Maebh Long
maebhlong.bsky.social
Maebh Long
@maebhlong.bsky.social
Eamon Cleary Chair of Irish Studies, U. Otago | President International Flann O’Brien Society & ISAANZ | PI Marsden Project ‘Modern Immunity’ | co-author w/ Matthew Hayward of The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonisation, Radical Campuses and Modernism
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There is a fabulous collection of books at the Reading Room at the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies @universityofotago.bsky.social. We’re eager to share them with researchers - do contact me or Prof @liammcilvanney.bsky.social for more details.
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Donegal to Dakar: the Irish play about British rule hitting home in post-colonial Senegal
Donegal to Dakar: the Irish play about British rule hitting home in post-colonial Senegal
An African staging of Brian Friel’s Translations resonates deeply as the country distances itself from France
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October 29, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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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
The Irish Academy of Fine Arts, at the GPO
Why the GPO?  The GPO offers a rare and remarkable opportunity. Many of the great academies of Europe, such as the Royal Academy in London, the Repin Academy in St. Petersburg, the Ecole de beaux...
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October 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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.
October 22, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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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!
10. The Society in Strabane
In this guest edition of 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...
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October 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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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

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March 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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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
October 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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October 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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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!
Playing the Game: Brian O’Nolan’s Broadcast Media Positions
This essay seeks to enrich and complicate the evermore detailed picture which we have of O'Nolan as a cross-media writer. In particular, this essay attends to the conversation between O’Nolan’s effort...
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October 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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!
Lecturer - English
Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandThe University of Auckland is New Zealand’s pre-eminent University, with a turnover of $1.1bn, including research revenue of over $...
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October 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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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!
Review of Sam Dolbear and Esther Leslie, <em>Dissonant Waves: Ernst Schoen and Experimental Sound in the Twentieth Century</em> (Goldsmiths Press, 2023)
Dissonant Waves tells the life story of Ernst Schoen, a pioneer of early radio and the Leader of the Programming Department at Südwestdeutsche Rundfunkdienst AG (SWZ), the Frankfurt regional radio sta...
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October 2, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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.
September 30, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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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.
CFP: ISAANZ 27 | Health, Wellness and Care
31 July 2025. Submissions are invited for ISAANZ 27 Health, Wellness and Care. As the emergency measures of the pandemic fade into memory, but the virus transitions into an endemic part of our medi…
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September 8, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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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!

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September 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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!

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September 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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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! 📻
Sonic Materiality in Brian O’Nolan’s Fiction
This article argues that Brian O’Nolan’s fiction consistently stages sound as a material force, one that becomes most tangible at the moment of its mediation. Drawing on theories of sonic materiality ...
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September 22, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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.
CFP: ISAANZ 27 | Health, Wellness and Care
31 July 2025. Submissions are invited for ISAANZ 27 Health, Wellness and Care. As the emergency measures of the pandemic fade into memory, but the virus transitions into an endemic part of our medi…
isaanz.org
September 8, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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
September 3, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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!

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Write Spot with Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature - Otago Access Radio
Write Spot takes a look at how our city is embracing its City of Literature status with Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature director Nicky Page and Special Guests.
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August 28, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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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.
August 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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!
Robert Sullivan confirmed as new Poet Laureate
The National Library - Te Puna Maa-tauranga O Aotearoa - has just announced Robert Sullivan will take over as Poet Laureate.
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August 21, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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. @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

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August 9, 2025 at 7:29 AM
I had wet calves for about a decade…
The youth are learning the consequences of early 2000’s fashion
August 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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!
A Conversation with Nicole Flattery: CISS Irish Writers Fellow — NB: August '25
Ali catches up with Nicole Flattery, the University of Otago’s Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies Irish Writers Fellow, ahead of her fellowship in August.
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August 3, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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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.
Death Notice of Breandán Ó Conaire (Portmarnock, Dublin) | rip.ie
The death has occurred of Breandán Ó Conaire of Portmarnock, Dublin Ireland, on 21/07/2025. You can view the full death notice and add your condolences here.
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July 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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
MARS | Galway International Arts Festival
Four astronauts and an AI software interface are cooped up in the cabin of a space-craft for nine months on a mission to Mars.
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July 26, 2025 at 11:44 AM