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 😅

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. ❤️ www.ucc.ie/en/conferrin...

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. 🥹

‪ 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.

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.

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:

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: samuelbeckettsociety.org/2025/12/12/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. beckettreview.org/2025/12/06/b...

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. ❤️ aosdana.artscouncil.ie/general/aosd...

@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.

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. youtu.be/eZIbC-uKDaA?...

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 www.uni-regensburg.de/bibliothek/v...

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. irishpostgradprague.ff.cuni.cz/programme/ke...

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" ❤️❤️❤️

Downloaded and reading

Reading tonight in Berlin with Maria Stepanova and Eugene Ostashevsky. www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de/de/events/ly...

I want to briefly talk about one thing people don't really talk about too much with precarity and one thing that most senior staff gloss over, offering a platitude instead of engaging with what is fundamentally wrong with the precarity situation in the UK. 1/

Anyone with even a passing interest in Beckett needs to read Emilie Morin's biography of Suzanne Dumesnil: it's free to download for the next two weeks. This is feminist restorative history in action: read this book!!!

CFP: James Joyce in Relation: Gender, Labour, Legacy, a special issue of Feminist Modernist Studies, guest edited by Ronan Crowley & myself. Please take a look at the CFP and send your proposals our way. Proposals from non-Joyceans are ESPECIALLY welcome: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Thank you to Professor Lauren Arrington for launching my book at the Frankfurt Modernist conference organised so wonderfully by @georginanugent.bsky.social and Ronan Crowley and hosted by the Irish Consulate, Frankfurt. I was honoured to be in the company of the amazing Zackary Leader.

Today, in Cork City Library!

Very happy to share the speaker list for "Modernist Life Righting: Corrective Self-Portraiture in the 20th and 21st Century", a two day conference I've co-organized with Ronan Crowley. Taking place later this month at @goetheuni.bsky.social. Look at this amazing lineup of speakers!!

A sorrowful reflection on the ways in which a place can hold a ‘magnetic field of memory’, Don Mee Choi explores South Korea’s violent recent history in a poetry of grief that is both personal and collective Mirror Nation is out now in the UK and Europe 💫 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/mirr...

Looking forward to welcoming to Leanne Quinn and John McAuliffe to our Poetry Festival this year. For all details on the festival go to www.poetryfest.ie #poetryfest #corkevents

Hello! On Saturday 17 May 4pm I will be chatting to Zachary Leader about his new book, Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and its Maker" at Cork City Library. This is a free event, do come ☀️ @ucc.ie @harvardpress.bsky.social

Very happy to have a poem in last Saturday's Irish Times 🏭🙏

Congratulations to Sasha Dugdale, who has been shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2025 with her collection The Strongbox! Well done to Sasha, and all the other shortlisted writers and publishers! 🎉 www.carcanet.co.uk/sasha-dugdal...

Happy publication day to Don Mee Choi, whose extraordinary National Book Award-winning work DMZ Colony is out today in the UK and Europe 💫 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/dmz-...

Thank you @pnreview.bsky.social for publishing my fierce psalm ‘On learning that Russian mothers buy their soldier sons lucky belts inscribed with Psalm 90 to wear into battle’ in PNR 282

Mary MacSwiney by Leeann Lane is here! 🔗 Order on our website at bit.ly/mary-macswiney or in bookstores nationwide This biography offers a comprehensive understanding of a misrepresented and marginalised voice in early twentieth-century Irish politics.

An excellent interview in the @irishtimes.com with @ifut.bsky.social activist @deirdreflynn.bsky.social on the corrosive effect of academic precarity. @conorreddy95.bsky.social tinyurl.com/IT182025

Contributor copy arrived of my latest. Essentially, this collection, excellently put together by @georginanugent.bsky.social and @samslote.bsky.social, is the first 'Festschrift' devoted to a scholarly edition. #jamesjoyce #ulysses #modernism #scholarlyediting

Two exciting things crossed my path today: the biggest King Oyster mushroom I have ever seen, and Pascale Sardin's new biography of Barbara Bray: Barbara Bray, A Woman of Letters. 🍄📘

CFP: Beckett and the Tragic. Special issue of Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui. The Beckett Working Group @iftrcomms invites abstracts – in English or French – on Beckett and the tragic. Full CFP here: iftr.org/working-grou.... Deadline for abstracts: 30 April 2025.

Happy to share the CfP for a special issue of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui on the #tragic. We welcome papers in English and in French on all artistic media #Beckett and Beckettian artists work(ed) with. Please share. 🗓️ 30.04.2025 – deadline for submission of abstracts 📧 [email protected]