Grime, passion and addiction in 90s London, with experimental writing - a discussion of Eimear McBride's The City Changes its Face
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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
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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...
Irish Books Podcast E2 tackles Paul Lynch's Prophet Song with guest Chris Morash of Trinity College Dublin @langslitscultures.bsky.social
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Another Balliol affiliate might call that poetic position "cakeist"
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...
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...
βWhat struck me most flying over the Otways during the firesβseeing scorched forest, blackened and dead trees with fires still smouldering nearby, followed by ... gas drilling equipment emerging from the oceanβwas the price we are all paying for the bottomless greed of fossil fuel corporations.β
Authors discussed in Season 1 include Emma Donoghue, Paul Lynch, Eimear McBride, Colm TΓ³ibΓn, Sally Rooney, and Sebastian Barry
The Irish Books Podcast begins in January. If youβre interested, you can subscribe on the major platforms via the link.
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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
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...
Beckford's Tower, recently reopened. With Ant Howell
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)
Getting to our Manchester hotel was an odyssey, but now relaxing, and enjoying Holmes on Tennyson hugely
Just started this - it's intriguing
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
Sad to learn of the death of Simon James, Professor of Victorian literature at Durham University. I have lost a friend
Irish Studies 6-week fellowship at the University of Melbourne isaanz.org/odonnell-fel...
My review of #Twist, the new novel by #ColumMcCann theconversation.com/in-colum-mcc...