@costelkh.bsky.social and I were delighted to see our @routledgehistory.bsky.social @routledgebooks.bsky.social History of Irish America warmly reviewed by Bill Mulligan in the latest issue of the Irish Literary Supplement!

Contributors to a collection on @tramppress.bsky.social I’m editing with Tara Harney-Mahajan discuss contemporary Irish fiction & publishing & Tramp's Recovered Voices series @ #IrishStudies Seminar CUNY, Dec 5. Registration / full info: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

bsky.app/profile/inab... I was delighted to engage!

What the Republicans’ New Policy Bill Means for Higher Education www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/u...

If I said every hour of every day for the next year that Joni Ernst can go fuck herself, it wouldn’t be often enough.

President Trump posting an image of himself as Pope. We aren't a serious country, and he's not a mentally well man.

Trump poses as the Pope in full holy garments and gets a pass. Obama puts on a tan suit and they lose their frigging minds. See how that works?

Hot off the [SU] Press! Available in the US now, with a companion edition available everywhere else this fall! Congrats Anna, Ellen, and contributors!

Enjoying Claire Lynch’s excellent essay on “Consoling machines in Contemporary Irish Fiction” in Margaret Kelleher and James O’Sullivan’s collection on Technology in Irish Literature and Culture. Grateful to have such smart friends whose work I can use, appreciate, and engage!

It’s here! Hooray! Many congrats to Joe Valente and Seán Kennedy and all contributors. I can’t wait to read it (My article is on Caitriona Lally’s Eggshells!).

Please join @costelkh.bsky.social, @cookiegoth.bsky.social, Paige Reynolds, and me for an online conversation about Irish Women Writers hosted by Celtic Junction in St. Paul MN on 16 April at 18:30 CST celticjunction.org/event/her-ow...

Join us! www.dolphinsonline.org/s/445/16/int...

Since this was announced in a broadcast to the whole College today, I guess I can officially share that I have been named the Mary A. Carroll Endowed Professor in Arts and Sciences at Le Moyne College. Grateful to the selection committee and humbled by this recognition!

Delighted that this article is forthcoming this month at long last.

We want to send a message to the world: what has happened today is an absolute disgrace. It is completely un-American.

So true, Liz Cheney:

Could not agree more. The Prez & VP are shameful, embarrassing Putin puppets & a disgrace to our country. 🤮 #SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦

Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago. But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today. He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.

@ciantmcmahon.bsky.social and @anelisehshrout.bsky.social presenting great papers at the ACIS!

Launching the Irish Bildungsroman tonight!

Coming soon from SU Press! Congrats to editors Anna Teekell Hays and Ellen Scheible and to fellow contributors on this important new edition. My chapter is “Reading Trauma in The Dark”. I’d thought about this article for a while…grateful to have had a reason to bring it to light.

A memorable evening with @costelkh.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social editors of the Routledge History of Irish America @routledgehistory.bsky.social in conversation w/ @kevinkenny.bsky.social, @tedsmyth.bsky.social and others. Now posted on our You Tube Channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGQP...

Many thanks to those who joined us last week for a special evening to celebrate the launch of The Routledge History of Irish America! Thank you to Consul General Helena Nolan for her opening remarks; and to @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social & @costelkh.bsky.social for leading us in a fascinating discussion.

Not to minimize what catastrophic damage is happening in science and medicine with funding, but your humanities colleagues have been in this defund and delegitimize spiral for a decade or more. We have lost tenure lines despite increased enrollment. When they attack higher ed, it’s an attack

Grateful to Kevin Kenny and Glucksman House for launching Cian McMahon and my new book, and to all who braved the wintry eve! @gihnyu.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @kevinkenny.bsky.social

Kicking off this semester's calendar of public events @gihnyu.bsky.social in one hour with the launch of The Routledge History of Irish America @routledgehistory.bsky.social, a major multidisciplinary collection of more than 40 essays edited by @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social & @costelkh.bsky.social .

Looking forward to seeing @kevinkenny.bsky.social @costelkh.bsky.social @tedsmyth.bsky.social and everyone else at @gihnyu.bsky.social tomorrow night! Thanks!

Congratulations to Seán Kennedy and Joe Valente and all contributors on the forthcoming collection on Irish Shame, available for pre-order--glad to be a part of it! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-irish-s.... My chapter is on" Disability, Embodiment and Shame in Caitriona Lally's Eggshells" :)

Coming to Le Moyne College soon!

We look forward to kicking off an exciting semester of events with the launch of The Routledge History of Irish America! This launch will feature a special conversation with editors @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social & @costelkh.bsky.social, moderated by @kevinkenny.bsky.social. bit.ly/RoutledgeGIH

First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because I’ve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends.

Here is my dog with her bestie, because we could all use some heart balm these days.

Distance yourself from people that bring out the person you're not trying to be anymore. 💙- your Bluesky mom

At least Collins and Murkowski occasionally hit a wall.

This is a slap in the face to American women. Pete Hegseth has a track record of disrespecting women service members, and multiple credible sexual assault allegations. Our troops deserve better.

By my colleague: www.google.com/url?q=https:...

Feeling sorry for all those whose insulin prices are about to skyrocket again thanks to an executive order to turn back the price caps Biden instituted. Sorry, older, poor, and sick people— there was Big Pharma to prioritize.

Join @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social and @costelkh.bsky.social for the launch of 'The Routledge History of Irish America' on Feb 6th at NYU. Register here: as.nyu.edu/research-cen... #NYUAS #Americanhistory @gihnyu.bsky.social

Hard to reconcile the nation that put a man on the moon is the same nation that put a moron in the White House.

My dog enjoyed New Year’s a wee bit too much

I told my students that if they don’t know an answer, I might toss them a mercy point if they’re creative, make me laugh, or at least try. This has led to truly hilarious comments as well as students who feel less humiliated when they realize they’ll bomb the final—an outcome I didn’t foresee.

Morning emails that you can move something from “under consideration” to “forthcoming” are a great way to start the day, especially if it’s an article where you really agree with yourself. (Don’t tell them. We’re supposed to love them all equally.) That feeling of delight/gratitude never gets old.

Thrilled that Biden pardoned his son and refused to allow him to be a pawn any longer. I’m all for ethical behavior but I’m not for shooting oneself in the foot. Well done #potus

Considering making one last grocery run, and I can’t stop thinking of Constance’s grocery store trip in The Green Road and laughing. Thank you, Anne Enright!

I think it speaks volumes that right wingers criticize bluesky for being “liberal” and “left wing”, when it’s really just that hate speech isn’t allowed.

Optimist: The cup is half full. Pessimist: The cup is half empty. Literary critic: Difficulty and Opportunity: Liminality and the Cup in the Cultural Imaginary, 1789-1914

Friends know I lost my rescue dog in June to a previously undiagnosed condition at 6.5 y/o. We adopted again last month. What a comfort Fionnuala the beagle has been! #adopt!