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Author and critic | Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University | Host, Irish Books Podcast | FRAS

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Grime, passion and addiction in 90s London, with experimental writing - a discussion of Eimear McBride's The City Changes its Face
tinyurl.com/irishbookspod

11.03.2026 20:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Religion in Irish Literature and Culture has been published! Glad to meet this one in the flesh. www.cambridge.org/by/universit...

11.03.2026 07:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Irish Books Podcast E2 tackles Paul Lynch's Prophet Song with guest Chris Morash of Trinity College Dublin @langslitscultures.bsky.social
Full discussion tinyurl.com/irishbookspod

25.02.2026 08:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Another Balliol affiliate might call that poetic position "cakeist"

18.02.2026 11:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Historian Dianne Hall and I discuss Emma Donoghue's "textual nuances" and historical evidence of diverse
sexualities and ethnicities in the 1890s, realities that far predate our own moment.

Full discussion at www.monash.edu/arts/languag...

18.02.2026 05:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The Irish Books Podcast This series offers in-depth discussion of recent Irish writing, with expert guests based around the world.

Irish Books Podcast debuts with a discussion of Emma Donoghue's Paris Express featuring guest historian Dianne Hall @dihall.bsky.social Available on all platforms www.monash.edu/arts/languag...

11.02.2026 10:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œWhat struck me most flying over the Otways during the firesβ€”seeing scorched forest, blackened and dead trees with fires still smouldering nearby, followed by ... gas drilling equipment emerging from the oceanβ€”was the price we are all paying for the bottomless greed of fossil fuel corporations.”

27.01.2026 00:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Authors discussed in Season 1 include Emma Donoghue, Paul Lynch, Eimear McBride, Colm TΓ³ibΓ­n, Sally Rooney, and Sebastian Barry

11.12.2025 03:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The Irish Books Podcast

The Irish Books Podcast begins in January. If you’re interested, you can subscribe on the major platforms via the link.

www.monash.edu/arts/languag...

11.12.2025 03:14 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Re-reading #Milkman by Anna Burns ahead of a podcast. Hard to express how much I admire this novel. If you haven't read it you must put down your phone right now and find a copy

08.11.2025 10:33 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Postgraduate essay 2026 POSTGRADUATE ESSAY PRIZE The Editors of the interdisciplinary Australasian Journal of Irish Studies (AJIS) and the Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand are pleased to announc…

Irish Studies (post)graduate student essay prize now open. The chance of a cash prize and publication in our refereed journal isaanz.org/ajis/postgra...

23.10.2025 21:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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15.10.2025 13:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Beckford's Tower, recently reopened. With Ant Howell

15.10.2025 13:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Just one Romanticism in-joke amid the assorted Australiana I've brought a colleague: Byron Bay was named for the poet's uncle, "Foul Weather Jack" Byron (not to be confused with "Mad Jack" Byron)

08.10.2025 09:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Getting to our Manchester hotel was an odyssey, but now relaxing, and enjoying Holmes on Tennyson hugely

03.10.2025 16:01 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just started this - it's intriguing

01.10.2025 10:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Enjoying time in Oxford as Carr-Thomas-Ovenden Fellow in Romantic Literature. It's an ever-evolving institution, as I see at the beautiful and brand-new Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities

01.10.2025 10:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sad to learn of the death of Simon James, Professor of Victorian literature at Durham University. I have lost a friend

17.06.2025 10:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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O’Donnell Fellowship 2026 Applications are open for the 2026 O’Donnell Fellowship in Irish Studies at St Mary’s Newman Academic Centre, University of Melbourne, Australia. The application deadline is Friday 11 July 20…

Irish Studies 6-week fellowship at the University of Melbourne isaanz.org/odonnell-fel...

04.06.2025 03:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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In Colum McCann’s Twist, the undersea data cables that connect us inspire a story of mystery and severed connections Twist is a richly allusive novel, with echoes of Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad and Philip Roth.

My review of #Twist, the new novel by #ColumMcCann theconversation.com/in-colum-mcc...

06.05.2025 06:18 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0