Mikelyn Rochford
@mikelyn.bsky.social
Host of a moderately cool radio show. Record collector. Illustrator. PhD student in Irish literature + narrative theory @ Uni of York
So very excited to present at Senate House on Thursday along with @paddy-brennan.bsky.social - come around if you're in London! I'll be talking about Pádraic Ó Conaire's amazingly bizarre & fun novella Exile and metafictionality. @ies-sas.bsky.social
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ECR double header with Mikelyn Rochford (University of York) and Paddy Brennan (University of Liverpool)
ies.sas.ac.uk
February 18, 2026 at 1:03 AM
So very excited to present at Senate House on Thursday along with @paddy-brennan.bsky.social - come around if you're in London! I'll be talking about Pádraic Ó Conaire's amazingly bizarre & fun novella Exile and metafictionality. @ies-sas.bsky.social
ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Fellow Irish Studies postgrads!! Do this!!!
A reminder that our Postgraduate Essay and Bursary prizes are now open for applications! Deadline for submissions 17 March 2026
See the BAIS website for details on how to enter and eligibility:
irishstudies.co.uk/prizes-and-f...
See the BAIS website for details on how to enter and eligibility:
irishstudies.co.uk/prizes-and-f...
Prizes and Funding
BAIS Book Prize The 2026 BAIS Book Prize is now open. We invite submissions of single-author monographs published in 2025. All areas of Irish Studies across a range of disciplines are welcome.…
irishstudies.co.uk
February 9, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Fellow Irish Studies postgrads!! Do this!!!
If you’re in London on 19 Feb!
Near London on 19 February? The @ies-sas.bsky.social #IrishStudies Seminar ECR double header will feature our PhD Paddy Brennan on "Food Consumption and Self-Starvation in the Works of Edna O'Brien" as well as Mikelyn Rochford @york.ac.uk.
FREE registration required: ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
FREE registration required: ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
ECR double header with Mikelyn Rochford (University of York) and Paddy Brennan (University of Liverpool)
ies.sas.ac.uk
February 6, 2026 at 6:36 PM
If you’re in London on 19 Feb!
Reposted by Mikelyn Rochford
I'm excited to be presenting on the late, great Edna O'Brien in her adopted home city later this month.
Also looking forward to hearing from @mikelyn.bsky.social on Pádraic Ó Conaire
Also looking forward to hearing from @mikelyn.bsky.social on Pádraic Ó Conaire
Near London on 19 February? The @ies-sas.bsky.social #IrishStudies Seminar ECR double header will feature our PhD Paddy Brennan on "Food Consumption and Self-Starvation in the Works of Edna O'Brien" as well as Mikelyn Rochford @york.ac.uk.
FREE registration required: ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
FREE registration required: ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
ECR double header with Mikelyn Rochford (University of York) and Paddy Brennan (University of Liverpool)
ies.sas.ac.uk
February 6, 2026 at 5:48 PM
I'm excited to be presenting on the late, great Edna O'Brien in her adopted home city later this month.
Also looking forward to hearing from @mikelyn.bsky.social on Pádraic Ó Conaire
Also looking forward to hearing from @mikelyn.bsky.social on Pádraic Ó Conaire
Reposted by Mikelyn Rochford
The 2025 BAIS Essay Prize winner, written by Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social is now available to read on Irish Studies Review!
doi.org/10.1080/0967...
doi.org/10.1080/0967...
“I took the left turn for eternity”: otherworlds, afterlives, and discursive storytelling traditions in Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman and Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Graveyard Clay
This essay explores Flann O’Brien’s posthumously published The Third Policeman (1967) and Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s 1949 Irish language novel Cré na Cille (Graveyard Clay) through their use of literary o...
doi.org
September 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
The 2025 BAIS Essay Prize winner, written by Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social is now available to read on Irish Studies Review!
doi.org/10.1080/0967...
doi.org/10.1080/0967...
Happy 40th birthday to one of my favorite albums of all-time, Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love 💜
September 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Happy 40th birthday to one of my favorite albums of all-time, Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love 💜
Now that it’s in print, if you’re feeling like reading about two of my favorites (O’Brien & Ó Cadhain) and their wild wild stories, check out my little article in Irish Studies Review 🚲🪦
September 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Now that it’s in print, if you’re feeling like reading about two of my favorites (O’Brien & Ó Cadhain) and their wild wild stories, check out my little article in Irish Studies Review 🚲🪦
Reposted by Mikelyn Rochford
Fantastic to see Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social win the British Association for Irish Studies @bairishstudies.bsky.social essay prize for her challenge to the ways 'narrative theory has conceived of afterlife stories as unnatural, oppositional, or dependent on a privileged realist norm'
Essay Prize:
Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social (@york.ac.uk ):'"I took the left turn for eternity": Otherworlds, Afterlives, and Discursive Storytelling Traditions in Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman and Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Cré ne Cille / Graveyard Clay'
Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social (@york.ac.uk ):'"I took the left turn for eternity": Otherworlds, Afterlives, and Discursive Storytelling Traditions in Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman and Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Cré ne Cille / Graveyard Clay'
July 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Fantastic to see Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social win the British Association for Irish Studies @bairishstudies.bsky.social essay prize for her challenge to the ways 'narrative theory has conceived of afterlife stories as unnatural, oppositional, or dependent on a privileged realist norm'
Belated, but what a good time the @flannobriensoc.bsky.social conference in Strabane was 🚲
July 6, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Belated, but what a good time the @flannobriensoc.bsky.social conference in Strabane was 🚲
Reposted by Mikelyn Rochford
💥New publication alert!💥 "‘Our own good Editor’: Brian O’Nolan, Niall Montgomery and the Drafts of the Cruiskeen Lawn" by @maebhlong.bsky.social, @jessiepb.bsky.social & Marie Theunisz out now! Check their article out for new insights into the co-authorship of Cruiskeen Lawn.
‘Our own good Editor’: Brian O’Nolan, Niall Montgomery and the Drafts of the Cruiskeen Lawn
Although the Niall Montgomery papers housed at the National Library of Ireland shows that Montgomery contributed to the Cruiskeen Lawn, researchers without access to Dublin have been unable to identif...
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July 4, 2025 at 12:16 AM
💥New publication alert!💥 "‘Our own good Editor’: Brian O’Nolan, Niall Montgomery and the Drafts of the Cruiskeen Lawn" by @maebhlong.bsky.social, @jessiepb.bsky.social & Marie Theunisz out now! Check their article out for new insights into the co-authorship of Cruiskeen Lawn.
Reposted by Mikelyn Rochford
It makes me feel better about the state of the world to know that at this moment people are gathering to talk about Flann O’Brien. (No doubt as truly true Gaelic Gaels who speak in true Gaelic Gaelic about the truly Gaelic language.)
June 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
It makes me feel better about the state of the world to know that at this moment people are gathering to talk about Flann O’Brien. (No doubt as truly true Gaelic Gaels who speak in true Gaelic Gaelic about the truly Gaelic language.)
Reposted by Mikelyn Rochford
Strabane has been putting up with an influx of Flanneurs with exceptional patience and hospitality
June 27, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Strabane has been putting up with an influx of Flanneurs with exceptional patience and hospitality
Reposted by Mikelyn Rochford
Read the superb programme for the 8th International Flann O’Brien Conference, this week in Strabane!
With talks on diverse aspects of "Home, Heritage & Origins" in O'Brien's writing; screenings; exhibitions & tours of O'Brien's home town
Registration & schedule👉 www.alley-theatre.com/whats-on/25-...
With talks on diverse aspects of "Home, Heritage & Origins" in O'Brien's writing; screenings; exhibitions & tours of O'Brien's home town
Registration & schedule👉 www.alley-theatre.com/whats-on/25-...
June 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Read the superb programme for the 8th International Flann O’Brien Conference, this week in Strabane!
With talks on diverse aspects of "Home, Heritage & Origins" in O'Brien's writing; screenings; exhibitions & tours of O'Brien's home town
Registration & schedule👉 www.alley-theatre.com/whats-on/25-...
With talks on diverse aspects of "Home, Heritage & Origins" in O'Brien's writing; screenings; exhibitions & tours of O'Brien's home town
Registration & schedule👉 www.alley-theatre.com/whats-on/25-...
Hello to Strabane and hello to the one and only Brian O’Nolan 👋
June 24, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Hello to Strabane and hello to the one and only Brian O’Nolan 👋
Reposted by Mikelyn Rochford
Fiancé decided to join me on my upcoming Ryanair flight to Belfast and got dropkicked from the seat next to me at the very last minute due to a tech glitch. Got on social media and this is the first thing I saw 🤣
June 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Fiancé decided to join me on my upcoming Ryanair flight to Belfast and got dropkicked from the seat next to me at the very last minute due to a tech glitch. Got on social media and this is the first thing I saw 🤣
Footage of Bloomsday - June 16, 1954 (50 years after the events of Ulysses). Celebrated by Brian O’Nolan (Flann O’Brien), Patrick Kavanagh, Anthony Cronin, John Ryan, Tom Joyce, & Con Leventhal. Started at the Martello tower and didn’t get far. Happy Bloomsday!!
June 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Footage of Bloomsday - June 16, 1954 (50 years after the events of Ulysses). Celebrated by Brian O’Nolan (Flann O’Brien), Patrick Kavanagh, Anthony Cronin, John Ryan, Tom Joyce, & Con Leventhal. Started at the Martello tower and didn’t get far. Happy Bloomsday!!
Love when the pals win together 🤝
Niamh MacGloin (@york.ac.uk ), ‘Language and the Anxiety of Belonging in London-Irish Literature’
May 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Love when the pals win together 🤝
big fan of BAIS ✨✨✨
Essay Prize:
Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social (@york.ac.uk ):'"I took the left turn for eternity": Otherworlds, Afterlives, and Discursive Storytelling Traditions in Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman and Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Cré ne Cille / Graveyard Clay'
Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social (@york.ac.uk ):'"I took the left turn for eternity": Otherworlds, Afterlives, and Discursive Storytelling Traditions in Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman and Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Cré ne Cille / Graveyard Clay'
May 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
big fan of BAIS ✨✨✨
Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez visited my home (red) state of Montana on their Fighting Oligarchy tour today. They filled the stadium with a crowd of 7,500 and an overflow of 1,500. Nearing 1% of Montana’s population.
April 16, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez visited my home (red) state of Montana on their Fighting Oligarchy tour today. They filled the stadium with a crowd of 7,500 and an overflow of 1,500. Nearing 1% of Montana’s population.
And by this I mean a UFO, not rural Montana.
April 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
And by this I mean a UFO, not rural Montana.
Cosmic Mind at Play by The Paisleys (1970). Psychedelic garage rock from the Midwest.
April 11, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Cosmic Mind at Play by The Paisleys (1970). Psychedelic garage rock from the Midwest.
PJ Harvey’s White Chalk (2007). I love all the PJ eras (she never misses for me) but this one had a sound I particularly really love.
April 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
PJ Harvey’s White Chalk (2007). I love all the PJ eras (she never misses for me) but this one had a sound I particularly really love.