Rosemary Kelly
@rosemaryk96.bsky.social
⚔️ Medievalist and bookseller. Sometimes poet. 29.
📍 PhD student in UCC's School of English and Digital Humanities working on genre & masculinities in Old English Literature.
📖 Editor in Chief for Apardjón Journal for Scandinavian Studies.
📍 PhD student in UCC's School of English and Digital Humanities working on genre & masculinities in Old English Literature.
📖 Editor in Chief for Apardjón Journal for Scandinavian Studies.
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Rosemary Kelly
@rosemaryk96.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Hwaet! how we have heard tales sung: How nineteenth‐century translation constructs hyper‐aggressive masculine identities in 'Beowulf'
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Hello all who have recently joined #medievalsky! 👋🏻 Just sharing my open access article on Beowulf translations and issues of nationalism and masculinity.
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My beloved (grand) Aunty Pat passed away this week. Curraghbinny and Cork as a whole won't be the same without her.
rip.ie/death-notice...
rip.ie/death-notice...
Death Notice of PAT HOWARD (née LIVESEY) (Currabinny, Cork) | rip.ie
The death has occurred of PAT HOWARD (née LIVESEY) of Currabinny, Cork Ireland, on 04/11/2025. You can view the full death notice and add your condolences here.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:54 AM
My beloved (grand) Aunty Pat passed away this week. Curraghbinny and Cork as a whole won't be the same without her.
rip.ie/death-notice...
rip.ie/death-notice...
This year I decided to dress as the scariest thing I could think of. 🎃
#PhDSky #AcademicSky #MedievalSky
#PhDSky #AcademicSky #MedievalSky
October 31, 2025 at 6:31 PM
This year I decided to dress as the scariest thing I could think of. 🎃
#PhDSky #AcademicSky #MedievalSky
#PhDSky #AcademicSky #MedievalSky
Had a lovely weekend selling books at the Irish Discworld Convention. I even met a few fellow lovers of medieval literature! 📚🧙🏻♂️
October 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Had a lovely weekend selling books at the Irish Discworld Convention. I even met a few fellow lovers of medieval literature! 📚🧙🏻♂️
Selling books at the Discworld Convention in Cork International Hotel today. 🧙🏻♂️
October 17, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Selling books at the Discworld Convention in Cork International Hotel today. 🧙🏻♂️
Reposted by Rosemary Kelly
Published a short piece in 'The Conversation' about Kash Patel's use of the white-supremacist dog whistle 'see you in Valhalla'. For my uncensored feelings on the subject, please just see the image below.
theconversation.com/see-you-in-v...
theconversation.com/see-you-in-v...
October 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Published a short piece in 'The Conversation' about Kash Patel's use of the white-supremacist dog whistle 'see you in Valhalla'. For my uncensored feelings on the subject, please just see the image below.
theconversation.com/see-you-in-v...
theconversation.com/see-you-in-v...
I think I'll have to put Taylor Swift in my thesis acknowledgements at this stage.
October 3, 2025 at 10:19 AM
I think I'll have to put Taylor Swift in my thesis acknowledgements at this stage.
It's become a rite of passage every year when teaching that I am mistaken for a first year.
They think I'm ✨ young ✨ ! #AcademicSky
They think I'm ✨ young ✨ ! #AcademicSky
October 2, 2025 at 9:59 AM
It's become a rite of passage every year when teaching that I am mistaken for a first year.
They think I'm ✨ young ✨ ! #AcademicSky
They think I'm ✨ young ✨ ! #AcademicSky
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4-year funded PhD in Old Norse-Viking Studies at UCC, working on the Literature & Art strand of the NorseMap Project. www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc...
September 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
4-year funded PhD in Old Norse-Viking Studies at UCC, working on the Literature & Art strand of the NorseMap Project. www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc...
Reposted by Rosemary Kelly
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
Up and at em! A wet and early start to my day with a 9am tutorial. Onto the second year of my PhD. 💪🏻 #academicsky #phdsky
September 18, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Up and at em! A wet and early start to my day with a 9am tutorial. Onto the second year of my PhD. 💪🏻 #academicsky #phdsky
I submitted my MA dissertation SIX years ago. 🤯
September 5, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I submitted my MA dissertation SIX years ago. 🤯
It's a weird and embarrassing hill to die on, that your reason for thinking the new Frankenstein is bad is because it's faithful to the novel? Jesus wept.
www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is all show and little substance – review
Jacob Elordi is a very sympathetic monster in this visually stunning but thematically lacking film, which co-stars Oscar Isaac and Mia Goth
www.independent.co.uk
September 3, 2025 at 7:27 AM
It's a weird and embarrassing hill to die on, that your reason for thinking the new Frankenstein is bad is because it's faithful to the novel? Jesus wept.
www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
Just one week left until the deadline for volume 4! Any queries can be passed onto myself and the editorial team via our social media and/or journal email. 👇🏻 #MedievalSky #AcademicSky
CFP REMINDER!
Just a reminder that there is one week left until our deadline for Volume 4 of Apardjón - 1 September 2025. We are especially interested in interdisciplinary approaches within the field of Viking and medieval Scandinavia. Full details are in our CFP. #MedievalSky
Just a reminder that there is one week left until our deadline for Volume 4 of Apardjón - 1 September 2025. We are especially interested in interdisciplinary approaches within the field of Viking and medieval Scandinavia. Full details are in our CFP. #MedievalSky
August 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Just one week left until the deadline for volume 4! Any queries can be passed onto myself and the editorial team via our social media and/or journal email. 👇🏻 #MedievalSky #AcademicSky
Shout out to Hachette for sending me a copy of 'The House of Wolf' by Tony Robinson which will be published in September.
"An earthy, entertaining and gloriously witty recreation of Alfred the Great and the making of England". One happy little bookseller here. 😁 #Booksky
"An earthy, entertaining and gloriously witty recreation of Alfred the Great and the making of England". One happy little bookseller here. 😁 #Booksky
August 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Shout out to Hachette for sending me a copy of 'The House of Wolf' by Tony Robinson which will be published in September.
"An earthy, entertaining and gloriously witty recreation of Alfred the Great and the making of England". One happy little bookseller here. 😁 #Booksky
"An earthy, entertaining and gloriously witty recreation of Alfred the Great and the making of England". One happy little bookseller here. 😁 #Booksky
This small medieval church (built circa 1300) in Monkstown became a graveyard in the 1650s, when the first owners of Monkstown Castle died. It's now abandoned but it's a great spot for some peace in the evenings. #SpeirGorm #HistorySky #MedievalSky
August 8, 2025 at 11:24 AM
This small medieval church (built circa 1300) in Monkstown became a graveyard in the 1650s, when the first owners of Monkstown Castle died. It's now abandoned but it's a great spot for some peace in the evenings. #SpeirGorm #HistorySky #MedievalSky
Just a reminder of our call for papers for volume 4. We're open access and peer-reviewed! 👇🏻 #MedievalSky #AcademicSky #PhDSky
Not long until the deadline for volume 4 of Apardjón! We are open for submissions until 1 September 2025. We are especially interested in interdisciplinary approaches within the field of Viking and Medieval Scandinavia. We are also open to relevant book reviews. See our CFP below! #MedievalSky
August 4, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Just a reminder of our call for papers for volume 4. We're open access and peer-reviewed! 👇🏻 #MedievalSky #AcademicSky #PhDSky
Reposted by Rosemary Kelly
📢 Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky!
📜 Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week...
📖Old English Online
📲 oldenglish.info
✍️Tom Birkett
💻Victoria Koivisto-Kokko
©️University College Cork
📜 Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week...
📖Old English Online
📲 oldenglish.info
✍️Tom Birkett
💻Victoria Koivisto-Kokko
©️University College Cork
July 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
📢 Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky!
📜 Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week...
📖Old English Online
📲 oldenglish.info
✍️Tom Birkett
💻Victoria Koivisto-Kokko
©️University College Cork
📜 Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week...
📖Old English Online
📲 oldenglish.info
✍️Tom Birkett
💻Victoria Koivisto-Kokko
©️University College Cork
We are actually cooked as a species if you're using generative ai to "heal childhood trauma"???????
July 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
We are actually cooked as a species if you're using generative ai to "heal childhood trauma"???????
RIP scribes of medieval Arthurian literature. You would have loved Booktok. #medievalsky #booksky
July 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM
RIP scribes of medieval Arthurian literature. You would have loved Booktok. #medievalsky #booksky
My great granduncle was called the three century man, having lived from 1897-2001. He played in the Cork senior hurling team. My favourite story is him stubbornly navigating the roads of Cork to get to matches, as they were blocked off by Black and Tans.
Anyway, UP CORK.
Anyway, UP CORK.
July 14, 2025 at 11:58 AM
My great granduncle was called the three century man, having lived from 1897-2001. He played in the Cork senior hurling team. My favourite story is him stubbornly navigating the roads of Cork to get to matches, as they were blocked off by Black and Tans.
Anyway, UP CORK.
Anyway, UP CORK.
Shout out to my sister for the photo that sums my holidays up: sunny days and I'm glued to a book.
July 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Shout out to my sister for the photo that sums my holidays up: sunny days and I'm glued to a book.
I have a complete draft of my first chapter! I'm going to have the BEST nap tomorrow. #PhDSky #AcademicSky
July 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I have a complete draft of my first chapter! I'm going to have the BEST nap tomorrow. #PhDSky #AcademicSky
Proquest's AI research assistant is currently suggesting old articles from The Sun. Somehow I don't think almost ten year old paparazzi pics are relevant to Old English renditions of Alexander the Great. 🤨
July 2, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Proquest's AI research assistant is currently suggesting old articles from The Sun. Somehow I don't think almost ten year old paparazzi pics are relevant to Old English renditions of Alexander the Great. 🤨
Reposted by Rosemary Kelly
Historians (professional and lay) make a dark age. Very little else does 🤷🏻♀️
Question for historians: what makes a Dark Age?
June 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Historians (professional and lay) make a dark age. Very little else does 🤷🏻♀️
Tkmaxx has Halloween decorations and that's the only thing getting me through this summer.
Between the pollen and the humidity I genuinely think I'm dying.
I may have been a penguin in a past life.
Between the pollen and the humidity I genuinely think I'm dying.
I may have been a penguin in a past life.
June 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Tkmaxx has Halloween decorations and that's the only thing getting me through this summer.
Between the pollen and the humidity I genuinely think I'm dying.
I may have been a penguin in a past life.
Between the pollen and the humidity I genuinely think I'm dying.
I may have been a penguin in a past life.