The latest article in the Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies is 'Flann O’Brien and the Irish "Radio-Mind," 1926-1976' by Tobias W. Harris and Joesph LaBine. This article reads O’Nolan’s work within the context of contemporary theories of radio, tuning in to the crackle and static of the wireless.

Such a pleasure to have @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social at Otago, and what a brilliant opening keynote he gave!

Donegal to Dakar: the Irish play about British rule hitting home in post-colonial Senegal

This is a brilliant idea 💡 Let's not make one of the most historical buildings in Dublin a fecking mall! This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/th... @uplift.ie

Lynley Edmeades’ ‘Hiding Places‘ is bloody amazing. I don’t want to tell you what to do, but you should go buy a copy immediately.

In the next episode of everyone’s favourite podcast, Radio Myles, Maebh Murphy presents a compilation of voices and atmospheres, scholarly ideas and craic agus ceol from the 8th International Flann O'Brien conference in Strabane. It’s a knockout episode so get those headphones on agus éisigí anseo!

Our final article for 49.1 - Long, Burnette, Grard & Theunisz explore how a narrative of immunity was used to sell various products in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. #OzStudies #Advertising #immunity #MedicalHistory www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We are pleased to announce that Maebh Long and Matthew Hayward's THE RISE OF PACIFIC LITERATURE is the Winner of the 2025 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize. buff.ly/THSpdk5 @moderniststudies.bsky.social

Announcing our new and forthcoming books in Modernist Studies! buff.ly/HCJbjw9 @xenoglossic.bsky.social @kristingrogan.bsky.social @fuscowrites.bsky.social @maebhlong.bsky.social @matfournier.bsky.social @adam-mckible.bsky.social @skkeller.bsky.social @notquitehydepark.bsky.socia

Elliott Mill's just-published article presents the complex experience of being a writer in the changing landscape of mass communication and entertainment in postwar Dublin. Check out his open-access work on O'Brien's multiple, contrasting perspectives on the radio here!

Auckland university is hiring a Lecturer (that’s Assistant Prof for all you Americans) in English, specialising in the long nineteenth century, to a permanent position commencing before Semester 1, 2026 (or by negotiation). Focus is nineteenth century fiction - details below!

Einat Adar reviews 'Dissonant Waves', Sam Dolbear and Esther Leslie’s monograph on Ernst Schoen, pioneer of early radio. Available open access now in the Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies 9.1!

We are hugely honoured to have won the 2025 MSA Book Prize for The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonization, Radical Campuses and Modernism. Thank you to everyone involved. It was a huge joy to work on such a wonderful period in Pacific writing.

Registration for the Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand conference is now live! Join us in Dunedin in November for excellent papers and discussion.

A quick reminder that The Parish Review is open to all, saor in aisce.

The first article in the Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies 9.1 is out! Zan Cammack’s work is great start to the issue on Flann and the Radio, which features a truly excellent cover. A+ work guest editors @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social and Joseph LaBine! parishreview.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...

Zan Cammack’s article on Flann O’Brien’s comic engagements with the acoustic environment of early twentieth-century Ireland is OUT NOW! in the Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies. On air twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, do not adjust your dials! 📻

Registration for the Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand conference is now live! Join us in Dunedin in November for excellent papers and discussion.

So wonderful to be in conversation with our 2025 Writing Fellow at the Centre of Irish and Scottish Studies. Nicole Flattery shared excellent insights into her works and we got an advance peak into her forthcoming novel! Thanks as always to Dunedin City Library and UNESCO Dunedin City of Literature

I so enjoyed chatting with the wonderful Nicole Flattery on Write Spot. Thanks to the great team at OAR and Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature! oar.org.nz/shows/write-...

It’s always a good time to have your books professionally handled. Beware amateurs or biblioquacks who can leave your books stressed and their plots in array.

I'm so delighted to hear that Robert Sullivan (Ngāpuhi, Kāi Tahu) has been confirmed as the new Poet Laureate. Robert is a brilliant poet and we're lucky to have him as one of the keynote speakers at our Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand conference. Comhghairdeas Robert, ka pai!

. @maebhlong.bsky.social & Matthew Hayward trace the rise of #PacificLiterature in the 1960s & 1970s in anti-colonial teaching at the University of Papua New Guinea & the University of the South Pacific, taking inspirations from a variety of influences, esp global #Modernism s #IndigenousPeoplesDay

I had wet calves for about a decade…

Lovely conversation between Nicole Flattery, the 2025 Irish Writing Fellow at the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, Uni of Otago, and Ali Boyne, of Dunedin Public Libraries. There will be a public event at the Library later in August - watch this space!

The International Flann O’Brien Society is sad to hear of the death of Breandán Ó Conaire. In addition to research on Flann O’Brien, Breandán conducted important work on Tomás Ó Criomhthain, Seán Ó Ríordáin, Máirtín Ó Cadhain and Douglas Hyde. We mourn him and the loss to his family and community.

If you’re at the Galway Arts Festival make sure you go to Mars, a stunning opera about colonisation, tech bros, natalist movements and tradwives. I’ve never seen anything quite like it - it’s brilliant and funny and visually arresting. #speirgorm

"The Potato Eight". 🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔 These "glamour girls" of the Potato Marketing Board toured British seaside resorts in summer 1939 to promote eating potatoes as a route to health and efficiency and "overturn old fashioned notions about the potato being taboo for the woman who wants to keep her figure" 🤸

Get your abstracts in! Join the amazing abstracts already submitted, the fantastic keynotes lined up from Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social, Ida Milne @idamilne.bsky.social and Robert Sullivan and an author talk from the great Emma Donoghue @emmadonoghue.bsky.social

I used to love Weezer, but even in the mid 90s this was too much: ‘I want a girl who will laugh for no one else When I'm away, she puts her make-up on the shelf When I'm away, she never leaves the house…’ I remember some of my male friends at the time thinking the lyrics were wholly relatable…

Irish abroad and Irish diaspora: The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is undertaking a consultation process to inform the Government’s new Diaspora Strategy. Fill in the survey below to ensure their new strategy meets diasporic needs and can adapt to evolving circumstances. #speirgorm

It was such a joy being involved in the recent Flann O'Brien Conference in Strabane. Louise and all the wonderful people at the Alley Theatre were fabulous hosts.

What a beautiful book by Sara Baume. An exquisite depiction of quiet lives, of the gentle entropy of repetition. Its use of spacing and pauses in the text was masterful. I loved it. @marinerbooks.bsky.social #speirgorm

It was wonderful working with @jessiepb.bsky.social and Marie on Montgomery's drafts of Cruiskeen Lawn articles. We learned so much about the co-authorship of many of the Myles na gCopaleen pieces and about O'Nolan as an editor.

Great to talk with Mark Patterson of BBC Radio Foyle last week about the Flann O'Brien conference in Strabane. You can check it out below - our conversation is from 22.06.

Come on @theguardian.com - do better. 'Mo chara' is an Irish phrase meaning 'my friend'. Correct referencing for such a stage name would be to use it in full, not cut it in two. #speirgorm

Strabane has been putting up with an influx of Flanneurs with exceptional patience and hospitality

Some fabulous photos from the opening ceremony of the Flann O’Brien conference in Strabane

I am hugely honoured to be nominated in such a strong field. My article was published in the Irish Studies Review but all other nominated articles are published open access in the Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies. Check them all out!

This looks like a fascinating event on Irish-Scottish relations via arts and the humanities. A topic close to the heart of the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Otago, especially as it features our former Chair of Irish Studies, @sonjatiernan.bsky.social

Wonderful to hear of ‘Abhainn Burn River’, a new book by students in Donegal and Tyrone that features writing in Irish, English and Ulster Scots. The book was inspired by Flann O’Brien, who was born in Strabane, an area in which three languages and three rivers meet.

Frank McNally on Niall Montgomery's new, albeit very posthumous poetry collection, his writing for The Irish Times as Rosemary Lane and his occasional moonlighting as Myles na gCopaleen. Montgomery's collection, edited by Joe LaBine, to be launched at 5.30pm, 20 June, Irish Architectural Archive

This, so far as I know, is the first copy of The Good Father to be sold. Bought by the highly discerning Lesley and Ashley Day in Dunedin. Hoping there will be a few more to follow…😉💙📚

For those hungry for more original material by Flann O'Brien/Myles na gCopaleen, @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social has located a 💥new article by Myles💥, published in 1953! Read all about 'Cultural Affairs' by Myles na Gopaleen, published in a 'Statist' special on ‘The Economy of Ireland.👇

The current fad for putting AI in everything reminds me of the 19th-century fad for adding electricity to everything, without thinking about why. Electric girdles! Electric garters! Electric hairpins! Electric tea cups!

Sad to hear that the house where Flann O'Brien was born is falling into disrepair. We hope that the Council can assist in saving it.

We're so excited that the wonderful Nicole Flattery, author of 'Show Them a Good Time' and 'Nothing Special' is joining us as the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies Writing Fellow, 2025, @universityofotago.bsky.social, @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

Next up for the Flann O'Brien award for best article is @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social's 'Flann O'Brien's Vibrant Atmospheres'. Fagan shows O'Brien countering 17th to 19th century formulations of atmosphere with a depiction of atmosphere that is embodied, trans-corporeal and affective.

Happy Bloomsday! Here’s to wandering around cities muttering to ourselves.

Kevin Barry’s play at @abbeytheatre.bsky.social is dark, tragic, and extremely funny. I highly recommend you go see The Cave - it runs until 18 July!