Claire Connolly

@claireconnolly.bsky.social

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Professor of Modern English @ucc.ie | Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Secretary @ria.ie | Coming December 2025 — Irish Romanticism: a Literary History @universitypress.cambridge.org

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Deidre!

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🤩🫣😅

Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Mary!

Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Rebecca!

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Bullaun Press @bullaunpress.bsky.social · 1d

We were honoured to be mentioned in this fantastic article @rte.ie about the upcoming inaugural Dublin Small Press Fair alongside so many wonderful independent Irish publishers, including @lilliputpress.bsky.social, @skeinpress.bsky.social, @machapress.bsky.social, and so many more.

Screenshot of the headline of an RTÉ Culture article about indie publishing in Ireland and the Dublin Small Press Fair, with central image of a male poet in a garden.

A screenshot of an excerpt of an RTÉ article about indie publishing in Ireland.

A picture of a hand holding a promotional postcard for the Dublin Small Press Fair against an autumnal suburban background.

Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 1d

Great news, pity about the typos in the announcement - I spot 2 names that are incorrectly spelt @uccresearch.bsky.social

Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 1d

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to @jamesosullivan.bsky.social @luiciolfi.bsky.social @eireidium.bsky.social and @mtu.ie colleagues including @marygalvin.bsky.social and Susan Rea of MTU Nimbus 🤩 - Minimal Curation is funded by @researchireland.ie #COALESCE

James O’Sullivan @jamesosullivan.bsky.social · 2d

UCC and MTU to partner on 'Minimal Curation', a digital sociocultural heritage project funded by @researchireland.ie under its COALESCE scheme.

www.ucc.ie/en/dah/news/...

@ucc.ie @mtu.ie @luiciolfi.bsky.social @eireidium.bsky.social @marygalvin.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social

UCC and MTU to partner on digital sociocultural heritage project | University College Cork

Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.

www.ucc.ie

Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations all!

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James O’Sullivan @jamesosullivan.bsky.social · 2d

UCC and MTU to partner on digital sociocultural heritage project | University College Cork

Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.

www.ucc.ie

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 5d

‘Capitalism within the British Empire created in Ireland a society especially vulnerable to the effects of crop failure.’

Niamh Gallagher on a history of the Great Famine.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Niamh Gallagher · Carrion and Earth: Ireland’s Great Famine

Although Ireland had endured earlier famines – including one in the 1740s that, proportionally, claimed more lives...

www.lrb.co.uk

Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks for your help along the way Tina x

Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks Justin!

Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 5d

I must see what I can rustle up :)

Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks Rhys

Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 5d

No pressure then ! (and thank you x)

Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 6d

Was it a well-structured natural wine with a whimsical finish?

Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 6d

😅

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 6d

I'm told this will be out in early to mid December. Please forgive coming episodes of shameless self-promotion and make a note of launch dates in your diaries!

UCC 19 February
Boston College 11 March
NYU Glucksman House 12 March
Royal Irish Academy 25 March

www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...

Irish Romanticism | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

www.cambridge.org

Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 6d

I just got the diaries

Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 8d

Join forces on an archipelagic adaptation?

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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

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

www.irishtimes.com

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International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures @iassl.bsky.social · 9d

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 · 10d

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 · 10d

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...

www.k-saa.org

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National University of Ireland @nuimerrionsq.bsky.social · 12d

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 · 12d

🚨 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!

my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru...

Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 12d

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 · 13d

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 · 13d

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

muse.jhu.edu

Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 15d

Ordered!

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