Claire Connolly

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Professor of Modern English @ucc.ie | Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Secretary @ria.ie | Irish Romanticism: a Literary History @cambridgeup.bsky.social 2026

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 12h

Join forces on an archipelagic adaptation?

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Frankenstein’s Ireland: A ‘wretched’ place with ‘traces of civilisation’

Ireland’s place in Mary Shelley’s 1818 masterpiece has been monstrously overlooked

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International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures @iassl.bsky.social · 21h

Call for Papers: 'Regional Perspectives, Planetary Reach. Themes, Genres, Forms of Narration in Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction', 28-29 May 2026, Università di Napoli L'Orientale. Deadline for proposals: 10 January 2026. sites.google.com/view/irsconf...

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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 2d

Global Irish Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship at Notre Dame University. This is open exclusively to scholars of any nationality with a PhD from institutions outside the US, UK, Canada, and Ireland. Scholars working in any area of Irish Studies are encouraged to apply. apply.interfolio.com/176805

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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · 2d

The K-SAA is excited to share about an exciting digital event celebrating the publication of Volume IV of the Johns Hopkins University Press edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetry! Please find more info on the #KSAABlog: www.k-saa.org/blog/jhu4-ev...

‘Shelley’s Anni Mirabiles: The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley,’ Volume 4 — K-SAA

The K-SAA is excited to share about this digital event celebrating the publication of Volume IV of the Johns Hopkins University Press edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetry! Please find more informa...

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National University of Ireland @nuimerrionsq.bsky.social · 3d

Yesterday, NUI proudly conferred honorary degrees on six outstanding individuals who have made exceptional contributions across science, literature, education, the arts, public life, and history; Emer Cooke, Claire Keegan, Maurice Manning, Aibhlín McCrann, Patricia O'Donovan and Robert Savage 🎓

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NorseInCork @norseincork.bsky.social · 3d

🚨 Job alert 🚨 NorseMap is recruiting for a new team member: a 3-year postdoctoral researcher with a background in Politics OR Old Norse Viking Studies to lead the 'Politics & Identity' strand of the project. Come and work with us at UCC!

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 3d

Feels important : Ann Rigney's new book Remembering Hope: The Cultural Afterlife of Protest has just been published #OA by @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

'It became my goal to understand how hope becomes transfer-
able through the stories told about it.'

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 5d

The special issue of Eighteenth Century Studies on Coasts is now out - glad to be part of it with some thoughts about coasts and gardens in c18 Ireland #BlueHumanities #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies 🌊

muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889

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Dr. Katie Sagal @aksagal.bsky.social · 5d

I'm thrilled to see that the special issue of ECS, "Eighteenth-Century Coasts," is finally out today! Check out my essay on coral, and many other fantastic contributions: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889

Project MUSE - Eighteenth-Century Studies-Volume 59, Number 1, Fall 2025

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 7d

Ordered!

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 7d

📚 A Letter to the Dead by Lynette Roberts, hosted by Francesca Brooks - Tuesday 25 November, 7pm.
This new edition contains sixty-five unpublished poems by Roberts, and a new epilogue highlighting her importance to our understanding of twentieth-century poetry.
www.carcanet.co.uk/events/a-let...

Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 11d

Reposting for the day that's in it #Halloween #Samhain #Speirgorm

Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · Jul 28

Celebrity sighting @nmireland.bsky.social Irish museum of Country Life 🤩 #speirgorm #halloween

A turnip carved into the shape of a head

Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 12d

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Irish Studies at Boston College @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social · 12d

The #BCIrishStudies graduate students are proud to announce the CFP for #Comhfhios2026!

A conference for and by Irish Studies graduate students, we cannot wait to see what talented students apply this year!

Applications are due by December 15!

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 13d

Would more lighting of fires/filling of educational buckets help?

Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 13d

Too busy having fun to post - and @gillianobrien.bsky.social took better pics in any case - but great to catch up with @curioustravellers.bsky.social and other colleagues in North Wales last week #plasnewydd #llangollen #wales #research #ladiesofllangollen #HolyheadRoad

Gillian O'Brien @gillianobrien.bsky.social · 19d

If only every work day could be like this! #plasnewydd #llangollen #wales #research #ladiesofllangollen

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Deirdre Flynn @deirdreflynn.bsky.social · 13d

📣 Job Vacancy 📣

Teaching Fellow in English Literature
(0.5 FTE, Fixed Term – Spring Semester 2026)
Mary Immaculate College, Limerick

The appointee will have expertise in contemporary English Literature.

Full details: www.mic.ul.ie/about-mic/va...

Closing date: 2pm on Tuesday, 18 November 2025

Vacancies | Mary Immaculate College

Mary Immaculate College has a wide range of academic and professional services job opportunities on an ongoing basis. Learn more about our vacancies.

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Neil Fraistat @fraistat.bsky.social · 17d

Thanks! Here is a flyer with 30% off of this volume and all the others.

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Neil Fraistat @fraistat.bsky.social · 17d

Just arrived:

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English, University of Limerick @ulenglish.bsky.social · 18d

The next #English Lunchtime Research Seminar takes place on 5th November, 12pm, LCB012. Professor Michael Griffin will talk to us about Editing Goldsmith for @universitypress.cambridge.org. All welcome! #spéirgorm @ulresearch.bsky.social

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Gillian O'Brien @gillianobrien.bsky.social · 19d

If only every work day could be like this! #plasnewydd #llangollen #wales #research #ladiesofllangollen

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UCC Library Research Services @ucclibraryresearch.bsky.social · 20d

We opened #OpenAccessWeek 2025 at University College Cork Library with an event on our UCC Diamond Open Access journals: Pathways to your first publication – celebrating the diversity and impact of UCC’s Open Access Journals. journals.ucc.ie

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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 21d

@iancushing.bsky.social @callanjd.bsky.social @noreenmasud.bsky.social @manmetuni.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social @bristolunienglish.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @artshumsucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @manchester.ac.uk

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Ailbhe Kenny @kennyailbhe.bsky.social · 21d

30% off my new book ‘Music Refuge: Living Asylum Through Music’ (Oxford University Press, 2025). Use code AUFLY30 on the OUP webpage. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social · 21d

Great celebration of "Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move" eds. @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @kevinkenny.bsky.social (especially the Irish dimensions of the book) at Boston College @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social @gihnyu.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social @tedsmyth.bsky.social

Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies @ndirishstudies.bsky.social · 21d

The Keough-Naughton Institute’s Gráinne McEvoy, right, and Visiting Scholar Jill Bender, second from left, spoke about their contributions to the new book “Rituals of Migration” last week at @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social.

Also pictured here are @kevinkenny.bsky.social and @hidehirota.bsky.social.

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Shannon Devlin @shannondevlin.bsky.social · 21d

New favourite lecture slide decoration: Convent of Mercy pupils greet JFK in Galway, 1963. Spectacular headgear.

300 school girls dressed in green, white, and orange ponchos and hoods line out to display an Irish flag in Galway Sportsground where JFK was arriving by helicopter. They all look freezing.

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Dean Browne @deanbrowne.bsky.social · 21d

Dublin and adjacent, I'll be launching After Party in Books Upstairs on Wednesday! With the brilliant Tom Morris

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Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social · 23d

It appears that the Shelley Conference special issue of 'Romanticism' is currently available open access! Anna Mercer and I edited this issue, including essays by Nora Crook, Michael Rossington, @paulstephens.bsky.social, & more, from the 2022 Shelley Conference 🍂 www.euppublishing.com/toc/rom/30/1

Edinburgh University Press Journals - Table of Contents - rom: Vol 30, No 1

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Dr Jennie Orr @drjenniferorr.bsky.social · 25d

Thanks for sharing Claire. We are very blessed to have this bursary. I can testify to the fact the Copley award made it possible for me to access crucial primary sources for my first book at a difficult time financially.

Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 25d

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