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Paul Fagan
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Research Fellow at LMU Munich│Leader of Irish Research Council project 'Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing 1860-1950s'│Co-Founder of @flannobriensoc.bsky.social and @theparishreview.bsky.social
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🚨DEADLINE EXTENSION!🚨
The deadline for submissions to "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" - an open-access special issue from Humanities - has been extended to *30 January 2026*!!

All submissions welcome! Contact me for any queries you might have

CFP and Details here 👇 www.mdpi.com/journal/huma...
Really enjoyed the new Radio Myles in which Toby Harris & Joe LaBine discuss their special issue on "Flann O'Brien and the Radio"!
(Including generous words on my own contribution on H.L. Morrow and warranted praise of Zan Cammack and Elliott Mills's articles)
radiomyles.substack.com/p/13-joseph-...
13. Joseph LaBine: Flann O'Brien and Radio
A special edition of the Radio Myles podcast dedicated to Joe and Toby's special edition of the Parish Review about Flann O'Brien and the radio.
radiomyles.substack.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:56 AM
I'm excited to share the 2nd open-access article from our Humanities special issue "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing"!

Read "The Citadel of Their Celibacy: Masculinity, Celibacy and Marriage in Mary Lavin’s Short Fiction" by Fae McNamara at the link below 👇
www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/15...
February 5, 2026 at 10:05 AM
I'm thrilled to see the first article published from our Humanities special issue "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing"!

Read Kathleen P. Costello-Sullivan's '"It Wouldn’t Be Her Own": Norah Hoult’s “Miss Jocelyn” as a Response to James Joyce’s “Eveline”', at the 🔗below 👇
www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/15...
January 19, 2026 at 10:33 AM
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For this in and around Leeds, it’ll be love(r)ly to see you for this fun talk at the queer indie bookshop @thebookishtype.bsky.social to celebrate LGBT+ History Month & Aro Awareness Week! thebookishtype.co.uk/products/sho... organised with @kristin-kaeuper.bsky.social & @aroaceresearch.bsky.social
Shouldn’t It Be Loverly? The Aro/Ace Origins of My Fair Lady (An Aroma
The 1956 musical and 1964 film adaptation of My Fair Lady are among the most referenced love stories in modern media. At this event for Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week, Dr JT Welsch (University of Y...
thebookishtype.co.uk
January 16, 2026 at 1:45 PM
In case it got lost in the Christmas and New Year's shuffle: re-sharing the link to my new open-access article "H. L. Morrow & Brian O’Nolan on Radio Éireann", published in the Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies' special issue "Flann O'Brien and the Radio"!
parishreview.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...
January 16, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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See the old year out in style with the final article in the @theparishreview.bsky.social special issue "Flann O'Brien & the Radio"

"H.L. Morrow & Brian O’Nolan on Radio Éireann" by Paul Fagan dips into the archive to uncover O'Nolan's first major adaptor
parishreview.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...
H. L. Morrow and Brian O’Nolan on Radio Éireann
This article spotlights H. L. Morrow as a significant adaptor of Brian O’Nolan’s writing for radio. As well as adapting Thirst as the half-hour television broadcast ‘After Hours’ for the BBC, Morrow a...
parishreview.openlibhums.org
December 31, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Elliott Mills’s great commentary on Flann O’Brien and the Irish Civil Service in the new episode of Radio Myles makes a perfect companion piece to Katherine Ebury’s episode on O’Brien and the death penalty.

Check out the Radio Myles podcast, expertly hosted by Tobias W. Harris, to hear more!
January 7, 2026 at 7:32 AM
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Out now: "H. L. Morrow and Brian O’Nolan on Radio Éireann" by @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social, published in the The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies' Special Issue "Flann O'Brien and the Radio: doi.org/10.16995/pr.... / @theparishreview.bsky.social
H. L. Morrow and Brian O’Nolan on Radio Éireann
This article spotlights H. L. Morrow as a significant adaptor of Brian O’Nolan’s writing for radio. As well as adapting Thirst as the half-hour television broadcast ‘After Hours’ for the BBC, Morrow a...
doi.org
January 6, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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“substantial...significant…impressive…exemplary…it can and should be read by anyone with an interest in environmental histories as they are explored in Irish writing”

Very grateful to Patrick Lonergan for his generous review of "Finnegans Wake: Human and Nonhuman Histories" in Irish Studies Review
December 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Article 4
"H.L. Morrow & Brian O’Nolan on Radio Éireann"
by Paul Fagan (@pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social)

Explores the archival traces of Morrow's 3 Radio Éireann adaptations of O’Nolan’s work: Thirst (1958), Something in the Air (1959), Faustus Kelly (1960)
parishreview.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...
H. L. Morrow and Brian O’Nolan on Radio Éireann
This article spotlights H. L. Morrow as a significant adaptor of Brian O’Nolan’s writing for radio. As well as adapting Thirst as the half-hour television broadcast ‘After Hours’ for the BBC, Morrow a...
parishreview.openlibhums.org
January 1, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Out now: my new article "H. L. Morrow and Brian O’Nolan on Radio Éireann", published in the Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies' special issue "Flann O'Brien and the Radio"

Available to read, free and open-access from @openlibhums.org here:
parishreview.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...
H. L. Morrow and Brian O’Nolan on Radio Éireann
This article spotlights H. L. Morrow as a significant adaptor of Brian O’Nolan’s writing for radio. As well as adapting Thirst as the half-hour television broadcast ‘After Hours’ for the BBC, Morrow a...
parishreview.openlibhums.org
December 31, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Read "Flann O’Brien and the Irish ‘Radio-Mind,’ 1926-1976", Toby Harris and Joe LaBine's contribution to their excellent special issue of the Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies on "Flann O'Brien and the Radio"!
Free & open-access from @openlibhums.org here:
parishreview.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...
Flann O’Brien and the Irish ‘Radio-Mind,’ 1926-1976
Radio broadcasting has major significance for O’Nolan’s career. This article reads O’Nolan’s work within the context of contemporary theories of radio, arguing that radio transmission was a live event...
parishreview.openlibhums.org
December 19, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Ask your library to order "Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century" (including a chapter from yours truly on how to teach the grammar of "Finnegans Wake" to students and first-time readers!)
🔗 👉 floridapress.org/978081308126...
Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century
A guide for today’s classrooms, this collection from leading Joyce scholars explores innovative pedagogical approaches to the works of this often-challengi...
floridapress.org
December 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I'm very proud to have a chapter on "Teaching The Wakean Sentence" in this essential new collection "Teaching James Joyce in the 21st Century" being launched online today at (I calculate 🧐...) 17:30 Irish Time!

Click the link for schedule and registration details 🔗👇
joycesociety.com/events/lunch...
Lunchtime Book Launch: Barry Devine and Ellen Scheible: "Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century" — James Joyce Society
Please join the James Joyce Society for our latest installment in our Lunchtime Launch Series : Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century , edited by Barry Devine and Ellen Scheible. A rou...
joycesociety.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Mark your calendars for the online EFACIS Roundtable Launch of "The Animal in Ireland" (6pm Irish Time, Thurs 11 Dec), which promises a fascinating discussion of the "real and imagined" Irish animal - of interest to anyone working in the Irish environmental humanities!

www.efacis.eu/content/efac...
December 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I'm giving a guest lecture today at the Salzburg University English Department on "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing and Elizabeth Bowen's 'The Last September' (1929)"
Thanks to Eva-Maria Kubin for the invitation!

If you're in or around Salzburg please do come along to the lecture (or even say hi!)
December 3, 2025 at 9:15 AM
“substantial...significant…impressive…exemplary…it can and should be read by anyone with an interest in environmental histories as they are explored in Irish writing”

Very grateful to Patrick Lonergan for his generous review of "Finnegans Wake: Human and Nonhuman Histories" in Irish Studies Review
December 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Very cool to receive my contributor copy of "Teaching James Joyce in the 21st Century"; my chapter's on "Teaching the Wakean Sentence"

Congrats to editors @seveneccles.bsky.social and @ellenscheible.bsky.social & the contributors!

👏Please ask your library to order this essential teaching resource👏
December 1, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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“a substantial and significant intervention”
“The twelve essays […] are both individually and cumulatively impressive”
“an exemplary illustration of the need for recalibrated methodologies for literary analysis at a time of planetary ecological crisis”

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Finnegans Wake – human and nonhuman histories
Published in Irish Studies Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:04 AM
I had a great time at the 27th ISAANZ Conference in Dunedin, where I had the honour of delivering the opening keynote address ("Celibacy, Care, and Queer Kinship from Frances Power Cobbe to Kate O’Brien") and of launching Marion Quirici's brilliant new book "Fitness for Freedom".
November 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Such a pleasure to have @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social at Otago, and what a brilliant opening keynote he gave!
Delighted to be at the Dunedin Centre for Irish & Scottish studies for the ISAANZ Conference on “Health, Wellness & Care” organised by @maebhlong.bsky.social

I'm honoured to deliver the conference's opening keynote address on "Celibacy, Care, Queer Kinship: From Frances Power Cobbe to Kate O'Brien"
November 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Delighted to be at the Dunedin Centre for Irish & Scottish studies for the ISAANZ Conference on “Health, Wellness & Care” organised by @maebhlong.bsky.social

I'm honoured to deliver the conference's opening keynote address on "Celibacy, Care, Queer Kinship: From Frances Power Cobbe to Kate O'Brien"
November 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I really enjoyed the latest episode of "Radio Myles: The Flann O'Brien Podcast" in which Katherine Ebury (one of my favourite O'Brien scholars) discusses law, the death penalty and necropolitics in "Two in One" (one of my favourite O'Brien texts)! Listen here👇
radiomyles.substack.com/p/11-katheri...
11. Katherine Ebury: Flann O’Brien, death and the law
Katherine and Toby dissect death in 'Two in One' before exploring Irish executions, reading Achille Mbembe's necropolitics and turning to Flann, the energy humanities, and the geological turn.
radiomyles.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I'm thrilled to be launching Marion Quirici's brilliant "Fitness For Freedom: Disability, Degeneration & Modern Irish Writing" at this month's ISAANZ conference. A compelling intervention that will be invaluable to work on disability in Irish and modernist studies. Insist your library orders a copy!
November 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
🚨DEADLINE EXTENSION!🚨
The deadline for submissions to "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" - an open-access special issue from Humanities - has been extended to *30 January 2026*!!

All submissions welcome! Contact me for any queries you might have

CFP and Details here 👇 www.mdpi.com/journal/huma...
November 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM