the Wakean Sentence" in "Teaching James Joyce in the 21st Century", available for pre-order from @floridapress.bsky.social
Congrats to the eds @seveneccles.bsky.social & @ellenscheible.bsky.social
Ask your library to order a copy!
upf.com/book.asp?id=...
Congrats to the eds @seveneccles.bsky.social & @ellenscheible.bsky.social
Ask your library to order a copy!
upf.com/book.asp?id=...
"A Sense of Place"
The Irish Studies and Cultural Theory Summer School 2025
14-18 July, Vienna
Registration is now open for this ECTS-accredited Summer School of lectures and seminars, run by @michellewiten.bsky.social & Dieter Fuchs
👇🔗Info on speakers & registration:
www.uni-flensburg.de?id=55878
The Irish Studies and Cultural Theory Summer School 2025
14-18 July, Vienna
Registration is now open for this ECTS-accredited Summer School of lectures and seminars, run by @michellewiten.bsky.social & Dieter Fuchs
👇🔗Info on speakers & registration:
www.uni-flensburg.de?id=55878
May 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
"A Sense of Place"
The Irish Studies and Cultural Theory Summer School 2025
14-18 July, Vienna
Registration is now open for this ECTS-accredited Summer School of lectures and seminars, run by @michellewiten.bsky.social & Dieter Fuchs
👇🔗Info on speakers & registration:
www.uni-flensburg.de?id=55878
The Irish Studies and Cultural Theory Summer School 2025
14-18 July, Vienna
Registration is now open for this ECTS-accredited Summer School of lectures and seminars, run by @michellewiten.bsky.social & Dieter Fuchs
👇🔗Info on speakers & registration:
www.uni-flensburg.de?id=55878
Thanks @efacis.bsky.social for sharing our CFP in their May Newsletter!
"Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing"
Open-access special issue of Humanities
Publish your work on unmarried, widowed, queer, asexual or otherwise celibate Irish authors/activists!
🔗 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/03/...
"Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing"
Open-access special issue of Humanities
Publish your work on unmarried, widowed, queer, asexual or otherwise celibate Irish authors/activists!
🔗 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/03/...
May 6, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Thanks @efacis.bsky.social for sharing our CFP in their May Newsletter!
"Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing"
Open-access special issue of Humanities
Publish your work on unmarried, widowed, queer, asexual or otherwise celibate Irish authors/activists!
🔗 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/03/...
"Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing"
Open-access special issue of Humanities
Publish your work on unmarried, widowed, queer, asexual or otherwise celibate Irish authors/activists!
🔗 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/03/...
Very excited to have signed the contract to contribute a chapter on "The Third Policeman" to the forthcoming "Cambridge Companion to Flann O'Brien", edited by Catherine Flynn!
This is a very exciting step for the field, and I'm very honoured to be a part of it. Watch this space everybody! 👀
This is a very exciting step for the field, and I'm very honoured to be a part of it. Watch this space everybody! 👀
May 5, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Very excited to have signed the contract to contribute a chapter on "The Third Policeman" to the forthcoming "Cambridge Companion to Flann O'Brien", edited by Catherine Flynn!
This is a very exciting step for the field, and I'm very honoured to be a part of it. Watch this space everybody! 👀
This is a very exciting step for the field, and I'm very honoured to be a part of it. Watch this space everybody! 👀
You could also check out Amanda Duncan's ‘Communing with Machines' (on the posthuman 🚲 in both novels) & Terence Brown's ‘Two Post-Modern Novelists', Rolf Breuer's ‘Flann O’Brien & Samuel Beckett’, or S.E. Gontarski's chapter in Acting Out (on the similarities between the two authors more generally)
April 22, 2025 at 6:25 PM
You could also check out Amanda Duncan's ‘Communing with Machines' (on the posthuman 🚲 in both novels) & Terence Brown's ‘Two Post-Modern Novelists', Rolf Breuer's ‘Flann O’Brien & Samuel Beckett’, or S.E. Gontarski's chapter in Acting Out (on the similarities between the two authors more generally)