Georgina Nugent

That's our Mary "Did Emily Bronte die for this?" O'Connell @mary1010.bsky.social

Had a lovely chat with Marjorie Brennan from @irishexaminer.bsky.social about the travesty that is "Wuthering Heights" and delighted to see she quoted my initial reaction to it which was and still is, did Emily Bronte die for this 😅

Honorary Citation by Dr Ailbhe Ni Ghearbhuigh and Dr Georgina Nugent for an tOllamh Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin | University College Cork Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.

Here is the bilingual Honorary Citation delivered by Ailbhe Ni Ghearbhuigh and myself to celebrate Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's Honorary Doctorate @ucc.ie last November. ❤️

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Okay no present will EVER top this, made over Christmas by the wonderful Heidi of @uniregensburg.bsky.social library, and presented to me at the end of our German Room conference, which marked the conclusion of the academic programme for this remarkable exhibition. 🥹

Liz!! Thank you! It was BRILL, and so much fun. I owe you an email re Toronto, which was also AMAZING: now that I am finished gallivantin, I will write you xxx

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Back en route to Regensburg, for "Samuel Beckett: The German Room", a one-day conference with some absolute mega legends in attendance: thee Megan Girdwood on Beckett & Dance, maestro Feargal Whelan on Beckett’s Landscapes, and Legend of all Legends Sarah Jane Scaife on Beckett, Women & Inis Oirr.

Today’s reminder not to miss these glorious gorgeous people in Toronto tomorrow, representing the Samuel Beckett Society in style! #mla2026 #samuelbeckett

@modernistudies.bsky.social @modernlanguage.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social Modernists ahoy! A really special panel you will enjoy (I guarantee) at #mla2026 "Rewriting the Modernist Wife: Beckett, Stein, Dumesnil, Toklas". Friday 10.15 MTCC - 205D.

Thank you Liz!! 😍 xx

Returning to URGE you if you're at MLA in Toronto to attend this superb panel from Samuel Beckett Society superstars @georginanugent.bsky.social, Julie Bates and Dunlaith Bird (Friday 9th Jan 10.15-11.30am): some of the best and most important work I've encountered in Beckett and modernist studies.

Live long enough to see yourself accidentally create a little coterie of Yeatsians.

Lol, I set this question as one of my essays this year: “No one who likes Yeats is capable of human intimacy.” (Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends). Defend Yeats, making reference to Yeats and Gregory's Cathleen ni Houlihan. The responses have been MEGA.

Just a few days left to send us your abstracts for "James Joyce in Relation: Gender, Labour, Legacy". Deadline is Jan 1st.

Congratulations Kevin, you absolute legend!!! Proud to know you ❤️❤️🥰

My third collection, Landscape with Question, will be published in June 2026 with @carcanet.bsky.social. It started out as a biography in verse of Nano Reid, then became something else entirely. 🌔🌊🏙️🌱

www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017561...

This is one of next year’s poetry highlights:

Samuel Beckett: The German Room. A one-day conference in Regensburg, Germany As part of the Samuel Beckett: The German Room exhibition currently ongoing at the University of Regensburg in Germany, a one-day conference will take place on January 19 2026 featuring contributio…

I've organised a one day conference on Jan 19th in Regensburg as part of their ongoing exhibition "Samuel Beckett: The German Room". Some real coolos speaking: Oliver Lubrich, Megan Girdwood, Feargal Whelan & the legendary Sarah Jane Scaife. Info here:

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Beckett Society Panel, MLA 2026, Toronto The annual convention of the Modern Language Association will take place in January 2026 in Toronto. As ever, the Samuel Beckett Society will be represented at a guaranteed panel. This year’s…

Just me and the legendary Comrades Bates and Bird ranting about "Rewriting the Modernist Wife: Beckett, Stein, Toklas, Dumesnil" at the MLA 2026 in Toronto. I am so grateful to @lizbaz.bsky.social for the invitation to be part of such a progressive panel.

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Aosdána member and Saoi Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin awarded Honorary Doctorate of Literature by UCC - Aosdána The trailblazing poet, scholar, editor, Saoi of Aosdána and former Ireland Professor of Poetry, Professor Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin was honoured the Honorary Doctorate by University College Cork (UCC) fo...

It was the honour of my academic career to co-nominate and co-deliver (with the amazing Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh) the citation for Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's Honorary Doctorate from @ucc.ie. ❤️

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@moderniststudies.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social @beckettletters.bsky.social @beckettreading.bsky.social

29th November 2025 is scheduled for the online Samuel Beckett seminar, “Decoding Colding in Beckett.”

Please share the details (below)with your colleagues, students, and friends.

Two months to the deadline for abstracts for ‘James Joyce in Relation: Gender, Labour, Legacy’. We invite feminist, queer, intersectional & transnational work that rethinks Joyce’s relations with his women contemporaries & interrogates reception, networks & the gendered infrastructures of modernism.

Panel Session for Early Career Researchers in Irish Studies YouTube video by Centre for Irish Studies Prague

Last month I took part in a plenary session on Early Career Research & Career Building with James Little & Ondřej Pilný at the International Postgraduates Conference in Irish Studies, CU Prague. I start talking about my experiences as an ECR at the 1hr 13 minute mark.

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A close up of a placard from Samuel Beckett: The German Room which reads: The exhibition, organised in cooperation with the Tophoven Archive (Straelen) and the Beckett Archive (Reading), is accompanied by an academic programme organised by Dr Georgina Nugent (University College Cork) and a cultural programme.

A photograph of a portion of the exhibition Samuel Beckett: The German Room. The room is predominantly grey, with boxes of text in white.

A close up of a placard for Samuel Beckett: The German Room, an exhibition at the University of Regensburg.

Yesterday I was in Regensburg for the opening of Samuel Beckett: The German Room. It was mad cool to organise the academic programme for this exhibition, and there's more to come in January :)

@ubregensburg.bsky.social @ucc.ie

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I was precarious for a long time & in three different countries. I have a lot to say on the topic, so it's nice to start saying some of this tomorrow at the International Postgraduate Conference in Irish Studies, Centre for Irish Studies, CU Prague.
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The poet Ellen Dillon read at O’Bhéal go Béal tonight to a packed house. What an artist. Master of craft and scholar of poetry. Proof that good writing takes time and effort. Excited for her next book. Properly achieved poetry tonight. No short cuts.

Feel extremely lucky to work with the class act, poetic genius, and all round legend that is @lizquirke.bsky.social. Read her new essay in @stingingfly.bsky.social, it's amazing!!

stingingfly.org/2025/09/09/t...

‘I don’t believe in the unspeakable or untranslatable. That’s imperial logic and privilege – empire bombs incessantly, and then says the deaths are unspeakable? No, we need to speak about every bomb, every destroyed body, every hour that these bombs landed’–Don Mee Choi, Chicago Review of Books 68.1

"Leeanne Quinn. Read her"

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